Cricket

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.

Pakistan going nicely. Also, check Stuart Broad's figures against Warwickshire...

LOL Aussies. Broad = blimey!

SB- 51 & out

well done Murali obv - a true cricketing hero, fuck the naysayers

800 test wickets is mind-boggling

oooooo ffs pakistan

but more ffs umpire

shane watson is a fucking piethrower you fuckwits

6-23 lol still betting on Pakistan to win this though

XD at these two non-batsmen showing up numbers 8 and 9

Broad, 8 for 52. Another bowler nipped in with a wicket, while some dunderheid got himself run out.

Was thrilling watching Mohammad Aamer bowling the other day. Those two wickets he got straight after lunch were hairs on the back of the neck stuff. Looks like they might not fuck it up this time as well.

Was thrilling watching him bowl just now! Dude's the most exciting young cricketer on the PLANET

Yeah, it's great isn't it? Massive grin and zooming plane celebration.

And now Umar Gul to get walloped. Want to see Kaneria bowling now tbh

never, ever, ever in doubt

haha er, yeah...

also lol @ sky sports news broadcasting and commentating on two of the aussies players (haddin and someone else) having a wrestle in the grass for 2-3 minutes.

australia may have lost, but in defeat they had the stink of born winners - a very hard thing to achieve

just kept on refusing to die, still shooting while the mortal blood flowed from their wounds

From the Beeb:

The 35-year-old was uncertain whether he would return to England as Australia captain in 2013 but when asked if Pakistan would beat Andrew Strauss's team in the four-Test series beginning on 29 July he said: "Let's hope so."