England V Windies

[Bigal]

Windies have stuck england in

 

Onions and Bresnan make their debuts

[DanielS]

Are England all out yet? Its all the IPL's fault.

[Bigal]

Looking forward to Collingwood playing having just got splinters in his a*** for the last 5 weeks

 

teams in full

 

England: AJ Strauss, AN Cook, RS Bopara, KP Pietersen, PD Collingwood, MJ Prior, TT Bresnan, SCJ Broad, JM Anderson, GP Swann, G Onions

 

West Indies: CH Gayle, DS Smith, RR Sarwan, LMP Simmons, S Chanderpaul, BP Nash, D Ramdin, JE Taylor, SJ Benn, FH Edwards, LS Baker

Edited May 6, 2009 by Bigal

[johngibo YPC]

Looking forward to Collingwood playing having just got splinters in his a*** for the last 5 weeks

 

To be fair, he did carry the drinks on

[Bigal]

that should be his job then

[Bigal]

27/1 strauss out

[sutty]

Win the toss at lords and field?

[Cunny]

88/1 at lunch

[Gilps]

92/3 - Cook & Pietersen gone and Edwards is on a hat trick

Edited May 6, 2009 by Gilps

[sutty]

What a ball to Pietersen

[johngibo YPC]

What a ball to Pietersen

 

Not one you'd fancy first up then i take it?

I do like his celebration

[Bigal]

I dont like it when lower league cricketers do it

[Bigal]

how is bresnans batting???

 

collingwood out

[DanielS]

This is good from the Guardian's OBO

 

"Is Andy Flower a genius? What better way to test Bopara's mental and batting strength than orchestrating a collapse to put him under pressure (in a Test situation no less, you just can't recreate it in the nets) to see if he's got the gonads to tough it out at No3," writes Richard Gee. "It's blue sky, forward brain storming thinking of the highest order that got him the coaching job."

[Gilps]

182/4 at tea. Bopara's on 72 and Prior's on 42.

[Gilps]

Prior's gone now. 193/5

[Bailo]

What a flaming t** Prior is.

[carrafan]

Why is Bravo not playing for the Windies?

[johngibo YPC]

Why is Bravo not playing for the Windies?

 

Still in the IPL for some reason

 

Lancs going well if anyones bothered

Worcestershire: 167

Lancashire: 123-4

[Gilps]

Bopara's got his 100

[Snoeker]

I know its not big or clever but every time KP gets done like that makes millions of SAfricans smile. Or this one, anyway.

 

Oh and I'm quite pleased for Bopara, hopefully won't get too big headed too soon.

 

Windies were rather charitable in the field though, should have been batting.

Edited May 7, 2009 by Snoeker

[sutty]

The Bop gone for 142

 

Well batted.

 

368/8

[DanielS]

Is Bopara the saviour of English cricket yet then?

[sutty]

Is Bopara the saviour of English cricket yet then?

Shut up you tedious no mark.

[DanielS]

Shut up you tedious no mark.

 

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Edited May 7, 2009 by DanielS