Register a SA Forums Account here!
JOINING THE SA FORUMS WILL REMOVE THIS BIG AD, THE ANNOYING UNDERLINED ADS, AND STUPID INTERSTITIAL ADS!!!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
Cricket
This poll is closed.
Blackface in crowd 129 55.36%
References to Lord of the Rings 104 44.64%
Total: 233 votes
[Edit Poll (moderators only)]

 
  • Post
  • Reply
Brett824
Mar 30, 2009

I could let these dreamkillers kill my self esteem or use the arrogance as the steam to follow my dream

RideTheSpiral posted:

How do you fall for that

Clearly he was thinking two steps ahead and thought the field was a bluff. Makes perfect sense.

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

Knuc U Kinte
Aug 17, 2004

Literally every freaking wicket and chance has happened when I've been doing something else. I finally decide to go to bed and boom. Goodnight everyone.

Lionel Richie
Nov 14, 2004

yeeeeeeeeees Cookie. What a legend.

MrL_JaKiri
Sep 23, 2003

A bracing glass of carrot juice!
Wickets missing, not even Umpire's Call

MrL_JaKiri
Sep 23, 2003

A bracing glass of carrot juice!
Came back from the F1, man I could have had a cookie wicket

RideTheSpiral
Sep 18, 2005
College Slice
Lol at Stokes demonstrating how pathetic this pitch is.

serious gaylord
Sep 16, 2007

what.
Grounds get fined for not lasting 4 days now. Has a ground ever been fined for being so flat its totally noncompetitive?

Brett824
Mar 30, 2009

I could let these dreamkillers kill my self esteem or use the arrogance as the steam to follow my dream

serious gaylord posted:

Grounds get fined for not lasting 4 days now. Has a ground ever been fined for being so flat its totally noncompetitive?

Didn't Trent Bridge get fined for being flat during the India tour of England last summer?

Mister Chief
Jun 6, 2011

Dry as a bone in India.

Dead Goon
Dec 13, 2002

No Obvious Flaws



gently caress off NZ you let this oval office get 100? He'll play forever, he'll probably be king and maybe president of america or some poo poo now.

gently caress off Cookie poo poo oval office.

MrL_JaKiri
Sep 23, 2003

A bracing glass of carrot juice!
That's Cookie's HIGHEST EVER SCORE AT LORDS

Wow what a team this is, England own

MrL_JaKiri
Sep 23, 2003

A bracing glass of carrot juice!
I've been waiting to post that for 20 minutes

RideTheSpiral
Sep 18, 2005
College Slice
loving Shane Warne he's on Skype in the IPL. Literally cannot get away from this idiot.

Mister Chief
Jun 6, 2011

RideTheSpiral posted:

loving Shane Warne he's on Skype in the IPL. Literally cannot get away from this idiot.

I imagine all the commentators are watching the final rather than the test.

o.m. 94
Nov 23, 2009

Stokes needs to calm things down. England need to grind this one out

serious gaylord
Sep 16, 2007

what.
Stokes is a far better player when he just goes after it instead of trying to grind his way to runs.

MrL_JaKiri
Sep 23, 2003

A bracing glass of carrot juice!
Smashed it into the pipe, that's the new ball ruined

MrL_JaKiri
Sep 23, 2003

A bracing glass of carrot juice!
36 runs from 12 deliveries

serious gaylord
Sep 16, 2007

what.
I'm loving it, but we're still effectively 200 for 4. Maybe slow it down a bit and get a lead over 300 before going bananas considering theres only Buttler and Ali to come?

Burn Down Canberra
Oct 27, 2005

GAME PLANS? We don't need no stinking game plans.

:cry: :cry: :cry:
Remember when England would produce sporting wickets. I understand why the wickets are being prepared the way they are. Obviously with the ashes coming up the smart thing is to handicap the Australian quicks as much as possible because Australia has a batting line up that would be good for 1 or 2 collapses in a 5 test series played on a highway but

Its so boring.

MrL_JaKiri
Sep 23, 2003

A bracing glass of carrot juice!
Fastest century at Lords :stare:

Coucho Marx
Mar 2, 2009

kick back and relax
how do you let stokes get a hundred

gently caress

serious gaylord
Sep 16, 2007

what.

Burn Down Canberra posted:

Remember when England would produce sporting wickets. I understand why the wickets are being prepared the way they are. Obviously with the ashes coming up the smart thing is to handicap the Australian quicks as much as possible because Australia has a batting line up that would be good for 1 or 2 collapses in a 5 test series played on a highway but

Its so boring.

I dont get it, because its not like our bowlers are going to take 20 wickets on a flat deck. I dont think its as conspiracy theory as you think. I fundamentally believe the groundsmen are instructed to make pitches that give 5 days play and nothing less to sell tickets.

Lionel Richie
Nov 14, 2004

Lords has always been a poo poo pitch

Airstream Driver
May 6, 2009

I'm hoping for 7 draws.

Dysgenesis
Jul 12, 2012

HAVE AT THEE!


Coucho Marx posted:

how do you let stokes get a hundred

gently caress

AUS have paid NZ to allow all our worst players to get runs so they aren't dropped before the Ashes. Broad will get 50.

Mister Chief
Jun 6, 2011

Airstream Driver posted:

I'm hoping for 7 draws.

All matches abandoned due to rain.

MrL_JaKiri
Sep 23, 2003

A bracing glass of carrot juice!
RIP Durham's Rose

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer

Mister Chief posted:

All matches abandoned due to rain.

Three abandoned due to rain, one to hail, one abandoned without a ball bowled due to union dispute.

o.m. 94
Nov 23, 2009

He played like he just wanted to get on the honors board. Two more viable wickets and only a lead of 231

Burn Down Canberra
Oct 27, 2005

GAME PLANS? We don't need no stinking game plans.

:cry: :cry: :cry:

Lionel Richie posted:

Lords has always been a poo poo pitch

One of the most exciting days of bowling I've ever seen was lords day 1 in 2005.

I don't blame England for potentially flattening the wickets. I'd (if I were in charge of English cricket) YouTube up a few videos of Shane Watson and think hmmm Australia has a big dumb oaf playing for them so if the ball swings at all we can take wickets. .

RideTheSpiral
Sep 18, 2005
College Slice
One Pieterson related abandonment

Lionel Richie
Nov 14, 2004

Burn Down Canberra posted:

One of the most exciting days of bowling I've ever seen was lords day 1 in 2005.

What's that got to do with the price of fish

Largepotato
Jan 18, 2007

Spurd.
Need more pitches like this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPswz3Zqtvw

MrL_JaKiri
Sep 23, 2003

A bracing glass of carrot juice!
255 isn't enough with over a full day to go

I'm Crap
Aug 15, 2001
CAN'T BROOK THE COOK

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
Pretty loving grim all afternoon here in North Kent, surprised they've got away with as much play as they have.

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
Shuffling the field as an end of match cool-down exercise. Efficient play from New Zealand.

IceAgeComing
Jan 29, 2013

pretty fucking embarrassing to watch
cook is going to get a double hundred, then never score over 50 again

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
It's going to take him until tea though.

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • Post
  • Reply