C'mon England lets teach these Kiwi's a lesson they won't forget in a hurry. Beat them at their ground, lets thrash them at ours

 

I'm at the test next weekend. Friday and Sunday on a stag do. sod the cricket... it's the banter in the crowd that makes it!

 

Oh nice one!

 

I see Vittori is back after Essex tried to sabotage his summer

 

I've been looking forward to this for weeks and now it's fookin raining and will probably continue to rain for the next 3 days or so.

Draw

just has a look at the Coral website and they're no mugs, 5/6 the draw, obviously checked the weather forecast as well....

 

I see Ben Dirs is "commentating" on the BBC web site, you've got to love him.

 

I have no choioce the bloody Sky has gone down at work !!

I may also have to rethink my draw prediction lol

 

Good to see the professionals are as bad as me in this weather

 

I like the new kit, brilliant white instead of cream, very nice I might have to get myself one

 

a bit of a fuss about the trousers though

Not a bad couple of days work though. 240 would have been better, winable or destined for a draw?

 

If the weather holds I can see England trying to knock up 500+ and trying to skittle them out, that said it looks like it's going to be raining on and off a fair bit tomorrow, so that leaves Sun and Mon, probably not enough time imho

What was the issue with the strides ?

 

Big conflict between sponsors Team sponsors wanted all white rather than cream, problem is the strides have some colour panels and the kit sponsors want them to stay or something like that

 

Nice one Alistair Cook, at least one sportsman from Essex can hold his head high, unlike the shocking Southend result last night

 

it's stopped raining and getting brighter in SW london....

 

KP should have done better, can't believe we are relying on the "strength" of Bell to help us out

 

Indeed! I used to play against Cook when he was 11/12. Looked a class apart then!

 

Unsurprisingly a draw. Weather was a huge factor in this one but should lessons be learnt?

 

"Catches win matches" , and "don't bowl monty at Taufel's end"

Weather looks better for this weekend, just friday afternoon looks patchy

 

Waaaaaay too early but Simon Jones is bowling tonight for worcs and looks surprisingly sharp ( up to 90mph ) and hostile.

Great to see, needs a pile of bowling now without injury though.

 

How much would I love to see Jones back to his best

Awesome bowler

talking of comebacks, old Warney wants to play in the Ashes next summer, I cant see Cricket Australia going with this but if they did it would be nice to see him one more time.

 

England lose the toss for a change

And all hail the return of Mr Hair

 

We should still beat them, as long as we have 5 days of weather !!

 

46..W

123-4

Still don't think they are bowling well ...

 

Not a bad days cricket when the opposition retire hurt That had to hurt

 

A nice little win against the odds for the boys. 5th best run chase ever I think they have said

 

Indeed

All very surreal, I totally missed Sundays play, after staying at a friends on Sat and Sun, turned the radio on when I got in the car yesterday and couldn't quite understand what was going on lol

 

Top day out on the Sunday. Missed most of the afternoons play laughing at the crowd.

 

I see Ponting racked up 10,000 test runs yesterday, only the 7th to do so and the 3rd Aussie, unsurprisingly. The guy has always been a run machine but impressive all the same.

 

10,000

Even though he's an Aussie that's very impressive indeed, racked up in 118 matches. TEST runs at that so racked up against quality bowlers too.

 

To be honest, that's the sort of level KP should be at by now, hitting lots of runs on a regular consitent basis,3 years since the Ashes and if anything he has gone backwards imo.