lol at Kumble being forced to resign because Kohli doesn't like him. Sounds like he's building himself a Dhoni-esque empire, but with less match fixing and more angry shouting at opposition fans.
lol at Kumble being forced to resign because Kohli doesn't like him. Sounds like he's building himself a Dhoni-esque empire, but with less match fixing and more angry shouting at opposition fans.
This is a battering.
Aye.Top notch effort from the saffers. Inexplicable.
Good to see a trend towards playing Tahir as non-spinning half track wank.
Crane is class. Take him to Australia.
Oh and what a day to be on under 145
He'll play in Sydney with Boyd Rankin and Scott Borthwick.
South Africa seem on the verge of a disaster tour. Just look an ordinary side. They won't be scalping a captain this time round.
We should go down there with Mo, Rashid and Crane all in the side. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
Bin off Plunkett or whichever boring backup seamer they favour.
Was it last time the plan revolved around all our bowlers being really tall or was that the time before?
Whichever one where Broad was the ENFORCER, right? Which seemed to involve bowling them short enough to clear the roof of the stadium.
Last time. They took and played Tremlett even though he had been bowling 71mph potato gun all summer.
Everything about that tour was about as bad as it gets. I think someone brought my end of tour ratings over to this board somewhere.
When was the last genuinely competitive series in Australia? Are we still going back to the 80s for one of those? Or earlier?
Bairstow looks in insane form at the moment (making his odd capitulation against Pakistan all the more perplexing). Everything was flying off the middle of the bat today.
1998-99 was 2-1 Australia going into the last game, so that wasn't miles off. Before that it was the one we won under Gatting I think.
Last game was a good one, too. Michael Slater got 123 out of 184 runs in the second innings, which ended up being the difference.Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Stuart MacGill got about a million wickets in that series.
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The Ian Bell World Cup entry remains my favourite paragraph ever on this board or any. I have thought about it almost every time I have seen poor Ronald since.
I reckon the bit about hoovering Bell's bollocks out of his ginger perineum every morning might be my favourite TTH thing ever.
Edit: Hah, snap.
Coincidentally you reposted that just at the moment I saw a tweet from Kevin Pietersen asking his followers what he can do about patches of his lawn being eroded by his dogs pissing on it. That alongside my Ashes 13/14 review of him make a nice diptych.
Ginger perineum is the eye catcher, but the succinct truth of "I want to like him, but he's spent his whole life at Loughborough and it shows..." is the real meat.
He's currently leading Warwickshire through a terrible season. Imagine Ian bloody Bell as your captain.
Apart from Bairstow 13/14, I think it all stands up actually. Being a Woakesliever from the beginning is on my CV.
In happier news, Ireland and Afghanistan have just been confirmed as Full Members. Hallelujah.
Scenes when we play a one test series against Afghanistan in late August on an inexplicable dust bowl and Rashid Khan takes 16-for
Bet it does a bit at Jalalabad.
Afghanistan is certainly one of history's "difficult place(s) to go". Tricky away day. Wonder if Gladstone Small or whoever will be doing a tour party to Helmand.
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I'm sure there was another TTHer who was an even more devout fan than thee, and he was lampooned at the time . . .
About time. I honestly though they'd never do it, for fear of disrupting the voting blocs.
Well it doesn't really disrupt the voting blocs as there's one of each, which is probably why it got through.
Although I'm not sure the voting blocs now are necessarily the same as they were in the 90s.
Being as this is Taunton I'm guessing South Africa are a long way short of a competitive score again here.
Livingstone really botched that. Proper rabbit in the headlights.
Tom C though
I'd never heard of Livingstone but he didn't look up to much. Just vaguely swinging at shit and hoping for the best from what I saw.
He's come in off the back of a string of decent performances for Lancs/Lions but I suspect he's a bit of a hacker. Famously got 300 in a limited overs club game a couple of years back.
