Cricket

Pietersen's a dickhead

lol

Hope Gayle gives him a slap next time he meets him

shocking not out decision there from the umpire. gayle was plum

a curious start

lotsa sixes now

will never see england players doing this.

have we forgotten trescothick already

also lol harmison, who knew

gayle out (fuck you umpire)

you need to make your peace with match officials imo

tres is gone. long gone. He's chosen not to be selected. It's about who is on the field now.

WI turned into England for a few overs there. I'm sure normal service will be resumed now Chanderpaul is there.

KP bowling to Chanderpaul , bowls 5 balls then hurts himself and goes off injured.

rain
booker t and the mg's playing over the tannoy and the english fans recognise it and start dancing along to it.
You know what it is, louis?

what hang on are you talking about the TMS theme

Green Onions

not green onions

Supposedly KP asked to fly home for 48 hours between test matches and was refused and he's not happy about it.

and it's causing problems in the dressing room

if kp is so tired, why is he playing the IPL?

awesome catch from flintoff but i still cant tell if he touched the boundary or not. WI crowd not happy but you really cant tell if he did or not. WI 147-6.
Freddy is an honest guy so i think he'd own up if he touched it but he couldve done without knowing. Any of you see it? from 1 angle there looks like a ripple but from other angles there's nothing. So i guess it must be out.

England denied a request from batsman Kevin Pietersen to make a brief return home during the West Indies tour.

Pietersen asked to go home for 48 hours midway between the third and fourth Tests because he was homesick, but the request was refused by management.

He said last week he was "at the end of his tether" with two more one-dayers still to play on the tour.

But stand-in coach Andy Flower has reaffirmed Pietersen's commitment to England's cause in the West Indies.

"Kevin is very proud about what he does and he's very proud of this team," Flower told BBC 5 Live's Sportsweek.

"He's doing everything in his power to win. He's been training as hard as anyone I can assure you, and he is very fired-up to win this one-day series."

Pietersen, 28, quit as England captain in January after a rift with coach Peter Moores, who was sacked.

In a newspaper interview he admitted to mental fatigue on the long tour, which comes to a close with the fifth and final one-dayer on Friday, 3 April.

"It's been a heck of a tough time and I'm at the end of my tether now," he told the Daily Mail.

"Really and truly I can't wait to get home."

But Flower insisted that any fatigue was associated with Pietersen's personal life and not his cricket.

"He didn't say he didn't want to play. What he meant, I believe, is that he wants to get home and see his family," said Flower.

"Sometimes in his downtime he gets a bit homesick like everyone, but this isn't a bad place to be - we all appreciate how lucky we are as international cricketers and he's no different in that regard.

"He appreciates where he is but, look, he's a little frustrated, he's said something in the press and that's been seized upon.

"The important thing is that these guys are playing for England. Everyone has to embrace that responsibility and enjoy it and in the main, that's the case

Homesick my arse. Trouble on the home front more like.

well he would be allowed home for that i'm sure.

I suppose normally his wife would have flown out to join him but this time she was appearing on a TV show.

Are England going to have a chance to bat and level the series?

weather intervenes, no result, 5th match boycotted, WI find ANOTHER way to kill cricket and come out victorious

pfunkboy spontaneously combusts

we're off

or on

135 the target, a maximum of four overs per bowler. Eight overs of powerplay to England - so that's almost half the innings with only two fielders allowed outside the circle.

lol i think that's kinda worked in england's favour

In theory, but THIS IS ENGLAND

esp considering that lionel baker is not an international-class bowler

look we're gonna cream em, strauss is doing a kinda english gayle thing on 'em

Which is what you want from a skipper and presumably why he has put himself in as opener. It's how he played in the test series so it's got my vote. Even if he fails I think it was a good idea.

It's not like the opening pair have been great this series

It would be nice if this series went to a deciding game.

nice easy england win, all pumped for the decider, then WI boycott finishes the tour on the awesomest note possible

Oh I think they will pay up to avoid a strike that loses the series.

Oh, so they'd actually forfeit that game...fair enough

If WI won today they would still win the series if they boycott the final game.

yeah if they refuse to play, they lose the game.

Plus in theory should get a ban from cricket. But that wont happen.

but if they keep everyone guessing to whether they turn up, it will be hard for England to focus on the game as it's always going to be in the back of their minds that the WI might not turn up. So they might get into the mindset that they will not play, WI decide to play and England aren't ready. So it would be much better if it was all resolved now before it descends into farce.

But then, that's not the west indies way.

England will prepare for that game as if it's going ahead until it's officially called off, just sayin', they're a professional international sports team

with a professional whinger disrupting the dressing room!

thread needs DJ Martian input