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david_carnell

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Not a chance - I know how good you are at this betting malarky.



Although I do fancy some chocolate cake now. If I should make some, I'll give you a piece, and then we could send some to Blowers as well. Get our names on TMS.


Trott/Broad looking like a very important partnership at the moment.

Peckhamgatecrasher

Peckhamgatecrasher

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This is the Guardian OBO's take on the matter:


10.44am: To date the word is play will start on time as usual. Pakistan have crept in to Lord's and skipped the warm-up. Feelings are already running high. These are mine for what they're worth:

1. These are just allegations so far. Nothing has been proved.

1. Still, this Test Match now seems entirely irrelevant. I feel for Jonathan Trott and Stuart Broad, but if it is proven the match - and maybe the series - should be expunged. Just my view, but I'd feel much, much better if it was.

2. Mohammed Amir: innocent until proven. But if so... what a tragedy.

3. You can say the bowlers were clearly trying to get England's batsmen out, and that this is just a side issue, but it doesn't work like that. You can't switch your focus on and off. This is endemic.


10.34am: Hello and welcome to - what exactly? Suddenly this - the stuff on the pitch, with England needing six wickets to seal the hollowest of victories - all seems deeply irrelevant. Terrible, terrible news overnight that Pakistan players may have been involved in alleged spot-fixing. Suddenly everyone just feels absolutely terrible about all this.

This is of course a matter of sporting principle, but it is also to do with context. this isn't some pointless ODI in Dubai - it's a Lord's Test. I feel like I've had to watch someone giving Nelson Mandela a Chinese burn, or jabbing the Queen in the eye.

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kpc

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Could well be a very interesting last day of the County Championship. Notts/Lancs and Yorks/Kent will effectively play one-day matches. Notts should declare overnight and hope that Lancashire play ball and forfeit their first innings, allowing Notts to score quick runs and then try and bowl Lancs out. Yorkshire need to score another 250 quickly and allow themselves 50 overs to bowl Kent out. Given that Kent need to win to avoid relegationand scuttle Warks, this could make for an exciting finish. Somerset need to dismiss Durham relatively cheaply and quickly and then go for the runs.


Can't remember a last day with so many teams in the mix before; nervous times all round for those involved.

kpc

kpc

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Simon, unfortunately (for you) Yorkshire completely collapsed this morning so it looks like Kent will get the victory that they needed. And unfortunately for Kent (and PGC), this will be in vain as Warwickshire look like beating Hampshire. Title will come down to whether Notts and Lancashire have agreed to go for a result (as Notts are betting on this morning, I presume that both teams have agreed to forfeit an innings). Otherwise, congratulations to Somerset on breaking their duck.

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