Cricket

What pubs do cricket?

Lords Tavern? ;)

Probably around 50 pubs in London called The Cricketers...

Definitely 50 pubs in London called The Walkabout...

yes, yes and yes.

i am not sure of the best place, but somewhere central will be good

around here - hoop and grapes has a tv in the beer garden. there is also the pavilion

Oh dear.

Well that's not good

how about a sunny day at a county ground drinking snoozing and reading the papers ?

Shall we call it 5-0 now then?

There's always the one day series. We're better at that bit now.

yeah, your world cup was ace...

eurgh.

starc is moving it around a bit

I'm glad I can't see any of it. It sounds bad enough on the radio!

Ian Bell seems to be doing the Collingwood trick of only scoring runs when he's in danger of being dropped.

Is it raining yet?

For anyone interested NowTV are doing a free Sky Sports Day pass.

Root/Ballance steadying the ship

i am watching that now.

this pitch looks like a wanker. dead, slow and anti pace bowling.

Ashes bets made. It's something to do with England and Australia, right? Like baseball but even longer to find out who wins?

Chelmsford or Hove?

This pitch seems an embodiment of Cook's captaincy, 'first do not lose'. This pitch has been laid in utter opposition of Johnson.

yep. been discussing this with the dudes here.

everyone doctors pitches. i am ok rolling them to your advantage, but dulling the fuck out of them to negate your opponent's at the expense of the game is fucking poo.

I think it's more down to Glamorgan wanting five full days of ticket and beer sales.

Thats not what Im seeing, looks like variable bounce to me. Also Haddin has been leaping about like a salmon off Johnson, quite a few have pinged up above his head. But if it is a dead pitch Id blame the Glamorgan accountants too.

Joe Root is pulling the team out of a hole. Again.

Having to correct my last post. The pitch does look like a slow un, maybe Mitch was just screaming those deliveries in.

Root's played some right peachers