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Sometimes you have to take matters into hour own hands.
Mrs Lunge is out all day, I was at a lose end so decided to go to the pub.
I now have TMS in my ears, a copy of When Saturday Comes to read, a pint of Butty Bach and have just polished off a huge pastrami sarny and some roast potatoes. I have a seat in the beer garden, the sun is shining and life is good.
Let’s hope England manage to get some runs on the board.
Living the dream ^^^^
Hard going for England but I'm enjoying the contest seeing them up against top quick bowlers. Zampa feels like someone you should be able to tonk around the ground but he's actually pretty tricky also.
Yesssss! Warner is turning into Archer's bunny.
Archer is looking menacing, really exciting to watch. Stoinis gone.
Game on with those two quick wickets, shirley!
Make that three!
This is getting interesting.
Oooh. England should be winning this now surely. Quite the collapse.
Edit: Oooft, another one!
Ooooh x2
Calypso collapso!
(Lunge if I’d logged in to this thread sooner I would’ve come and joined you)
Oh this is good!
Six wickets, twenty two runs.
Lovely.
Calypso collapso!
Sat in the garden, fire going, bats flitting around over head, keg of HPA going down well and the Aussies struggling. Bliss
Zampa 2 off 19........ strike rate of 10.5
super innings fella!
I know they haven't played for ages until they came over here but these last couple of collapses are quite un-Australia-like, more like England teams of old.
Whoop!
I was saying to myself an hour or so ago that we needed the Aussie to have an England-style mid-order collapse. Couldn't see it happening though. Then in the time it took to put the chimp to bed we'd taken 6 wickets!
Last TMS of the season, chaps.
It hasn't started well.
Oh FFS.
Good start, this.
:-O
Just come out of a meeting and seen the scorecard – 2-0 in .2 overs? Did that really happen?
I have read the report and yes it did! First two balls too - has that ever happened at this level before?
Yes, there's even been an opening hat trick in ODIs, I forget who by though.
Anyway, 87-5.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Great comeback from these two, set up for a cracking finish - who's watching?
Did you have to say that CFH? Now look!
Need Aussies to choke again big time here!
Oof, this is going to the wire!
Meh
Bugger.
Ah well, great game and great summer of cricket. I've struggled to get back into football with no crowds but no such issues with cricket - which to me shows which is the better game. Football needs a crowd to give it meaning/narrative.
Morgan gets most things right but I thought going for Rashid for the final over was asking for trouble.
I thought it was the right call; getting it out of the screws on the first ball faced was equally a gamble by Starc and that won it. If he'd not timed it, another wicket, dot ball, and I reckon England would have won. Both sides spun the coin, this time it came up Aussie side up.
That last one sending middle stump cartwheeling, ooft! One of the best sights in cricket and a great way to take the fourth in a row.
Alex Hartley always gaffs somehow 😂
Finn at nine?
He's usually the team bloodhound (sent in after the rabbits).
Ten and Jack must be in the Tufnell/Malcolm/Mullaly class.
That is ridic! I've been quite enjoying the IPL on Sky, even though it is fairly stupid.
The lower the number of overs the poorer the quality of cricket, with one exception - fielding.
Much as I am a crusty old traditionalist, it is irrefutable that limited overs (and now very limited overs) cricket has turbo charged fielding.
Full highlights of that game
Ridiculous ending.
Not sure how I / we missed this. Of course I 'hate' the Aussies in a sporting sense, but hold them and their nuggetty fighters in the highest respect and none more so that Dean Jones.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/sep/25/dean-jones-obituary
(but as a keeper myself, my favourite DJ moment is still:
Jack Russell was just ridiculous behind the stumps, the only one who comes close is Sarah Taylor.
Listened to a few interviews with Dean Jones, 1 in particular on The Grade Cricketer podcast and he came across as a lovely fella, sad to hear of his demise.
Anyway, no comment on the England women's victories, some really good cricket being played by them at the moment.
This might be even better than the last ridiculous fielding vid...
https://twitter.com/mrdanwalker/status/1310809366132649985?s=19
and the bloke that's had it lobbed to him from 5 yards gets his name in the scorebook. Along with the bowler that's just been clubbed for 6 were it not for a bloke who gets no credit in the dismissal 😉
at least with run outs they at least include brackets for the fielders, even if it's still not officially credited.
Jack Russell was just ridiculous behind the stumps, the only one who comes close is Sarah Taylor.
Bob Taylor and Alan Knott were at least Russell's equal andmy father would say Godfrey Evans was better than all of them. Taylor was my favourite - just so smooth, never broke a finger - timing and anticipation were impeccable, such that he made every thing look so easy.
Sat here feeling nippy, big jumper on, huge bowl of dhal soup listening to finals day being played 15 miles East of me, feels strange!
Not strictly TM related, but as this thread is cricket fans this seemed like the place to put it.
Just listened to a new podcast, The Death of a Sports Star and this weeks is about Phil Hughes. It's really well written and well worth a listen, it brought tears to my eyes.
