Idle cricket musing

[Ted Max]

Er...

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

This could be enough to get Brendan out of retirement!

[Atticus]

Jeez and the Aussies are really shit too, aren't they.

[Saila]

Ahem... some deck that!

[Atticus]

Sehwag smashes Sachin's record

http://www.espncricinfo.com/india-v-west-indies-2011/engine/match/536932.html

[Brendan]

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> This could be enough to get Brendan out of

> retirement!

I unfotunately couldn't comment at the time as I was extrmemly busy sitting in 30 degree sunshine, drinking ice cold beer and watching the match.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Bastard!

[Brendan]

Ahh. It's good to be back.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

43 for 5. Is it ok to stick my head in the oven now?

[El Pibe]

It is.

Does anyone still have a gas oven? I've a gas hob with electric oven.

There's got to be better ways to go than roasting ones head surely.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Well throwing oneself from the top of Bart's seems fraught with difficulties.

[El Pibe]

I'm preparing myself to be unconvinced by any explanation to do with molly and her corpses (most of which are playing for England today it would appear). But I guess that'd be in keeping with the books wouldn't. Wasn't he actually killed off then reluctantly resurrected?

(yeah yeah, wrong thread)

[Loz]

El Pibe Wrote:

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> It is.

>

> Does anyone still have a gas oven? I've a gas hob

> with electric oven.

> There's got to be better ways to go than roasting

> ones head surely.

Stick your head in the microwave. It's quicker.

[Huguenot]

Tried that - couldn't turn it on with the door open.

[maxxi]

Come, come - not a bad recovery. There have been many (many) worse first days. I suggest a little light banging-head-off-a-door-jamb or singeing of peripheral hair.

Then - on realising that Monty wasn't in fact playing - despite performing well in the warm ups - and that Swann has been flinging flans recently - sellotape head to door jamb and ask partner to slam door.

[Brendan]

There was a drug in the last Baskervilles episode which renders the subject susceptible to suggestion. Could it be that he gave this to Watson, convinced him that it was him jumping but actually threw the other body off?

Has this theory already been discussed ad nauseum?

[maxxi]

First Molly and now Watson... there are more holes in this thread than in the England batting

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Pint of hemlock, anyone?

[Loz]

Atticus Wrote:

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> Jeez and the Aussies are really shit too, aren't they.

*Cough*

[maxxi]

The good (?!) thing is that it's obviously a slack/stale/tired/rusty approach and careless execution - Boycott was right, rather than being got out they got themselves out.

*mumbles something about hitting that with a stick of rhubarb*

[Brendan]

Maybe Pakistan are just really good when they aren't throwing matches.

[Loz]

maxxi Wrote:

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> The good (?!) thing is that it's obviously a

> slack/stale/tired/rusty approach and careless

> execution - Boycott was right, rather than being

> got out they got themselves out.

I'm not sure that being so clueless about the length and spin of a ball and so deciding that the only solution was a wild cross-batted swipe can be entirely called 'getting yourself out'. That would assume there was an alternative.

[Atticus]

Outplayed, out-thought, out classed. to stay an No.1 in the world, a team needs to know how to play on all piches (as India found last summer). England's batsmen have continually struggled on sub-continental style pitches (world cup last year... Sri Lanka next!!!

[Atticus]

added to this if KP and Bell fail to deliver, in the next two Tests I would drop them. For the next game I would play Panesar for Tremlett.

[Loz]

Bit harsh on Bell. Though he was entirely bamboozled by Ajmal, he was in pretty good form leading up to this series. Besides, whilst the bowling stocks are good, England have a pretty bare bench when it comes to batting. Ravi Bopara for Bell is not an inspiring thought.