Cricket

bah bluddy Clark.

I know its only NZ but I enjoyed this.

Gotta feel if Collingwood and Pietersen find form, maybe dump Bell (bit of a Hick/Ramprakash type to me), MAYBE if Flintoff comes back batting well and firing in four over spells, THEN MAYBE, y'know...oh and I hear Simon Jones is recovering ok w/Worcestershire

Damn, i was hoping the Windies would win:\

Nah Bell aint going anywhere. Colly might get dumped if hes awful against SA.
Flintoff bat well? That would be a first. I suppose there's more chance of that however than Anderson being consistent.

Jimmy's on fire. 2 wickets with the new ball. I just wish he could bowl like this all the time.

Good innings from Broad as well. Boycs reckons he'll get a century before his career is over.

Oh I think he'll get more than 1. I think he will be a better allrounder than Freddie.

I would be more worried about his bowling than his batting

He needs to develop a metronomic action a la McGrath. He has the height, but not the pace at the moment.

Joel garner was in his late 20s before he got the pace. They're probably around the same size and Broad will get get stronger.

If England do go with a 4 man attack against Australia or South Africa we might have Freddie at 7 and Broad at 8.

Joel garner was in his late 20s before he got the pace

He was pretty good all along!

The BBC text commentary guy has annoyingly taken to calling Broad Malfoy. The beeb should have stuck with the factual stuff and not tried to copy the Guardian IMO.

Jimmy Jimmy
62-3

Good stuff.

4 down now. Jimmy nearly got Flynn LBW and he did next ball.

Jimmy is so frustrating because you know he can bowl like this, then he is awful for the next 3 tests. If he could bowl like this against SA/Aus then we might have a chance. But wouldn't be surprised if he was mince tomorrow nevermind the 2nd innings.

Going to the pub in a minute to watch this...

And Jimmy has a five-for

might have missed it all by the time I leave!

86 to avoid the follow on. but jacob oram could fairly easily knock through that in an hour on his own.

well, maybe two.

NZ inverted batting order.

Now here's something to play during the tea break:

http://img388.imageshack.us/img388/1995/629a1ji6.jpg

Jimmy now has 6

93-6 (Oram was the wicket btw)

This BBC stream is miles behind.

Fuck sake, I'm missing this, stuck in work... not that I'm doing any work of course

We need to take a backup of Anderson and restore it before every match.

4 to go for a laker

I think they will be going off for bad light soon

Can't see him taking 9 in the second innings however (xp)

Devon Malcolm took 9 wkts in a test match once, or did I imagine that!?!??!

and off they go. So no chance of 10 now if he cant bowl them out tonight!

He did indeed.

lol i wuz wrong.

Given his luck Collingwood will come on to hold up an end and rob Jimmy of a 10 for.

Why the fuck cant they just use floodlights?

XXpost

Yeah lightening striking twice etc.

Danny V there trying to break Andersons hand.

hurrah for pubs and drinking and JIMMYYYYYYYY *belch*

Follow on enforced and NZ are 45-2

"Devon Malcolm took 9 wkts in a test match once, or did I imagine that!?!??!"

9-57 against South Africa at the Oval to square the series -- one of the great spells of out and out fast bowling I've seen. So great.

"Flintoff bat well? That would be a first."

All those innings against the Aussies in the Ashes over here. Unlike Bell, they were made when it actually counted.

Harmison bowled well in the ashes against Aus in England but i wouldnt have him back based on past glories. Flintoff is not and hasnt been for a few years good enough to bat at no6. He will get in as a bowler.

He has had injury problems for a while, etc. but if he gets his bowling on song he'll get the batting right as well -- and it would be good enough for no6.

holy shit what a six from KP. He just switched hands as Styrus bowled and hit a six left handed over long on. Amazing stuff.

Now Shah is hitting sixes. Fun Fun Fun.

The MCC will discuss the legality of Kevin Pietersen's remarkable switch-hitting strokes on Tuesday.

I was gonna start an ILC thread about this.

holy fucking jesus

PAUL COLLINGWOOD YOU UNSPORTING PRICK

New Zealand is calling this "Underarm II", lol.

yeah because graeme swann should have just fkn underarmed it gently towards the non-striker's end amirite