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Illegal Combat Ant · « **Reply #125 on:** 13 August, 2011, 11:05:14 am »

Nice start by that young Mr Anderson. My day could be quite short, I fear.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #126 on:** 13 August, 2011, 11:11:19 am »

You now have the two highest scorers in test cricket sharing the crease.

Will anyone offer odds on them still being together at the close of play tonight?

Illegal Combat Ant · « **Reply #127 on:** 13 August, 2011, 11:17:42 am »

Errr, there's one of 'em gone. That'll teach him to take a toilet break 13 minutes after start of play.

interzen · « **Reply #128 on:** 13 August, 2011, 11:23:53 am »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 13 August, 2011, 10:47:10 am

Boycott was dropped for slow scoring in the 1960s after a double century.

Edit: 246 not out against India at Headingley in 1967.

I can just about remember when England's opening partnership was .... Boycott and Tavare.

Snooze-tastic.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #129 on:** 13 August, 2011, 11:32:48 am »

I remember Gooch's first test century, against the West Indies in about ... 1978? From memory, he was second out, with the team score on 165. His share was 123. Guess who his partners were.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #130 on:** 13 August, 2011, 11:41:53 am »

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/63267.html

Smug - apart from the year.

Edit: I've just realised that the W. Indies' bowling attack was Holding, Roberts, Garner, Croft and Richards. I doubt that many batsmen scored centuries against that lot.

Illegal Combat Ant · « **Reply #131 on:** 13 August, 2011, 11:48:49 am »

My telly day is looking shorter and shorter. I'd gone to all the trouble of reserving the big HD one as well.

Jimmy's on fire this morning.

interzen · « **Reply #132 on:** 13 August, 2011, 12:42:10 pm »

89-6 now - Tendulkar run out in rather unfortunate circumstances.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #133 on:** 13 August, 2011, 03:12:45 pm »

Very impressive. Beating the previous number one team so emphatically is quite something.

Basil · « **Reply #134 on:** 13 August, 2011, 03:17:53 pm »

I'm left with a feeling of anti-climax.

Just how can India be so bad?

Wowbagger · « **Reply #135 on:** 13 August, 2011, 03:19:06 pm »

They were as good as England allowed them to be. Once their heads went down, alongside injuries to key players, there was no way back.

Illegal Combat Ant · « **Reply #136 on:** 13 August, 2011, 03:20:19 pm »

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/Q0G-c4QDMzU&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/Q0G-c4QDMzU&rel=1</a> Woot!!

Wowbagger · « **Reply #137 on:** 13 August, 2011, 03:21:05 pm »

It's a great triumph for Essex, in the same way as the 1966 football world cup was a great triumph for West Ham.

Illegal Combat Ant · « **Reply #138 on:** 13 August, 2011, 03:26:05 pm »

^ ^

Tru dat.

Peter · « **Reply #139 on:** 13 August, 2011, 07:20:00 pm »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 13 August, 2011, 03:21:05 pm

It's a great triumph for Essex, in the same way as the 1966 football world cup was a great triumph for West Ham.

And Ravi Bopara gets to concentrate on his county game again.

Man of the Match? For me, Kumar, he just kept at it, bat and ball, when all around had lost it. Cook was good but he was only playing against India. Kumar did it against the best team in the world!

RJ · « **Reply #140 on:** 13 August, 2011, 09:36:20 pm »

Quote from: Illegal Combat Ant on 13 August, 2011, 03:20:19 pm

Top of the World. Woot!!

And a distraction from this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/14498107.stm

Wowbagger · « **Reply #141 on:** 13 August, 2011, 09:43:27 pm »

Quote from: RJ on 13 August, 2011, 09:36:20 pm

Quote from: Illegal Combat Ant on 13 August, 2011, 03:20:19 pm
Top of the World. Woot!!

And a distraction from this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/14498107.stm

Which was also excellent news!

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #142 on:** 15 August, 2011, 01:41:22 pm »

Quote from: Basil on 13 August, 2011, 03:17:53 pm

I'm left with a feeling of anti-climax.

Just how can India be so bad?

Someone suggested that this team was Bangladesh in disguise...

spesh · « **Reply #143 on:** 19 August, 2011, 02:45:17 pm »

Bell and KP keeping the scoreboard ticking over nicely...

Lovely text message posted on the website coverage in response to the roving reporter talking of spectators "quaffing" champagne:

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From Sammy in Edinburgh: "One does not quaff champagne. To quaff is to drink with such abandon that up to 50% (in rare cases more!) fails to reach the intended recipient's stomach and instead finds sanctuary in their beard, on their person, in their lap, on a table, the floor, the beard or person of another or alternatively somewhere it shouldn't have even been possible to reach. The best example of quaffers are dwarfs."

andyoxon · « **Reply #144 on:** 20 August, 2011, 07:03:31 pm »

So have India just lost the will in this series because their heart is in the IPL & not test match cricket any longer, or, because England are just much better and they're fed up of being thrashed... or other?

C'mon England.

Basil · « **Reply #145 on:** 20 August, 2011, 07:25:48 pm »

I'm afraid I've rather lost interest.
As the main entertainment of the summer, India have been hugely disappointing.

andyoxon · « **Reply #146 on:** 20 August, 2011, 07:45:01 pm »

Yebbut, they were no.1 in the world, until we had a go at them...

Basil · « **Reply #147 on:** 22 August, 2011, 03:40:35 pm »

Wahey!!!

interzen · « **Reply #148 on:** 22 August, 2011, 03:44:09 pm »

Tendulkar was unlucky (again)
Then there was a batting collapse which would have done the England of old proud, until finally ....

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andyoxon · « **Reply #149 on:** 22 August, 2011, 04:26:38 pm »

Woohooo. Whitewash!