Anyone watching the IPL final? DC getting slaughtered so far 22/3 after 3 overs
Been looking forward to listening to this SA series, sadly it's on talksport. ugh
Surely you have a mate with a Sky sub who can sling you a Sky Go login?
TalkSport they are the same as TalkRadio right? They seem to have gone full far-right conspiracy nut job.
Bloody Talk Sport, I just don't like Goughy sadly.
But hey, it's better than nowt so it'll have to do.
Good article about one of the most visceral bits of the game, of sport even.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/dec/02/raw-truth-about-fast-bowling-cricket
Flashy - couldn’t agree more - a very well deserved award.
Re the SA positive test, we already had to cancel the warm up due to similar. Not exactly a biosecure bubble!
Wow.
Just seen the Aus v Ind score.
Again, wow.
As a kid we got skittled for 11 by another school, but they had Kevin Shine playing for them who later turned pro and was England bowling coach and as 13/14 yo's we just had no answer to this tall, fast accurate bowler.
I can never get my head around an international team getting done in the same way. There isn't the gulf in class or lack of bottle that did for us, and while Hazelwood has by the looks of it bowled amazingly, surely someone could get in against him. The scores say the pitch was helpful, but even then.
Yet it happens.....
India doing their best impression of an early 90’s England team I see.
Vic Marks leaving as Observer cricket correspondent. Hope he is keeping on doing some radio commentary. I particularly liked his stories about how Malcolm Marshall was just wound up by him. Nothing intentional, apparently Marshall (who was a lovely bloke by all accounts) just thought Marks' west country hayseed walk to the wicket was him taking the piss. To be honest, if I had been in Vic Marks's place I would have taken time out to explain to Macco that I wouldn't dream of taking the mick....
In any case, he is a very shrewd commentator. Understated, but with a very good eye for the game and the subplots.
Also, a soft ripple of applause for this little gem.
Like Brexit, the Hundred has been smouldering and mouldering for about four years; like Brexit most people recognise it’s a crap idea, but no one has the balls to stop it.
Needless to say, I agree. About both.
Well that's quite a morning session of Cricket - fantastic bowling from Bumrah, not often you see a spinner brought on in the tenth over, less often you see two spinners on before lunch, and even less often you see Steve Smith go for a duck.
Superb bowling attack, and Captaincy in Kholi's absence, from India.
Hmm, I have a feeling this India team is a better team without Kholi as captain.
I also think that Smith is not in great form.
Be interesting to see how the test plays out.
Debut 50 for Pucovski, Smith and Labuschagne in the runs, it seems Aussie cricket is back.
And this, this is just beautiful.
https://twitter.com/TheCricketerMag/status/1347135075587133440
Ah it’s good to have TMS back. Decent start this morning
“He’s big, he’s bad, he’s better than his Dad, it’s Stuart Broad!!!”
It’s good to have test cricket back.
Sri Lanka batting like the village 2nd XI out there!
Sri Lanka batting like the
village 2nd XIIndia out there!
Our spinners are not exactly fearsome are they - pretty poor show on home conditions. Mind you lets see how England bat!
And this, this is just beautiful.
Great shot. Him scuffing up Pant's guard marks wasn't quite so pretty though. Or Paine's grumpy, miserable sledging of Ashwin. The new Australia seems a lot like the old one.
crikey, some creative ways to get out from the Sri Laaaaaankans ( (c) Tony Greig) there.
I managed to get run out for 99 like that. Saved me a jug. Every cloud......
Normal service being resumed?
poor
Ugh
Nice to see Root in the run again, and Dan Lawrence looks good too.
still not sure on Bairstow, particually at 3, even though he nearly got a 50.
A few years back Bairstow was scoring test run for fun. He lacks footwork at the moment and nicks a lot.
Not going to be an easy watch this........
We’ve got some top order problems I fear. Crawley clearly has potential and is worth persisting with, Sibley I have severe questions over and said as much in the summer. Bairstow is not the answer and I’m not sure on Rory Burns is either.
No idea what the answer is mind you.
In this time of uncertainty its so nice that cricket reminds us that some things are constant and always with us
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Good win by england but the Aussie / India test is tight and a cracker.
Some finish - 42 off 43 needed, 5 wickets left. Come on India!
Incredible stuff. This is why Test cricket is the best (espcially if Aus end up on the wrong side of this result).
Yep. After sandpaper, the apologies, the promise to clean up their act and image.....and now back to same as ever.
I've just seen the highlights.... Pant will get the plaudits for his 89* and getting them over the line, but Pujara's knock - 56 in 5 hours but being hit 11 (eleven!) times. ****, he's going to be black and blue tonight.
Looks like Tim Paine shouldn't have been so eager to get India to the Gabba after all. 🙂
and now he's getting massively heckled by the crowd (about 200, to be fair)
If his gloves were as big as his mouth they'd have won this 3-0