Cricket 2019

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

3-42, now that's some slickass middle overs figures. Well done Plunkett, you did your bit.

[The Boston Crab]

Yeah, gotta respect that shit.

Jofra bowling some brilliant stuff but too much dreck as well. Can't be giving away three fucking wides in the 44th.

[The Boston Crab]

Get Woakes back on you buffoons.

[Inspector Norse]

Morgan doing that thing of letting Wood have another filthy over despite Woakes having enough left.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

280 still on

[The Boston Crab]

Woakes. Look at those figures. Bloody brilliant player.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Of Bigman is gone. Waoaaoaoaokes

[The Boston Crab]

Fuckin Revenge of the Nerds up in here!

[Dr Trouser]

all a bit too late I fear

[The Boston Crab]

Just seen 30 extras today. That's appalling. They've batted like shit really but our poor discipline might well cost us. They've batted more like 220. We fucked it.

That said, if we can't knock off 240, we don't deserve to win anything, as was said previously.

[Thursday]

Hmm 241-8 runs. Not great, not terrible.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Wrapped that up pretty well, has to be said.

This is nowhere near as difficult a pitch as the one India lost on but Boult/Henry/Ferguson is a tough one first up.

I can't believe I'm saying this but we should win this comfortably.

[Inspector Norse]

Woakes. Look at those figures. Bloody brilliant player.

Does anyone anywhere know why Wood keeps getting extra overs instead of Woakes bowling his full set? That total's 5-6 runs lower if Woakes comes on earlier, I reckon.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Does anyone anywhere know why Wood keeps getting extra overs instead of Woakes bowling his full set? That total's 5-6 runs lower if Woakes comes on earlier, I reckon.

As I said earlier in the tournament, the simple answer is that Wood knows someone in the ECB who is a paedophile.

[The Boston Crab]

It all depends on the first ten, I'd say. It's totally 50/50 here. They plodded along and everyone chipped in pretty much. We're so much more susceptible to a collapse
I can see us at 75-5 and Stokes having to dig in and running out of batting partners. Thirty short.

[druss]

England will be bowled out. We are the Jimmy White of ODI cricket.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

England will be bowled out. We are the Jimmy White of ODI cricket.

We haven't even been the Barry Pinches of odi cricket. Check the last time we were anywhere near this in a final.

[The Boston Crab]

Are Boult, Ferguson and Henry match winners?

I'd say every single one of them is.

Is Kane a match winning captain?

Yes, he absolutely is.

As Strauss said, they'll have to bowl England out to win but I absolutely think they can.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Are Boult, Ferguson and Henry match winners?

I'd say every single one of them is.

Is Kane a match winning captain?

Yes, he absolutely is.

As Strauss said, they'll have to bowl England out to win but I absolutely think they can.

Already had that content from Sky Sports. Get back to making aggressive arbitrary demands and ruthlessly criticising the tepid links.

[The Boston Crab]

Haha. OK. My most inane comment of the thread.

[druss]

We haven't even been the Barry Pinches of odi cricket. Check the last time we were anywhere near this in a final.

We've lost 5 50 over finals having never won one.

We have the chance to equal Jimmy's gashness today.

[imitationleather]

Not great, not terrible.

I'm told it's the equivalent of a chest X-ray.

[Poisson Du Jour]

Already had that content from Sky Sports. Get back to making aggressive arbitrary demands and ruthlessly criticising the tepid links.

The Sky commentators are so insightful though - just today I learned Plunkett is effective in the middle overs.

[druss]

I have a feeling this could be embarrassing. Would at least like a good match.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

OK wake me up when we've lost

[The Boston Crab]

Embarrassing for whom? If they bowl us out, I'll be gutted but their bowling is as good as ours and the front line is better.

[druss]

Embarrassing for whom? If they bowl us out, I'll be gutted but their bowling is as good as ours and the front line is better.

If we lost by 100+ runs it would be embarrassing.

[The Boston Crab]

Live by the sword, basically. We had a tough chase against the Aussies and we absolutely destroyed them. This is very similar but with a trickier pitch and probably better bowling attack. No shame in losing to these. We can only play one way, that's the reality of it. It may not come off.

[The Boston Crab]

This is utterly terrifying.

[druss]

Yeah I'm struggling to cope with this.