Cricket

great day to be a worcestershire fan

KP injured achilles and out of the ODI series.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/8059984.stm

xp Graeme Hick needs to come out of retirement quick sharp.

Neil Hannon to release cricket themed album, I learn from radio 4 this morning:
http://blog.musicomh.com/musicomh/2009/04/neil-hannons-cricket-pop-with-the-duckworth-lewis-method.html

Not nearly enough songs about cricket

"Meeting Mr Miandad" is good but "Kicking Mr Miandad Up The Arse" would be better.

My friend has been going on about that album at me for ages.

http://content.cricinfo.com/wt202009/content/current/story/406227.html
^Should be turned back at customs at heathrow.

More meaningful than an England vs West Indies ODI, through.

id like to see ODI's totally reduced to one per series and no more than 3 20/20s.

There's far too many ODI's and id love it to die off and 20/20s to not replace it with 7 matches of that instead.

Yes, ODIs have had there time. Awful, awful stuff for the most part. Would be happy if they were wholly replaced with 20/20 matches, which at least cut straight to the chase without all the tedious fannying about that characterises the middle part of most one-day innings.

Disagree. I think ODIs retain some sort of purpose, but they should be drastically reduced. 3-match series at a maximum. In fact, 3-match rubbers for Twenty20s as well.

7 ODI's or 7 20/20's are far too much. as are 5. 2 or 3 20/20's should be the max. But they're money spinners and are more popular with the public than test matches so there's just going to be more and more.

3 ODI's and 3 20/20s in a tour is still too much.

Disagree. Unless you wanna cut that down to 2 of each

1 each would be enough for me

Not sure what purpose ODIs serve in the 20/20 era. Both are shortened "more exciting" forms of the game, 20/20 works better than day night after work and given the amount of tinkering that has been done with ODIs to keep them "interesting" (powerplay nonsense) I'm not sure what the point is.

There hasn't been an ODI double-hundred yet! When that happens, time for byebye maybe. :P

Somerset seem to have unearthed a new legspinner. More importantly, he has an awesome, awesome name: MAX WALLER

although tbf it only works if spoken in an American accent

lol Andrew "Disciplinary issues" Symonds

RIP

He's like the Amy Winehouse of the Cricket world, amirite?

more the oliver reed

Wrestling naked with Ricky Ponting in front of an open fire.

^ evil

...or erotic?

Women In Lord's

drunk in charge of a fishing rod

lol so i'm going to this, let's nail us some dutchmen

as it were

england really wasting that good start

I thought David Gedge bowled really well.

162-5 no sixes and only 13 fours. Hardly any runs off the last 5 overs. Holland very much in this. They look delighted.

It should be enough as it's only Holland but it's not good enough after the start they had. England have no chance of winning the world cup.

Holland look like winning and its raining and are ahead on duckworth-lewis

i was just about to ask how are we doing, cause i can't even understand those scoring lines. as long as we're winning it's fine by me.

Holland need 47 from 42 balls with 6 wkts left

so the England guy that throws the balls is trying to hit a wicket right?

Englands fielding has been abysmal

some of the worst fielding ever, england wont win this

absolutely disgusting fielding there. shameful

fuck off england you useless fuckers.losers.

England are officially a joke now.

That was comical in the extreme. Lost their heads. I must admit I find it hard to care - but let's hope this 20/20 doesn't set the tone for the summer the way the one in 2005 against the Aussies did.

yay! i guess. but since this was so close, i guess "we" sucked as hard as the English, except there are only 6000 people playing this sport here anyway. (we probably threw around some passports for anyone who was interested in playing for us)

Lot of pressure on the Dutch at the end there and they didn't crack, so completely deserved winners I reckon.

I think there may be a few saffas on the Dutch side, but I hope there's plenty of focus on how well Holland played, despite how woeful England were, they were ace.

Absolutely, the win was utterly deserved. England middle order poor, english fielding dreadful, but the Dutch played really, really well.

ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN IN THE WORLD TWENTY20

RIP English Cricket, heaven needed another 5-0 Ashes whitewash