Cricket

Seriously, what's the point in Australia at the moment? They need to buck their ideas up or we may as well bring over Bangladesh, Canada and Holland, at least they could give us a decent game.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/story/572180.html
Another legend leaves the crease/bowling mark
Thanks for the entertainment Brett
Supreme Fast Bowlers: Brett Lee - YouTube

Whoa! 'Legend'? Really?

A decent backup bowler, lucky enough to be brought into the best team in the world. Never took a 10wkt haul.

Bowled second fastest ball ever
(and anyone bowling in Glen and Shane's shadow would struggle.)

Did this 2nd fastest ball take a wicket? I bet it was Atherton or some other mug

A delivery by Brett Lee from Australia was timed at 161.8kph against the West Indies at Brisbane on November 23, 2000. However this has been put down to an erroneous recording due to external interference of the radar's signal. Two back-up radars recorded the correct speed of 142kph for the delivery.

Fast medium then

Atherton? Different generation
Brett Lee Stumps Hit at Fastest Ball of 99.5 mph i-e 160.1 kmph vs Sri Lanka WC 2003 - YouTube

lee also co-starred in this classic ashes moment

Atherton? Different generation

Apart from the 2001 ashes. Lee had been playing for two years by then.
Funnily enough it doesn't look like he ever managed to unseat Atherton in those 10 innings.

lee also co-starred in this classic ashes moment

Wow, really? I've never seen that before ;)

How about this ? Seen it?

Is it a cake?

Brett Lee. Most remembered for being a loser.

Brett lee was a great limited overs bowler and a good test bowler, served his country well, and yes he will be remembered in this country for his battle with Flintoff with the bat, for me he was a great fighter with both bat and ball.

I always liked watching Lee bowl. I remember several of his quick spells in tests and they were full of tension, and that's what test cricket is all about.

As for the 1st day of the SA test today. Boring pitch for now.

251 for 3 and Pietersen out for 40. Am I the only one who thinks he should have given up test cricket instead of T20 and ODI?

hmm i think he made the right desision test cricket is a bigger challenge and he such a tallented cricketer it would be a waste to just play thrash about cricket.

good day for England after the wicket in the 1st over

Hashim Amla is putting in an immense shift.

#mancrush

We're going to lose by 10 wickets

This is getting embarrassing.

I was there yesterday and thankfully turned down a ticket for today. I admire seeing great batsmen put runs on the board in test cricket, but a second day would have been too much.

Amla really did look a different class all day. And as for Kallis - what an unbelievable player he's been for the last decade.

With a bit of luck this test will be over by lunchtime tomorrow.

Pietersen's got 58 runs and faced 89 balls, I'm not a fan of his but to me it seems it happens too often to him.

I was there yesterday and thankfully turned down a ticket for today. I admire seeing great batsmen put runs on the board in test cricket, but a second day would have been too much.

Amla really did look a different class all day. And as for Kallis - what an unbelievable player he's been for the last decade.

I was there. Quite tedious seeing the same batsmen batting steadily all day. Highlight was the winners of the Oval's Saturday fancy dress competition:

I was walking round half-cut at lunch, thinking to myself 'the only fancy dress I would ever come in would be cycling gear' and then I saw those guys.

I can safely say I'll never wear fancy dress to the cricket. I always go with my dad anyway and if he dressed up as a vicar, he'd just look like a vicar.

England being given a lesson here. Bollocks.
Hope we can pull together a marked improvement for the next two

We're going to lose by 10 wickets

Good prediction. Care to make another one for the remaining two tests?

Will SA choke, as usual or will they be able to hold on for a change.

It's also the third time this year that England have lost the opening test and the second time that they've lost a test by 10 wickets. Am I reading too much into this or are England on a slippery slope?

During the 1st innings I thought it was simply a case of england not capitalising on an easy batting pictch as much as they should have. But then they have a second innings like that. Goes to show England's ineffectual bowling wasn't entirely down to the conditions.

Also Anderson and Broad are both complaining of niggles, but still. Swann got turn but did nothing with it.

I still think the pitch flattered SA a little, with 550-600 being about par for a top test side, but it was was still a complete hammering; SA taking 20 wickets with england only managing 2.

Anyone else going to headingley today? Long shot I know