*Official* Fifth Test at The Oval

[andyc]

Lasagne.

Haven't heard him mention how good a striker of the ball Shane Watson is in this stint at least.

 

[Top_Cat]

Hate facing guys who can actually bowl heat when it's like this. You know what's coming, you know it's going to be quick and nasty and you know if you survive it you'll get a lot more of it. Most nerve-wracking feeling.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

I think it was because there were executive boxes behind the bowler's arm which had blacked out windows, so if you had a tall bowler bowling from that end and were trying to watch the ball in his hand from the moment he started his run up it would be really difficult to see the ball as he enters his delivery stride because the ball would come out of the blackness of the windows.

Was it Headingley in the old days where guys like Ambrose being so tall used to cause havoc as it came out above all the whitened areas or was that Edgbaston too?

 

[Tangles]

Good bowling but Clarke looking poor against the short stuff from Broad.

 

[MW1304]

Stop overstepping.

 

[Spikey]

so watson takes a big blow to the head and (possibly) needs a headache tablet......#concussion

 

[benchmark00]

Sky commentary team is a super poor one.

Atherton and Nasser are good, very good even.

Gower is decent and harmless I suppose.

Strauss has the potential to say things useful but never acts on it and ends up being boring.

Holding, Botham, Warne and Lloyd are so bad.

Am I missing someone?

 

[Maximas]

gotta start pulling and hooking I reckon, might put Broad off the short stuff if successful

 

[benchmark00]

Hate facing guys who can actually bowl heat when it's like this. You know what's coming, you know it's going to be quick and nasty and you know if you survive it you'll get a lot more of it. Most nerve-wracking feeling.

Yeah it's bull****. Legs start to go under you. Then if you get out to a full one when you play for the short one you look like a joke.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

gotta start pulling and hooking I reckon, might put Broad off the short stuff if successful

Get out top edging one when he is coming towards the end of a spell though and you would get slaughtered for it. Can't be many overs left in this spell so try and ride it out.

 

[MW1304]

Sky commentary team is a super poor one.

Atherton and Nasser are good, very good even.

Gower is decent and harmless I suppose.

Strauss has the potential to say things useful but never acts on it and ends up being boring.

Holding, Botham, Warne and Lloyd are so bad.

Am I missing someone?

Nick Knight.

Would put him just above the Nass/Athers bracket ftr.

 

[Spark]

please be quiet warne please

 

[91Jmay]

Warne on commentary is almost a parody at this point.

 

[Prince EWS]

Nick Knight.

Would put him just above the Nass/Athers bracket ftr.

They've ****ed Knight off from commentating big Test series now though, thank god. I actually don't mind him in the one dayers.

 

[Top_Cat]

Yeah it's bull****. Legs start to go under you. Then if you get out when you play for the short one you look like a joke.

*tamely push one off the chin to 'keeper/short-leg*

"****ING LOSER, CAN'T PLAY THE SHORT ONES!! BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

*middle one off the nose to deep fine, said deep fine reels in a screamer*

"****ING LOSER, CAN'T PLAY THE SHORT ONES!! BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

etc.

Can't ****ing win.

 

[King Pietersen]

End of a magnificent spell from Broad, really deserved a wicket.

 

[benchmark00]

No Shane, not now.

 

[91Jmay]

Been a really good knock this from Twatto. As I mentioned earlier he looks in good nick, still a giant arsehole though.

 

[Maximas]

save that **** for broad Twatto

 

[Prince EWS]

Oh yay. Clarke is cutting.