Cricket

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."

I heard that, well said Ricky!

good to know he's not in any way bitter!

Anyone watching the end of this Test between India and Oz? India 207-9, need 9 to win.

India won by one wicket! Wow. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/shared/fds/hi/statistics/cricket/scorecards/2010/10/86064/html/scorecard.stm

124 for 8 at one stage, chasing 216

Quite a display from Shane Watson to finish on the losing side. VVS is immense, averages 55 against Australia

cricket has been especially crazy these past few days, culminating in the Pakistan wicketkeeper going missing before a match

Gayle on 331 against Sri Lanka in the Windies first innings. (559-4)

Hopefully Gayle will start swinging like it's a Twenty20 when he hits 400.

is there an ashes thread yet?

there's two!

yeah Cricket : Graeme Swann, The Wizard In Oz! Winter 2010/11 The Ashes!

333 for Gayle, I remember when gooch hit 333 (i remember him being dropped earlier on in the innings too)

thanks

FREE AMIR

*AAMER, AAMIR ETC

It'll cost you

you think he's innocent or just sympathy for a young exciting talent who bowled no balls for $

just a kid. gave england, what, 2 or 3 runs? yeah it was in pursuit of money but he was lured into it by seniors who should have known better. let him off ffs.

the rhetoric 'cheating', 'match-fixing' etc in relation to this appals me. it was neither of these things; it was a swift buck. obviously by extension it compromises the 'spirit of the game' and threatens greater crimes, but Aamer especially has suffered enough. let him play cricket again you heartless fucks!

a final warning is the least they can do for him (and probably the other two as well, although I think the greatest of their crimes was allowing Aamer to participate in their scheme - and for this I would be reluctant as Pakistan board to ever pick them again)

The rozzers are involved now tho

this situation really didn't need the rozzers. they just bowled a few no-balls, wasn't like they weren't trying to win

i feel perspective has been jettisoned. people calling for a life-ban on aamer. wtf. cricketers have done SO much worse and come back within months!

I'm with you on this one

im not

There's a turn up

it's a fucking criminal conspiracy LJ. just because the MCC and the preface to the rules of cricket have got it covered doesn't mean it's not of interest to the CPS/the state. up to cricket if they want to ban him, but there's a bigger issue.

cricketers have done SO much worse and come back within months!

and that's why it keeps happening!

xp
caek OTM

the state should fuck off and leave my sport alone. yeah ok there's betting corruption at play - this is a different issue, and is unrelated to the cricket itself - not that the bookmakers have been substantially defrauded or that anybody is really the victim of this, except the young dude who did it because his two most obvious father-figures within the squad were doing so. let him off with a warning. sometimes the law is an overly literal ass. by sometimes i mean 'all the time'.

and age is no excuse.
If he gets let off then other kids will get targeted and be told that theres no risk as they wont get a life ban.

fucks sake

you've got no heart