My dear old things, it's STW TMS!

Nice start from Finn.

And an excellent ending from Buttler.

Very much enjoying Sir Curtly at the moment.

Scary bowler, lovely man!

Aussies have let themselves down again then. Particularly the skipper, who I dislike more than any cricketer in memory.

It seems they have been looking to and getting guidance from the dressing room on DRS referrals, presumably with the dressing room seeing the first replay and deciding whether to refer on that basis. And in a Trumpesque moment of fake news, Smith claims it was 'brain fade'. No mate, it was cheating and you only admitted it once Llong spotted it and told you to get lost.

[b]HALES SMASH! [/b]

Commentator's curse!

Oops then?

CricInfo...

Dez: "Please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please sen in Buttler next! If Wi manage to take a wicket that is..." Brace yourself Dez... all will be revealed ...

Jimbo: "If Buttler cannot put up a score off of this platform, he deserves to be dropped. Especially with such a competent wicket keeper waiting for his chance." Now now, play nice

[b]Holder to Buttler, OUT, smashes the stumps! Full and straight, Buttler attempted the ramp once more, but got no bat in the way, and was too far across his crease to preserve his timbers[/b]

Ton up for Rooooooooooooooooot.

And out.

Bit of a calypso collapso here.

And another on the other side.

Spent a fair bit of time in Barbados, and some of the other islands, and the appetite and passion for cricket is palpable over there. It makes me sad to see WI cricket in such a parlous state.

Having grown up with the likes of Sir Viv, Malcolm Marshall, Curtley and Courtney and so on. Seeing it like this is sad.

Bit of a cracker going on in Dharmasala wonderful looking ground and views over there and Warner departing early again

It surely is a fantastic setting.
Renshaw must surely be rueing those dropped catches; I reckon India will win in the final day. Bit closer home to you, I reckon the weather will determine the NZ v. SA one.

Yep with Smith gone its flowing towards India at the moment, not keeping up with the others though. Only got 40mins of this one before I hop on the plane, hope it's good

2 more gone; at this rate, India could win in the final session today!

It's a stunning ground, isn't it?

That said, I've always wanted to play/spectate with a few glasses of something at Wormsley.
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Not bad, though I reckon this one is one of the few that has snow in the background (along with hobart) nice to see some grass out there!

The best-located ground I've been to is Arundel, but looking forward to retiring and joining the Barmy Army for some touring.
India pushing ahead with some lovely quick bowling and Rahane taking a magnificent catch. Aus. will do well to bat to stumps.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/39425015

Carberry back with a ton today! Lovely.

And a grand win for Hampshire today!

A good recovery by Kolpakshire, yes.
😉

Spent the afternoon watching IPL and now seeing whether Jason Mohammed can rescue WI again.
Edit: No. No, he can't.

Morning, evereeebodeeeee

Sounds a tad chilly in Brizzle. Tidy start from Ireland.

About that good start....

I went to a ODI in Bristol in May around 10 years ago. It was 4 degrees centigrade.

Still, It's Back!

I went and saw the WI in a 'warm up' game for one of their tours years back, in the days when sides did warm up games. Couldn't have been worse named because they looked like they'd never be warm again. I swear some of them had nine jumpers on, it took them 15 minutes to bowl an over by the time they'd handed them to the umpire and then got them back!

O'Collapse

That's not gone well.

England to bat a bit before lunch?

You're right - Mr Roy did only get to bat for a bit.

Still - Ireland over 30% better than ****stani's second innings yesterday.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/40021063

Stokes, Butler and Woakes all back for the one dayer at Headingley. Anyone from the local chapter with a weather report on the ground?

Good afternoon, evereeebodeeeeee. SA win the toss and fielding first.

TMS on air from 1345.

Ta for the reminded. It's sunny outside, the door is open, TMS is on the radio, the week has got a little better 8)

Urgh

Hmmm. 105-2 after 18. Not too shabby.

Tidy win, there.

Bit of a middle order collapse from SA.

To be fair, on the subject of middle orders, Stokes and Buttler weren't much cop with the bat tonight, and Root got bogged down. Roll on #2.

Totally missed this was happening - sounds like it was pretty comfortable really.

Early wicket...
Also boxing day test is on sale if anyone is feeling confident

Calypso collapso

Englands batters this morning

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45 overs left!

Over did somebody say it was over?
Rain?

SIX !

Game on, for sure 😀

*Pretends it isn't happening *

Bairstow to replace Roy for Champions Trophy?

Well that will take some historic bowling...

England win the toss and put Bangladesh in to bat.

No Rashid, Roy somehow clinging on to his spot.

Two quick wickets, a little pressure off.....

Roy.....again.

It's difficult to see why Bairstow isn't in the team as first choice.

310 to defend, caught the last 10 so see how long I stay awake for this evening. Hopefully a win to take pressure off the Australia game

From the Beeb text,

If you're an England fan, this is a bit of a conundrum.

You want to beat Australia, obviously. It's Australia. But also, there's something quite sardonically funny about Australia being knocked out of a competition without completing a single game, due to the terrible English weather.

If you're an Australia fan, do you have any suggestions for rain-proofing the grounds? Sending out all the players with giant umbrellas, maybe?

🙂

England win the toss and bowl.

looking forward to this!

Shaping up to be a good game!

Good day to be sat indoors waiting for my new kitchen to be delivered!!

Woop woop!

That looks short. Now we don't need to go mad - get in & stay in.

277 shouldn't be enough

Never take your foot off an Aussie throat. If we let them win this game the WILL win the final.

Oh Jason! Not again...

Urgh

Best join the Bangladeshi fans praying for the rain to persist.

This is BRUTAL.

It's the only way to play the Aussies - go into your shell and they'll be all over you.

zampa looks very aussie

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😀

Great performance - 2 to go

Shame not to get the win, but what can you expect from June in England.

Australia out of the tournament without having completed a game!

Shame not to get the win, but what can you expect from June in England.

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Australia can't really complain the weather cost them - the kiwis were beating them, and The English Fat Lady was well into the second verse!! They would still only have 1 point from the group.

Who would England prefer to play on Wednesday? I'd chose unpredictable ****stan.

(@Rich - it was a comment on the prevalent rain this month)

Looks like PaK or SL, the way the way SA are batting!!

comical, diabolical, dismal, abysmal

Assume that on equal points & win counts, it's all about the NRR.

Yep, so PAK or SL for us.

Ah - hadn't seen the disparity. On what I've seen, I'd have thought SL will just edge it over ****stan, and hopefully it'll be India v. England final, and Stokes' death bowling to win!

Big game today - Bairstow in for Roy, correct decision I think.

Morning everybodeeeeeee.

Agree, Roy has had enough chances.

Right decision with Roy, unfortunately you can't leave someone to 'find' a big knock he's looking for (and which I think he has in him) in a semi-final. Should be a good game, TMS on from 10:15!
RM.

Great weather forecast too. ****stan can be so dangerous. Fingers crossed we can put some pressure on them.

****stan batting first. By the looks of the track, the better option.