in a desperate attempt to feel some kind of comradeship with the 2 gingers in the middle I am now writing using red ink...

 

C'mon Colly - 101 ***** he's survived now, 47 minutes until tea, 46 overs left in the match...

 

17 overs left, 102 *****.

 

This is proper old school test cricket, grinding out a draw against all the odds.

A real peacher from the BBC again.. From Jason White, TMS inbox: "It's like Rorke's Drift all over again with Lieutenant John Chard being played by Paul Collingwood and Ian Bell as Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead. And as the film version depicted the conclusion of the battle, 'the Zulu's withdrew after sustaining heavy casualties. Later, they sang a song to honour the bravery of the British defenders and left'."

 

Bad timing

Still Colly played his part, 13 overs left and 4 wickets

 

4 overs left

 

Never in doubt.

 

I refer the honourable gentleman to my post of 10:18am today

And to think Funkii has been sleeping through it all

 

Turned in at 13:00 your time, first thing I did when I woke was to check the net lol.

One of the Aussies asked me if I supported Australia these days, to which I replied No, Never, why would I ?, his response was, "so you bite the hand that feeds"

PMSL at the clown, I told him he was lucky I was down here significantly raising the national IQ level.......

 

OK here's the plan for the final test.

Turn up, win the toss and bat first. Dead ball for 4 solid days and declare. Bowl but take the fine for slow over rates and jobs a good 'un

 

I heard they're calling up Boycs and Tavare to open

 

Won the toss and electing to bat, how lucky is strauss with his tosses, what a tosser

Come on boys lets take a 2-0 home

 

Not the start one would have hoped for

 

Agreed. One wicket closer to Bell. Now he's had his career saving innings will be back to normal form

 

Bugger.

 

Well, the last 9 captains to have lost the toss have gone on to lose the match at this ground so I'm told.

 

I've bloody cursed it again 11/2

Dare I say it time for KP to perform LOL

 

PM me your address big boy I've got something for you

 

Not my statistic (obviously) but interesting nontheless.

"Andrew Strauss is the first Englishman to lose his wicket to the first ball of a Test match since Stan Worthington at the Gabba in 1936."

 

It's not been KP's series has it

 

It's Bell O'clock.

 

bloody terrible so far. KP has done nothing.

 

Not helped by Daryl Harper being a ****.

 

I am doing my raindance already on day 1, c'mon the weather lol