The Official England Summer Cricket Thread!

[Jayesh87]

Pietersen gone. Game over!

Hardly only 90 odd runs behind with 7 wickets left

[dww]

Hardly only 90 odd runs behind with 7 wickets left

But at least 4 of those are English lower order batsmen and thus average approximately 3.

[Shaggy]

But at least 4 of those are English lower order batsmen and thus average approximately 3.

Exactly.

This game is over.

[Jayesh87]

Exactly.

This game is over.

I just stuck a few quid on it being a draw

[DeeGame]

I just stuck a few quid on it being a draw

Well done

[captainfog]

If colly and skips can stay in till close then we have a great chance of holding out for a draw, however, if one of those goes, we are in real trouble

[DeeGame]

If colly and skips can stay in till close then we have a great chance of holding out for a draw, however, if one of those goes, we are in real trouble

agree india needs to break this partnership soon

[tsb]

Zaheer strikes twice with the new ball.

England currently "11 for 5".

[dww]

We badly need to be able to bat down the order. We look so vulnerable at the minute, especially as although our bowlers look decent they are clearly not devastatingly effective wicket takers.

[CharlieMansonsSquint]

Glad to see England losing. ****in spawny team.

[tsb]

"England's sledging of Sreesanth last evening, terming him Harry Potter because of his glasses, might have led to some amount of mental disintegration..."

[DeeGame]

1038: I stuck the iP`od on random this morning on my amble to work and about 15 minutes in I was listening to The Streets singing "Dry Your Eyes", which suddenly made me think of Michael Vaughan and his dismissal yesterday. The first four lines represent a remarkable bit of presience from Mikey Skinner and his Marmite tones:

"In one single moment your whole life can turn 'round,
I stand there for a minute starin' straight into the ground,
Lookin' to the left slightly, then lookin' back down,
World feels like it's caved in - proper sorry frown."

Although I don't think Mr Skinner wrote the song about getting bowled after an unlucky ricochet off his thigh pad after scoring a ton in an international Test match. I could be mistaken though.



BBC

[Jayesh87]

[tsb]

This was one of my faves from the BBC comms.

"1440: Ind 378-4
Ganguly sweeps fine for a boundary off Monty, who looks like a forlorn student trying to convince the man behind the cinema counter that his 1998 NUS card is still valid for a £1 discount - but failing disastrously."

[Jayesh87]

This was one of my faves from the BBC comms.

"1440: Ind 378-4
Ganguly sweeps fine for a boundary off Monty, who looks like a forlorn student trying to convince the man behind the cinema counter that his 1998 NUS card is still valid for a £1 discount - but failing disastrously."

tsb as in the bank?