England begging for a draw, Manchester, 27th July 2025

[HeathDavisSpeed]

If I am getting banned, it will someday be over Kyear2 (not 3)

What's the problem with kyear?

 

[honestbharani]

England doing the incredible here and making me want to support Australia this summer

Make that two.

 

[Spark]

I'll be honest and admit I don't have the quotes, or a photographic memory of what Stokes has specifically said, but I feel like it's a pretty common feeling that Stokes and his merry men have often presented themselves as the arbitrators of what is good and not so good Test cricket in recent years.

I thought what he'd done on the field yesterday was over the top, then I watched his press conference. With time to breathe, he still went in there and decided he could be the one who writes the scripts on what made Jadeja and Sundar's innings' meaningful. I could only laugh as he decided for himself whether there could be satisfaction in two guys scoring hundreds, including one guy's maiden ton.

Then KP inevitably comes out and tells us we can't criticise it, because we've never played Test cricket.

If Stokes had a 25-year-old all-rounder nearing his maiden ton, having worked that hard for it, and pulled the pin in the final hour on him on 80-90, there would be a justifiable stink about it. And he wouldn't do it.

England doing the incredible here and making me want to support Australia this summer

KP also came out recently and said bowling was so much better in his day and batting so much tougher against the likes of Javagal Srinath and Shahid Afridi (no joke, he named both of them as examples)

 

[honestbharani]

Haha I mean India would take a Srinath in a heartbeat to partner Bumrah but Afridi is just

 

[sayon basak]

Haha I mean India would take a Srinath in a heartbeat to partner Bumrah but Afridi is just

When he wrote Srinath, he probably thought to himself, "Nah, not bad enough". Then he included Afridi.

 

[Arachnödouche2.0]

Oye put post-94 Srinath on nowadays pitches against nowadays batsmen and see how that goes

 

[ankitj]

I don't think KP ever faced Srinath in an international match.

 

[Burgey]

England doing the incredible here and making me want to support Australia this summer

As if this was ever in doubt.

 

[SteveNZ]

As if this was ever in doubt.

I mean it was always in doubt...probably even more so now that I live in this poxy country again (ps don't kick me out it's great)

 

[Burgey]

I mean it was always in doubt...probably even more so now that I live in this poxy country again (ps don't kick me out it's great)

Whereabouts in England are you?

 

[SkyBlue]

Make that two.

Make that three

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

I mean it was always in doubt...probably even more so now that I live in this poxy country again (ps don't kick me out it's great)

Wot? How do I expect to gain the patented SteveNZ insights into Auckland cricket?

 

[GIMH]

KP also came out recently and said bowling was so much better in his day and batting so much tougher against the likes of Javagal Srinath and Shahid Afridi (no joke, he named both of them as examples)

I will not sit here and allow you to slate Afridi

 

[Gnske]

KP also came out recently and said bowling was so much better in his day and batting so much tougher against the likes of Javagal Srinath and Shahid Afridi (no joke, he named both of them as examples)

Those Adelaide pitches back in the day were real minefields, amazing he scored any runs in between all that time spent on the Blackberry to opposition teams calling Strauss a bully.

 

[Prince EWS]

KP also came out recently and said bowling was so much better in his day and batting so much tougher against the likes of Javagal Srinath and Shahid Afridi (no joke, he named both of them as examples)

Did he even face Srinath?

 

[capt_Luffy]

Did he even face Srinath?

He included Ambrose as well...... And ftr, Harbhajan, Vettori and ****ing Lance Klusener

 

[CricAddict]

He included Ambrose as well...... And ftr, Harbhajan, Vettori and ****ing Lance Klusener

And then asked to name a better bowler today than any one of them.

 

[SteveNZ]

Whereabouts in England are you?

Melbourne. Same weather

 

[capt_Luffy]

And then asked to name a better bowler today than any one of them.

Tbf that would be too much even by his standards, he asked to name 10.

 

[SteveNZ]

Wot? How do I expect to gain the patented SteveNZ insights into Auckland cricket?

Ah man I feel like those days are well gone. Now that GP isn't in Auckland anymore I don't know any of the team.

I could make stuff up I guess