The Official Cricket Thread

[Son of L8]

Superb couple of deliveries from Malinga, clean bowled Ronchi, no-ball. That's got to hurt.

[Son of L8]

Spot the Kiwi going arse over tits over the fence there... Managed to keep his beer upright. Impressive.

[RoboRiise]

319-5 off 49 overs and 84 of them have come off Malinga.  Not a good day at the office that.  He was better in his second spell, although it's a relative term in this case.

[RedSand]

Fuck me, what a shot by Anderson....

How in Gods name do you do that with a ball hurtling towards you at 136km/h

 

On another note, looking forward to the AUS vs ENG game.

[RoboRiise]

Sadly I can't see myself making it through to the England game, could get a few hours kip and get up for whoever's batting second but it's unlikely.  Bastard schedulers.

[RedSand]

NZL finish on 6/331

Anderson out last ball of the innings

Sri Lanka got a job on their hands

[Son of L8]

332 to win. Won't get many takers at any price.

 

Well batted by NZ, and yeah, that shot by Anderson was ridiculous.

[Son of L8]

Sadly I can't see myself making it through to the England game, could get a few hours kip and get up for whoever's batting second but it's unlikely.  Bastard schedulers.

 

Got to be a nightmare schedule for you lot... First ball comes at 8:30pm round mine though. Got plenty of beer in to make it through the night, which I'll probably need once Johnson starts bowling at us in front of the MCG mob.

[Jairzinho]

Got to be a nightmare schedule for you lot... First ball comes at 8:30pm round mine though. Got plenty of beer in to make it through the night, which I'll probably need once Johnson starts bowling at us in front of the MCG mob.

 

If we're batting first you could be asleep by 11 if you wanted.

[RoboRiise]

Got to be a nightmare schedule for you lot... First ball comes at 8:30pm round mine though. Got plenty of beer in to make it through the night, which I'll probably need once Johnson starts bowling at us in front of the MCG mob.

 

Yeah it is - unless I take a few weeks off work and go full nocturnal I can get half of the early game at best.  India/Pakistan/Sri Lanka are the optimum locations really, get a game fitting in nicely after work but before bed in those timezones.  Over here is no use because I'm at fucking work all day.

 

Even tomorrow night would be OK for the England game because I could just stay in bed until the afternoon and then go through the night but I've been up for 19 hours already today, I'm fucked.

[Jairzinho]

I'd considered completely changing the hours I sleep for the next few weeks, but I'm not sure I can be arsed, just to watch some cricket, and don't get me wrong, I like cricket a lot. 

[Son of L8]

I'd considered completely changing the hours I sleep for the next few weeks, but I'm not sure I can be arsed, just to watch some cricket, and don't get me wrong, I like cricket a lot. 

 

I, on the other hand, am a boring cunt with no social life living in the far fucks of nowhere. Two games a day, bring it on.

[Son of L8]

Bopara out, Ballance bats 3, and England bowl first. 

[RoboRiise]

I'm sitting up in bed with the stream on the PC and pretending that I'm asleep.

[Son of L8]

Dropping Bopara is the right decision if they're not going to bowl him. But I don't like Ballance pushing Taylor down to 6. He'd done well at 3, and if a player earns his place he should keep it.

 

Anyway, here we go. Jimmy vs Warner.

[RedSand]

Never should have dropped that. That could be costly.

Woakes drops Finch on 0 off Anderson.

Looks like he wasn't switched on or watching the ball into the hand.

[RedSand]

And sure enough Finch is making England pay

[Jose Jones]

England should have had both Finch and Warner here. Going to be a long day.

[RedSand]

Warner now getting in on the act.

[Son of L8]

Yep, dropped both of the openers and now they're starting to go. We need to take any chance that comes to have a prayer of beating these.

[Frankenhooker]

Great delivery from Broad gets Warner.

[Son of L8]

Get the fuck out. Smashed him middle and off, great ball.

[RedSand]

What a fuckin ripper of a delivery.

Where did that come from?

[Son of L8]

And Watson!

[Frankenhooker]

Another one gets Watson. Where the fuck has this come from ? Broad had been poor up until this over, and this one didn't start well, now he's on a hat-trick.