Cricket thread

[Grant Fondo]

Agree with those pitch comments i think the guy with dustpan and brush swung the test

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Is Alison Mitchell the 3rd female voice this week? I think she's always done a competent job on the radio, but the bar has been set very high by TMS over the years ...

(although some of the men are worse, I should stress! Just not the core team.)

I missed your post earlier. I can't say if Alison Mitchell was doing the TMS coverage because I followed the test on Channel 4 but I think Alison Mitchell used to do it before Ebony Rainford-Brent and Isa Guha so it could well have been her.

The other two have very good radio voices, a step up from Mitchell, to my ear. They're also extremely well presented.....

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Agree with those pitch comments i think the guy with dustpan and brush swung the test

I think I heard a while ago that that square plate tool used to flatten out footholds at the pitch is called a tamper. So, in a very literal sense, we've witnessed pitch tampering.

 

[Dayvo]

 

[ianrauk]

England falling to the spinners again.
The top of the batting falling cheaply again.
Lawrence and Pope are going to have to dig in a get decent scores.

 

[Dayvo]

And AS SOON as I check out the score on cricbuzz, Pope’s dismissed.
Sorry!

 

[Dayvo]

England’ll do well to get 200+.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

That Ashwin is a truly superb bowler!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

That Ashwin is a truly superb bowler!

No sooner said than Axar diddles Lawrence...

 

[Dayvo]

No sooner said than Axar diddles Lawrence...

Yep, wickets seem easy to come by.

 

[Dayvo]

Another Test not going to go the five days.
I’ll give it 9 sessions max.

 

[matticus]

First time England have got to 200 in 6 innings.

Huzzah!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I thought that was going down leg.

 

[Grant Fondo]

Poor openers yet again against the spin, gives us no chance

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

80 - 4 at lunch is far better than most of us would have expected.