The Cricket Thread

[capriccioso 2,545]

Alright lads. I told y'all Bairstow would go in the 90s. Cap the Predictor strikes again.

[Ankit 3,176]

If you get Dravid, great. If you get Sachin, brilliant. If you get Laxman, it's a miracle." - Brett Lee.

He came, he flicked one to the square leg boundary, he conquered. Thank You Vangipurappu Venkata Sai Laxman. I will never forget March 11, 2001 at Eden Gardens.

India, you can't now afford to get into a 50-4 situation. Your regular savior leaves today.

Australians breath a sigh of relief.

[capriccioso 2,545]

South Africa are in the drivers seat here. If they can bat through to tea before being dismissed and can rack up a lead of 350, that should be the series won.

[capriccioso 2,545]

Lol Anderson, what a hideous cricketer you are. My late grandmother, may she rest in peace, could have caught that.

[Ollie 4,400]

Why would you leave such a ball Strauss you moron! We deserve to lose this anyway, been 2nd best throughout this series, we'll probably lose another 2 wickets today and be out for under 200 tomorrow by 4pm. Our batting has been a shambles along with this Kevin Pietersen saga. We need to just walk off defeated, regroup and start again because there's a lot of shit going on. Maybe it's even time for Strauss to pass on the captaincy because his form in this series hasn't been good at all. Since being named as the number 1 test team, we've played like the number 6 best test team.

Things gotta change.

[Drogzola 283]

Philander taking on England on his own

[capriccioso 2,545]

England's batting line up have been fairly wank whenever they've not played a God awful bowling attack like say India's/Australia's ODI attack. Terrible in the UAE against a strong Pakistani attack, destroyed by Rangana fucking Herath in Sri Lanka, and now being taken apart by Morkel, Steyn and Philander.

What's worth noting is that each of those attacks had a huge hole in them. Umar Gul is dire and yet Pakistan still crushed England's batsmen, all of the Sri Lankan attack (Herath aside, who is at best decent) is frightfully shit and Imran Tahir bowls filth all day.

[capriccioso 2,545]

If England win this it will be one of the best chases of the century. Its still looking like a South African win or a draw for me. Chasing 226 in 2 sessions is tough, virtually impossible on a day 5 wicket with just one recognised batsman and a couple of handy tailenders to come.

[Ankit 3,176]

I know it is starting to get to be a cliche, but no T20 match can produce this kind of slow, nerve-racking tense build-up.

What a Match.

[Ankit 3,176]

Majestic stuff from Philander.

No.1 status gone for England. WIll be hard to regain.

[Hutcho 8,443]

Good effort by prior, sort of over when our top order went...

[Ankit 3,176]

Gary Kirsten, meanwhile, becomes the first coach to lead two Test nations to No. 1 in the world. How i miss him in the indian dug out!

[capriccioso 2,545]

Strauss should be dropped. He averaged 16 this series. I don't know why he's considered so important, he only averages 41 anyway.

[Ollie 4,400]

Strauss and Cook have been let downs as the 2 openers in the series. Our top order batting has been so poor as 'the number 1 test side' and reliant on Prior down the order. Feel sorry for Prior, he's been outstanding but no one else has been as consistent with the bat. Cook has been very good so many times tho and he should stay as an opener for the next 10 years but Strauss... i'm not too sure about atm.

In a way tho, i'm glad SA are number 1 now, they genuinely are the best and deserve to be there. We couldn't cope with being number 1, simple as that.

[Ankit 3,176]

So it's 2008 winners vs 2010 winners in the final of U-19 WC!! Bring it ON. Harmeet Singh will rip apart the Australians Batting Line Up!

[Ankit 3,176]

U-19 World Champions. Unmukt Chand-Remember the name!!

Disappointing from New Zealand.

[BleedsBlue 1,549]

U-19 World Champions. Unmukt Chand-Remember the name!!

Disappointing from New Zealand.

The awkward moment when you realize Ankit has more posts about Cricket than Chelsea in this forum.

[Ankit 3,176]

The awkward moment when you realize Ankit has more posts about Cricket than Chelsea in this forum.

Haha! In my defence i ll say i am active in whichever forum i think i should be concerned! But i can surely say I do not have more posts about cricket! Just a random few! May be the ones i made for Chelsea skipped your eye!