Idle cricket musing

[Brendan]

Dull? You mean they aren?t going to come out, make a quick fire 250 and then bowl England out?

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Have you been breakfasting on Mescaline?

[Brendan]

You?re one to talk what with that lobster on your shoulder.

[Brendan]

Not content with having skived off on Thursday to go to Lords my boss decided he would take the day off and go to the cricket again today. He did very kindly ask me if I would like to come along.

?Well,? I said, ?I do kinda have some editing to do today.?

?Ah so you have.? He quipped, ?I?ll see you tomorrow then.?

Fucker! (6)

[Floating Onion]

Why did you admit this to him if he forgot? You should have known better.

[Brendan]

138 runs, 448 balls and over nine hours at the crease. That?s how you save a match.

Boringly.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Maybe Boycott channelled his spirit.

[Sandperson]

Didn't Michael Atherton do something similar a few years back (my memory fails me as to who we were playing or what year it was but it was in this country) and everyone (except me) hailed him as a hero? I thought it was boring too.

[david_carnell]

Stubborn, obstinate, jerky eating, SOBs!

Bloody drawn. After all that excitement earlier on. Pah. I'm going back to Twenty-20!

[Brendan]

*wakes up*

Have we won yet?

[Keef]

Well I guess fair play to SA for holding out for what looked a very unlikely draw, but FFS that was dull!!!

[Ted Max]

England have dropped Collingwood and brought in Grimbsy-born Aussie Pattinson to play instead of the injured Sidebottom.

Nice to see a bit more Aussie grit being added to the XI.

[Brendan]

Injured Sidebottom?

Heheheh?.

[Ted Max]

Is Pattinson one of those typical, hard-to-distinguish Aus/Kiwis - coming over here, confusing national cricket selectors like JRussel. It might explain his selection.

[david_carnell]

Our bowlers better be on shit-hot form today as our batting is weak-looking.

After Bell @ No5 it all looks a bit shaky.

Flintoff - rusty

Ambrose - rubbish

Broad - lucky and inexperienced

Anderson & Panesar - laughable

Pattinson - apparantly worse than Panesar!! :-S

We better hope for a decent knock from el Capitano - which is long overdue - to set the standard.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

According to the stats, Vaughan is not a good tosser.

[Keef]

But a tosser nonetheless!

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Bleedin' aussie/kiwi umpire.

[david_carnell]

And not for the first test either. This is getting silly. Why not use the snickometer thingy on these ones?

[mockney piers]

So, Pattison has played 11 first class matches in his entire life, until yesterday afternoon thought he was off to Alton Towers, and until a little over a year ago was a tiler in Melbourne.

He was born in Grimsby though.

[Ted Max]

Keef's favourite has gone again.

England were offered a referral system for this series but declined it. I bet Strauss, Cook and Collingwood wish they hadn't.

[david_carnell]

He's taken 29wickets in little over half a season though and is fast - some 145kmph so I've read.

Could be an overnight cult hero.

[david_carnell]

We better hope for a decent knock from el Capitano - which is long overdue - to set the standard.

Cock! Wtf is Vaughn doing these days - great captain he may be, but his batting is all over the place.

Could we really drop the most successful England captain of all time? And who replaces him? Shah?

[Ted Max]

Seems this time he did get a decent pill. And he shouldn't have been in at all - Bowden's decision arguably costing England two wickets.

[mockney piers]

True D_C, true, though Simon Jones has taken the same number of wickets in 80 odd fewer deliveries.