Idle cricket musing

[Keef]

Sure KP is secretly happy about this, so he gets to finish it off (if he can stay in).

[Brendan]

You guys are stuffed. All SA need to do now is take 7 for 20. Come on Proteas!

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Careful Brendan - that's another wicket - you might do it.

[Brendan]

Oh I have little doubt we're going to do it.

Easy peasy.

[Brendan]

Well the BBC says England have won by 6 wickets but you can?t believe everything you read.

[Brendan]

Aren't they supposed to be playing a ODI in Leeds today?

[Ted Max]

2:30 start.

[Ted Max]

England will bat first. Orthodox move in a day nighter over here..

In big jessie bomb-dodgers news, South Africa have withdrawn from the Champions Trophy. The first team to do so.

[citizenED]

KP obviously selected on his merit as a bowler.

[Keef]

Good start for England, 2 SA wickets already gone.

[Brendan]

This is really worrying me you know. England can?t be good at one day cricket. It?s against the natural order of things. Perhaps it has something to do with those Swiss scientists fiddling about with the fabric of reality.

[Brendan]

Bloody hell Broad has just taken 4 for 9 in 5 overs.

[Ted Max]

Don't worry Brendan. England have, for years, sporadically imitated competence, even excellence, at one day cricket, only to lose momentum. Even this summer's 3-1 defeat to NZ was commenced with a commanding 100+ run win, switch-hitting sixes and all.

Like my Scottish granny used to say about good weather - it's nice out the now, but we'll pay for it later.

[david_carnell]

Never mind. 5 down, 5 to go. D'ya reckon SA will make a hundred?

[Brendan]

Pah we don't need 100 to win this. I reckon they're planning on bowling you out for under 50.

[david_carnell]

Good job. You've just lost another. Heehee. This is quite good fun...for now.

[Brendan]

Runs?

Over rated in my opinion.

[david_carnell]

And in the opinion of most of your team as well it would appear. Broad gets his fifth!

[david_carnell]

Oh stop. This is too funny. All out for 83!!

Have you sent your schoolboy team in error?

See, I'm all cocky now, but when we lose our opening pair for anything less than 30 I'll be pooing myself that we'll lose.

[Brendan]

Well that was quick. Not often you can say that Andre Nel top scored with 13.

Right, now all the boys have to do is come out and bowl England out for less than 83 and they?ll be drinking snakebite in the nearest Walkabout before you can say, ?drunk aussie girls.?

[Brendan]

fuck me...

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Damn - didn't have access to a computer that day, so much I wanted to say to you Brendan!

[Brendan]

What like, nah nah nah-nah nah?

[Brendan]

I really don?t know what to think about this. Should I be impressed with England? Should I be astounded at South Africa?s terrible performance in the form of the game that they normally excel at? Should I put South Africa?s poor performance down to the quota system forcing white players out of the team? Should I just put it all down to Kevin Pietersen?s charmed captaincy? Is it beginner?s luck or is the guy actually this good?

I don?t care what is going on in the South African camp you don?t win a test series as impressively as they did and then come out and lose this badly and repetitively.

[Keef]

At the end of the day, they won the series that really mattered. Remember England were destroyed in Australia in the last ashes, and then went on to win the one dayers. The hard wrk had all ready been done by the Ausies.

That said, it is nice to see England looking good, and I hope they can take it in to their test form!