Cricket

Pretty gruesome stuff at the moment by the sound of it.

Collingwood playing like a man who knows his place is under intense scrutiny.

Hahahahahahaha!!!!!!!! Beautiful timing. GET THIS MAN AWAY FROM OUR TEAM

Still to score 100 1st class runs this season, apparently.

10 first class innings so far this year, 96 runs between them. Utter rubbish. xposted

Broad would have scored more than that, then taken a few wickets.

Sidebottom out too. Freddie may as well throw the bat now. Dismal day for England.

lol completely pathetic

I want to cry.

"Those of us who watched the likes of Emburey and Miller toiling away ineffectually for England in the past surely appreciate what a good bowler Monty is."

See, you're right, I wonder if we are over-appreciating Monty bcz Eng hasn't had a decent spinner since who the fuck knows when...I don't think I had ever seen one since Monty came on the scene (Tufnell def wasn't it). Anyway, totally otm. The 'doosra' stuff is v funny now.

Eng's batting is straight out of a horror novel at the moment.

Also, who is to blame for this match starting on Wednesday -- can we actually give up on the one day game altogether and space out test matches and get them starting on Thursday.

Louis pulling out the stops on this thread: I Like Geoffrey Boycott; Monty Is Stupid and Shit etc. Tuffers was a good bowler, couldn't do anything else mind you.

Also, fuck a doosra

Monty isn't shit per se, he just doesn't appeal to me on an aesthetic or intellectual level, and I doubt his bowling has much penetration against the very best. Doosra or no doosra. That was just an example. Now you mention it, incidentally, Tuffers was jusy slightly more useful in the other two departments than Monty is.

No no, however shit Monty is at batting and fielding there is no way he is as bad as Tufnell!

Thing about Tufnell is he actually had batting talent, opened the innings at school, just didn't have the bottle against quick bowling. His batting against spin was often pretty classy, but he rarely had a chance to show this. :D

"lend us a brain Tufnell, I'm building an idiot!" = best sledge ever!

oh just bring Monty on already :D

Vikram Solanki with a blinding hundred before lunch at Cheltenham, btw.

Bit of a fightback going on here

Yeah I know!

why isn't Monty on?

Vaughan's been reading ILX. 21 leg byes in a score of 140-odd? Is there anything Tim Ambrose actually can do?

LOL @ England pioneering the three man bowling attack

LOL @ you blaming the keeper for leg-byes

Ha ha, I'll blame Ambrose for anything, him and Thatcher

I don't like the fact that the most quintessentially English position in our team is taken by an Aussie, and a Warwickshire Aussie at that, but he hasn't been THAT bad with the gloves.

Fred's 200th test wicket

Wait until South Africa are less than 50 runs behind England and then bring on Monty, nice one Vaughannynynyyny

A friend and I were making this exact same point on MSN, Panesar shudda been on as soon as that 4th wicket fell.

That could be crucial. England and Flintoff denied by what was according to more or less everyone the worst not-out lbw decision ever.

England are cricket's answer to Gordon Brown at the moment

:D I'd like to see Gordon Brown bowl one of those! Justice.

Brilliant, bye bye Fatso!

Sounds like it's all going off at Edgbaston. Good batting perfomance needed now, I'll believe it when I see it though...

Well played Paul Collingwood!

it's becoming a classic!

http://www.britsuperstore.com/acatalog/Kp_Salted_Peanuts_500g.jpg

likely showing it in the pub if i were to leave early?

KP out :-(

FAP.com doesn't mention a TV.

grrrr

knives are out for kp in the tms box

yeah Stewy's not happy...

and rightly so.

not gonna make any difference now...

Flintoff gone as well

its all over now

LOL anyone expecting to watch any cricket on saturday or sunday (fuck a wednesday start for a test)

:(

Looking a little better now. Who'd've thought that Collingwood would end up hitting a 6 to bring up his 100, hey?

Super innings.

Okay, so what kind of lead is going to be enough? I'm thinking 250 would be good, but 300 would be much much better...