Cricket thread

[Grant Fondo]

I might have fancied Stokes with, say, Malan or Root still around to really frustrate Aus tomorrow. Still a glimmer with Buttler?

 

[Dayvo]

I might have fancied Stokes with, say, Malan or Root still around to really frustrate Aus tomorrow. Still a glimmer with Buttler?

90 overs with 6 wickets in hand? Very unlikely. But a long partnership with Stokes and Buttler would be a sight to behold.
Maybe there’s an Aussie George Davis* who is ‘innocent’ somewhere.

* for forumers of a certain (aka ancient) age.

 

[matticus]

So - tea interval. AUS need 2 wickets.

As an Aussie fan, would you now rather they'd enforced the follow-on?

 

[jowwy]

So we have got to tea.......180-8 im shocked we have got this far

 

[yello]

Made be chuckle, The Guardian's online commentators celebrated Butler's 150.... balls

Edit: then suggested he might raise his bat for his quarter century

What else is there to do?

 

[yello]

* for forumers of a certain (aka ancient) age.

The Sham 69 reference is more alive for me than anything particulary cricket related.... so, getting out of jail??

 

[jowwy]

all out - buttler wicket was a shocker

 

[Dayvo]

The Sham 69 reference is more alive for me than anything particulary cricket related.... so, getting out of jail??

Right connection, wrong reason.
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/headingley-1975-when-vandals-stopped-play-1814117?amp
Saves me writing it out!

 

[yello]

Right connection, wrong reason.
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/headingley-1975-when-vandals-stopped-play-1814117?amp
Saves me writing it out!

Fascinating read. Thanks for posting.

I'd no idea of the cricket connection, and the article went broader and was illuminating in other respects.

 

[Dogtrousers]

IIRC "George Davis is a bit of wrong un" would have been a better slogan.

 

[Dayvo]

Fascinating read. Thanks for posting.

I'd no idea of the cricket connection, and the article went broader and was illuminating in other respects.

Ironically, one of the ‘vandals’ was a Peter Chappell: the captain of the Australian team, and the team’s best batsmen were the Chappell brothers, Ian and Greg.

 

[Pale Rider]

IIRC "George Davis is a bit of wrong un" would have been a better slogan.

Traditional East End armed robber.

'George Davis is innocent' graffiti was still visible on a railway bridge over Mile End Road as late as the mid 1980s.

 

[yello]

IIRC "George Davis is a bit of wrong un" would have been a better slogan.

Doesn't quite scan as well though

(Yep, the article linked to above states that after his release, he was jailed for something else)

 

[Dayvo]

IIRC "George Davis is a bit of wrong un" would have been a better slogan.

At the time I remember it was popular to add after the ‘Free George Davis’ graffiti ‘with every packet of Cornflakes.’
😀

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Root will say “will we learn from this”.
Well that’s what he usually says.
Two tests,not even close.
Rubbish