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

47 overs left, not a chance in hell of surviving :D

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

17 overs left, 102 balls.

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'."

:lol1: I think you spoke too soon. Anyone for crumble?

Bad timing :brickwall

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

4 overs left :D

Well I don't get this as the 1 hour is up and they said what ever occured first, 15 overs or the hour!!! 2 overs left and they are playing them, well how is that as the hour is now passed :confused:

Never in doubt. ;)

:D look up the definition of crumble and you get a picture of the England test team. Always left to Swann and Onions to save the day as out batsmen just can't help themselves but get out. However Bell played a blinder to well done to him.

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

And to think Funkii has been sleeping through it all :lol1:

:lol1: I quote "easily" I don't think was applicable :D Edge of the sofa cricket for the last 90 minutes.

Also my prediction of English crumble was 100% correct, they just can't help it!

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" :cuckoo:

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 :thumb:

:lol1:

I heard they're calling up Boycs and Tavare to open :freak3:

Won the toss and electing to bat, how lucky is strauss with his tosses, what a tosser :lol1:

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 :brickwall

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 :norty:

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 :brickwall

It's Bell O'clock.

bloody terrible so far. KP has done nothing.

Not helped by Daryl Harper being a cock.

Time for KP to be dropped and get his head straight. He is a waste of a batting place at the moment which we can ill afford.

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