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[Gus Mears]

13 minutes ago, Lion_of_the_Midlands said:

Jimmy is going to play until he is fifty. I'm sure the only thing that keeps him running is that he knows Murali was a chucker and he wants to take his record away. 

I think it was Butch who once mentioned that he would go on Murali compilation videos and post 'NO BALL' in the comments and it's always made me laugh.

Edited February 22, 2024 by Gus Mears

[Lion_of_the_Midlands]

Well from a bad start England recovered well. Joe Root put the stupid cross batted shots away and played proper test cricket and what do you know, he scored a hundred. The ball that got Stokes shot along at ankle height giving him no chance, but the pitch seemed to calm down after that really. If they could somehow get to 400 then they'll be in the game. 

[Devon Malcolm]

McCullum's suggestion that we were seeing a "better Root" playing the Bazball style looks even stupider now. You'd like to think they and Root will learn from this.

It was a really good recovery though, there's real character in this side now.

[Gus Mears]

A frustrating loss. It'll probably be another ten years until we have a chance similarly good to win or split a test series in India. Much like the Ashes, feel like we've let some results slip through our fingers.

At least it has been a good contest by and large. A far cry from some of the shite served up in recent tours when we had the likes of Gareth Batty playing games and Zafar Ansari, who literally quit cricket to become a lawyer about 6 months later. Pitches have been better than the embarrassments from last time too.

Edited February 26, 2024 by Gus Mears

[Lion_of_the_Midlands]

As good as the young spinners have looked the frustrating thing is that poor old Jack Leach just can't get through a series uninjured. The other thing is how good do the young Indian players look. Jaiswal is the ultimate bazball player and Jurel looks born to play Test cricket. That never ending cricket production line that is India will continue to be a powerhouse for ever. Us and the Convicts are going to be playing catch up for ever. 

[Gus Mears]

1 hour ago, Lion_of_the_Midlands said:

That never ending cricket production line that is India will continue to be a powerhouse for ever. Us and the Convicts are going to be playing catch up for ever. 

Considering India's population, the popularity of the sport and the fact that our pool of players consists of about 80 private schools, I don't think we fare too badly honestly.

[Lion_of_the_Midlands]

A first test win for the micks today against Afghanistan. Its good for the newer test nations to play each other rather than just getting walloped by the bigger nations. 

[Lion_of_the_Midlands]

Real end of tour shit today. A proper collapse by England. Jaiswal may be the next great batsman. 1000 runs in 9 tests is remarkable. 

[Lion_of_the_Midlands]

Nice to see our spinners start to take wickets when the Indians have more than doubled our score. It will be a real surprise if Jimmy gets chance to get his 700th wicket in the second innings. 

Away from that, Duncan Fearnley has died. I had a Fearnley Magnum or two in the 90s-2000s and as one of the senior players Keith remarked on more than one occasion "That is wasted on you, it's a Magnum ice cream thar you're good with" which was a more than fair comment. Anyway old Duncan made some good bats, that were sadly wasted on my cow corner slogging. Keith himself had a Fearnley that was like a railway sleeper, I couldn't bat with it, not that he'd let me. Keith had been a very good player in his younger days, had played for Lincolnshire Gentlemen but had fallen out of favour when he was scoring a game one day because of injury. Him and the other scorer had been assigned a lad to fetch and carry for them and they had spent the day getting him to fetch drinks from the bar. Keith was always generous and had told the lad to get one for himself when they sent him. By mid to late afternoon the lad was pretty hammered. Unfortunately for Keith he was the son of the Mayor Of Lincoln who was giving out the awards at the end of the day. He was also only 14 years old. Keith told us that he had assumed he was getting himself soft drinks, which is fair enough, but also knowing Keith he didn't really care, he once offered his beta blockers around like sweets before a game. If I'd known then what I know now I'd have taken one. 

[Lion_of_the_Midlands]

I was wrong. Jimmy got his 700th wicket. Just a shame it had to be in such a crushing defeat. If you only bat 105 overs in your two innings combined you are going to struggle, not even getting to day 4 is awful. I'm sure the bowlers will be changed around for the next test, you don't need two spinners at home. The batsmen will all get another go I'd imagine. 

[JNLister]

The County Championship is back, baby: 

[JNLister]

Forgot to mention, I did the Lord's tour and saw the driest display caption ever:

 

[Lion_of_the_Midlands]

Caught the highlights of the T20 yesterday. Its nice to see that even international teams sometimes go full village. Pakistan picking a fat lad who can't catch as wicketkeeper is something you would expect to see in a Sunday game. If he was having to wear someone else's shoes because he'd forgotten his then they'd have the full set. 

[Nexus]

The commentators said it was because he is a great batter in the middle order. Yet they got fuck all runs...

 

Will Jacks getting bowled was immediately obvious by the fact he wafted at every ball that came near him.

[Lion_of_the_Midlands]

2 minutes ago, Nexus said:

The commentators said it was because he is a great batter in the middle order. Yet they got fuck all runs...

 

The most village reasoning ever. He's a good bat but give him the gloves because he can't field. I've been there.