Idle cricket musing

[Brendan]

rumbled. :-$

[Ted Max]

No, good work.

Wicket falls! Now then, Michael...

[Brendan]

Someone really has to try to explain to South African bowling coaches that ?Slow Bowling? doesn?t mean just bowling the ball dead straight but a lot slower than you normally would.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Strauss a bit unlucky. Damn that English sportsmanship.

[david_carnell]

Dag nammit, Strauss falls to Mindy's alien lodger, Morkel, for 44.

Nice knock but would have liked to see him reach his 50.

Now, some true English grit. Vaughan-y! Vaughan-y!

[Brendan]

Let's not be too critical. That term is fast becoming an oxymoron.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

You put the mockers on David!

[david_carnell]

Cock! True grit lasts all of two runs. Cock!

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I think true english grit was to be found in the pocket of Atherton

[Brendan]

Pretty gritty that. Gone for 2.

[Brendan]

Time for some true English middle order collapse.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Bloody hell - what did they have at lunch?

[Brendan]

Scrumpy by the looks of it.

[Ted Max]

Be fair Brendan. This is a top order collapse. The middle order collapse is ahead of us yet.

[Brendan]

Fair?

Nah, bolocks.

Top, middle, it?s all just semantics.

[david_carnell]

Oh for the love of Pieterson!!

Cook as well, for 60. Good innnings but did he have to get himself out right at this moment?

[mockney piers]

it was all looking so good, and then Kaboom.

A bit like my coding of late.

[Brendan]

Blame this guy. He was in charge of drinks.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I say, shouldn't like to see those South African chappies at a coconut shy.

[Brendan]

Looks like the South African?s have resorted to violence, not that it?s a national trait or anything, KP takes one on the melon.

[Keef]

Vaughn is toilet, I don't care if he gets the occasional ton that has everyone singing his praises again, he's shite these days!

[mockney piers]

18 tons and 18 50s, average of 42.7 over 5679 test runs.

Big pile of shat, yes keef.

Admittedly he does like the odd duck, or near enough. And as someone said on OBO, he always gives that look of "ooooh, must have been a good'un", "no Michael it was a straight ball, they're always straight balls" which made me chuckle.

The stats still talk though, and that's despite him 'struggling' since taking up the captaincy an aeon and an age ago.

[Brendan]

He often goes out early in his innings playing straight but down the wrong line. As Boycott once put it, ?The ball was on the Piccadilly and he got on the Bakerloo.?

Thing is he has made some massive scores once he gets in.

[Keef]

Robbie Fowler's stats look great if you look at his career.

I don't think Vaughan should be in the team anymore.

[mockney piers]

Robbie Fowler is about 50 ;)

We'll see, this happens every time he starts badly, then he goes and rescues one test and wins another one practically single handed.

If he's a washout all series then I shall get on your train keef.