*Official* Third Test at Edgbaston

[smash84]

Thataboy...after you've been ground into the dirt pretend to be sporting losers.

 

[Jacknife]

Sri Lankan batting basically revolves around Mahela and Sanga and both of them didn't score that many runs in that series and yet other players who don't usually perform that well outside the sub-continent stuck to their tasks and made English bowlers earn every wicket.

Sub-standard might have been a bit too strong a word to use but its a known fact that Sri Lanka aren't that good a test side away from home and yet they put up a seriously good show for a team playing in conditions totally alien to them and its not like England then bowled any differently to what they did during this series or the Ashes but the application of the Sri Lankan batsmen was so much better than the Indian and Australian batsmen.

I don't agree, I thought the bowers weren't at their best, they had spells where they bowled well but not as consistent as the Ashes or this series.

 

[centurymaker]

anderson was only available for half the series. broad was bowling like ishant sharma....right now he's bowling like god...

 

[Spark]

Bowlers definitely looked a little undercooked in the SL series tbh.

 

[centurymaker]

undercooked is The word.

 

[Xuhaib]

Raina asking for a review has to be the most lol worthy image in the series

 

[Uppercut]

Bowlers definitely looked a little undercooked in the SL series tbh.

Missed Bresnan and Anderson for a test and a half too.

 

[ankitj]

It's in times like these that I go back to watching highlights of the world cup 2011 final

 

[Burgey]

It's in times like these that I go back to watching highlights of the world cup 2011 final

It can be your Headingly 81 highlight to show for the next 25 years as you revert to mediocrity.

 

[Turbinator]

It's in times like these that I go back to watching highlights of the world cup 2011 final

It's funny because that's all I've been doing this entire series. I keep going back to the Pak match and WC winning shot.

 

[Burgey]

That old ODI vs NZ they showed here in the lunch break was a great game of cricket

 

[centurymaker]

this series has been a huge flop tbh. much worse than the ashes- at least it was well fought out till the 4th test.

 

[Prince EWS]

That old ODI vs NZ they showed here in the lunch break was a great game of cricket

AWTA; remember watching it live. Also remember my dad buying the morning edition of the paper that had ripped into the team for 'losing' the game and lol'n hard as I read it.

 

[_Ed_]

That old ODI vs NZ they showed here in the lunch break was a great game of cricket

Which one was that?

 

[Prince EWS]

this series has been a huge flop tbh.

Nah DWTA; it's been the perfect series bar a session or two tbh..

 

[centurymaker]

will england win 4-0? yes
will india finally get 300? no

 

[Turbinator]

It can be your Headingly 81 highlight to show for the next 25 years as you revert to mediocrity.

That's if Test cricket lasts that long

 

[Prince EWS]

Which one was that?

Unbeaten Bevan hundred in the VB series to bring Australia back from the brink; McCullum dropped him as sub fielder. Bichel hit the winning runs.

I realise that the whole Bevan/Bichel comeback thing happened to New Zealand a few times though so it probably doesn't narrow it down completely. I think it was the only non-World-Cup edition of that exact storyline though.

 

[Spark]

Nice catch.

 

[Jacknife]

Since the Lords test I've never seen Swanny drop as many short and long as that in the previous 2 years.

Nice catch by Broady.