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Hurrah! First day of the test summer!
Of course, it's in Cardiff and so it's raining! Who chose Cardiff as the location for the first test of the summer eh? Madness.
Now, my dear old things, what about a spot of cake?
Surely that [b][i]is[/i][/b] summer. Rain Stopped Play... 😀
very good of you old chap now what cake have the listners s
ent in today?
nothing signifies summmer more than TMS
Gawd bless Radio 4
Personal favourite was rory Bremner going in and no one knew he was there and he did the commentators took a while to realise what was going on ..cant find it so here have the usual classic
That never fails to make me laugh! 🙂 Thanks! 🙂
Flashy - does that mean we can expect some Boycott-esque quotes and analysis from you on here!?
Dont think theres going to be alot of play on the first day today though 🙁
good morning everyone 🙂
hopefully we'll get a bowl first and exploit the conditions.
The monumentous events of the winter seem like a distant memory now. I remeber being huddled under the duvet with one earphone in listening to alistair cook grinding the aussies into the dust.
Morning psychle!! 😉 stop lurking and come and have some cake
Well lets look at the positives of this mornings action.......weve made it to lunch without losing a wicket!
Victor has sponge cake. All is well with the world.
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Any sighted yet? A rare sight in Wales I believe, since they constitute a primary food source there 😉
is it still raining?
Apparently its dry and play starts at 11AM. Lets hope for a bit more play today!
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Thank goodness for that, much better than the Aussie tightwads who wouldn't let the beeb stream ashes TMS
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MDOT.
Got him!! Great start to the day!
Watching on Sky, listening to TMS
"Two balls left"
listening to aggers talk about the football was very much how I imagine CPT would sound discussing it .
Well, well. Did we dare to hope that Cook and Trott would pick up where they left off in oz? With jimmy injured we've got no chance of winning this but I could see us batting for another three days at this rate!
Omg
It's all over surely!
edit: JY - scottish people are not welcome in cricket threads
edit edit: !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow talk about collapses 😯
swann = 4-4 😮
Bloody Nora!
WTF!
Sat here having a beer watching ssps and listening to tms, loving it!
scottish people are not welcome in cricket threads
The GD is getting dearer
Cricket is ****in ace!
The GD is getting dearer
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just had a wee in the gloves 😛
Whoop!!
Who'd have thought this result a couple of hours ago? Absolutely fantastic.
Test cricket is flipping ace!
HOWZATT!
Top stat from TMS: England have won 4 of their last 5 games by an innings.
Meh, missed it all as I was having a sleep 🙁 Actually got up at 3.15 and thought I could catch some cricket, but 4 hours sleep in 48 convinced me otherwise. Who'd have thought it???
Dont worry, the highlights package is gong to be in real time (almost)
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Morning, everybodeeeee
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[url= http://yfrog.com/eddl3vj ]Blowers has some rather dashing trews on today.[/url]
SL sound a little flat at the start, having opted to bowl. Looking forward to the Tall Ones starting to hurl 'em down once we get out.
once we get out.
Which seems alarmingly soon....
26-3 after 8 overs!? Come on boys!
Oh dear. Busy afternoon and I come back to this. Not impressed.....
At least Cook's racking a few up as per.
Another great innings from Strauss..... 😕
20, 4 and 0 in the series so far. Bah!
Time for some cake. A nice lemon drizzle should sort it out.
KP getting a few now. Thanks to Tuffers and his batting advice, no doubt!
358 off 58 overs... that's a pretty good one-day chase don't you think? 😀
Aye, could make for an interesting afternoon if Sri Lanka think they're within a gnat's crotchet of a sniff at the score.
what's the pitch playing like? anything dodgy going on - swinging, turning square, uneven bounce, that sort of thing?
A smidgen of turn out of the footmarks for Swann, but nothing spectacular. It's clouding over a littler, so may be some swing if Broad can get his shizzle together (As Henry would no doubt put it)
So it could be interesting then, particularly if your chaps haven't remembered how to bowl again 😉
Shall we talk about the Ashes then? 😉
Am hoping it doesn't just fizzle out, to be honest.
Typical Pom, living on past glories, 1966 anyone? 🙄 😉
1966 anyone?
What happened then?
Oh yes, soccer. Not interested! 😉
Nice early wicket.....could there be a win to be had here?
Looking at the weather forecast for the Rose Bowl, I suspect we may not get that much play this morning...Still, that leaves plenty of time for more TMS waffling! 🙂
And indeed there has been some top level waffling so far! Loved Mark Nicholas's anecdotes about Hampshire. I got rather drunk in the Cowherds chatting with Robin Smith and Alan Lamb once. Boy they could drink!
Nice early wicket after lunch, though!