The Official Cricket Thread

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Exciting start to the World Title Fight.

 

Pity John Arlott's not around to talk shit and buy some time down there in his home county.

[lifetime fan]

Big congrats to New Zealand. 

[alles ist gut]

Congratulations to World Test Champions New Zealand

 

but more importantly congratulations to the ICC mouse-pusher who looked at the prospect of a Test match in England in June, and decided that, in order to get four days play, it would need to be six days long.

[sir roger]

Had no idea England had just started a T20 against Sri Lanka , happened on it on Sky. Decent line up.

 

[alles ist gut]

Based on last night's game, I'm going to go right out on a limb and say that Sri Lanka are just that wee bit short of being ready for the T20 World Cup.

[sir roger]

32 minutes ago, alles ist gut said:

Based on last night's game, I'm going to go right out on a limb and say that Sri Lanka are just that wee bit short of being ready for the T20 World Cup.

I might suggest they are just that wee bit short of playing cricket , full stop.

 

On a more serious note , we are no 1 ranked but I cant see us winning the next World Cup without sorting out best bowling line up and partucularly our death bowling. 

[Spy Bee]

I'm going to the ODI in Edgbaston in a few weeks. How do I get beer? DO I have to walk up to a bar and ask for it? That seems so antiquated! 

[Jairzinho]

Phenomenal collapse this. Probably still got enough like as Sri Lanka can't bat, but we should have got about 210.

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

4 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

Phenomenal collapse this. Probably still got enough like as Sri Lanka can't bat, but we should have got about 210.

Brainless even for a 20/20

[Jairzinho]

3 minutes ago, VERBAL DIARRHEA said:

Brainless even for a 20/20

All out to the same shot. 

 

Mind you, I'd be surprised if Sri Lanka got 140. Bit sad how shit they are now. Seems they've got a reasonable bowling attack but nothing to back it up. Sangakkara needs to fuck the commentary off and get into coaching.

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

13 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

All out to the same shot. 

 

Mind you, I'd be surprised if Sri Lanka got 140. Bit sad how shit they are now. Seems they've got a reasonable bowling attack but nothing to back it up. Sangakkara needs to fuck the commentary off and get into coaching.

Saying how good they were to my lad, it is sad. 

[Vincent Vega]

Jimmy Anderson has taken his 1000th first class wicket today. He currently has figures of 7 wickets for 19 runs from 10 overs, with Kent at 49 for 8.

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It's a road then?

[Brownie]

2 hours ago, Vincent Vega said:

Jimmy Anderson has taken his 1000th first class wicket today. He currently has figures of 7 wickets for 19 runs from 10 overs, with Kent at 49 for 8.

Amazing achievement that. Englands best ever bowler. Doubt we’ll see anything as good in this lifetime.

[sir roger]

Always remember being in a hotel with work in 2003 and watching this young lad who I didn't know much about rip a classy Pakistan batting line up apart in a World Cup game. The thing I most remember is the commentator , Blofeld I think , silent for a moment after one unbelievable delivery and then simply ' By jove , I think we've found one '. He wasn't wrong.

[lifetime fan]

17 minutes ago, sir roger said:

Always remember being in a hotel with work in 2003 and watching this young lad who I didn't know much about rip a classy Pakistan batting line up apart in a World Cup game. The thing I most remember is the commentator , Blofeld I think , silent for a moment after one unbelievable delivery and then simply ' By jove , I think we've found one '. He wasn't wrong.

Loved Blofeld. 

[Tj hooker]

2 minutes ago, lifetime fan said:

Loved Blofeld. 

My dear old thing great commentator was blowers 

[lifetime fan]

6 minutes ago, Tj hooker said:

My dear old thing great commentator was blowers 

 Him and Richie Benaud were both amazing. 
 

Puts those wankers employed to commentate on the other sport to shame.  

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I did an ad with him once, via landline from London - it was a shit ad, and totally self-indulgent because he was unnecessary to the ad really, I just wanted to use his wonderful voice... it was one of the highlights of my career, even though I was still very very young.  He called me "my dear old thing" at one point, on one of our "successful" takes.  It was around the time that Graeme Hick was trying to qualify for England... and had scored 405 down your way @lifetime fan I think.

Blowers and I discussed Hick and other things cricket, as I just tried to stall the session and buy more time with the great voice man.

[lifetime fan]

22 minutes ago, s(k)aturation said:

 

I did an ad with him once, via landline from London - it was a shit ad, and totally self-indulgent because he was unnecessary to the ad really, I just wanted to use his wonderful voice... it was one of the highlights of my career, even though I was still very very young.  He called me "my dear old thing" at one point, on one of our "successful" takes.  It was around the time that Graeme Hick was trying to qualify for England... and had scored 405 down your way @lifetime fan I think.

Blowers and I discussed Hick and other things cricket, as I just tried to stall the session and buy more time with the great voice man.

Hick was at a 6 fingers county not Glos mate. 
 

 

EDIT: FFS, just realised you meant against Glos not for them. He was still a fucking bottler against us in one day finals. 

[Remmie]

You can get a personalised message from Blowers here for £45 https://celebvm.com/henryblofeld which I did for some friends who also love him. Unfortunately he had a bad throat and his voice was half gone, felt pretty guilty for chasing the message up after that. 

[lifetime fan]

2 minutes ago, Remmie said:

You can get a personalised message from Blowers here for £45 https://celebvm.com/henryblofeld which I did for some friends who also love him. Unfortunately he had a bad throat and his voice was half gone, felt pretty guilty for chasing the message up after that. 

Repped! 
 

That’s my brothers birthday sorted. 

[Remmie]

I'll see if I can dig out the message and post it on here. 

 

https://celebvm.com/video/Zvtsbf

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7 minutes ago, Remmie said:

I'll see if I can dig out the message and post it on here. 

 

https://celebvm.com/video/Zvtsbf

 

Fuckin hell, Rem... that's worth 500 quid and cheap at that price.

 

 

[Remmie]

Think we need to do a whip round so we can find out his position on beans on a breakfast.