3rd test, spoilers within

3 down 🙂

Tidy start! All quiet from my Indian colleague in the office at the moment….! Am refraining from commenting or gloating. Don’t want her to think I’m an Australian. 😉

Four now, the wall has gone!

4 down 😀

India are really sucking in this series aren’t they? or are England really just that good?? certainly deserving of the Number 1 ranking, at least for now 😉

its just not sporting really 🙂

Someone send the aussies over so we can put the boot into them too while we can still bowl 🙂

England really just that good??

they have a top notch 4 man bowling attack.

England are pretty good now but I don’t think India have really performed so far.

You can only beat the side in front of you. We are no.1 now, no question,

or are England really just that good??

Only time will tell, but right now they are. IMO you have to consistently beat the better sides and that means winning away in place like the WI, Oz, SA and the sub-continent. Winning at home is one thing – repeating it on a 2-4 month tour is something else.

streaming star cricket live… they have Mick Jagger doing an interview, he’s described as “superheavy” 😀

he seems to be on the happy pills, can’t stop grinning for ear to ear

Only time will tell, but right now they are. IMO you have to consistently beat the better sides and that means winning away in place like the WI, Oz, SA and the sub-continent. Winning at home is one thing – repeating it on a 2-4 month tour is something else.

We did win the ashes recently?

India haven’t lost a wicket for about half an hour now!

Oh, it’s lunch. 🙂

We did win the ashes recently?

But that was one series (against a distinctly average side) after previously being white-washed over there.

How well have we performed against the other ‘big’ nations on the own patch? Not so well.

IMO what sets England apart at the moment is their ability to step up to the plate when it matters. They win a lot of sessions; grab wickets, gets runs, apply pressure, take catches, occupy the crease, out-think the opposition captain, etc.

And they’ve been doing this a lot for 2 years or so having lost the plot after winning the Ashes in 05.

5 down

6 down

Getting silly now. All out for 150 and us past that by stumps with 7 or 8 in hand.

‘ave ’em!

100-6 and they strengthened their batting 😕 apparantly Boycott didn’t think it was a putting in pitch 😀

can’t see Dhoni lasting long

That last wicket, the batting was lax, man.

🙄 😳

christ, boycott can be a right t1t sometimes

another one bites the dust

Kumar will have some nice bruises 😀

He knows his cricket, but he is indeed a prize tw…oh no, wait, can’t say a rude word…. 😉

he’s being teased remorselessly at the moment by Aggers

Blowers has just taken delivery of a Bakewell Tart.

Forget the riots, forget the global financial turmoil, all is well with the world. 🙂

Klunk, what was that you said about Dhoni? 😯

he was all over the place when he started. Then he decided to go into IPL mode hasn’t looked in trouble since.

Never mind that! Cake!

out at last

Damned good referral by Strauss. Everyone ears heard something, was a good call in the end.

Sorry but there is NO WAY Kumar didn’t know he’d nicked that, no way at all.

one to go

No there isn’t.

🙂

made heavy weather of the back 9.

I’ve got tickets for day 3, who will be batting by then I wonder?!

I’ve got tickets for day 3, who will be batting by then I wonder?!

Leeds Under 11’s school finals I should think.

actually at the current run rate it might even be England’s first innings still!

they have to get used to the “dibberleydobberlies” according to Vaughan.