Cricket

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

looooool India

ok get your lols in here

lol oh dear

7 now. Still think England will win but great to see Afghanistan doing well.

hmm touch and go I would say, Afghanistan are no mugs with the bat, and half the total could be knocked off in 6 overs

Moeen might turn out to be the key bowler as well as the key batsman tbh

ah well

oh gosh we couldn't have let them win now could we

both finals should be eng-wi but our women choked

anyway, bring it on, SV

this WI T20 team feels like the culmination of Caribbean cricket over the last 20 years and legitimately one of the most fearsome limited-overs teams ever to have been

Following this on my phone. Wonderful win and should be a great final.

Doing this without Pollard or Narine is remarkable.

WI women do it! Had been getting dull watching Australia win every tournament due to the other teams choking. No longer, thank god

The fuck's up wi' this town? Nae cunt's showing the cricket, fucking football football football.

I was watching both in a Greenwich sports bar, just the cricket now tho. Wish I wasn't mind

yeah game over

Unless...unless...

Saw the last few overs in the Enterprise in Chalk Farm, but now they've put on the absolutely vital middle of the table clash between Man Utd and Everton, to placate the legion of gormless twats traipsing in staring uncomprehendingly at a TV screen not showing Premier League football. Heading off in the direction of Primrose Hill to find a better class of boozer.

...unless...

Given up. Fuck London, fuck Sky but, most of all, fuck the Premier League.

don't really care for bashball but you can't beat these nail-biting finishes

cometh the hour cometh the Stokes

lol whatta finish

Lol. We had you going for a bit.

fourth six was unnecessarily cruel there

Hahahahahaha

Christ

So glad I schlepped all over London only to end up following the match via text reports on the BBC website, thank you, God.

sorry Tom, can't believe that up here in the outer darkness we've got pubs that can manage to broadcast more than one sporting event at the same time but Londoners can't countenance it

Give the people what they want.

Mid-table battle between two mediocre teams more important then England getting smashed obv

England and Nottinghamshire batsman James Taylor has been forced to retire because of a serious heart condition.

Jesus

Poor guy but its better they caught it in time

154 consecutive deliveries without a run ... and they still lost.

hurrah

Kraigg Brathwaite becoming the first opening test batsman to not lose his wicket in either innings is an extraordinary statistic.

Was reflecting on how it's sad Tony Cozier didn't live to witness this, might have restored his faith a bit

Current state of the board of governors won't though

Anyway, Hameed! Looking absolutely the part. His career path unfolds like a far more elegant Cook now

Oh, SV, you're about - what do you do with a problem like Dave Cameron?

a tenner on Hameed getting 10k runs for England in Tests seems a reasonable punt