Cricket

this really is a disgrace

I'd be really angry if england declare and india hardly bat due to "bad light" and the session is wasted.

Get them back out. Its bullshit!

here we go.

I'll be really pissed off now if Cook gets out after his concentration being disturbed. lol

who was that woman that came on to talk to the umpires and they called the players out right after? She obviously talked sense into them.

woooo england finally get 700 for the 1st time in my lifetime. Another one of my alltime wants gone. :)

erasing my memory of pakistan scoring over 700 and javed miandad 280 of them

what a year!

Pity cook wont make 401 really that's pretty much the only one left battingwise since 1000 runs is never gonna happen.

awww cook out 294

oof.

declared too I think

KING PAIR!

dearie me, sounded like a terrible shot. hope India get their act together before The Oval.

India's form is realy depressing.

Its great that Eng will take that no1 spot, but I wanted a contest ffs!

Eng in SA should provide that, proper heavyweight fight...

India's form is realy depressing.

looked like it was heading to a draw before lunch. now five wickets for seven runs. boggling how bad india have been.

Tendulkar out for 91 :(

I don't think even Bangladesh have been this bad in England

Tendulkar out for 91 :(

He pushed his luck for that score tbf. I think Prior gifted him his innings by failing to appeal for the stumping yesterday evening.

1 wicket away from whitewash.

All over, India lamentably poor, England excellent though.

well that was easy. england in england are sirius bizness.

it was the pieterson/bell partnership on Friday what done it; 350 runs without india ever even looking like taking a wicket.

think there may have been one appeal, possibly two in five hours of batting.

i wonder if the zaheer khan injury was a factor of any sort in the series

i mean a factor of any great size

Was there on Friday. Watching Bell and Pietersen bat was the best batting I have seen. Certainly with Zaheer Khan they lost a good bowler, and also put pressure on less good bowlers. The batting's been pisspoor as well though, Dravid aside. England looked very strong throughout in all areas, apart from some poor slip fielding at Trent Bridge, was it?

Lord's they dropped a few, catching got better and better IMO. I was at Trent Bridge on the Sunday, it was a whipping, never seen a Test team look so ragged.

I was there on Friday as well and couldn't have hoped for a better day's cricket. Bell clipping himself two consecutive, identical sixes to the same guy in the crowd was brilliant. Mishra had a torrid time and couldn't penetrate the attack at all. 170 runs for 0 must be painful.

Something like the 8th worst figures ever in Tests for Mishra.

it's very satisfying to see England actually good at cricket, plenty of false starts (nassers side, the ashes team getting injured and losing focus) but this team should hopefully be great for years to come.

haha the swanny & jimmy show on sky again is hilarious

jesus, look at the size of the Test Mace!

hahahahaha never seen that before

Patel's bat broke as he hit the ball to cover and he was left holding the handle

oh man that was funny

Fantastic finish to the Championship. Looks like Lancashire might just do it, but it's certainly going to be tight if wickets fall.

They need 170 odd runs by the close of play... could be done?

They're ahead of the rate at the moment, certainly. Looking good for it. Not sure what fields Somerset are setting. Out of Warwickshire's hands unless someone goes berserk with ball and bat.

I imagine that is what LJ is hoping for.

He'll have to go and piss on the Rose Bowl pitch pretty quickly. Dead as a dodo.

Lancs 104 from 14 overs. Need another 107 from 14.

Think that's right.

Make that from 18. Should do it. All wickets in hand.

in a one day match, you'd back the batting side IMO. Depends on the fields Somerset are setting, as you say above- they have nothing to play for, but you'd expect them to give it a go fielding wise?

Yep, definitely. Any worth in Somerset putting everyone on the boundary? At the moment, Lancs are hitting boundaries galore, and Somerset aren't taking any wickets. Can understand Somerset setting attacking fields at the beginning, as Lancs have to play shots, but that hasn't worked.

Wicket at Taunton. 130-1. Need another 81. Still cruising.

Come on you Nothern bastards

First outright title in 77 years if they do it.

they split it one year IIRC?

Yep. Apparently shared with Surrey in '55, oh wikipedia says '50.

2 down now, suddenly looking a lot more difficult. First time I can remember hitting F5 repeatedly on a county championship scorecard!