O'Keefe had a pulled hamstring iirc so couldn't run singles.
O'Keefe had a pulled hamstring iirc so couldn't run singles.
Vince James, batting at four and five, has five Tests and 130 runs at 18.57 with a highest score of 42. Trying to imagine how many times he would have been dropped by now in the 1990s. Possibly three times.
He really is a vanity pick. Nothing whatsoever to suggest he'll be a good Test batsman. Now watch him score a hundred here.
EDIT:
A Wiltshire boy who found his way into the Hampshire set up, James Vince, a calm and elegant batsman, has long been tipped as a star of the future since the former England coach Duncan Fletcher, who worked with Vince at the Hampshire academy, said he was reminiscent of Michael Vaughan.
Cook should be fined for this strike rate.
His first class record is bang average. Most of his runs came in division 2.
With Cook and Root gone might get rolled here
It's only been two matches how have we forgotten what it's like to bat against right arm seam....
Hearing the third umpire talking is one of the great modern improvements to the game.
Dharmasena calling Bruce Oxenford "Brucie" a new highlight.
"Just rock and roll that for me..."
Our long batting line-up still misses Stokes quite badly. Only Moeen and rabbits now. They'll do well to sneak up to 300, which should set the game up nicely.
My boy Mo in lovely touch. That drive through mid on
Hafeez is such a nothing player
This Sami Aslam, I'm told, will be their best bat for years.
https://mobile.twitter.com/robkey612...77272409808896
Rob Key really is the man
That's brilliant
Such a legend.
Some of the stuff he comes out with on county commentaries on Sky is top, top tier. My favourite of late being a close up of someone eating a Ginster's Cornish pasty in the crowd, and he says 'That reminds me, I need to get some petrol on the way home.'
On a county game the other day he was talking about naff motivational slogans and phrases. Which naturally morphed into quoting The Office. Great stuff.
Does anybody still play international cricket captain
WestHamGaz'd that win
I do. Fuck knows why, it has barely changed since ICC2005. Got Bangladesh to be top 5 test team, then realised the schedules (obviously) aren't dynamic, so I'd be stuck playing annoying 2 match test series forever, and I'd never get to tour India etc etc.
Still think domestic game is the most fun.
Safe to say we're getting absolutely donned here by Misbah and his boys. Not for the first time.
Probably the only way we were going to get a wicket, that.
Feel for the lad Sami, played really well.
Younis absolutely all over the place again by the looks of it
Yeah I got the new one off kinguin for about 7 quidOriginally Posted by Mr. Malik
G'day.
Hattrick for my man Rangy
Australia worst side at playing spin around these days? Bold shout with England going to India in a few months but we'll see
South Africa are worse than us as well.
India will no doubt dish up some 'rank turners' again and lose to us again because we'll hopefully take Rashid and a left armer, and also because lol India.
We could actually take almost a full team of all rounders, Clunge style.
Cook
Hales
Root
Moeen Ali, baby
Bairstow
Stokes
Woakes
Rashid
Broad
Batty
Anderson
Four seamers, three spinners.
Need to find a slow left armer somewhere for the ultimate BAT DEEP BOWLING OPTIONS. Liam Dawson for Broad.
Made a classy 18 last night in my first game for fucking ages. Unfortunately we were set 217 and only just got within a hundred.
Samit?
Aussies need 413. Herath with the new ball.
And lol.
Lovely leave there by Uzzy. On the plus side
I'm not a gambler but I couldn't resist that Sri Lanka were somehow priced at 11/4 underdogs before the match, it was free money.
Great stuff this. Utter carnage at one end, while at the other Warner's just blazing away.
I don't think there are any excuses for this shocking performance (you know, the usual DOCTORED PITCHES crap). Starc fucking took career best figures of 11/94. And in the previous test they knocked over Sri Lanka for 117. If the batsmen had a backbone between them Australia should be winning this series.
Ansari if he stops getting freak injuries.
I've taken up left arm spin recently after years of being a seamer and I can't believe I didn't do it a decade ago. When you add in my poor fitness and hard as nails attitude, it's like literally being Rangana Herath for a few hours every weekend.
MDK Perera. Nice initials.
We're getting spannered here. When was the last time we batted better in a second innings? Has it ever happened where the first wasn't a full on debacle?
Christ, I was checking the scorecard to see if there was any chance Australia might be able to bat it out tomorrow.
'Stumps - Day 2'
If you offered it now, I'd take Misbah as heir to the throne I reckon.
Hard to imagine a bigger boss in sport.
If you offered it now, I'd take Misbah as my fucking Dad
Well obviously. Or possibly as another uncle to go alongside Uncle Claudio.
If he gets a hundred here he should go off the press-ups script, turn his bat upside down and pretend it's a walking stick.
Can only imagine how incredible a man I would have turned out with Misbah and Claudio as role models.
Sadly not to be
Even him hacking on is part of some benevolent plan for the betterment of humanity I reckon.
Jimmy is going to explode. If Sarfraz does some star jumps on reaching 50 it'll tip him over the edge
I don't get why England (and their slimy ex team mates in the media) are getting so pissy about the press ups. It's a bit of fun you desperate humourless wankers.
Woah. This is a step up from the shit cricket related adverts. We're in the movies now. Brett Lee starring in a romantic comedy...
I loled.Christ, I was checking the scorecard to see if there was any chance Australia might be able to bat it out tomorrow.
'Stumps - Day 2'
Well, this is unexpected. It's the sort of thing that usually happens to us. 165/7 by lunch tomorrow.
I was an extra in that film, for one day in Parramatta. I'm no expert but it didn't look like Binga was much of an actor. And all he had to do on that day of shooting was stand around getting colours thrown at him.
I find it remarkable how Indians put up with the quality of films that it seems they are made to put up with.
Excellent work by the fair dinkums. Does this clear the way for Indian Cricket Team to be the top ranked test nation, or does it make this England series the true battle of the top test nations? I guess the most likely outcome is that Australia will have consolidated their place as number 1, somehow.
I blame you for this.
I was going to further curse it by saying Hales really needed to be getting a hundred from the start he had, so, on that theme, contribution needed from Vince and Baz Gallaz.
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