Cricket

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

James Faulkner Is Batting Quite Well.

ahahahaha slats just called that delivery rubbish, good times

Horrible, best wishes Phil, hope you pull through.

yep not good, Phil actually has a dedicated thread with well-wishing occurring: Thread of welcoming NSW's own PHIL HUGHES into the Australian national side

Phil Hughes dead aged 25. Terrible, terrible news. RIP.

Surprised more cricketers aren't seriously injured by bouncers tbh. RIP.

Some are, but to be killed by one. Horrendous news.

Awful, poor Philip.

back watching cricket. what else is there

brendon mccullum is batting with a mad agony, a sort of insane grief that happens in times like this

78-ball hundred. doesn't even celebrate

131* off 103 balls so far, good lord

I had to check that they hadn't started play an ODI

Just days after a bouncer killed the Australia Test batsman Phillip Hughes tragedy has again struck on a cricket pitch when an umpire standing in a match in the Israeli city of Ashdod was killed after being hit by a ball.

The 60-year-old umpire, who was not named, was taken to hospital in the nearby town of Ashkelon in a critical condition and died of his injuries.

One of the players who witnessed the incident told the Nana10 website that the umpire, standing at the bowler’s end, was struck by the ball in his face after it ricocheted off the stumps from a shot that came straight down the pitch.

Cricket is not a major sport in Israel but Ashdod, where a large number of immigrants from India live, is one of the main centres for it.

yo ShariVari, Windies bowling first at Centurion - Ambrose has been bowling coach for a while now - reckon that they might put on a show? We know Roach can be fearsome and Taylor can swing it but I'm most intrigued to see Cottrell

Honestly, no. I can forever live in hope though. Haven't seen much of Cottrell for Jamaica but he hasn't overly impressed. A couple of early wickets would be great for confidence though.

tough day for Australia by the sound of it. This Hazelwood sounds like he might be decent though.

Roach!

Two best players in together now. Very interesting period before lunch coming up.

hmm.