My dear old things, it's STW TMS!

Nope, I was wrong! (Blame Aggers)

England bat first. Yay!

Let’s hope the England bowlers can do something with this pitch

It’s like the bad old days.

And after a reasonably promising start… I’m suitably pessimistic for our chances in this game, here’s hoping we can perform with the ball and in the field as well as Pakistan have done today.
RM.

Come on, 210 is quite a decent score.

(wait – you say it’s NOT 20:20?)

Well this is particularly shocking isn’t it?

The good Pakistan turned up today, given exactly the pitch they would like. We were awful,with the bat – bowlers looked toothless.

Urgh.

Urgh, indeed. It’s almost the typical English way – we have our bad day at the office in the game that really matters when our opponents turn up with their ‘A’ game.
If we would have lost playing like we had in the group games it wouldn’t feel half as bad.
Congratulations to Pakistan, hope they play this well in the final.
RM.

oh come on anyone can beat anyone on their day in ODI , Pakistan bowled superbly and won the toss. English one day cricket is in a very very good place.

Good game at the moment

… and naughtily getting very close to the swear filter on 5LSX just now with Fakhar 😀

This is going to be great, good total posted by Pakistan.

Well done Pakistan, maybe it will shut up some of the insufferable Indian supporters on cricket forums

Really didn’t expect that

Deserved winners, utterly creamed the favourites (England) and the holders India. Well done Pakistan

double post

Absolutely! A great performance and deservèd winners.

An amusing snippet from cricinfo, on the unpredictability of Pakistan – “They have not just defied logic, they have spat in logic’s face, questioned the moral inclinations of its parents, kicked it in the shins, put it in a headlock, strangled it unconscious, then shoved it into the mud and set its trousers on fire.”

SA on the back foot!

And Roy goes cheaply. AGAIN!

FFS.

It’s T20 FFS and he got 2 runs a ball. Stupid dismissal mind.

Was pondering that just listening on the radio in the car.

Does 14 balls constitute an ‘innings’ nowadays? Even if you do get 30-odd 😉

That’s the point, he was in, he was scoring, and he gave his wicket away. Again.

Some day, he is going to come good and get a bucketful of runs. Some day….

He is scoring at the rate wanted by the team. 30 striking at 200 is hardly a failure in T20

In a game like that, with the score as required, he should have batted to the close.

Ireland and Afghanistan granted full test status.

Hurrah!

Blowers is retiring 🙁

Who’s going to tell us about pigeons and buses?

🙁

Who’s going to tell us about pigeons and buses?

No idea. He’ll be missed 🙁

Always dreaded this day coming. I hope somewhere, someone has has a recording of just his stints from when he started to the day he retires….. I’d happily buy that on iTunes

Summer’s just won’t be the same without hearing his ramblings 🙁

What!

Sad news, hope he’s keeping well. Have been looking for a clip of his run in with the pigeon at Cardfiff from a couple of years ago. Many happy moment of pigeons and cranes.

Apparently he’s not seeing well these days*, so I suppose that takes away ablot of the enjoyment of it.

*Aggers was on five live this morning and said he had an eye disease, but I can’t remember what it is.

Have a good retirement Blowers, you’ll be missed.

One of a kind, such a character. Sad to see him hang up the microphone, but I hope he has a long and happy retirement.
Apparently his favorite hobby is drinking wine. 🙂
RM.

“Listeners will now be relieved to know that their chances of being told the right name of the fielders at third man and fine leg have greatly increased.

“I hope some will be sad that they will now hear less about the lifestyles of pigeons, seagulls and helicopters, although I fear the general feeling will be one of huge relief.”

Probably for the best as the mistakes are starting to mount up now and grate a bit, and he shouldn’t be remembered for that. However any commentator could learn an awful lot from him. You don’t need to listen to him for long to know the score, a basic but essential task which too many of the newer commentators forget.

He picked up the mantle left by Johnners. Hope someone else is able to do the same. Summer needs voices like that.

I saw his show at the Edinburgh fesrival a few years ago. Wonderful entertainment !

I’ll miss Blowers, hopefully this doesn’t mean more shifts for Simon Mann.

this and i see hear no obvious heir to the throne