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Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by Wally Dorian Raffles

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Is it going to last till I get home? (About 90 mins).

Do you know anybody with a helicopter?

I think I need something supersonic.

Well, Anderson and Plunkett are your best batsmen on current form, so you maybe ok for a while yet

Broad gone from another short ball! You is wicket Betty

India win their 2nd test match in 80 years at Lords!

Dhoni used 'short ball theory' and out-captained the clarinet sucker with school ground tactics!

Captain Cook greets friendly Hawaiians

Fuck me. What a pansy boy post match speech from Cook. I knew he was soft, but he really does carry on like a girl

Botham, Hussain, etc. being VERY harsh on Cook. Fuck! You think I'm bad!!! - they are REALLY tearing him to shreds!!!

P45 bomber incoming I fancy.

And another one bites the dust! - Prior pulls a Swanny!

Alastair Cook to stay as England captain but Matt Prior takes break

• Monday 21 July 2014 15.30 BST

England captain Alastair Cook and coach Peter Moores look on at Lord's as India completed victory in the second Test by 95 runs. Photograph: Andrew Couldridge/Action Images

Alastair Cook has now suffered seven defeats in nine Tests as England’s captain and also lost another of his key lieutenants when Matt Prior announced after the humiliation against India here that he was taking an indefinite break from the game.

But in contrast to Steven Gerrard, Cook is determined to carry on.

Cook watched helpless from the balcony of the pavilion as a succession of England batsmen succumbed to short balls from Ishant Sharma either side of lunch, with Prior the most culpable, to hand India their first away Test win for more than three years and only their second at Lord’s.

That prompted Andrew Strauss, Cook’s predecessor and a staunch ally, to wonder aloud for the first time if the captain “might think he’s had enough”. Cook rejected that suggestion within minutes, although he wavered slightly on a previous insistence that he will never resign and conceded that he cannot afford much more personal or collective failure before the decision is taken out of his hands.

“I’m desperate to carry on,” Cook said. “There might be a time when I’m not desperate to carry on but now I want to be at the front when we’re winning. I still want to throw it all in [and] to be captain of England. Until that bloke taps you on the shoulder, I want to carry on.”

Cook said he had not spoken to the national selector, James Whitaker, or the managing director of England cricket, Paul Downton, since the start of the Test but there seems little chance of either tapping him on the shoulder after Tuesday morning’s meeting to decide what changes to make for the third Test, which starts in Southampton on Sunday.
Cook, however, has conceded that all the senior players who have so far failed to deliver this summer are under growing pressure. Although he gave a glowing endorsement of Prior’s contribution to the team, the veteran wicketkeeper has announced that he is to step aside for the rest of the series against India because of fitness issues.

Prior, who has played 79 Tests, struggled with an achilles problem in the early part of the summer and has also suffered thigh and hand injuries that he accepts have impeded his performances behind the stumps. His former agent, Alec Stewart, suggested at the weekend the 32-year-old should have surgery now in an effort to prolong his career.

“The decision I’ve made is that I’m unavailable for the rest of this series due to my fitness,” he said. “I’m not retiring or anything like that – I would still love to play for England and I still know what I can offer England – but right now I’m not physically able to be at the level I need to be in order to perform at my level. I’m not doing justice to myself and more importantly the team and that is what matters first and foremost.”

He expects to have an achilles operation and knows the potential implications of standing aside. Jos Buttler is set to replace him. “It is a huge decision and not one I’ve taken lightly obviously,” Prior said. “I could have played my last game.”

Cook, reflecting on his own future, said: “I haven’t had any tougher times in my career than at the moment. But I don’t think walking away from it would be the way to go. I’ll stay until my position becomes untenable. If I’m not scoring runs by the end of the series and we’re losing more games, then it becomes tougher and tougher, doesn’t it? I’m clearly maybe not the man to turn it round.

“Maybe things can change very quickly, who knows? Things can change the other way. If we win and I score runs, things do change. When I was made England captain I said to my wife that I was going to give it my all. If it’s not meant to be, it’s not meant to be but I want to be proud of the way I have gone about it.

“Everyone has doubts. It would be only natural when you’re on your own or away from it but it makes me more determined. I would just love to win this series. How much satisfaction that would be from the dark times.

“A tough loss in good conditions for us does keep making it harder, and not scoring the runs as well. It is getting tougher and tougher. Until I start scoring runs and the results change it’s tough. I’m not going to say I’m waking up every morning saying it’s the best I’ve felt in my cricketing career. But if and when we turn this around, and get 11 people playing close to their potential and we win a game of cricket, coming through the tough times will make it feel a lot better.”

