The cricket thread

earwighoney

VimFuego said:

earwighoney said:

VimFuego said:

so this series has really been between England and Steve Smith (and Smith has pretty comprehensively spanked us).
Funny sport cricket, if he was a sprinter or a cyclist or something like that you'd accuse him of cheating, but unless he has some not yet invented doo hickey in his bat, then it's just down to his skill.

It's an odd thing to say when you didn't include football.  

IMO it's a strange old world when more cricketers have been punished for doping than football.  IMO that's not down to whether there's doping in football, it's more down to how reluctant the officials in football are to punish it.  There have been rumours flying around for a very long time, eg Pep Guardiola hiring Lance Armstrong's Doctor (I can't imagine it was down to his expertise in cycling)

not sure what your point is. I didn't mention a lot of sports where doping is commonplace (though TBH I had no idea about doping in football).

Sorry I didn't mean to address your observations specifically.  I was just rambling on about doping in football!  A completely unrelated diversion, and you are right to question what my point was, as there was none! 

earwighoney

crunchman said:

NFL is the worst for doping.  They aren't signed up to WADA.  You get a 4 game ban for getting caught for a first offence, so there is no deterrent at all.

NFL is a truly fucked up sport.  I've been getting into watching it and it's a brutal fascinating and quite sickening sport.  

It's like watching a car crash in slow motion in 4K whilst some half naked girls dance around and weathermen with great teeth make comedic anecdotes. 

skippy76

Talk about keeping the series alive  

Heartfeltdawn

earwighoney said:

It's like watching a car crash in slow motion in 4K whilst some half naked girls dance around and weathermen with great teeth make comedic anecdotes. 

That's what happens down in Mar-a-Lago when the President is in town. 

NorthernGooner

Interesting how the two Ozzy 'outlaws' have responded to their year long bans from the game.
 Smith has lain in his murky bath water and worked out a plan to rip up the MCC coaching manual and negate the 
swinging ball in English conditions. The fact it looks fuck ugly is obviously of no consequence. Meanwhile  chez Warner the 'bogun'  mindset is in full swing and he thinks he's gonna smash the pom attack whilst looking like a '70's porn star and  put a few more points on his batting average. Probably our only 'broadside' of the series. Geddit?       Smith isn't the first 'Crim' batsman to play in an unorthodox  manner over here. Old footage of Bradman would show him flat batting balls outside the off stump back past the bowler  in tennis style.   I know Cricket can be a game of one chance but too many England's player are too inconsistent . Broad was dross today.  We keep re-discovering Curran and then drop him. Leach is a county dobber. He'd be a grade cricketer in Oz.... no more.  Life's too cosy with central contracts.  Since McGrath retired  the Ozzies have got four new quicks ....us?  fuck all. ,,,,,'and here's the 49 year old James Anderson  coming in to bowl from the Nursery end....'  

lovestrat74

Is Paul Kossoff Steve Smith's Dad?

Heartfeltdawn

Can't have been. The guitar hero poses are too sensible to have Smith genes in him. 

RandallFlagg

If only we could have drawn at Old Trafford, imagine how more exciting this weekends play would be. Oh well.

scrumhalf

Denly's giving 'Gary' some tap. 

munckee

Strewth Root put together a captains innings more often. 

cj73

Oops.  Someone forgot to turn off Mr Gower’s mic......

RandallFlagg

Sky commentary, just after the lunch break David Gower was caught saying “I haven't a fucking clue” before his mic was turned off as he handed over to the commentary box 

RandallFlagg

Big pause then Shane Warne comes on and apologises for some “microphone issues there”

sixstringsupplies

Ha that was hilarious. Wonder who he was talking about? 

RandallFlagg

sixstringsupplies said:

Ha that was hilarious. Wonder who he was talking about? 

I don't think he knew who he was handing over too, they weren't ready. Sounded like he had a right monk on. I reckon he's had a couple of Stellas for lunch and wants to get a bit fighty.

it's already on YouTube

https://youtu.be/vterVerd_ZA

sixstringsupplies

RandallFlagg said:

sixstringsupplies said:

Ha that was hilarious. Wonder who he was talking about? 

I don't think he knew who he was handing over too, they weren't ready. Sounded like he had a right monk on. I reckon he's had a couple of Stellas for lunch and wants to get a bit fighty.

it's already on YouTube

https://youtu.be/vterVerd_ZA

You would do on your last match as commentator! 

RandallFlagg

Sky should use Isa Guha more, she has a wonderful commentating voice and is a bit of a looker too!

guitars4you

Could have a 350/360 run lead by the end of tonight - Time to get close to 500 by lunch tomorrow then 5 sessions to try and bowl them out - Maximise the next session with an old ball and a tiring attack

Could be a good time for Bairstow and Butler to come in and show why they were picked

crunchman

guitars4you said:

Could have a 350/360 run lead by the end of tonight - Time to get close to 500 by lunch tomorrow then 5 sessions to try and bowl them out - Maximise the next session with an old ball and a tiring attack

Could be a good time for Bairstow and Butler to come in and show why they were picked

Likelihood of a 500 lead vs likelihood of a collapse?  My money is on the collapse.

scrumhalf

Couple of magnificent catches.