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Fucking West Indies. Thirteen needed off three and a half overs with six wickets in hand and they lose by 1 run. Shit, shit, shit.

Michael Holding in integrity in cricket vs historical revisionism shockah.

Pakistan refused to return to the field. Therefore, they forfeited. The game therefore was not, and never will be, a draw.

So can we expect low scores from England againt the SA bowlers and a 4-0 test series defeat?

Not if this rain keeps up.

You think that's Englands only hope?

I come to the cricket thread and what are the English talking about? The weather.

Throwdowns to Graeme: England - SA series summer '08

and its a collapse

England 148-3 v South Africa day one

England lost three wickets in three overs to slip to 117-3 midway through the first afternoon at Lord's.

Andrew Strauss (44) had looked in good touch after England were put in, but he was given out by Daryl Harper to one replays showed pitched outside leg.

Until then the South African attack had not threatened England, Alastair Cook notching his 11th fifty in a 114 stand.

But Michael Vaughan (2) missed a good one from Dale Steyn that swung away and Cook (60) gloved a brutal rising ball.

Bell and KP partnership of 192 takes England up to 309-3. Well done (now keep going tomorrow!)

Good batting pitch so wonder why SA put ENG in to bat.

Smith should have known it was a slow pitch, but thats easy for me to say innit!

Great century from Pietersen. Lets hope Bell gets his tomorrow as well.

and i hope they make big scores and colly/ambrose contribute too

Well played Ian Bell!

use the ILC thread!

No.

Colly just got an absolutely shocking decision there.

i'm going to ignore you until you use the specific thread

did someone speak?

Fuck david cameron on TMS.

Agreed.

I'm glad I have sky sports then

I'd rather a fly in my ointment than be smeared with shit ;)

As long as that cunt stays away from sky sports coverage

Well done Bell, shame about the double hundred miss -- but I'm glad he actually made a great contribution when I didn't believe he could. Hopefully he'll go on now and that 199 won't be read any other way, should he not go on an be amazing for England.

It's a real shame he didn't get the 200. I remember when Gooch was out for 196 against Australia in 1985. And of course his 333 4 years later.

5 i mean

And he was dropped on 30 by the Indian wicketkeeper

bah, Eng bowling economically with little cutting edge and SA bore on towards a draw...

the problem is it's still a great batting track, SA are going to be much tougher on a second innings, all down to Monty at the moment but this is where you need a Flintoff to get you a wicket or 2.

Yay for the return of The Sheffield Shield!

Freddie definitely playing tomorrow, then.

Did Mark Pougatch's commentary on TMS in the 1st Test annoy other people as much as it annoyed me?

He should stick to football.

He wasn't that bad! Arlo White, now he's a (thankfully absent) disgrace to the profession. None of the BBC lot even approach Talksport's Andrew McKenna when it comes to sheer fist-in-mouth terribleness, though.

Can't we take all this to the series-specific ILC thread?

NO!!!!

Easier to use this thread as a rolling cricket thread isn't it?

Can't we take all this to the series-specific ILC thread?

I don't do other boards, dear boy.

Pougatch was just trying FAR too hard, I AM TALKING LOUDLY ALL THE TIME BECAUSE THIS IS "SPORTS" AND IT IS EXCITING. Boycott such an arsehole too.

Now this is where we're gonna have to fall out a little. Boycott is the best. He's also very, very rarely wrong, and surprisingly progressive/liberal in his thinking.

Cricket chat should be for everyone not sub boards that noone else reads

but, you see, everyone can access the sub-boards, everyone can see what's on the sub-board...it wouldn't be the biggest mental leap imaginable to check I Love Cricket if you wanted to talk about cricket

also if you're not using site new answers by now you're a total stone-age spacker

Boycott: you're right he's rarely wrong, but it's his air of absolute certainty, along with his constantly claiming the wisdom of hindsight, that makes him annoying. Worth listening to when Agnew's winding him up though.

Now this is where we're gonna have to fall out a little. Boycott is the best. He's also very, very rarely wrong, and surprisingly progressive/liberal in his thinking.

Progressive about cricket I take it you mean, certainly not politics! He might know about cricket but he's a charmless arrogant twat

really we only need one cricket thread, no point having a whole sub board for it.

Aggers' sense of humour is sublime

Tom D very OTM here.

(xp) Whereas Boycott's barely exists beyond, "Ha ha, Agnew, you only took 3 test wickets, that's rubbish that is, I wish I'd played against you"

WHAT?! Boycott and Aggers are great together, but for PRECISELY the opposite reason! I like his air of absolute certainty, because I reckon he backs his chat and he doesn't baulk from voicing what he feels, unlike the Sky Sports fudgers.

Yeah I do mean about cricket. I don't think he applies his arrogance to other people. And he's far from charmless, he's very entertaining and I'd say charismatic in his own way.

That sort of baiting isn't representative of Boycott's deepest grasp of humour ffs, it's just a way of keeping Eeyore in check! :D

I have found that when I read a Boycott article in the paper, I can hear his voice in my head. He's great, he walks really fast too, he whizzed past me at Lord's once.

That sort of baiting isn't representative of Boycott's deepest grasp of humour ffs, it's just a way of keeping Eeyore in check! :D

Of course, but it doesn't work because he has so little charm and such little grasp of the mechanics of humour, I agree that he's interesting to listen to however!

Boycott doesn't NEED Aggers' smug public-school nuance and underhand wit, though, because JUGGERNAUT RIGHTEOUS CANT will always defeat the former. And Aggers carries on moaning and being conservative and not understanding spin, and the world stays on its axis.

That's not JUGGERNAUT RIGHTEOUS CANT so much stereotypical blustering bolshy Yorkshire windbagisms, a la Trueman and Illingworth and take yer pick