Cricket......

[Mntboy]

Decent cricket at last.. and brilliant commentary by cricinfo [emoji106]

22.2 full length, draws the drive... and gone, steered to third slip! Shanaka has given England a right boot to the knackers, his third wicket in eight deliveries and there is now a proper wobble on. Test cricket is back all right! Root was looking to assert himself, probably was a bit wide and he went hard at it, thick edge and it went straight to the man Mathews had stationed slightly wider. SL are enjoying Headingley again 51/3

Ended up 83/5 at drinks during the middle session. YJB figured it was the right time to launch a fight back and sent the Lankan bowling unit chasing red leather while Hales did his best impression of Mike Atherton. Pretty even at the close of play. The Cricinfo commentary team is pretty good. They have a lovely sense of humour, which comes through in the commentary.

 

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Edited May 19, 2016 by Mntboy

[Mntboy]

Eng v SL first test day one close of play: England 171/5 (Hales 71* & YJB 54*, Shanaka 3/30). Hales & YJB sharing a 88 run partnership to get England back in the game after Shanaka's brilliant spell in the morning. Rain washing out the post tea session. Tomorrow should be interesting. Thank goodness we got some real cricket to follow!

 

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[Benjamin]

Anyone watch AB last night ? Man , he's just pure pure class. Best T20 knock I've seen given the match situation , and what was at stake. Plus he's so down to earth and humble afterwards. Legend

[GLuvsMtb]

Anyone watch AB last night ? Man , he's just pure pure class. Best T20 knock I've seen given the match situation , and what was at stake. Plus he's so down to earth and humble afterwards. Legend

I watched it. I just kept thinking that Kohli is way too tense. I'd hate to play for a captain that is that animated.

[bertusras]

I guess nobody saw this scorecard of a One Day Cup match in England yesterday.

 

Nottinghamshire 445 for 8 (Lumb 184, Wessels 146, Cobb 3-53) beat Northamptonshire 425 (Kleinveldt 128, Rossington 97, Gurney 3-69) by 20 runs 

 

Lumb and Wessels logged an opening stand of 342 in 39.2 overs for Nottinghamshire under cloudless blue skies in a Royal London One-Day Cup group match before the partnership was finally broken when Wessels fell to Stephen Crook for 146, lifting him to short third man.

 

Lumb scored 184, making his runs from 150 deliveries, with 21 fours and six sixes, and Wessels hit 146 from 97 balls, with 14 fours and eight maximums, with both players reaching their highest one-day scores.

 

Nottinghamshire went on to make 445 for 8 in their 50 overs. It was the second highest total in List A matches worldwide, beaten only by Surrey's 496 for 4 against Gloucestershire at The Oval in 2007.

 

Astonishingly, despite being stricken by injuries, Northants got within 20 runs under the Trent Bridge floodlights in a match that included an aggregate of 870 runs - another domestic record and only two runs short of the world record - and a barely credible 35 sixes.

 

Veteran South African Rory Kleinveldt, nursing a calf injury, also batted with a runner and almost helped the visitors pull of a stunning run chase.

 

He hit 128 from only 63 balls, smashing 10 fours and nine sixes to put Notts under real pressure, all after Adam Rossington had made 97 at the top of the order.

 

Saffa born/bred boys doing well!!

Edited June 7, 2016 by bertusras

[Christie]

Intetesting game yesterday. SA laboured to 180, which they defended. Some comments:

-We played 3 specialist spinners, which worked well.

-Behardien played a match winning knock, after Amla threw it away and AB, QdK startred and got out

-Rilee and JPD : how may chances are they going to get? (But then again, what other options? Faf for Rilee and Morris for JP? Miller is a better young batsmen than Rilee imo, but he is in a slump of note.

-Parnell: he used his chance, bowled well. Did not bat well, though.

[Shebeen]

Intetesting game yesterday. SA laboured to 180, which they defended. Some comments:

-We played 3 specialist spinners, which worked well.

-Behardien played a match winning knock, after Amla threw it away and AB, QdK startred and got out

-Rilee and JPD : how may chances are they going to get? (But then again, what other options? Faf for Rilee and Morris for JP? Miller is a better young batsmen than Rilee imo, but he is in a slump of note.

-Parnell: he used his chance, bowled well. Did not bat well, though.

a bonus point win against the blerrie aussies. what's not to like?

 

I know it's guyana, but what is with this series?!

 6 innings all under 200 now.

SA and Aus both playing two quicks only. the mean days of windies fast bowlers is clearly gone for good and now the pitches are done accordingly

[GLuvsMtb]

Intetesting game yesterday. SA laboured to 180, which they defended. Some comments:

-We played 3 specialist spinners, which worked well.

-Behardien played a match winning knock, after Amla threw it away and AB, QdK startred and got out

-Rilee and JPD : how may chances are they going to get? (But then again, what other options? Faf for Rilee and Morris for JP? Miller is a better young batsmen than Rilee imo, but he is in a slump of note.

-Parnell: he used his chance, bowled well. Did not bat well, though.

Rilee dislocated his shoulder, so Faf will surely play the next game. JP did not bowl yesterday, so Morris in for JP may be a good call to have another front line bowler. Now if Behardien was used more often to block up one end, we would have even more cover for JP's gentle off breaks.

[dev null]

a bonus point win against the blerrie aussies. what's not to like?

 

I know it's guyana, but what is with this series?!

 6 innings all under 200 now.

SA and Aus both playing two quicks only. the mean days of windies fast bowlers is clearly gone for good and now the pitches are done accordingly

 

Some of those island pitches are notoriously terrible.

[Christie]

PS, nice debut for Tabraiz Shamsi. He picked up only one stick, but it sounds like he had the Aussy batsmen in a spin, and could have had a few more. I only watched till we bowled thd first 2 overs at them, so missed his introduction to the attack. I will watch the highlights later today.

 

He was a bit wild in the IPL, but turns it both ways. He has lots of potential, more so than Phangiso, imo.

[Shebeen]

And we're playing night cricket again (with a pink ball, test confirmed against the Aussies)

[GLuvsMtb]

Amla and De Kock doing a fine job so far.

[Oxter]

Yip, they look determined. De kock is struggling with rhythm, but hes not throwing his wicket away which is good

 

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[GLuvsMtb]

Well played #. Another century and averaging close to 100 against the Windies. What a player!

['Dale]

Well played #. Another century and averaging close to 100 against the Windies. What a player!

Brilliant

Almost effortless

Composure King

[Oxter]

Good score from sourh africa, guys looked focused and determined to put on a good show. Will only see the final result in the morning though

 

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