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*BCCI. anyway there's one clip of the celebrations set to some boshing music.

IPL is live on ITV4 this year...interesting

In this warm-up game instead of the conventional method of trying to bowl Bangladesh out so they can bat again, England have gone the other route and tried to give them as many runs as possible to encourage them to declare so we can bat again. Isn't this, ah, rather an interesting take on competitive sport? I mean, I know these warm-up games are often just contrived ways of giving a side match practice but 111 off 5 overs for Cook (bowling this is)? 78 off 4 for Carberry? What the hell kind of practice is this anyway?

it's only a warm-up game

Yeah, maybe, still pretty shoddy I think. Bit patronising to Bangladesh as well, several Test players in there and it's a warm up game for them as well.

i gotta say, my problem with it is minimal, although maybe some of the stronger nations wouldn't have resorted to such tactics...cook is a new captain

good game for tredwell and trott, not to mention raqibul, who i'd written off

Fair enough. Not worried about KP either, he usually rises to big occasions and has occasionally failed to rise to smaller ones. Tho he might well be concerned i suppose.

drop him and play steven davies imo

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47445000/jpg/_47445447_sp_466.jpg

What did these guys actually do? The quotes makes it sound most heinous: "For the shameful act of Shahid Afridi, which has brought the game and country into disrepute, he be fined Rs3m", etc.

its sad, he tried to eat the ball :(

yeah he tampered with the ball - poor form but it happens, but openly chewing on the ball is a bit much!

if the PCB have a spine they should also ban inzamam ul-haq from holding any position there - he's been doing a fair bit of the destabilising himself with a view to getting the coaching job, apparently

lol ok the IPL is all on Youtube

Glad we got Tamin out (he was dropped twice) but that was a brilliant knock. I think the pressure of trying to become only the 5th batsman ever to get a century before lunch got to him. Well done Tredwell getting his 1st wicket.

Would have liked to have seen him getting his century tbh. Especially since the decision looked a bit dodgy.

^^^agreed

interesting day's play. sadly for bangladesh i fear their bowlers will once more be shown up horrendously

FOR FUCKS SAKE COOK USE A THIRD MAN.

Lord help us if Strauss loses form and has to quit as captain. Cook doesnt have a fucking clue about field positions.

christ, he puts a third man in, then removes it with 2 balls to go. and then right away the 20th 4 down to third man today. ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Finally, Captain Cook sends Ian Bell to the third man boundary. In other news, a number of stable doors have been slammed following a number of escaped horses. Then, for no adequately explained reason, the third man is removed - and equally predictably, Bresnan finds the edge and Naeem profits from another four through third man! The TMS crew seem as exasperated by this as I am - Butch now estimates 50 runs have been leaked there this morning.

Everyone watching this is fucking screaming at Cook , is he the only one who cant see the runs England are haemorrhaging down to 3rd man?

419 all out.

Cook hasn't been that impressive has he? Cautious is fine, I guess, but it's been really stodgy and wooden (perhaps in some respects a bit lack his batting, if I was feeling unfair). Like the fielders at mid-on and mid-off yesterday, allowing the single, but also positioned far enough in to be hit over the top of.

I know people will say it's early days, but I seem to remember being quite impressed with Strauss when he first came in (before the interregnum of Flintoff and Pietersen etc), and slightly surprised they didn't have him for the 2006/7 Ashes.

lol cricket

Jonathan Trott's innings was quite something. Slower even than that Billy Godleman one I saw at Lord's last year.

he will hit 200 and be crowned our new lynchpin

or he will succumb in the morning as england tediously crawl* to within 20 of bangladesh

*graeme swann will not crawl

Embarrassing stuff by England. Trott out, Prior was plum LBW but the umpire didn't give it.

RIP Alec Bedser http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/8603054.stm

he'd have never stood for this twenty20 boiling ;-)

but yeah, RIP, he was actually pretty good

bit of an understatement there Lol J

nice username btw

ha, I hoped someone would at least tell me how worthy of the Master it was

Bedser was maybe one of England's top 10 fast bowlers ever? Wouldn't say top 5, maybe 6 or 7

Sid Barnes at the top although he was basically a fast-medium spinner
Trueman
Botham
Tyson
Statham
Bedser
Willis
Hoggard
Lohmann
Snow

maybe? I've clearly forgotten someone

Darren Gough instead of Snow if one takes modern batsman-friendly conditions into account perhaps

impossible list to compile

It's not! I just did it, based on my lifelong scouring of Cricinfo and scorecard analysis!

James Anderson better than George Lohmann, did I hear somebody say?

;-)

There's a ways to go yet but can I just

Okay as you were

Feed's gone down in the pub - score?

England 11-1

Cheers - we're back on again now.

WORLD CHAMPIONS OF CRICKET BALL

BEST ICC TEAM OF WORLD SERIES CRICKET!

TIP AND RUN PINTCOCKS OF THE SEASON

hey everyone today I bowled a spell of 2-0-57-0

RIP

oh, was there some match? just leave me to my despair ffs

never thought I'd see England winning a cricket world cup, so hurrah!

88 all out (33.1 overs) LOL

India getting walloped as well! :D

Muttiah Muralitharan reaches 800 Test wickets landmark

The only this could be any better would be if Murali had gotten his 800th against an Aussie.