Cricket

Some of my colleagues were drinking in the small hours of this morning with a very wasted Monty Panesar. He was happy for them to take mobile phone pictures of him on the larrup. Not a sensible way of behaving in the middle of a county game days after being sacked by your employer, splashed all over the press and putting your Test career at risk.

The most disappointing thing is that he was in Abacus.

Lolz

Is he banned from every other nightclub?

He has a sponsorship deal with them

CT Tremlett 33ovs 5mdns 96runs 8wkts 2.90av (4nb)

From today. Sounds like a lot of toil against Durham but still, shows he can pull a big stint together.

First (and last?) mention of raves and Acid House on TMS?

TMS been cracking me up today. Love the way they are quite happy to chat shit all day when there's no play.
It's still better than anything on TV or other radio stations.

^ This very much so - some excellent guests

Good declaration Australia!
Should be a good last session of this summers ashes

And it was, until the farce of an ending. Only people it's good for is Channel 5, who won't have the game ending 5 minutes before the end of their highlights package.

Not sure the Aussies will be whining so much about over rates after this one.

Such a same to have to take the light like that. I wished the umpires could have just bent the rules…20 odd runs to get with Prior and Woakes out there? 4:0

Still, rules is rules I guess and England will be the ones with the 'momentum' and winning habit going into the winter.

It was good for entertainment which is what sport is about.
It was good for oz to take a risk for a win
Shame about the light decision

Just 5 overs and 20 odd runs extra before declaring would have changed the whole complexion of the run chase.

250 off 39 overs is equivalent to a one day score of 350.
226 off 44 is equivalent to ~ 270.

Not D-L, I've got my own system

Pup wanted to either make England go for it and lose wickets or block and be humiliated in the media. He's just a kerr-azy captain who risks all kind of shizzle, so they call him a maverick genius, and it focusses people away from his utter abject cowardice in the batting ('erm, I might just go in at 7 this time').

As it was, they got stuffed and Pup was lucky the light went early enough to save his blushes.

Put £10 on England at 175/1 this morning - can't watch. If we do it, I'm booking for the next Test down under tonight!

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Its test match cricket - the entertainment can come from a great defensive display in not losing a match. Are you the type of football fan who likes lots of goals but cannot appreciate a great defensive display where the plucky away side gets a well-deserved 0-0 against a side with much better players?

In many ways it was good for them to go for the win. As a England supporter I was happy that I got to watch a day of slogging and the chance of and England victory, but it is not the Australian captains job to entertain me and give England achance of victory. I am not sure how Aussie fans are reacting, and as I said there is something to be said for attacking like they did, but snatching defeat out of the jaws of a draw (and moral victory) would not have been clever at all.

It was a shame about the light, and perhaps the rules need looking at,
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Austrailia had to back them selves to get the wickets and go for the win, and clark obviously belived they could do it, its a ballance of runs vs time. admitedly i think they could have stuck another 30/40 on the total. Also i think that The win meant far more to Oz than getting a draw so they had to go for it. it would have been such a moral boost for the team looking to the winter Ashes.
Clark was not looking to entertain but to win and out of that come entertainment

I am not sure how Aussie fans are reacting

Whinging like fuck about 'South Africans' and Broad being a 'cheat'.

It's not been the best series ever, mainly due to England playing frustratingly below par. I actually think Aus were the more consistent team, and the difference really only showed when England had their better spells and were playing towards the more true to form end of the scale.

Just 5 overs and 20 odd runs extra before declaring would have changed the whole complexion of the run chase.

250 off 39 overs is equivalent to a one day score of 350.
226 off 44 is equivalent to ~ 270.

Not D-L, I've got my own system

What's the system? Simple maths?

It's a tough one because there are no one day wides, field restrictions and bowler over limits which makes it even harder for the chasing side.
Having said that, the way things ended up, my granny would have knocked those runs off yesterday with a stick of rhubarb if play had been allowed to continue.

Having said that, the way things ended up, my granny would have knocked those runs off yesterday with a stick of rhubarb if play had been allowed to continue.

Your Jeffery Boycott .

So why do you think he declared?

on a 'moral victory' sense they only lost 3-2. .

No no no no no no no!

Your Jeffery Boycott .

You're.

Your Jeffery Boycott .

Geoffrey.

What happened? Did we win?

safe in the knowledge that they lost the series 3-0, but on a 'moral victory' sense they only lost 3-2

Surely in this case, going for the win would be the obvious option, since you could say we(Aus) really should have won the series 3-2, not lost 2-1?