Idle cricket musing

[Moos]

*polite applause*

[Michael Palaeologus]

At Trent Bridge tomorrow me. Could be exciting; or short.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Suspect short. Follow on not long to go I reckon.

[Brendan]

If they can survive tomorrow it looks like it may rain.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Ooh Michael - you could have a good day's play now. Enjoy.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Hope you haven't left early - sounds quite exciting.

[Narnia]

david_carnell Wrote:

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> Good grief....England have another immigrant for a

> batsman and this one isn't from the Southern

> Hemisphere.

Sorry chaps but you must realise that this is Ireland playing plus a few foreigners. Why they are called England (and Wales) beats me.

[Brendan]

Far hat butt

[V511]

Hi all

Apologies if this has been asked before but is there somewhere in or around ED that is showing the cricket?

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Listen to it on the TMS - much more refined!

Or it might be fun to pop up to the Oval and watch it in The Greyhound or one of the other many pubs round there.

[V511]

Thanks Peckhamgatecrasher. I love TMS and am listening to it now but fancy watching a bit of it on saturday locally.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

EDT usually show cricket - you might have to vie with football in the afternoon.

[Keef]

Right, lets hope England can bat through today, so I can see a bit of England batting tomorrow morning before I get drunk... Cook desperately needs a good innings!

[david_carnell]

And it looks like he's having one (fingers crossed)....

...his 50 is chalked up.

[Loz]

Ha ha! Cook does his last chance saloon decent innings again. This will mean he will keep his spot for this Ashes.

I was getting worried for a while you lot might just replace him with someone who can bat.

PS Anyone else think that Salman Butt looks like a Thunderbird puppet?

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Not sure, but it is an anagram of Batman lust.

[Loz]

And "Batman Slut", for that matter...

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

ooer, keef, not looking good now.

[Loz]

Dunno. He'll might get to see Finn and Broad. For a while.

Maybe one of these two will be able to pick Ajmal. None of the others could.

Looking out my window it's hard to believe the light is that bad at the Oval.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

In the interests of prevarication, I have been making a study of Butt and Thunderbirds characters. I will concede that Butt has Brains' lips.

Alas Google have changed their images so I can't paste here. Good spot Loz.

[kpc]

Have rather been enjoying (Sir) Geoffrey's TMS musings during this series - following his stints coaching in Pakistan he's developed a real affinity for the team.

And now we can enhance our enjoyment of the great man by playing Boycott Bingo.

Boycott Bingo

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

What larks!

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Bloody South Africans!

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Bloody Englishmen!

[david_carnell]

Oh. Dear.

This could be bad.

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