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2013 ashes will begin at Trent bridge. And after the 5 tests are over, there will be a few months gap before England have to go to Australia to play the 2013/14 Ashes. So England and Australia have to play 10 tests against eqchother in a row. That's quite cool. In fact I think this should be a regular thing. In a four match series, play 2 tests home - quick changeover - a couple of tests away. You know it makes sense.
England have a thing that retiring from ODIs means you aren't eligible for T20s either.
Pietersen's not been great in ODIs for a while, but they took too long to realise he should have opened the batting. Could either see him piling on the Test runs now or packing it in altogether soon enough. He's a maverick. Hope he sticks around. England's top 6 is the most boring in the history of cricket.
I'm a fan of textbook tekkers but I agree you need a bit of flair. KP is probably the only batsman with a good batting style. Bell is ok. Trott, Cook and Strauss are prolific but robotic.
Efficient and mechanical. As a great man once said, I wouldn't pay to watch them. Though I do have tickets for a day of the Lord's Test this summer so let's hope it's South Africa batting (insert England&SA banta here). Without wanting to go all Simon Cowell, KP does have the x-factor that the other boring farts lack. He will do stuff like charge a spinner for all six balls of an over rather than bail out with a leg-side nudge after three. A hundred of his will invariably contain the whole repertoire of shots. The others are the same batsman x 5, except Trott, that **** is in a league of his own.
Anderson dropped
Finn will come in to the team
Gayle is back for the West Indies :bow:
Misses the test series for money and comes back for the ODIs. Fuck him. Sir Viv must be turning in his grave.
Apparently England's contracts pay the most. Surprised by that - would've thought the Injuns got paid the highest. ECB pay well over 6 figures. After chamakh's contract, Morgan must be the biggest waste of money in sport.
I think Winston Bogarde would have something to say about that.
Probably "shut up and give me my 40k".
3rd Test tomorrow
Who comes in for Anderson?
Will Broad be rested?
Finn comes in. I expect Broad probably will, Onions in place of him presumably.
It's raining at Edgbaston though so I don't think play will start at 11.
And I was right. :lol:
Little chance of play today.
No Tennis and no cricket
Was supposed to get me through the day.
They need to man up and get out there like footballers do
First day wash out
Looking like no play today either.
Birmingham. :lol:
Second day wash out indeed
First time since 1964 its happened
Cricket :lol:
Is there any point starting the Test tomorrow? Better weather is expected and it should at least start but whats the point cos unless the players score quick and have none of this block and leave garbage then we wont have a result
They should be able to have an additional day for instances like this.
In any case, play has started. England won the toss and will bowl first. Bresnan has his work cut out getting a win this time.
Windies are 51-1 currently, Bresnan got Powell not long ago. :lol:
No Chanderpaul
England might win this after all
Broad also dropped
Onions is in
92-2, Onions got Barath for 41. He just can't kick on from a decent score. He's the Phillip Hughes of the Windies.
106-3, Finn C and B on Bravo. :lol:
I had forgotten about Onions. He is a good bowler, very smooth. One might say he made Barath cry.
Are you the Letters of the Cricket thread?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dennis Bendtner
Looking back, that was pretty Letters-esque. Oh dear
DSL :rose:
You did have potential, which is the saddest thing about all this.
129-4, Bresnan gets Fudadin. :bow:
184-5 at the moment. Onions got Deonarine a while ago.
Samuels is on 64.
208-6, Samuels goes for 76. Bresnan again. :bow:
Strauss dropped Sammy. :rolleyes:
Bell dropped two earlier apparently.
280-8 at the close of play.
373-9 currently, Ramdin on 86. Tino Best on 65. :lol:
Best has broken the highest test score for a #11. :lol:
Currently on 82.
England :haha:
Come back Jimmy, all is forgiven
Windies were all out for 426, Best out on 95. Poor bastard. :lol:
21-1 currently, Rampaul got Cook.
49-2, Sammy got Trott.
51-3, Best got Strauss.
This one could be over in three days after all. :lol:
111-3 currently. Tea now.
Bad light stops play. :lol:
Finished 221-5. Bairstow flopped again
Start delayed due to rain