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

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I'm not one for name-dropping, but I was introduced to Joe Root once at a cricket lunch in London.

It was before he had made the Test side, but he was a very pleasant young man, respectful and not a bit bumptious.

I tried to persuade him to sign for Lancashire, but he played a dead bat to my blandishments.

Bye-bye the cares of captaincy! Has done wonders for him.

Did he mention his worry about getting hate Mail from the Ancoats area?

 

[discopop]

Stokes teeing off

 

[jimharri]

Did he mention his worry about getting hate Mail from the Ancoats area?

Not much sign of our Root fanboy on here today!

 

[Protein Junkie]

Did he mention his worry about getting hate Mail from the Ancoats area?

Lol double like :-)

 

[discopop]

It was fun while it lasted.

 

[Cricket Blue]

Dumb from Srokes
Not necessary

 

[wattle]

Well there’s being positive and then there’s being stupid! Utterly brainless that Stokes. It’s a test match and you’re 150 behind and you have Root on 100+ at the other end. You’ve done the hard work with good positive cricket. If we collapse and lose now it’s on the skipper I’m afraid

 

[jimharri]

Do well to get to 500 now.

 

[Gabriel]

Bairstow < Brook purrlease

Brook scored 76 at Hampshire this afternoon, ten 4s and one 6. Bairstow, for Vaughan, plays best when he has a point to prove and his position is under threat, so I expect he’ll still get a chance at Headingley. If he doesn’t perform again, however, then Brook might get his chance against the South Africans.

 

[elbearos]

Dumb from Srokes
Not necessary

Root should of had a word