*Official* Warm up Matches Discussion

[Furball]

Is there any play going on just now or can I just go to bed?

 

[social]

Get a ****ing climate.

Blame the Poms

First settlers were given their choice of climate and chose "Manchester"

 

[social]

Is there any play going on just now or can I just go to bed?

Give it another hour

If it it's still raining, stay up another hour

 

[Furball]

Give it another hour

If it it's still raining, stay up another hour

No.

 

[dermo]

yeah Neville is definitely behind Paine and probably Wade to in the minds of the selectors, agree he should be next in line though and a good shield season this year and he could be up there.

The frustrating thing about the way keepers seem to be selected in this country is it's usually on the back of batting performances first and then keeping ability, not saying the selectors don't take glovework into account, they clearly do but it seems to me the selectors only start to take note of a keeper if he first has a good season with the bat, then they start to asses his keeping ability. Wade and Hartley are a pretty good example of this, Hartley should always have been ahead of Wade imo but its only since Harley's batting has improved that the selectors may have considered he's actually the better keeper.

 

[wiff]

Cook should have taken the weather into consideration and declared early, say around 11:10 on the first day. It's his fault this match will end up a draw.

 

[Riggins]

Yeah he was typically negative.

 

[GuyFromLancs]

He played for batting practice. No-one cares about the result.

 

[Maximas]

Result of this match arguably more important than that of the actual test matches IMO

 

[flibbertyjibber]

So if there is play tomorrow I guess we bat till lunch to give KP a bit of time in the middle then declare to give enough time for Broad to have 2/3 spells in the afternoon.

 

[Burgey]

Surely they won't risk Broad or Tremlett on a slippery field. They'd be out for the summer if they fell over, they're like our blokes. Be better off not bowling at all maybe.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Depends how wet it is I guess.

 

[Prince EWS]

Depends how wet it is I guess.

That's what she said.

 

[Burgey]

It's only lady boy who hasn't had a bowl out of the quicks isn't it?

 

[Riggins]

nathan bracken?

 

[Burgey]

Broad.

On a side note, how good is that MasterCard ad with the little fella playing pirates? Fmd it's a cracker. The look on his dial when he sees the old bloke with the patch over his eye is fantastic.

Predict a golden summer for him.

Oh, and it has Alison Cratchely in it as the MILF mum too

 

[Burgey]

Don't think we are giving the Aus A bowlers enough credit for keeping England quiet these past two days.

 

[Pothas]

Brilliant from Cork, mentions Siddle having a big heart 4 times in about a minute, and a running in all day and then topped it off with a 'he uses the crease well'

 

[Spikey]

can bat too

 

[Neil Pickup]

I'm fairly sure Butch is only there to break Colville and Cork up when it comes to fisticuffs.