Yeah I know what you mean. All the good ones do though 😉
Knucks to @737Max - a boss you tube clip. I'd never seen that before but loved seeing it. Cheers fella.
Cricket - England vs Pakistan.
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Knucks to @737Max - a boss you tube clip. I'd never seen that before but loved seeing it. Cheers fella.
Fucking hell! Is that a beer snake? That's epic!!!
Haha! Did you see the 'monster' they created at Old Trafford the other day!? I bet the stewards loved that!
Dearest fellow cricket fans. I have two spare tickets to Day 2 at the oval (Friday 12th August). Anyone interested? @Red Astaire
I'll be there with a mate but have another two spare tickets next to me..
I'll be there with a mate but have another two spare tickets next to me..
Wow! Mate can you hold it for me until I get back home to check my calander? For sure I want it. Cheers man. I'll let you know tonight. 🙂 #legend
P.s I'll have them both actually. I need to text a buddy. 🙂
If RA ( or mate ) cannot make it i'll have one.
Sub continental pitches, 18 wickets to the SL spinners and one of the others was a run out! If you can get to watch the run out it was a very sharp piece of work by short square leg. England in spring would never be a happy hunting ground for Herath.
The other thing Portly is look at the Aussie side. Neville comes in at 7 so the tail is long, Marsh has to be the worst no 6 in test cricket, Burns is bang average and Voges while he had a bit of a purple patch is about 50 and will surely retire soon. Warner is a dasher who either comes off or gets out cheaply, not suited for attritional cricket on slow low turners, which leaves Khawaja and Smith. They are fine on superflat wickets in Oz but put them on a turner or our green pitches and they are found out. The bowling relies on Starc who is class ( he has taken 17 out of the 40 wickets so far ) but he does break down quite a lot, average Hazlewood,one average spinner and one pie chucker, . I think they have problems and the next Ashes down under can't come soon enough, how on earth they are test no 1 I do not know.
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Haha! Funny as fuck TMS commentary! Boycott and 'bet' - It will be on the pint sized round up later on BBC if you've missed it 😀. Anyway back to the serious business of winning this truly great test. Proper into the tail and a session and a half to go. Track has started to do a bit. 125-5! It's on!
125-6! It's deffo on! 🙂
Yep a VERY good and well fought win. Moeen continues to confound and delight in equal measure. Although with this test - Maybe not so equal. He was utterly brilliant! Anyone know who got the man of the test? Woakes surely?
Very well deserved actually. 🙂
Moeen has done very well for England because he is really only a part-time spinner. He regards himself as a batsman who will turn his arm over when asked. Unlike front-line spinners he doesn't have much variety in his deliveries - no "flippers" or suchlike demon balls.
Yup, he hasn't really had a lot of bowling this year but he doesn't have variety, he relies on natural variation - or the non spinning off break for this I think. I thought he bowled with very good control yesterday, he hardly dropped anything short ( other than his first ball which nearly hit his toes! ) and although there wasn't much turn he got some good drift and dip and was very accurate.
In tests he has a propensity for dropping a ball short in nearly every over, invariably smashed for a boundary, relieving scoreboard pressure. And yet bowling in odi's, when he tends to bowl a little quicker, he hardly ever does it and is parsimonious. Inexplicable really, except maybe a reflection of the more intense pressure in a test match.
The wind definitely helps but it is mainly revs on the ball, you need a good old rip to get it to do that.
Ready for Thursday now.
I bet you are mate. I, meanwhile will be moving house and in sole charge of a 3yr old cheeky little Kaito. There's always TMS. It's going to be a cracker though mate 🙂
I tend to agree - but I think it's more about his variation and flight. Did you see Warne do that bit on SS about how when he announced that he had developed a new "killer delivery" it was 100% bullshit and a psyche out? Just had 3 deliveries (and 2 at the end).
