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3 down 🙂
Tidy start! All quiet from my Indian colleague in the office at the moment....! Am refraining from commenting or gloating. Don't want her to think I'm an Australian. 😉
Four now, the wall has gone!
4 down 😀
India are really sucking in this series aren't they? or are England really just that good?? certainly deserving of the Number 1 ranking, at least for now 😉
its just not sporting really 🙂
Someone send the aussies over so we can put the boot into them too while we can still bowl 🙂
[i]England really just that good??[/i]
they have a top notch 4 man bowling attack.
England are pretty good now but I don't think India have really performed so far.
You can only beat the side in front of you. We are no.1 now, no question,
or are England really just that good??
Only time will tell, but right now they are. IMO you have to consistently beat the better sides and that means winning away in place like the WI, Oz, SA and the sub-continent. Winning at home is one thing - repeating it on a 2-4 month tour is something else.
streaming star cricket live... they have Mick Jagger doing an interview, he's described as "superheavy" 😀
he seems to be on the happy pills, can't stop grinning for ear to ear
Only time will tell, but right now they are. IMO you have to consistently beat the better sides and that means winning away in place like the WI, Oz, SA and the sub-continent. Winning at home is one thing - repeating it on a 2-4 month tour is something else.
We did win the ashes recently?
India haven't lost a wicket for about half an hour now!
Oh, it's lunch. 🙂
We did win the ashes recently?
But that was one series (against a distinctly average side) after previously being white-washed over there.
How well have we performed against the other 'big' nations on the own patch? Not so well.
IMO what sets England apart at the moment is their ability to step up to the plate when it matters. They win a lot of sessions; grab wickets, gets runs, apply pressure, take catches, occupy the crease, out-think the opposition captain, etc.
And they've been doing this a lot for 2 years or so having lost the plot after winning the Ashes in 05.
5 down
6 down
Getting silly now. All out for 150 and us past that by stumps with 7 or 8 in hand.
'ave 'em!
100-6 and they strengthened their batting 😕 apparantly Boycott didn't think it was a putting in pitch 😀
can't see Dhoni lasting long
That last wicket, the batting was lax, man.
🙄 😳
christ, boycott can be a right t1t sometimes
another one bites the dust
Kumar will have some nice bruises 😀
He knows his cricket, but he is indeed a prize tw...oh no, wait, can't say a rude word.... 😉
he's being teased remorselessly at the moment by Aggers
Blowers has just taken delivery of a Bakewell Tart.
Forget the riots, forget the global financial turmoil, all is well with the world. 🙂
Klunk, what was that you said about Dhoni? 😯
he was all over the place when he started. Then he decided to go into IPL mode hasn't looked in trouble since.
Never mind that! Cake!
out at last
Damned good referral by Strauss. Everyone ears heard something, was a good call in the end.
Sorry but there is NO WAY Kumar didn't know he'd nicked that, no way at all.
one to go
No there isn't.
🙂
made heavy weather of the back 9.
I've got tickets for day 3, who will be batting by then I wonder?!
I've got tickets for day 3, who will be batting by then I wonder?!
Leeds Under 11's school finals I should think.
actually at the current run rate it might even be England's first innings still!
they have to get used to the "dibberleydobberlies" according to Vaughan.
I'm not saying nowt, me.
Looks like England have avoided the follow on.
Blowers is staying just down the road from where i used to live, nice hotel, great food
100 up
Steady start to the morning. Would like to see the openers pile on a few, centuries apiece perhaps.
Trundling along nicely so far. 350 - 5 by the close? Oh hang on I forgot Bopara is playing. 350 - 6 then. 🙂
150-0
Lots of cheese in the TMS box today.
Vaughan only turns up for the freebees
lead by 15 with only 1 down 😀
Bell out now. Cookie's chuntering along nicely, though.
We're in trouble now - 28/2
peterson vs leg spinner..... should be interesting
Seems in reasonable touch so far.
Just getting interesting...
becoming a bit of a massacre.
KP is filling his boots
150/3
India are being destroyed. It's no longer a contest.
We'll win this series 4-0.
to tell you the truth I am disappointed - its not a good contest.
I wanted to see something like the 2005 ashes - which is probably the best series for a long time. Instead its a disappointing capitulation from India.
Oh, FFS! I agree with TJ! 😉
India look very lacklustre, 'tis true. Which is a shame.
But then, you can only beat the team you're playing, and we're certainly doing that!
I agree TJ. Wanted a decent series not a procession.
We need to declare over night, get them in and skittle them all out by tea tomorrow
Good morning everybody 🙂
What will today bring. Give the forecast for rain tonight and overcast all day tomoz (on the beeb anyway), I reckon we'll bat all day and declare either overnight or with an hour's play left today.
3-0 by tea tomorrow!
I think a declaration may come sooner than that if the runs keep flowing at the rate they were yesterday.
don't think they'll declare before tea.
Im wondering about popping up to Edgbaston tomorrow to watch the carnage...what chance tickets you think?
46 extras on the card. nuts.
good availability for Day 5 ....HTH
Nothing on their website for tomorrow though
https://www.eticketing.co.uk/edgbaston/details/event.aspx?itemref=3122
😆good availability for Day 5
Rain stops play. 🙁
Won't be for long. Gonna be PERFECT bowling conditions tomorrow.
The way India are playing I think we would still skittle them if it was perfect batting conditions.
I'm 12 miles to the west of Edgbaston where the weather is coming from. Shall post up any reports of rain. Stopped now, brightening up, play to begin in 10 mins
*Applauds*
only another 200 to go 🙂
Im wondering about popping up to Edgbaston tomorrow to watch the carnage...what chance tickets you think?
I'd have been there yesterday or today if I'd thought there was any chance of getting in.
plenty of empty seats to be seen, but the radio described it as a sell out 😕
though its looking fuller now
Double century! Well done that man