Cricket

Yeah KP will slaughter this attack.

England make 600? hah

On this pitch, that is. xp

Shah will get the rest of the series unless he gets 2 single figures scores next match. It's not like Bell can nip back to the counties and score a century or two.

lol I was kiddin', Shah should get the whole summer too

He looks the real deal, if he can sort out his running between the wickets. Good player of spin too.

Not that that's a consideration for playing the Aussies!

I fancy bell will bat at 5 instead of Colly in the ashes IF bell gets some runs in the counties and colly fails for the rest of this tour. I get the feeling England might become more ruthless with selections.

Bell is a good no5 (as is colly) hes not a no3. Hopefully Shah can come good at 3.

Argh another wkt thrown away

Time for Anderson's long-overdue first duck in Tests?

no

Penultimate over of the day *shakes head* good knock though...

I still don't understand why KP doesn't bat at three.

He's vulnerable to the new ball apparently.

This is weird, Flat pitch, everyone's expecting KP to make a double hundred and he's out of sorts, dropped, should've been out LBW a few minutes ago. I guess if he does suddenly find his form he will punish them for it, but atm He doesn't look like doing that. But he's still there and he has his half century.

He'll hopefully free his arms now.

Colly outscoring KP is not something you expect to see, still it's actually nice to see KP building an innings and I guess it's good to know he's capable of building an innings if he's not on absolute top form. A few years back he would've tried to push the score along and got out. I think he's maturing. If only he hadn't pushed the ECB too hard.
LJ you still convinced KP will be captain again by winter tour 2010?

Neil> yeah he could explode any minute, but he has all day to bat. If he is still there after tea there will be fireworks. WI haven't bowled badly today. Not too many loose "given up" deliveries that Harmison and Anderson can be prone to.

I like Fidel Edwards. Always looks the bowler with most potential when I see him. Benn impresses me too. Taylor is a good bowler too.(and gets KP out)

Cant see us getting 600 now

Would take getting another quick 150 and having a bowl tonight maybe.

fred out. no 600

no 500

Pitch doing crazy stuff though!

If england dont get 500-600 theres less pressure on WI batting, esp if the openers fire.

Nah only taylor is making it do stuff. Would you trust Harmison to have that effect? I bet jimmy gets the new ball ahead of him

Actually Harmison might be particularly effective on this pitch I think. Obv remains to be seen though...

He cant be trusted though, I do think he's worth persevering with as he isn't as bad as he was last year BUT it's not like he does the odd amazing test match followed by bad ones. He has tended to be bad or bowled ok but not getting loads of wickets. Jimmy does do the hot n cold thing to a tee mind you. Cant see Broad bowling a team out (maybe in a few years)

if colly is out here then umpires are a joke. ball hit ground 1st

not out. good decision.

fifa/uefa take note

er it was pretty fkn blatant from the first replay that it hit the ground, i'd discredit the 3rd umpire for wasting 3 minutes of play

Anyone remember Wayne Phillips getting out by hitting the ball into allan lambs boot and gower taking the catch at short leg in 1985?

Excellent century by Colly. 3rd in 9 innings since he came back fron being dropped last year. He had to work hard as fidel edwards and jerome taylor had some terrific fiery spells on a pitch that has kept low at times.

Now to score as quickly as they can and get 10-12 overs in tonight.

Athers and Beefy want 14/15

FFS how did the umpire miss that thick edge? Useless cunt.

When was the last time a batsmen walked? I cant even remember the last. Musta been YEARS ago.

Not that long ago

I cant think of any. It's something that noone seems to do now. I wonder if it really did happen back in ye olde days.

It did. Hardly ever though. I'm sure I saw someone do this in the last few years.

Gilchrist walked regularly.

Funnily enough, I thought it was an Australian

If Monty did it, LJ would probably accuse him of bring thick.

I imagine it would be OK for Gilchrist to do it, I'm sure if almost anybody else tried it they'd get a right bollocking

Fred has injury problems and has gone off after no training today,not bowling early on and now only 4 overs in his spell, Harmison had to leave the field after being sick afte 4 overs. Not what you need when you have to get 20 wkts to square the series.

I think Yuvraj Singh walked recently.

At last, Powell finally out. Good catch from Colly at slip.

Interesting, another 2 wickets couldve fallen in that over if the referrals system had been up.