******Cricket Thread******

[Nightmare Walking]

Too many hash tags on the Channel 4 cricket coverage. We want analysis, not what Clive from Cleethorpes on Twitter thinks about getting up at 4am.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Root to 50 with a cut for four. Well done Joe.

150 up and the scoreboard starting to tick over slightly quicker now

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Nice 4 from Sibley with a late cut. Good to see he’s got more shots in his armoury when he’s playing with confidence

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Dare we whisper it? Is Root getting back in the direction of what was expected of him four years ago or so? Namely, to became one of the three or four top order batsmen in the world.
No, probably not. Too early. Let's just take it for what it is.

 

[waspish]

Sibley didn’t look like a player in Sri Lanka stuck it out in his last rest got drs going his way and now he looks a player.

So I take it back he is shite until next time he is shite! ;)

 

[Dr Jacoby]

Dare we whisper it? Is Root getting back in the direction of what was expected of him four years ago or so? Namely, to became one of the three or four top order batsmen in the world.
No, probably not. Too early. Let's just take it for what it is.

He’s widely regarded as one of the best batsmen in the world. I’d put him at number 4 behind Smith, Kohli and Williamson with Babar and Labuschagne just behind.

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

Too many hash tags on the Channel 4 cricket coverage. We want analysis, not what Clive from Cleethorpes on Twitter thinks about getting up at 4am.

I'm just delighted to hear from anybody that's not Bertie from Stockport............ ;-)

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Too many hash tags on the Channel 4 cricket coverage. We want analysis, not what Clive from Cleethorpes on Twitter thinks about getting up at 4am.

Couldn't agree more. I couldn't give a toss what Joe Ordinary thinks (except on this forum!). The BBC encourage it too. Could not give a tuppenny damn (now that's an expression you don't hear any more, but that's for another thread here). If I want that I can go down the pub. Oh, er…

 

[discopop]

Fucking hell Steve Harmison is one boring miserable bastard, makes our resident cricket grinch @ancoats look like a light entertainer.

178/2

 

[Dr Jacoby]

Sibley reminds me of a slightly more expansive Matthew Hoggard.