The Cricket Thread 2016

[tomd2103]

Great start.  Into the tail now.

[Villan For Life]

Great timing with the new ball due. We really need to make a statement here and establish a decent lead.

[Villan For Life]

Four balls with the new ball and Jimmy is bowling some absolutely beautiful balls. Three outswingers followed by a sublime inswinger. Lovely to see.

[UK Redsox]

Blowers and Sir Geoffrey discussing their view on beards v clean shaven

[LeeB]

Starting to move into "it's ours to lose" territory here, which will inevitably see us reduced to around 50 for 6 in our 2nd innings.

[PaulWinch again]

This has been a brilliant display from all the bowling unit, everybody has made key contributions. Now finish them.

[PaulWinch again]

Brilliant. 122 lead. Now capitalise with the bat.

[Chris Jameson]

How the hell can Henry Blowfeld confuse Mark Wood with Moeen Ali? Never been a great fan of his but he increasingly gets the score wrong and blathers on about bloody pigeons like it's now some sort of catchphrase, time to ease him out of the TMS box I reckon. I know he's a bit of a character and all that but just occasionally giving out the correct score would be nice.

[PaulWinch again]

I was just going to say Blofeld's commentary when he's actually talking about the cricket is so frustrating. He never actually explains what's happening and just gets carried away.

[PaulWinch again]

Blofeld called the end of an over yesterday when 3 balls has been bowled. Swann almost apologetically said he nearly made the same mistake, but he clearly didn't.

[paul_e]

Early to say it but I'm pretty glad to see that the aussie lower order was as weak as I expected.  I'll hold myself to it now, if their top 4 don't score big runs the rest of the team hasn't got enough in it.

Nice lead given where we were at lunch on Weds, consolidate through to Lunch and an hour afterwards and then go a bit more expansive and try to get the lead up towards 400 by the end of the day, follow up with a flash for an hour in the morning and then give 2 1/2 sessions on Sat and whatever we can get on Sun to bowl them out.

[PaulWinch again]

Cook going isn't ideal. We need minimum 250 in this innings.

[olaftab]

Batting not easy. Starc is getting lot of swing.

[UK Redsox]

How the hell can Henry Blowfeld confuse Mark Wood with Moeen Ali? Never been a great fan of his but he increasingly gets the score wrong and blathers on about bloody pigeons like it's now some sort of catchphrase, time to ease him out of the TMS box I reckon. I know he's a bit of a character and all that but just occasionally giving out the correct score would be nice.

Yep, I think that time has just about run out for the dear old thing.

Ed Smith needs to be brought in as a permanent TMS member

[UK Redsox]

I'd also like to hear my old Rugby/Cricket teammate Steve "Pedro" James as summariser. Its been two or three years since he appeared.

Last I knew he was living in/near Cardiff, so he's probably there reporting for the Torygraph