Normal Service has been resumed

[CorkedHat]

England four wickets down and we haven't even reached 50 - and we elected to bat  :006:

[sipwell]

England four wickets down and we haven't even reached 50 - and we elected to bat  :006:

If you start speaking foreign, I might as well start speaking Dutch then, shall I?

[CorkedHat]

England four wickets down and we haven't even reached 50 - and we elected to bat  :006:

If you start speaking foreign, I might as well start speaking Dutch then, shall I?

Well you can to me Sipwell - there's a fair chance that I might know what you are talking about  :027:

[epsomraver]

England four wickets down and we haven't even reached 50 - and we elected to bat  :006:

It's not the done thing to keep on winning John, got to let johnny Foreigner win sometimes, look at the Boar war :005:

[HatterDon]

must be time to complain about Pakistan doctoring the ball.

Seriously, what is it this summer with the batting numbers? Is the bowling that much better, or have guys just forgotten how to hit. Or, perhaps, Pakistan have suddenly remembered how to field?

[Vinnieffc]

107-7

[Vinnieffc]

177-7 - Broad and Pryor doing the biz

[LBNo11]

...never got into cricket, played a bit, not a bad spin and medium pace bowler according to my games teacher, but couldn't bat for toffee, and found long hours boiling in the outfield mind numbingly boring.

It's great to listen to whilst on a village green in the summer under the dappled shade of trees and with a sunday lunch and a couple of pints of Fullers draught ESB inside you.

My old buddy was a cricket coach (still is) and this little pearl of wisdom always makes me chuckle:-

1. There are two teams. One out, one in.

2. The team that's out try to get the player that's in, out.

3. When they do get him out, he goes in.

4. Then the next player goes out. As long as he's out, he's in.

5. The object is then for the team that's out to get the second player out. When they get him out, he goes in.

6. This process is repeated for each innings until the team that's out gets the team that's in all out.

7. When the whole team is out, the team that was in goes out, and the team that was out goes in.

8. Then they play a second innings until they're all out. Except one player. He remains not out.

[mrska]

Yeah a good recovery..  hope the Cloud hangs around for the reply...

[The Equalizer]

213-7.

The way to read this is if England have a shocking start and go all out for less than 300, the chances are that Pakistan will capitulate for less than 45 runs.

I see no problem.

[The Equalizer]

Okay, Broad's gone. 213-8

[The Equalizer]

214-9. Balls.

[RidgeRider]

what are you lot on about again?

Reading this thread is like reading tea leaves, I have no idea where to start.  :011:

[HatterDon]

what are you lot on about again?

Reading this thread is like reading tea leaves, I have no idea where to start.  :011:

Best, then, to hit the "previous" button and leave the thread to us sophisticates!