Can only assume word had come in from HQ to keep the series competitive. Either that or monumental arrogance has rightly cost them. You don't send Livingstone in at 4 when you have Morgan and Buttler to come and are pissing it. How is that 'having a look at him'? You look at him where you intend to bat him (6). It's unfair on him to send him in to win the game when you have more experienced/capable players in reserve and I don't really see what you learn - either Roy smashes them to victory or the rest of them capitulate in a bit of a heap? He's not going to be batting at 4 (well, realistically not at all but we'll overlook that) in a proper game so what is the value in 'looking' at him there? Morris was properly ticking though. Fun to watch. Just a shame someone didn't launch him into the river and tell him to get back to his mark.
I really like Mason Crane. AB just nailed him a few times in the over and he kept his nerve and got him at deep square.
Behardien now in for the big dot fest that is his life.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/england-...y/1106040.html
This is all a bit weird. I trust the Surrey sniffer dogs have been sent in now Sanga is hanging up his magical orb.
Meanwhile, they've named their Test squad. Their chief selector, Linda Zondi, is a bloke, which is a bit of a confusing one.
du Plessis, Amla, Bavuma, de Bruyn, de Kock, Duminy, Elgar, Kuhn, Maharaj, Markram, Morkel, Morris, Olivier, Phehlukwayo, Philander, Rabada
Went to Headingley yesterday, im not sure this day night 4 day cricket/test match is going to work in this country.
The pink ball was fine to see in the first session, got a bit more difficult to see as it lost a bit of colour in the second session and then once the floodlights came on at 7pm in bright sunshine it became impossible to see the ball. At 9pm you would still probably have been ok to play without the floodlights so unless there going to play these games in April or September or play at this time of year from 4pm till 11pm I can't see it working.
Crowd wise there was definitely an increase on what there has been at other championship games ive been to over the last few years. I'd say about 3 to 4 thousand were there yesterday. The crowd got smaller into the evening though as the older guys who go to every game were leaving to get their bus/train home and it was starting to get a bit colder. It didn't seem like many people had come along after work to watch the second half of the day.
Sanga was obviously on a way higher level than anyone else but I was also really impressed with Roy. First time I've seen him live and when he isn't trying to play stupid reverse paddles or hit every ball out of the ground he actually looks a very good cricketer
Imagine being a fly on the wall at BT when they realise Australia aren't going to bother putting out a side for the ashes.
And the moment when they finally realise it's on in the middle of the night.
I think you mean between the hours of 8 and 6.
And then it won't be on at all.
Chef's got a bit of an opening stand on the go here.
Jinx!
Aye, proper kiss of death there.
Whether you're into women's cricket or not, Atapattu has just an absolute blinder of an innings for Sri Lanka against Australia. 178* from a total of 9/257.
Watched a bit of it at the pub this evening. Really enjoyable. Women's cricket has really come a long way.
Ours managed to lose to India the other day, who unlike their men retain the plucky underdog spirit of yore, probably because India is a violently sexist country and despises women.
Those Little Lankans giving Oz a run here.
I had almost the same thought when I saw them playing.
The next World Cup has 10 teams, and the top 8 in the ODI rankings as of 30 September this year qualify automatically. Sri Lanka were looking a bit iffy, so they decided to schedule a nice easy home series against Zimbabwe to boost their ranking. The first match was today.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/sri-lank...h/1104478.html
Gaz Ballance back in the Test squad. When will they learn.
Ballance in the test squad? Is the County Championship having a strike year or something?
Patel and Mullaney running riot.
The horror.
Hales is probably going to have to get a double ton here it Notts are going to win.
Which footballers do you think would have made good cricketers? Tony Yeboah as a big fast bowler anyone?
Hell of a knock from Hales.
On Ballance, having only seen him
in Test cricket, it's baffling to me how he's managed to score so many FC runs. Just seems if you keep bowling full he won't score, will be nailed to the crease and will eventually get out. Dawson is actually the weirder selection though, don't get the ECB brains trust obsession with him in any format.
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