Cricket

Clarke you magnificent bastard

lol kiss of death

oh no now i will have to act faux-gracious for days (weeks, months, years)

Well that game sucked

aw steve smith, how could i begrudge that joyful face.

^true patriot

it would be a different story if he played for the wallabies.

tbf devereux is a class act on & off

nz blew it early but the real executioner was that faulkner swine, the guy's sheer tasmanian devil, absolute fiend of a bloke. cartoon villain stuff

more of a contest would have been good but it's a very small blow in the scheme of things.

belittling cricket in the face of rugby is tantamount to pulling my tail while dangling grilled halloumi kebabs in front of me, but I must let this, as with all things, pass

after i read 'pulling my tail while dangling' i left the rest of that thing unparsed.

Richie Benaud RIP.

Cricket commentary (and cricket full stop) will never be the same w/out you.

oh shit

:(

rip you ripsnorter

well that's a bummer

a good innings

RIP Richie :(((((((

another good innings http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cricket/32376031

Not looking good for England is it

moores must go

expecting ShariVari encomium to J Blackwood come morning

looks like strauss has the DoC role so dont expect things to change or KP to get back now
more boring cricket and 5-0 to the Aussies to come.

o m g

Yeah, this is extraordinary. I suspect light will rob us of a result though.

30 off 12-ish

so close

great effort

Jos Buttler a century off 46 balls. Amazing stuff. If only he could do it in tests

...but who needs Buttler, when you have Stokes?

amazing

Bairstow is no slouch either. Cook/Compton give a nice balance to the team.

wtf 4 real @ Eng being able to bat.

can i just

http://i4.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article6204593.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/England-v-Australia-Fourth-Test-Day-One.jpg

So pleased.

SA are bobbins but that was magnificent yeah

it was incredible. So used to it being England it happens to.

WI into the final of the under-19 World Cup, beating Bangla. Springer looks very good from the bits and pieces i saw. It's a shame i had to work today otherwise i'd have gone to the match.

how are you in bangladesh now

anyway, WI have done alright in this tournament sure, whether through honourable or downright appalling means, but they're going to get plastered all over the wall by India

Hetmeyer clearly the big WI find, for mine

*Hetmyer, even

Not only in Bangladesh, i went past the Sher-e-Bangla stadium twice today.

Yes, India will steamroller them but some potentially decent talent coming through.

yeah it is enouraging - they have a crop of potentially decent players here. offsets the doom-mongering a bit

Well, well.

of coooooourse keemo paul hits the winning run, lol

Woo! That was a pleasant surprise.

I was on the plane back with the Pakistan squad yesterday. They all look so young, bless them, apart from Sameen Gul who is going to be a beast.

Anyone? No? KBP?

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man with the highest batting average in Test history dies