He invoked the example of his first series as captain, in India in 2012-13, when he led from the front as England overturned a 1-0 series deficit to secure a famous victory, adding: “If I’m not good enough at the end of the summer, then so be it but I’m trying my heart out to do this and I need to score runs and need to start winning but I’m here as long as I’m wanted.”

Alastair Cook to stay as England captain but Matt Prior takes break | Sport | The Guardian

Jeez the guys decides to get surgery on a nagging injury and you take it that he is retiring with immediate effect from the game.

Did you even read it?

3/10 for trolling today, in fact your performance over this series has been poor.

Maybe Wally should step down too, I certainly feel I've stopped taking notice of most of what he writes.

wally step down? come on,pull the other one, he has been leading from the front and has the runs on the board,where the soap dodgers just have the runs.

He has runs on the board reminiscent of Gavaskar's early attempts at one day cricket.

He does give the impression that he's posting occasionally after regularly wiping his right hand with a kleenex.

After years honing his craft in the longer version of the game it does look as if wally is finding it hard to adapt to the differing needs of Troll20.

Yup, loads of swishing outside the off stump, but he's struggling to get the ball of the square at the moment

C'Mon fellas. Wally is a real cricket fan and I must commend you three, Bob, Harry and Cyrille for still turning up here even in spite of your team being shite.

Former fair weather Pom supporters have disappeared from this thread and even thick skinned Betty is off having a Boo Boo.

Cook is in total denial about his abilities as Captain.

"Whoever joins him, Cook has satisfied himself that England's Lord's defeat - only their second against India at HQ - was not down to his leadership. "I think a captain is only as good as the players you have with you," he said. "I don't think it was because of my captaincy that we lost this game." He is determined not to leave his post yet, despite the clamour in some quarters for him to do so as his run drought continues and England's sequence of setbacks extends to 10 matches without a Test win and seven defeats in nine. "I'm desperate to carry on," he added."

Cook 'desparate' to stay captain as pressure grows - Cricket - Eurosport Australia

I'm afraid England are more than a tad of an embarrassment with the bat, carrying on from the ill-fated ashes series down under where we didn't have a clue when arriving at the crease.

Wally is quite right to ridicule the players, one would have thought that a team who had Broad batting at number 10 had a pretty strong line up.

Prior taking leave is yet another mark against the Cook captaincy. Trott and Swan dropping out last winter were strong indicators that all was not well under his leadership although to publically deride the man is simply not cricket.

He's even floundering during media announcements with quotes such as 'clearly maybe'. A magnificent batsman who has become a trembling wreck of a man having taken the reins. He should step aside now before he gets clean bowled by his wife.

Very much an England trait, having captains whose personal form takes a predictable plummet (as opposed to dip).

There have been exceptions, but Cook clearly can't handle the pressure.

Captain of a cricket team has to be one of the toughest gigs in sport.
In particular Captain of the English cricket team of which the English public have such high expectations, expectations that can be rarely lived up to.
Cook is clearly mad and only a lunatic should or would want the job.

Jeez, now Cook is getting blamed for things that really occurred before anyone questioned his captaincy......

I'd expect that from Wally but...... Oh..... I see Douglas Jardine has admitted Cook made him do it.....

England 78/1 (29.0 ov)
India
England won the toss and elected to bat

Captain Clarinet on 48 not out at lunch. Finally getting a few runs from the SL & IND second string trundler bowling line ups.....after 8 or 9 attempts...... AT HOME ...

Originally Posted by Mr Lick

Prior taking leave is yet another mark against the Cook captaincy. Trott and Swan dropping out last winter were strong indicators that all was not well under his leadership although to publically deride the man is simply not cricket.

He's even floundering during media announcements with quotes such as 'clearly maybe'. A magnificent batsman who has become a trembling wreck of a man having taken the reins.

Some very good points there Mr.Lick. Like the pic too

Hopefully we can get a few of the English camp in to give us a few insights

Apparently Bobcock has some mates in the English dressing room who, although gave him false information regarding K.P's status and standing in the team about 6 months before he got sacked, are blokes that Bob says we should all listen to.

Any information about Alastair from your mates Bob?

50 RUNS FOR ALASTAIR COOK!

Celebration time!!!

50 for Cook and good on him.

Not like the other soap dodgers who have abandoned the sinking ship.

No doubt he is a class act with the bat.

Hope he scores a double century and sticks it up the fleet street scum.