Cricket Thread

[ShadowDancer]

Amazing, absolutely amazing. Nearly 2 days lost to weather....England are going to win.

Sri Lanka 82-9 (9 wickets in about 2 hours, I think 7 of them have came in an hour)

As i type...all over. THIS WAS AMAZING.

[prinnysquad]

Hey ShadowDancer, here's a prospect for you to keep your eye on:

Ben Stokes from Durham

Only just about to turn 20, lhb, all-rounder, he's got season stats so far of:

Over 600 runs at 55.36 av
Three centuries
17 wickets at 33.00 av

Also hit 150 n.o. in a pro40 match last week.

[ShadowDancer]

Will do Prinny, Thank You

I do watch Country Cricket, but generally follow the IPL in the week.

[abigsmurf]

Well, that's spoilt a good test match.

May have been stupid from England but that's some piss poor sportsmanship from India. If they win because of that, they should be embarassed.

[toythatkills]

This is outrageous.

Something about how it's just not cricket.

[toythatkills]

Crowd very much making their feelings known, here

Hah, Bell is in. Awesome.

[Jebus]

Pure class by the Indian captain imho, pure class.

Will probably cost them though.

Couldn't have blamed them if they hadn't either, Bell was the one at fault, nobody else, and thankfully for us, he's gotten away with it.

[abigsmurf]

Much respect for India for doing that, faith in the game restored!

[Parakoopa83]

Incredible I've never seen such a bizarre passage of play and kudos for Dhoni to recall Bell. Morgan is looking quite good now.

[toythatkills]

It was stupid to go off, but I dunno that you can really blame him when all the body language of the guy on the boundary said it had gone for four. Whether intentional or not, the Indians were pretending the ball was dead so Bell assumed it was. If only it had happened one ball earlier!

[cavalcade]

This is amazing.

'Mon the 'gland!

[abigsmurf]

Yep it's all going rather great at the moment. If we could get them all out for under 100...

[toythatkills]

It's nice that the whole Bell thing isn't really going to effect the result in the end. At the moment India aren't looking like hitting whatever target England would have set even if we were all out at tea yesterday.

[nakamura]

It was stupid to go off, but I dunno that you can really blame him when all the body language of the guy on the boundary said it had gone for four. Whether intentional or not, the Indians were pretending the ball was dead so Bell assumed it was. If only it had happened one ball earlier!

I'm with this. He was a tad foolish but the whole thing looks like he hit a boundary. Also it amazes me that nobody has accused the Indians of doing it on purpose.

Amazing scenes today though, a thumping makes the whole Bell saga redundant anyway if it carries on.

[abigsmurf]

Won by 319 runs with a full day of batting left.

Not too shabby considering we were 88-6 at one point in the first session.