planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
So no 300 in 7 attempts now, about to be 8 unless Stokes goes crazy. Though I'll forgive them if they manage not to be bowled out. An accurate weather forecast might help.
You need to watch that again. Bairstow was receiving a well earned standing ovation from most of the ground. He was acknowledging that in an understated way by raising his bat to the applause. I re- watched to check and there was not the display of ego you described. It’s a bit weird you thought that tbh.
Re Pope's keeping, he's snatchy but has a good eye and didn't suffer in comparison to Buttler. Great catch off Harris.
Buttler takes amazing catches and drops sitters. Sadly it would be much better if it were the other way around. Next test we will have Sam Billings' questionable keeping to pore over.
James Bracey (Gloucestershire)
I fear he may be destined to become a particularly hard quiz question in years to come.
Until yesterday, he was the only England player to score a hundred on this tour.James Bracey (Gloucestershire)
I fear he may be destined to become a particularly hard quiz question in years to come.
Um, it was a bit OTT. He's quite well renowned for being a little bit egotistical. Gower managed to spin the painfully self-serving post match interview into 'it's nice to see someone proud of their personal achievements rather than the usual platitudes about it all being about the team'. Fair dos, but er - it's a team sport and his team is fucked. We should focus on that rather than a not particularly inspiring century. And saluting all corners of the ground as if he was Shane Warne playing his last game for his country. Well.
He played a couple of good innings which boosted that average. The rest he's not been so good. Ok behind the stumps though and is mouthy, had a few issues with a few batsmen which is actually not bad.
It was a pretty standard acknowledgement of the applause from a century.
That doesn't show all of it. He was saluting well before that (I was watching). Even his celebration of the century itself was slightly embarrassing.
Ah yes. I really did feel for the guy. I was a keeper. But I wasn't on a big screen and being broadcast to millions around the world as I failed and failed and failed. Keeping is both the best job and worst job in cricket.
That doesn't show all of it. He was saluting well before that (I was watching). Even his celebration of the century itself was slightly embarrassing.
Ah okay - I mean it's just good radio! I like long endurance sports like cycling road-racing where there's loads of time for the commentary to just waffle on about trivia - cricket seems ideal.In what way?
TMS doesn't only cover The Ashes.
Dropped by Litton at second slip! Bangladesh drop their first real chance of the day. And time to add a lot of salt to the wound. That is seven runs for New Zealand. But first the catch: it was a fullish ball outside off, coming into him, as Young went to defend but got an outside edge. Litton dived to his left in front of first slip, and spilled the ball, which raced toward fine leg. They ran three in that time, and while the throw came at the keeper's end, Nurul again threw it back to the bowler, who wasn't backing up, and thus ended chasing it all the way himself - and all that in vain!
Maybe he used today as an audition for an IPL contract?Commentary's just wrong here. Crawley failed. He didn't face 100 balls. Come on, judge the game on its merits. Crawley didn't make it to lunch.
Dunno about that but the commentators on TV have judged this all wrong. England won't win. Therefore an innings is to be judged by the number of balls faced. On that criterion, Crawley wasn't so much better than Hameed. Meanwhile, Malan played a terrible shot. Malan is bottom, not Hameed.Poor old Aggers. If you listen to him, you could be forgiven for thinking Hameed is the new Bradman … had he scored a ton to save the game Aggers would have wet himself