Idle cricket musing

[Keef]

I have to admit Vaughan is a great captain in the field, but COME ON!!!!!!!!!

[Ted Max]

Abraham got a bit confused there. Mistaking the grass for his hands. Entirely understandable.

[david_carnell]

Is that what Safas mistake for sportsmanship?

Cheatin' bugger!

Just not cricket etc....

[Keef]

Not looking great is it... Then again, neither was the first test at this stage, a saffa and bell to the rescue again, please!!!!

[david_carnell]

Well, it won't be Saffa Strauss that's for sure. He's just gone for 27 and after Bell it actually get's bad. Like proper bad.

*Hangs head*

[Brendan]

Ahh. You all seem so upset in here.

Tissue anyone.

[david_carnell]

Bugger off, we didn't take the piss last week.

...oh...wait...kleenex, please.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

*Starts up chorus of It's a long way to Tipperary*

Backs to the wall chaps - stand firm. We spit on your tissues of deceit.

[Keef]

Keep the faith, it's not that different from the first test (except Cook hit a few). Fingers crossed these 2 will bed in after lunch and knock'em around a bit... I also predict Flintoff will get 40 or 50 so long as he keeps his head...

Looking forward to seeing him bowl a bit too, apparently he's bowling as well as ever at the moment.

[Brendan]

That's the spirit. Chin up.

[Brendan]

Best hope that Monty and Anderson can makes some runs then.

[david_carnell]

Pieterson gone for 45. 7 boundaries, 46 balls. We really needed some Boycott spirit from KP but he reverted to type. And to add insult to injury it was Smith who caught him.

Woe is now!

[Ted Max]

Do you think - counterattack was a decent option I'd have thought.

This bowling attack was always likely to do the business at least once this series, and winning the toss at a cloudy Leeds offers the best chance.

No undue cause for alarm.

Channels Boycott - "You never know how good a score is until you've had both first innings".

[Ted Max]

Although 123-5 is usually not very good anywhere.

[david_carnell]

I suppose 45 is a decent knock but when you're needing stability AND runs it's unhelpful.

Fred in, but we're in real trouble. I'm liking the Boycott quote though. If we bowl out RSA for under a hundred I'm happy to look a plonker for getting all worried.

Edit: With Flintoff batting and Kallis bowling is this the heaviest bat/bowl combo ever seen in test cricket. Those fellas look like they enjoy the odd pie & pint combo. I suppose Ul-Haq's a bit of a chubster and that fella from Barbados(?) in the World Cup was hoooge. If they faced off it would be quality. Any advance on that?

[Brendan]

I?d back Freddie in a Flitoff/Fallis fight. Fred?s from Preston so has to be at least a bit hard. Kallis is just a private school rich boy. Although he is South African so harder by nature than your average Englishman, but I?d still back Fred.

[david_carnell]

Aye, but it'd be more of a sumo wrestle than a fight with those two.

Now Collingwood I reckon would be a bit tasty. North East boy - them's hard oop there.

[Ted Max]

Strauss would be handy with an ?p?e, I'd reckon.

[david_carnell]

>:D

[Brendan]

Match him off against Steyn, a Phalaborwa Boer from a mining family.

That would be a fight to get the bookies busy.

Or perhaps Nel who is 6 foot a million, certifiably nuts and hails from my neck of the woods which keeps you on your toes.

[Brendan]

Anyway back to cricket.

There goes Bell.

[mockney piers]

Broad and Flintoff, potentially a mighty fine partnership, or a kiss of death by me

[david_carnell]

mockney piers Wrote:

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> Broad and Flintoff, potentially a mighty fine

> partnership, or a kiss of death by me

Argh!

Kiss of death a mere 15mins later! Flintoff caught behind......

[mockney piers]

And that's broad, a double kiss...err wrong sport

[Brendan]

Cheers Mockers!