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Starting tomorrow at Trent bridge,unchanged side.

Can't beat sitting round on a Saturday afternoon listening to TMS eating hobnobs,drinking tea and reading a cricket book,i'll probably re-read A social history of English cricket seeing as most of my books are in storage at my dads house at the moment.

Well tbh you probably can beat it,sure there are far more fun things i could get up to really :oops: Oh well  :D

Are you not going to be drinking cider whilst listening to it?  :wink:

:soapy tit wank:
No,i've learnt my lesson on that front :oops:

Hmm. Last exam tomorrow. Methinks I could be spending the next couple of weeks sat infront of a TV screen!

Get a job!

 :wink:

Suprised to hear that this is the first time England have ever kept the same team for 5 consecutive test matches. I can see why they're doing it, but i'd have liked us to move back to a 5 man bowling attack to give us more options against the Braaaaaaan Bread Boys.

Swing friendly wicket, so should suit Sidey nicely. I predict a 10 wicket haul, 9 of them lbws for our hairy friend 8) I predict Colly to get back to form with the bat as well

 I've got a lot of varied cricket books....that social history sounds interesting, who's the author?

 I'm rather partial to a walk with my radio zipped into the top bit of my rucksack....the dulcet tones of Henry Blofeld go well with a backdrop of the English countryside.

The great Derek Birley is the author.He also wrote The willow wand which i also have.Both are brilliant books about the history of the great game.

My favourite is probably Beyond a boundary though,its so much more than a cricket book.But i only like to read it when were playing the West Indies :D

Off to a flier here, 46-2 we are.

85-4 Bells just gone for a duck. Well, we're in the shit now. In comes the form man, Captain Colly. Cmon son.

And Mills gets Colly caught at slip and over later. Deliver us from evil KP.

Bopara must be looking rather smug at home. Geoff Miller less so.

hahahahahaha

Cook, Colly and Bell can fuck right off

Hoggard must be spitting fury. One bad game and he gets dropped, the Batsman get away with anything.

at least were getting back into it now

Always the second innings I suppose.

unless Colly and Bell get big scores 2nd innings then I fully expect Bopara and Shah to come in ...

Colly should also be dropped as the one day captain on that kind of form ...

Really think Shah has no chance :( Don't know what he's done to upset the powers that be but they just don't seem to want to play him no matter how many runs he gets.

shah and prior (bopara) in for collingwood and shah for the saffies unless one of them saves their neck in the 2nd innings

Woops :D

Hope i haven't jinxed Sidey as well

I expect Anderson will get a ton tomorrow to polish off the innings.

Broad & Anderson have put on 50 partnership  :D

he's a quarter of the way there.

I really didn't expect us to still be in at lunch. The TMS team were discussing the relative merits of the tail end batsman last night and it was suggested that Anderson might have it in him to bat higher up, and maybe he does.

Sidey seems to be holding his end up OK aswell.

64 from Broad. An all rounder in the making I think. Mind you, that makes Messrs Cook, Collingwood and Bell look a bit silly.

Jimmy A's in unplayable mode.

2 down after 6 overs, including McCullum.

Have we already got a MOM do you reckon?

This is awesome, Jimmy's tearing them out, I bet Flynn didn't fancy it and he's gone straight away

5th wicket. Silly shot really.

Can't blame Flynn for not hanging around after what hapenned last time Jimmy bowled at him.

Record test score and now a five-for in the first five wickets. Not a bad day really.

6 wicket haul =  :D

What a toothless performance from him

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Who says Germans have no sense of humour.

What a great day. Anderson produces some quality that has silenced even me today. Great to see Broad getting some runs as well. He really is turning into that number 8 we have lacked for some time now.

errr giles

Giles was never really a run scorer though. Broad is a more capable batsman and growing with every game. He's handy with the ball as well. Plus Giles last played 3 years ago didn't he?

 I liked the fact that the King of Spain got to 1000 runs and 100 wickets in less tests than Flintoff.

All valid points. i was just trying to give the spanish king some recognition

Yeah Giles was OK nothing against him like. In a way i do actually miss the KOS  :soapy tit wank:

That's what happens when you hire an amateur mug manufacture!

Dunwoody?

Do you mean Wundoody?

im off to trentbridge sunday fior the 4th day, we get in to the fifth day free if th any play left. but i cant see that happening to be honest.

You never know!

Sidey's ruined our history in the making there. Should have been bowling Cook or someone at that end.

I think everyone wants them out, no matter who gets them.

I know that, it would have been nice for Jimmy Anderson to be the first seamer to get ten  in an innings. Would have been a pub quiz question for years.

123-8 8)

123 - 9 Broad is doing well!

That one to O'Brian was a hell of a ball.

Agnew told Boycott that it would have bowled him, unsuprisingly Geoff disagrees.

all gone

All out, Anderson 7-43. Lovely.

Follow on time

123 all out! thats 7 for anderson. Good job

You'd better hope you get a 4th day, let alone a 5th with the way it's going.

21 - 1 broad got Redmond

Broad's going to be one hell of a cricketer, give him 12 months and he could be a massive factor in the Ashes

If Broad and a top fitness/form Flintoff play in the same side, colour me very excited indeed.

oram is on fiiiiiiire.

Shame about the rest.

two wickets or twenty runs? which will come first?

225-9

And game over. Innings and 9 runs.

all gone, despite oram's very nice 50 not out.

when was the last time we won a test by an innings?!

 Probably last spring when we turned over the West Indies at Headingley in the second test.   It was Sidey's comeback test.

Was looking forward to a day watching the cricket  :(

Good to finish them off though  :D

yep, just remembered that. iirc i didn't get to watch much of that test...

we beat pakistan by an innings in 2006 as well.

we're third in the test rankings now, cor blimey

I suspect we won't be after the Seth Efrika series. Still, should be a good series, any games still got tickets left?

Headingley still have tickets.  Not sure where else. Can be found at ticketmaster

Edgebaston have,  https://eticketing.co.uk/edgbaston/default.aspx

Lords have, http://www.lords.org/tickets/information-availability

The Oval has, http://www.surreycricket.com/tickets/international/

Can not be bothered to find the other test!

I could see the ground from my hotel room this weekend, loads of people went today in fancy dress, must have been home by half 11.

good win though.

80 quid a ticket? Fuck me.

I did that; turned on the TV at 12.30 expecting to catch a few overs before lunch and it was already over.

I know tell me about it, headingley is much cheaper, £25 the cheapest tickets.

Problem is it's in Leeds. Not an issue for you, but a bit of a drive for me.