Idle cricket musing

[david_carnell]

And Broad is still to come back who is developing nicely into and all-rounder in the Flintoff mould.

[Loz]

Minus the likeability factor.

[Narnia]

So how do you explain the OD team being so crap, anyone?

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

It's lack of Englishmen in the commentary box.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

It's lack of Englishmen in the commentary box.

Besides, one dayers don't count.

[Narnia]

Lack of Englishmen wasn't a problem during the Ashes win.

[Narnia]

Telegraph Fantasy Cricket

One of you serious cricket fans might like to play this.

[mockney piers]

Final warm up game against Pakistan.

Strauss & Trott poor.

Everyone else looking pretty good. Some solid partnerships in there.

Prior is batting like a loon at the moment, 19 off 10 balls.

Lets hope they come good when it counts (mind you, playing the aussies ALWAYS counts....bah humbug)

[????]

Sod the Aussies, it's the Ireland game I'm worried about

[Loz]

... especially considering you just squeaked past Canada.

[????]

Yeah, thankfully there not in our group

[Mick Mac]

???? Wrote:

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> Sod the Aussies, it's the Ireland game I'm worried

> about

Aren't you allowed to take our best players.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Be fair, MM, South Africans get first dibs.

[Loz]

Usman Khawaja was only the seventh foreign-born player to be capped for Australia in that last 80 years.

Coincidentally, seven is the average number of foreign-born players in the England team at any given time over the last 10 years. :))

[Mick Mac]

Thats why they have just signed a sponsorship deal with 7/11.

[Narnia]

Ya don't say? All the others were English. Wow.

[Loz]

I think you are a bit confused, Narnia. No one puts England players in a cricket team.

Especially England.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Why did noone tell me about cricvid.com? Just discovered it in the newsagents.

[Brendan]

Because you just told me about it for the first time.

Does this mean I'm thieving from murdoch? Please say it does.

[mockney piers]

Dutchmen off to a flying start. (I should be a sun headline writer with quality material like that)

[Brendan]

What do you mean? He hasn't even batted yet.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Please don't tell me the future's orange!

[mockney piers]

Funny you should say that. 8 saffas and an englishman in the dutch side. Sort of like a negative of the england side.

[mockney piers]

I'll get into trouble if I say something about orangemen marching triumphantly won't I :-/

[Narnia]

BBC Test Match Special's Glenn Mitchell "It's almost like England against England, with so many South Africans in the Dutch team."