*Official* First Test at Swalec Stadium, Cardiff

[zaremba]

Weather forecasts don't look pretty for tomorrow.

BBC and the Met Office both forecast rain for Weds, Thurs, Fri and Sat. Google weather for Weds and Thurs.

Weather-forecast.com and Yahoo more optimistic.

Anyhow the Met Office are the daddies of the vibe and here is what they predict for tomorrow:

0700

14°C
1000

15°C
1300

18°C
1600

16°C
1900

16°C

If that holds, we may struggle to get much play in before lunch.

Lol at Hauritz trying to get spin with a damp ball

 

[four_or_six]

The BBC is totally contrary, as per usual. Their picture says 'heavy rain shower' at 10am, and yet their radar slideshow just below has no rain anywhere near Cardiff in the morning.

 

[GIMH]

Lol Mahmood and Paneser.

Edit: lol Broad.

Broad will be the one lolling after he rips through your top order then tons up UIMM

 

[zaremba]

Cardiff average rainfall for July: 60.5mm
London average rainfall for July: 38.3mm

If rain ruins tomorrow's cricket, I'm blaming Wales.

Edit: ... and the Welsh, and the ECB

 

[BoyBrumby]

Really hateful thing is that it's hardly a secret it rains in south Wales, is it? One can only assume that the wheelbarrow containing the money Glamorgan paid the ECB for the test was of elaphantine proportions.

Although the cynically minded might point out that the head of the ECB when Cardiff got the gig is a Leekist himself.

 

[fredfertang]

Cardiff average rainfall for July: 60.5mm
London average rainfall for July: 38.3mm

If rain ruins tomorrow's cricket, I'm blaming Wales.

Edit: ... and the Welsh, and the ECB

Quite - Old Trafford is where this should be being played

 

[PhoenixFire]

Leekist

 

[superkingdave]

Quite - Old Trafford is where this should be being played

IIRC Cardiff is the only ground that does get more rain than OT

 

[Matt79]

Stupid England. Get a proper summer.

 

[Uppercut]

England? Wrong country mate.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

England? Wrong country mate.

Not if they're successful at something.

"Wales invented cold fusion you say?

ALL HAIL THE MOTHER****ING ENGLISH!"

 

[stephen]

Stupid England. Get a proper summer.

England? Wrong country mate.

Stupid England, play your home ashes in your own country.

 

[Uppercut]

Well if they're going to play Welshmen, without whom they would not have won an Ashes series in 22 years, they should probably give the country a game or two back.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Well if they're going to play Welshmen, without whom they would not have won an Ashes series in 22 years, they should probably give the country a game or two back.

Indeed so. Second test's at Pietermaritzburg, isn't it?

 

[Uppercut]

It should be. Maybe then when Eoin Morgan is England's captain they'll play an Ashes test in sunny Belfast.

 

[PhoenixFire]

Reckon they should go round the country and play all 5 Tests at different club grounds TBH, would make it much more interesting.

 

[Jarquis]

Ashes Interactive | Daily Telegraph

Dhoni is in the England squad according to the Telegraph.. Unless Matt Prior has had a fair amount of surgery.

 

[four_or_six]

Peter Roebuck waffles on about how the England team is full of 'Asians and Africans', and how the Ashes is in Cardiff to appease the Welsh Assembly.

When will he stop singling out players like Bopara and Panesar as if they're not properly English? Winds me up something chronic.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Ashes Interactive | Daily Telegraph

Dhone is in the England squad according to the Telegraph.. Unless Matt Prior has had a fair amount of surgery.

That's hilarious. Even if they couldn't tell Prior from Adam surely the kit with the "I" from "India" showing is some clue?

 

[Jarquis]

That's hilarious. Even if they couldn't tell Prior from Adam surely the kit with the "I" from "India" showing is some clue?

Woops at me spelling Dhoni incorrectly