Idle cricket musing

[Mick Mac]

Lunch safely negotiated.... The ordeal is nearly over. Still awake too.

[????]

Mick I was there, u should have let me know earlier we could of had a drink

[Atticus]

Test cricket alive and well, massive queues outside of HQ this am!

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I vote for ?20 free for all tickets on all days.

Dear Blowers just got rather excited with Tendulkar's dismissal. I love TMS.

[maxxi]

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> I vote for ?20 free for all tickets on all days.

>

> Dear Blowers just got rather excited with

> Tendulkar's dismissal. I love TMS.

Nice to hear the seagulls still getting a mention.

[????]

:-S

[mockney piers]

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is what i say to our batsmen. Get us all hopeful at lords then....

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I'm just so glad that the tentative suggestion with my locall newsagent for a bet on this match never made it to a firm handshake.

[Brendan]

Oy vey

[????]

I blame the Saffas and the Oirish

[Brendan]

for the cricket or just generally?

[maxxi]

As the saintly GB would say "Yer can't tell 'ow good a pitch it is until both sides 'ave 'ad a bat!" - Swann and Broad rearguard is giving England a bit of momentum and if they gat a chance to bowl tonight I see Indian wickets falling.

[????]

Brendan Wrote:

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> for the cricket or just generally?

...the cricket..... if it was generally I'd have the french in there too

[maxxi]

200+ now - unthinkable when it was 6 for 88. Broad turning into a proper all rounder. Deserves the 50.

[Huguenot]

Broad again - 6 for 46. Let's hope we can recover this and man of the match.

[maxxi]

On TMS they said his hat-trick was the first ever against India - forecast tomorrow is for good batting weather so if England can get a patient 300-350 they'll have two days to bowl the Indians out. Trott needs to dig in and KP needs to score big.

[Huguenot]

Oooooh Trotty Trotster is not in the best of health...

[Atticus]

This could be a classic, Bell and KP, and Morgan need to make runs, lead of 250 and the games is ours, ours I tell you.

[Alan Medic]

That would be 'ours' as in England, S.Africa and Ireland, I take it?

[maxxi]

That's ridiculous - a run out when everyone's heading for tea!?? Letter of the law versus sportsmanship or lack of concentration by Bell? Tut!

[maxxi]

Tuffers is right - the gloves are off. Any time an Indian batsman wants to walk out of his crease to do a bit of 'gardening' now England should whip the bails off and appeal.

[Huguenot]

Edited out of shame for my bad blood...

[Alan Medic]

Eats your words maxxi and H. India did nothing wrong. The ball was still in play and Bell made an idiot of himself. Cheating bastards not.

[Huguenot]

If India didn't feel they did anything wrong they wouldn't have reversed the decision.

Eat your own words Medic. ;-)

[maxxi]

Sanity prevails.

ETA: I never accused anyone of cheating doc, a lack of sportsmanship is not cheating - it is something that the heat of battle provokes but which can always - as in this case - be resolved by the players themselves and India deserve full credit for accepting the reality of the situation and acting accordingly.