Cricket

watching chanderpaul and brathwaite batting together is v soothing

a sublimer game has not yet been devised

ok now it's quite tense in a perfectly wonderful way. brathwaite, who is one of the most rock-solid batsmen i've ever seen but has no weight of shot to speak of, has been on 199 for 12 balls. he's never scored a FC double ton. the spinners are on. he keeps hitting it at the fielders. it's quite pantomimic by now

to add to the sense of liminal torture, the score is 399 and chanderpaul is on 49

brathwaite smashes a four! tbf it needed such a travesty, it was too deadlocked otherwise, too crystallised in perfect stasis

how many balls is that double off?

434. an opus

marvellous.

sulieman benn @suliebenn
It was an absolute pleasure watching the wizard @K_Brathwaite at work over the last two days https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v1/72x72/270c.png #205no #inspiration #BOOM

you know when praise is just a little too effusive

yes against bangladesh

even the bones of wg grace could get a lazy double century against bangladesh

Geoffrey-Boycott-reveals-how-Feng-Shui-helped-him-beat-cancer.html

lol just like it helped you beat yourr wife amirite

fawad alam bowling in a backwards cap is some of the purest swag I've ever seen on a cricket field

Boycott used to do that.

qed

btw this is on the first line of GIS results for geoff boycott blingee

http://image.blingee.com/images15/content/output/000/000/000/3b4/189210157_843607.gif

an ILX classic

even more so than the Windies, a strong Pakistan is essential for world cricket. today was great :)

of course the Windies are a terrible & sad story rn, and I don't know how they're gonna resolve it

relying on the mercy of the BCCI I suppose, good luck with that

It's Pakistan. WHO THE FUCK KNOWS WHAT PAKISTAN IS GOING TO DO NEXT?

(but maybe it's already time for Pup to hand the reigns over to #DEVEREUX)

xp probably win, given they really like playing in Dubai?

meanwhile a Test of thrilling ineptitude between two teams Ireland could beat!

Everyone at the ICC is going to be so embarrassed when Ireland smash it in that "relegation Test", if that ever happens.

Banning England from poaching all their best players, handing out amnesties to Morgan & Rankin and giving them Test status makes so much sense by now, but yeah they fear embarrassment

I still reckon a three-match Australia vs Ireland test series would only be the biggest money maker ever and CA is damned dull if they think otherwise.

Or at least invite them over for an ODI series series instead of this "England" mob.

*tri series

Ed Joyce all scoring 75% of their runs, Australia's middle order all still collapsing

Lorry just went past with DEVEREUX on it

Watch the fuck out, Henry Blofeld, there's a new kid in town.

gonna work on starting every other sentence with "A rather colourful pigeon"

ah now it's fine to see Aus cop ownage like this for once

"[Misbah] had been dropped second ball by Peter Siddle off Smith's bowling."

It's fun playing Pakistan at the moment:

If they had run two, Misbah would have had three successive scores of 101. As it happens, he has three centuries in a row, Younis has four in five innings, and Pakistan have declared in four successive innings, the first time that has happened.

OptaJim ‏@OptaJim 2m2 minutes ago
87 - All members of Pakistan's top five have scored at least 87, a record for a Test innings. Platform. #PakvNZ

yeah but can they do it on a pacy greentop in pretoria

Comment from my brother: "Azhar Ali needs to pull his finger out"

Gorblimey

Oh, get India and SL to play enough ODIS, inevitable it would happen

Well yes there is that

It's only November 14 yet I already want to stab James Brayshaw with a broken mid strength beer bottle.

haven't worked out which one he is

hussey obv more high pitched and nasal but can't tell tubby from brayshaw #pom

second least blokey voice (after slats)

prone to shouting "woah-ho-hooah!"

is he the one on with mark nicholas and slats rn

aw well that's game over then, not watching the rest

and to think that all broken, bashed australia needed was the waca pitch

#DEVEREUX

that's the pride of queensland, ian "heals" healy!!!

STEVER PETER DEVEREUX STEVE SMITH

and er matty wade

devereux is maybe the most rootable-for* australian cricketer since...gillespie?

*bad choice of phrase, yeah. OR IS IT