Cricket

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!

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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...

We might get 250, we won't get 300

Still 3 wickets to go. I think we could get a 300 lead.

It's looking pretty good!

Good knock from Sidebottom...

Oh.

From 65-0 to 93-4. Crazy stuff. All started from Flintoff's wkt, apparently McKenzie couldn't see the ball. Kallis seem to have got out in a similar way...

England have had nothing but shitty umpire decisions this series.

fucks sake that was off the glove. fucking umpires

England lose the series, deservedly so given their mostly shoddy batting performances (and fairly toothless bowling). Some people are gonna throw their toys out the pram and blame umpires/Kevin Pietersen, but really it's team responsibility, and England weren't good enough.

Also, the British have been traditionally terrible at "giving credit where it's due", and altho they bowled abysmally at Collingwood and company for long period yesterday and today, and altho half their players were useless at spotting 87 mph deliveries coming out of a dark background, the South Africans deserve all the praise they get.

Well done for extending Colly's career by another 2 years, a masterstroke. Remember, next time he's one game away from permanent expulsion, just bowl wide half-trackers at him! And bring on your worst-ever Test bowler for a 20-over spell!

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KP England captain then? I never thought I'd see the day, Neville Cardus will be rolling in his grave etc etc...

It's what absolutely needs to happen. Cardus would be loving it.

KP shouldn't be captain. His form will suffer and he's not mature enough and is far too irresponsible. Vaughan was by far and away the best man for the job.

You are a silly armchair fan who doesn't understand how cricket works, and is spouting tabloid opinion in lieu of any genuine consideration.

Pietersen is highly mature, works harder at his game than anyone, and is anything but irresponsible (hence his average being 10 higher than anyone else's).

You are a silly armchair fan who doesn't understand how cricket works

I played cricket when you were still in nappies.

Yes, pls to explain "how cricket works". Who are you, Fred Trueman?

Sorry, I'm just a bit het up about the weight of unthinking criticism KP is receiving for not scoring a hundred every Test. Also, playing cricket doesn't mean you know how it works; there are enough international cricketers spouting unalloyed shite in the commentary-box as it is. KP in charge would not mean an irresponsible captain, it would mean a dynamic, aggressive captain, rather like the fella who's just trodden all over us.

Good summation of Vaughan's captaincy:
http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/363563.html

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"KP is a big stupid ego player, no brain, let's get Rob Key in as captain!"

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It's fair enough to have reservations about KP as captain IMO, it's just there is no other feasible candidate. Had Vaughan's knee forced him to resign permanently a couple of years ago, we'd have Strauss as captain now, and he would probably be a better captain than KP.

But it's too late for him now, I meant to add above.

Strauss is the ONLY alternative. And I'd still say KP is well ahead of him. The amount of ill-informed tabloid idiocy spouted by cricket "fans" is quite, quite amazing. We even get the merest hint of base comedy with the "Chris Read should captain England" brigade.

English cricket in disarray shockah!

"Chris Read should captain England" brigade.