Cricket thread

[T4tomo]

Is this the cricket thread equivalent of sledging?

My mum could write more insightful things than you with a stick a rhubarb....

 

[AndyRM]

My mum could write more insightful things than you with a stick a rhubarb....

This is all you'll ever be remembered for.

 

[matticus]

Meanwhile at a place called "lords" ...

145-2 - this is game on, surely! Very glad to get Kawaje out, he's the steadiest head in their lineup, least likely to get flustered under the pressure.

Can our limping bowlers keep it going?!?

 

[T4tomo]

Batting substitutions shouldn't be allowed....

ball appears to be nipping around a bit more than it was yday too which will help.

if we can prise one of Smith or Chanbuslage out quickly the Aussie will be right under the cosh. i suspect batting will get easier as the day goes on, hence the need to strike quickly

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Meanwhile at a place called "lords" ...

145-2 - this is game on, surely! Very glad to get Kawaje out, he's the steadiest head in their lineup, least likely to get flustered under the pressure.

Can our limping bowlers keep it going?!?

Bugger all happening at Lords.

 

[T4tomo]

Bugger all happening at Lords.

Cambuslang has gone at the Oval though... very much game on now!!!

 

[matticus]

Bugger all happening at Lords.

It sounds like Lords - what station are YOU listening to ??

 

[Pale Rider]

My mum could write more insightful things than you with a stick a rhubarb....

Which she could also stick up your bottom.

 

[matticus]

Meanwhile, back at Chester-Le-Street ....

The hour up-to lunch has holed me below the waterline Looks really bad now, and this feels terrible:

LUNCH: Australia 238-3 (They require 146 runs to win)
Ben Stokes has dropped Steve Smith! Drama on the stroke of lunch – Moeen gets one to grip and it takes Smith’s glove and loops to Stokes at leg-slip… he takes the catch cleanly high above his head but the ball slips from his grasp as he brings his hand down and it flicks his knee. Shades of Herschelle Gibbs in the 1999 World Cup. The crowd cannot believe it. Stokes can’t believe what he has done – his body language was the giveaway, he didn’t have full control of the ball as it fell from his grasp like a bar of Imperial Leather in the shower. Drama. Lunch!

 

[matticus]

Rain now, forecast properly dry from 4pm onwards, might start earlier. Gotta be a draw for me now. Bit of a damp squib, but maybe SBroad8 can go out with a couple of wickets for a silver lining to the day?

 

[T4tomo]

Which she could also stick up your bottom.

whooosh!

 

[Dogtrousers]

whooosh!

Sound of stick of rhubarb being shoved up Geoffrey Boycott's bottom.

 

[T4tomo]

Sound of stick of rhubarb being shoved up Geoffrey Boycott's bottom.

immediately after it passed over Paler Idler's head!

Play about to restart.....potentially 52 overs left, but pretty sure bad light or a result will come before that otherwise they'll be playing at 8pm.

 

[Pale Rider]

whooosh!

immediately after it passed over Paler Idler's head!

My mum could write more insightful things than you with a stick a rhubarb....

You should be aware transferring your petty feud with me from the dark side to here will be officially frowned upon.

But don't mind me, crack on.

 

[T4tomo]

You should be aware transferring your petty feud with me from the dark side to here will be officially frowned upon.

But don't mind me, crack on.

Errr I'm not on the darkside - mistaken identity maybe??

I just thought your knowledge of cricket / sledges was a a little lacking hence you missed the rhubarb humour, which was posted in good spirit and good humour. maybe the mistaken identity explains your reply. anyway no hard feelings.


England only have one review left, having burnt one on Stokes' "drop" just before lunch.

new ball in 7 over...

and Moeen has just got head out.