Idle cricket musing

[Loz]

Is Samit Patel really the sixth best batsman in England? He could be the sixth fattest, but I'm struggling to think of five who are larger.

[david_carnell]

Robert Key

[Annette Curtain]

david_carnell Wrote:

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> Robert Key

Alicia Keys !

(is this the x-factor (2012) thread?)

[Loz]

david_carnell Wrote:

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> Robert Key

Accepted, though at least he can bat. How did Rob Key not get a better shot at an England career??

OK, one fatboy on the list. You need four more.

(And Botham is long retired, so he doesn't count.)

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Eddie Hemmings

Gough could be a bit podgy at times.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Mike Gatting, definitely porky.

Well, all out pretty swiftly this morning. All over by 8am I reckon.

[Loz]

Sorry - all retired. Must be fat and currently playing county cricket. Surely Patel and Keys can't be the only gravitationally challenged players?

[maxxi]

So Monty's back in but Finn's crocked so Broad gets a reprieve - only thing to decide is do Morgan and Bairstow come in for Bell and Patel or will tubby get a second test helping? (sorry - I've been reading tabloids again).

I think new blood all round and a kick up the arse for KP et al.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Out second ball! What a start.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

You lay-a-beds will have missed this gem from Blowers:

"Broad goes skipping off like the high hills in the Psalms."

I love that man.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Monty two wickets so far. Really should have been played in the last test.

[Marmora Man]

Monty - 3 wickets already in India's 2nd innings - looking good. India 5 down and still 8 runs behind.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I was trying to drift back to sleep, but had to get up to listen - it's all too exciting.

BTW, Pietersen is very annoying: just when you think it's safe to hate him...

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Would you trust Pietersen to save James Bond's Life?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20556537

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Anyone else awake?

We only needed 41 runs to win and it's currently 3 wickets for 8 runs!

Well that was a storm in a cup of Darjeeling. All over.

[Huguenot]

I was there, but inexplicably unable to correspond as I watched the farce unfold.

Still, there now.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

When you say 'there', do you mean actually in India? If so, I'm green with envy.

[Huguenot]

Sorry no, I meant spiritually. Loose with my words, gob smacked at our cricketing stupidity.

It took so much of the joy out of the victory. I'm angry with them ;-)

Grrrrrr.

[david_carnell]

Both batsmen now in caps. This is my sort of test. Is that Cook smoking a woodbine on the balcony?

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I've never been one for classical music.

[El Pibe]

And another season for ENgland begins, huzzah, we have the toss and, until I literally started writing this, the sunshine.

I'm there tomorrow so fingers crossed the rain continues to hold off a while longer.

Apparently there was ice on the rollers at lords this morning, will this winter ever....ad nauseum....

[Michael Palaeologus]

I am there on Saturday, am praying to the weather Gods ...

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Tempted to invoke a two-day hurricane out of jealousy.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

25 for 6. Cracking stuff, what?!

[Loz]

Batting is still fragile. Traditional England middle order collapses seem to have returned. Ashes are starting to look rather tasty - which England will turn up?