[butters]

which is why i really detest twenty 20.
If this is what people want, why don't they take a case of beers dress up in fancy dress and watch a game of T Ball.
it does take alot of the skill out of crcket IMO....

Twenty\Cashy cricket does have its interesting points to me but only from a bowling perspective. Anyone can develop a bit of upper body strength and wield a big bat but when you know that pretty much whatever you bowl the bat is going to be thrown at it you have to be a lot more cunning - line and length balls will be punished so you have to mix it up with slower balls and off\leg cutters and the like. With the increase in test wickets being tailored to last for five days and the way that the game has changed to weight the odds more in the batsman's favour it is the largely forgotten skills relearned in the bastard form of the game that will increasingly play a major part I think. There is what seems to be an increasing number of slower balls bowled these days so perhaps it is already filtering down - just got to wait for someone to remember how to bowl off\leg cutters now - a skill which seems to have been lost in the search for reverse swing and express pace by all and sundry.

Having said all that I still wouldn't pay to watch a game of Twenty\Cashy though.

[butters]

Australia losing grip on No. 1 spot.

[tomtom]

Funny website (esp considering his job!) describing ways to get booze into Edgbaston 

[GraemeA]

Graeme I took your advice and managed to get Twenty20 tickets for the England Australia match Old Trafford for me and my Dad.   

Which day, I am there both days so will see you there

[Falling Down]

Sunday, stand M3. You?

[GraemeA]

Don't know, will have to go and find my tickets

[butters]

Surprise surprise Flintoff has been ruled out of the 4th Test.

[Jaspersharpe]

Yeah we all knew that didn't we. Best thing I reckon. Try to get him fit for The Oval.

Is Brett Lee playing?

[butters]

According to cricinfo:

Clark is playing, no sign of Brett Lee and Prior has damaged his hand in the warm up...

[Jaspersharpe]

........playing football. As Bumble just tweeted "Prior taken a tumble playing footie. Do Man Utd warm up for the Champions League with a net?". Good point.

[Jaspersharpe]

Harmison plays. Prior's ok by the sound of it.

[butters]

Prior's ok by the sound of it.

"Prior has been passed fit. Drama over. Until he breaks down mid-Test, of course. He doesn't look very fit to me - very, very ginger. I mean to say, of course, he's warming up gingerly."

[Jaspersharpe]

That joke about footabll warm ups was Beefy's. Bumble nicked it and posted on Twitter.

England win the toss and will bat first.

[Jaspersharpe]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/aug/07/ashes-england-cricket-team

[Bobling]

Please, please someone get Warney off the Sky commentary!

[cofe]

nice one strauss.

[tomtom]

Please, please someone get Warney off the Sky commentary!

Listen to TMS instead?

[Bobling]

Please, please someone get Warney off the Sky commentary!

Listen to TMS instead?

Would do but then you get the commentary and the pics out of sync...oh crap there goes Ravi.

[benpritch]

eek

[cofe]

if anyone fancies showing these jokers how to bat i'll drive up to leeds. anyone?

[butters]

Time to take Bopara out back of the stand and beat him to death I think - failing putting him out of his misery in this humane fashion he has surely got to be dropped for the final test now.  

if anyone fancies showing these jokers how to bat i'll drive up to leeds. anyone?

Any chance of a lift up to Leeds so I can put Bopara out of his misery? They might learn something if I use his bat...

[Bobling]

Is Bopara the next Ramprakash?

[Jaspersharpe]

The question is, what the fuck was he still doing at 3 after the last two tests?!      

[joeb]

FFS what a front bottom.

[Aussiegav]

nice start to the day..
if this is losing your aura, well i'll take that..


the batting looks like a team that hasn't ever had one 

good luck fellas.