Sri Lanka v England test series,

[Vette_1978]

Cook, Vaughan, Bell, Peiterson, Colly, Bopara, Prior, Sidebottom, Hoggy, Anderson and Monty.

Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bat. Not a bad start from our boys, Hoggy and Sidebottom with a wicket a piece and 36-2 in the 11th over.

Time to put the kettle on.

[Vette_1978]

Perfect return after the drinks break, 40-3 Hoggy, outside edge, caught Prior.

[Vette_1978]

Hoogy on fire!! 42-4!

[Vette_1978]

Hoggy to a left hander, outside edge, 42-5.

Who needs Harmy?

[unrepentant]

A good effort from the lads. Excellent bowling by all, esp Hoggy with the new ball and Monty. Fielding looked sharp and Ian Bell looked solid at the crease as well I thought.

[alfa phil]

carrying on were we left off in the one day series.. yippie

[alfa phil]

oh! dear spoke too soon , not a great day at the office

[Vette_1978]

It's a shame the rain came down as I'd have liked to witness Muli beat Warnes record and get that nice looking trophy. He's bound to do it tomorrow when I'm at work, damnit!

[HSVGTSCoupe]

any updates?? how'd you go???

[ewenm]

Sounds more like a wildlife tour than a Test Series.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tms/2007/12/bees_stop_p...

Good effort from Bell and Prior but a generally poor 2nd innings performance both with bat and ball from England. I still don't understand what the "night watchman" tactic achieves.

[unrepentant]

Good effort by the Sri Lankan pitcher Muralitharan. Baseballs loss was Sri Lankas gain.

New specs needed for umpire Rauf and re-educating re the rules. When a batsman hits the cover off the ball onto his pads the correct response to an appeal is "not out".

[alfa phil]

what kind of bowling is that, i would get thrown off my pub cricket pitch for throwing like that

[suthol]

One down and two to go

Might I be so rude as to refer a number of you to your responses here

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Edited by suthol on Wednesday 5th December 22:19

Edited by suthol on Thursday 6th December 04:48

[Gizmo535]

unrepentant said:

Good effort by the Sri Lankan pitcher Muralitharan. Baseballs loss was Sri Lankas gain.

New specs needed for umpire Rauf and re-educating re the rules. When a batsman hits the cover off the ball onto his pads the correct response to an appeal is "not out".

Ah, Mr. Rauf. Should have gone to Specsavers.

As for the night watchman thing, I honestly cannot understand why we persist with such a tactic. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the idea is that conditions are too tense/difficult/risky for the 'proper' batsman - so you throw a crap one to the lions? I'm sorry, but that's rubbish. Put your best batsmen out and let them deal with the hard conditions.

I mean, what were we thinking, putting Ali Cook out to play until the close with Vaughan!

[HSVGTSCoupe]

hows the 2nd test going? Been quiet on here for a few days, hard to beleive poms are playing

[suthol]

HSVGTSCoupe said:

hows the 2nd test going? Been quiet on here for a few days, hard to beleive poms are playing

Are they

[HSVGTSCoupe]

suthol said:

HSVGTSCoupe said:

hows the 2nd test going? Been quiet on here for a few days, hard to beleive poms are playing

Are they

Sri Lankan fans were looking up the english word "test" and were a tad confused at the meaning and the use of the word to describe a game against England.

[ewenm]

[irony]
Woo hoo - a draw!
[/irony]
At least it gives the chance of squaring the series...

[Vette_1978]

Oh yes, back to the good old days of being glad to get a draw! I've just seen the start times for the NZ games, 21:30 for the tests and 01:00 for the ODI. Some late nights coming up.

[HSVGTSCoupe]

HSVGTSCoupe said:

suthol said:

HSVGTSCoupe said:

hows the 2nd test going? Been quiet on here for a few days, hard to beleive poms are playing

Are they

Sri Lankan fans were looking up the english word "test" and were a tad confused at the meaning and the use of the word to describe a game against England.

so.... hows the cricket going today fellas????

fcuk it.. have another

(I bet Punter and the boys are really shakin in fear about the next Ashes series!)