My opinion of Cook went down a notch recently when he claimed that it had been a mistake to drop him from the one-day side. His career as captain of the ODI team was one of unmitigated failure. Long before the selectors decided to do anything about it, he had demonstrated that he was totally unsuited to it. There's a difference between confidence and arrogance.
Right fellas - Glad I made the decision to stick with the cricket seeing as though the football sounded shite. What a session from England! If you haven't seen it try and catch the highlights. An inspired Jimmy had a hand in all six wickets in the morning session. Including a quite stunning direct hit run out. 2 sessions left and all to play for. Cricket at it's best. 🙂
Typical, busy at work today!
I'm going to watch as much as I can of days 2-4.. My gf's uncle is out there with tickets for those 3 days too. One day he's in what they advertise as the 'party stand' and its $70 for a ticket, breakfast, lunch and unlimited beers!!
It does! One of my life ambitions is to get out there for a Windies tour. Utterly brilliant place to be for sure. The Port-Of Spain test has the swimming pool by the side if I remember rightly. What a way to spend the day! 🙂Less than a premier league ticket to sit in The Lying Rag all day with food including getting pissed watching the cricket - that is my idea of paradise! Lucky b*****d !!
looks like a cracking atmosphere out there too
The trouble with getting hammered at the cricket is that you get a hangover around tea-time.
He must have got out just when you pressed the button after typing that! 😀
Whoops! Ali was batting along nicely as well. Cook looks a little sheepish!
Oooops. Jinxy to the max. 😳He must have got out just when you pressed the button after typing that! 😀
Yup. Loads of inconsistant bounce plus decent swing. Must be a nightmare for the batsmen all things considered. Ali spinning out of the rough (which is getting worse by the over) I can only see this going one way. I have tons of respect for Chanderpaul though so not really counting my chickens yet.A few balls are bouncing low too.
The wickets have mostly come from swing though JJ so pitch almost irrelevant when Jimmy is swinging it like he is!