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Originally Posted by bobo746
Bloody great innit? Add that to Wales just winning the Tour de France and we have a foking great summer!!!!
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Originally Posted by bobo746
Bloody great innit? Add that to Wales just winning the Tour de France and we have a foking great summer!!!!
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Wales won the tour de France? England won at cricket? Now if only Wigan don't sell the whole team to Aston Town House then it will be a summer to remember.
It won't last.Quote:
Originally Posted by bobo746
Don't get too cocky mate. It's still only the first test.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog
Anyway Dhoni has plenty of excuses except for unfair umpires. :rolleyes:
Dhoni himself blamed the loss of Zaheer Khan, his strike bowler, to a hamstring injury on the first afternoon. He blamed the absence of a third fast bowler to assist Ishant Sharma and Praveen Kumar. He blamed a surface that did not assist turn on the first two days and relegated his lead spinner Harbhajan to playing the role of a sandbag for Kevin Pietersen in the first innings. He blamed the circumstances that forced the batting order to be completely reshuffled in the second innings.
How you managed to think I was being cocky from saying our success wouldn't last is beyond me. Are you female?Quote:
Originally Posted by Loy Toy
The Australian Squad to tour Sri Lanka
Michael Clarke (c)
Shane Watson (vc)
Michael Beer
Trent Copeland
Brad Haddin
Ryan Harris
Phillip Hughes
Michael Hussey
Mitchell Johnson
Usman Khawaja
Nathan Lyon
Shaun Marsh
James Pattinson
Ricky Ponting
Peter Siddle
Broad hat trick - India loose 4 wickets without a taking run - 8 for 273
Dravid gone for 117
5 wickets have gone down for 6 runs in 14 balls
Sharma dropped at 3rd slip, bugger!
Sharma's gone. India all out for 288, a 1st innings lead of 67
Broad 64 runs off 66 balls and 6-46, not bad eh! Lots of 6's and 4's in there!
This second test is so finely balanced. Cook and Strauss need to finish the day together.
I can see why India didn't want Umpire referrals. They know the 5 appeals they make each over for LBW would all be rejected.
It's a good job the umpires have seen it all before.
So much for that.
Lots of stats.
Nobody has ever taken a hat-trick against India in test cricket before.
India were cruising at 266-4 before Broad struck.
Has any test cricketer top scored in an innings and taken a hat-trick before? Jury still out on that one, but unlkely
Broad took 5-0 in 16 balls
After his heroics in Oz, Cook is averaging just 5 in this series.
Someone can smell blood. :)
Close of play, England 24-1 trail by 43
24-2, trott wont bat injured.
It's a funny one, this one.
Let's hope one of our Yarpie batsmen can post a decent total this innings...
The lead's over a ton and they're going well. Let's hope they can keep this up.
They've come back so well in this game, talk about ebb and flow.
I am enjoying very much. Good knock from Bellend.
Oh dear , big uproar when Bell is given out having scored a boundary i think. He then starts to walk off the field for tea having punched gloves with Morgan, the ball is returned and the bails are taken off by an Indian player who received the ball and ask for a decision from the umpires who give Bell run out. The commentators are outraged as are the crowd. technically correct they say but not in the spirit of the game. Not cricket sir!!
Bell is claiming he heard 'over' called and put his bat down in the crease before walking off. Strauss is puce with rage. Diplomacy is required from someone
"Disgusting! Strauss should refuse to continue until an appeal is heard. Yes we may lose the match but this will send a clear message about their unsporting behaviour
From Sachin in Bangalore, TMS inbox: "What spirit of the law are you talking about? That was stupidity from Ian Bell, and absolutely disgraceful & unsporting reaction from the English."
A Bangalore sportsman has spoken :mid:
Let's look at this again. Bell says "four" to Morgan as they met to punch gloves. I think Kumar actually thought it had gone for four too. It was the laziest throw back in; even when Dhoni gathered he was nowhere near the stumps. He just underarmed it to Abhinav Mukund, who had strolled over to the stumps. Mukund then casually flicked the bails off; there was no shouted appeal even at that stage. It almost happened when Umpire Erasmus walked over from square leg to ask if they were appealing.
The players should be back on - the tea interval ended four minutes ago. But there is no sign of either team, not umpires. Something is going on in those corridors
At last the umpires walk out - to the most remarkable chorus of boos from the furious spectators all around Trent Bridge. Awful atmosphere out there, catcalls and abuse filling the air. It's like the Oval v Pakistan 2006...