The Official Cricket Thread

[lifetime fan]

TMS as brilliant as ever.

[lifetime fan]

Boycott: We had a brilliant batsman at Yorkshire, second best batsman after me.

[Jairzinho]

Yesterday from Boycott -

 

"Kohli is so out of nick Woakes could probably get him out."

[lifetime fan]

Boycott is a legend - never fails to make me laugh.

[Jairzinho]

I pretty much only listen to TMS when he's on. The Sky team is excellent, and I'm not actually too keen on many of the rest of the TMS lot. Think Vaughan is alright, that new lad is fucking terrible. Don't know his name, but he's a complete tit and also has one of the most irritating voices I've ever heard. 

[lifetime fan]

Cook gone for 79.

[Ian Sea]

That had been coming.

[lifetime fan]

yep, he'd already used 3 lives.

[lifetime fan]

"That's 500 runs for the series for Gary Ballance, at an average of 83."

[Son of L8]

Pretty subdued celebration for that wicket. They look a broken side India.

[Jairzinho]

A side waiting for the limited overs games. IPL has destroyed their interest in Test cricket. Quite sad really, especially considering how shit 20 over cricket is.

[lifetime fan]

Another decent knock from Root.

[Son of L8]

Root 92 not out from 129 balls at stumps. Even against a poor, tiring attack, those are some damn fine figures in Test cricket.

[lifetime fan]

We've our 6's charity tournament tomorrow and some sad twats have been taking it seriously and having a net.

 

6 players, 6 overs with every player bowling an over and a short boundary.

 

It's in memory of our old football manager and it's custom to have 6 pints of cider before it starts. Can't wait. 

[Dan Vito Corleone]

Try and get to 450 tomorrow if we can and try and skittle them. What's the weather supposed to be like? Theoretically we're a day ahead.

[Barrington Womble]

I had a great day there yesterday, still smashed now. I was surprised to see that post a few back about root getting 92 from 129. It felt like we were scoring quite slowly after we list that bunch if wickets in the middle session.

 

[Ian Sea]

I had a great day there yesterday, still smashed now. I was surprised to see that post a few back about root getting 92 from 129. It felt like we were scoring quite slowly after we list that bunch if wickets in the middle session.

I think we scored at 7 an over for the last 10 overs.

[lifetime fan]

We've our 6's charity tournament tomorrow and some sad twats have been taking it seriously and having a net.

 

6 players, 6 overs with every player bowling an over and a short boundary.

 

It's in memory of our old football manager and it's custom to have 6 pints of cider before it starts. Can't wait.

First innings I only lasted 5 balls.

 

Swing and a miss, 6, 6, 6 and then I danced and missed the ball by about a foot.

 

My bowling took some treatment too.

[Hand Shandy]

India 9-2... Going well again.

[Indian Red]

Unbelievable how things have turned after that Lords test. Dont know how we keep failing this miserably.

[s(k)aturation]

Nobody puts their cue in the rack quite like India.

Brilliant one minute, abject shite the next.

 

And they've played England right back into form.

Credit to Cook, who really did look cooked a few weeks back.

It really has been a bit of a 1981-type comeback.

 

Speaking of which, Sir Beefy seemed happier a few weeks ago when he was flailing the England team.

[Son of L8]

This is downright embarrassing. 84-9.

[lifetime fan]

India bowled out in 29.2 overs.

[Son of L8]

India bowled out in 29.2 overs.

 

So this is what it felt like to be Australian last winter... Just with less sun and better beer.

[Dan Vito Corleone]

The word "capitulation" has been re-defined by the Indians in the last two tests. I obviously think its hilariously funny (more so because I find their recalcitrance over DRS to be really, really annoying) but at the same time their lack of fight is sickening.

 

At the end of the day though some people were guilty of overblowing them when we made them look amazing at Lords - similar argument to the last two tests with us to be fair but having won three series on the trot against them I think its safe to say we are the better team of the two.