A Summer of Cricket – SPOILERS

Which is also irrelevant to the relevance of the D/L table

What are England doing smashing Faulkner around? Clarke will take him off and not give them the opportunity to score the winning runs off him.

85/1 off 18, D/L par 64/1 can’t believe England are actually going for this!

What a load of shit Shane Warne has talked today.

Looking good for 4-0 now, but a couple of wickets and we’ll drop anchor and settle for 3-0.

Been a pretty underwhelming series all told.

To stay awake until kp fireworks time, or to go to bed?

Been a pretty underwhelming series all told.

Who cares if we win 4-0 (or even 3-0)? If you think the way we beat the Aussies is a problem you weren’t an England fan in the late 80s and 90s.

Well they ar eup on the DL method which seems a useful rule of thumb for this

Fair dos re trott I forgot he was a decent ODI player.

KP time…

Who cares if we win 4-0 (or even 3-0)? If you think the way we beat the Aussies is a problem you weren’t an England fan in the late 80s and 90s.

I most certainly was an England supporter back then. This is the third series win on the bounce, we clearly have better players and we seem to have had the rub of the majority of the marginal decisions. And still we’ve made a bit of a meal of it.

Yes the only victory england have had is they won
Performance wise they have been fairly poor and rescued by the bowlers and weak Aussie batting

I think the Aussies will feel mor e positive than England as they would, weather permitting, have won 2 and only lost one marginally due to a “cheating” Broad

England won but the aussies performed better than expected and england not as well as expected

Yes the only victory england have had is they won

Which is sort of the point!

Though you’re wrong – we’ve really wound up the Aussies too, which has to be a victory in itself!

Whatever – its exciting as long as KP stays around or the Aussies get 2-3 quick wickets! Hopefully the former!! Time for a beer and settle down to watch…..

…and a review!!! WTF was that about?????

oh dear more insanity

Dirty cheats, claiming that! Send them home crying!

Dirty cheats, claiming that!

😀

The light’s a bit gloomy just over the Moat, but looking OK to play through to close…

Geoffrey Boycott, Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
“I know there’s emotion and passion but that was a shocker. That was missing by miles. If your dad was umpiring he couldn’t have given you that wicket.”

Pietersen feeling in the mood now

Fastest 50 in ashes history

He really is a bit special when he wants to be, isn’t he? What a batsman.

By some metrics, he’s amongst the all-time greats 😉

*Looks out of window*

Not that dark at the moment. Hoping the umps don’t reach for the light meters…

Interesting partnership. Trott was on 40 when KP came in. KP made it to his 50 first.

Gah

Nail biting. Who said test cricket couldn’t be exciting.

England still I think – by a whisker

Who said test cricket couldn’t be exciting.

And, who said the short form game wasn’t putting anything back in to the proper game? This is superb stuff…

KP gone, but what a knock! Belly to wrap it up in style?

draw is probably odds on now I reckon

Tuffers is a gem!

come on trotty

oops

D’oh

light….

Must be difficult to field in this by now 🙁

tense or what !

phew 11 off the over

light….

Must be difficult to field in this by now

*Looks out of window*

Not a cloud in the sky here on the right side of the moat. Looks OK over the other side as well. Still bright enough to finish, I think.

LET ME GO TO BED!!!

go to bed its a dead rubber anyway 😉

Spot of gamesmanship about the light?

Must be tempting for the Aussies to whine about the light, but surely they’ll front up and take the result either way now. Would be humiliating for them…

EDIT: Immediately proved wrong! Normally it’s the batsmen who have most to lose.

Every boundary changes the game….
Aussie should stop taking “little chats” about the light and accept it. Stop playing the light, and let the crowd see what they’ve paid for!

Dirty cheats 😀

Absolutely shameful gamesmanship here from the Aussies.