Author Topic: The cricket... (Read 255924 times)

Jaded · « **Reply #1350 on:** 23 July, 2017, 05:21:18 pm »

It's a bit exciting just now.

Spots of rain.

Jaded · « **Reply #1351 on:** 23 July, 2017, 05:38:19 pm »

Wow...

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1352 on:** 23 July, 2017, 05:39:34 pm »

I'll second that...

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1353 on:** 23 July, 2017, 05:41:39 pm »

And, indeed, crikey!

rafletcher · « **Reply #1354 on:** 23 July, 2017, 05:42:47 pm »

Well done ladies!!!

Basil · « **Reply #1355 on:** 23 July, 2017, 05:43:09 pm »

Woohoo and cripes.

Jaded · « **Reply #1356 on:** 23 July, 2017, 05:44:17 pm »

That was amazing. Utterly wonderful. They just kept at it.

Jaded · « **Reply #1357 on:** 23 July, 2017, 11:53:54 pm »

A good day out...

Later...

The loneliness of the outfield player as a catch approaches

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1358 on:** 24 July, 2017, 07:19:18 am »

Having seen the highlights, I must say that I thought that key lbw from Shrubsole would have missed leg stump. The commentator was certain it was plumb though. But 5 for 11 in 19 deliveries? Aren't they exactly the same figures that Botham achieved at Edgbaston in 1981?

Jaded · « **Reply #1359 on:** 24 July, 2017, 07:41:28 am »

Was it Botham or Willis?
We chatted about that match yesterday as amongst the displays in the Lords Museum is a signed wagon wheel of Botham's 147 Not Out.

Edit. Botham had great bowling figures in the 1st innings, Willis in the 2nd.

Salvatore · « **Reply #1360 on:** 24 July, 2017, 09:02:48 am »

Quote from: Jaded on 24 July, 2017, 07:41:28 am

Was it Botham or Willis?
We chatted about that match yesterday as amongst the displays in the Lords Museum is a signed wagon wheel of Botham's 147 Not Out.

Edit. Botham had great bowling figures in the 1st innings, Willis in the 2nd.

I think you've confused Edgbaston (Botham 5 for 11 in the 2nd innings) and Headingly (Botham 147).

Jaded · « **Reply #1361 on:** 24 July, 2017, 09:32:04 am »

Ah yes. I'm confusing everything. It was a long time ago!

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1362 on:** 24 July, 2017, 03:11:47 pm »

I knew it was Edgbaston. I was playing cricket* that afternoon - it was only a short time after test cricket was played on a Sunday.

I remembered the Edgbaston and the 5 and the 11. It was 5 for 1 run in 11 deliveries.

*FAGVO. A teaching colleague of mine was a pretty decent cricketer and had a match at one of the Bardfields, on the Dun Run route. They were a player short so he gave me a lift there in his MGb. The ground was surrounded on 3 sides by a cornfield. The other side was back gardens. I batted at no 11 and scored 1 not out, didn't get a bowl, and fielded mostly a long way from the bat. Nevertheless, I took 3 catches! One was at mid-off. The ball was driven straight at me at about head height. Technically not a hard catch for a good cricketer (I'm not), the ball stung my hands a lot. The other two were skiers on the boundary. The second was memorable because another fielder came running for the catch (it was coming straight to me) and he knocked the ball and diverted it into the crook of my left elbow, from where I held it aloft. I think we must have won the match.

Salvatore · « **Reply #1363 on:** 24 July, 2017, 06:26:42 pm »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 24 July, 2017, 03:11:47 pm

I knew it was Edgbaston. I was playing cricket* that afternoon - it was only a short time after test cricket was played on a Sunday.

I was in my parents' garden building a bike up, putting wheels and suchlike on my new Holdsworth Mistral frame, dashing indoors across the rockery and through the French windows at the fall of each wicket to see the replay, until I gave up and watched the last 5 wickets live. I rode my first 400 and 600 on that bike, but found a crack in the frame in 1989 and had to ride the first LEL on a cobbled-together bike.

On the last day of the Headingley test, I was taking a group of French schoolchildren round Cambridge, and was oblivious to what was going on in Leeds. I only found out from my HoD when he greeted our coach back at our school. The Geography HoD had a TV in his storeroom, and that afternoon he decided to 'stocktake', and on the fall of each wicket he had sent notes to other members of staff he knew would be interested.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1364 on:** 24 July, 2017, 06:42:43 pm »

I'm afraid that my colleagues and I were not so professional. During the Old Trafford test, whilst Willis was on the rampage, the caretaker "did the rounds" and drew it to cricket-oriented staff members' attention that Aussie wickets were falling fast. I merely abandoned my class and went to watch. There were no repercussions: that school was closing/merging with another at the end of the term and I had already found another job in a school down the road.

Salvatore · « **Reply #1365 on:** 24 July, 2017, 07:45:45 pm »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 24 July, 2017, 06:42:43 pm

I'm afraid that my colleagues and I were not so professional. During the Old Trafford test, whilst Willis was on the rampage, the caretaker "did the rounds" and drew it to cricket-oriented staff members' attention that Aussie wickets were falling fast. I merely abandoned my class and went to watch. There were no repercussions: that school was closing/merging with another at the end of the term and I had already found another job in a school down the road.

What were you doing in school? The Old Trafford test was in August.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1366 on:** 24 July, 2017, 10:10:58 pm »

The one where Botham score 149 not out and Willis took 8 wickets or something. Was that not OT? *googles* Headingley, as you were...

Jaded · « **Reply #1367 on:** 25 July, 2017, 12:37:03 am »

Headingly. Definitely. I was off work, sick, and was able to watch the denouement on a tiny b&w TV in my bed of sick.

Basil · « **Reply #1368 on:** 27 July, 2017, 03:02:37 pm »

That's a great catch by de Kock. Particularly as he seemed to be wrong footed to start with.
clicky

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1369 on:** 27 July, 2017, 03:08:10 pm »

It was! The Graun's OBO commentators were enthusing about it.

citoyen · « **Reply #1370 on:** 27 July, 2017, 07:29:58 pm »

Quote from: Basil on 27 July, 2017, 03:02:37 pm

That's a great catch by de Kock. Particularly as he seemed to be wrong footed to start with.

I was at the Oval today. Didn't have a clear view of the De Kock catch, unfortunately, so wasn't sure it had carried at first.

Very clear view of Rabada's Yorker that did for Malan though. That was one heck of a delivery.

SA's bowling was very disciplined all day. Luckily for England, Cook looks in excellent form.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1371 on:** 27 July, 2017, 09:00:46 pm »

Every report I have read this evening has remarked on Cook's good form.

What odds that he will be out in the first 10 minutes tomorrow?

citoyen · « **Reply #1372 on:** 27 July, 2017, 10:40:53 pm »

Precisely what I'm dreading.

Peter · « **Reply #1373 on:** 28 July, 2017, 11:56:32 am »

Thanks! This is normal, though; they did the same to Root in the first test. There was nobody to do it to in the second.

Peter · « **Reply #1374 on:** 28 July, 2017, 05:13:34 pm »

This is really shaping up! What a debut from Roland-Jones.