**Official** West Indies in England 2012

[Spark]

First day of my "other" cricket season. Always nice.

PS. Lol @ the scoreboard

 

[theegyptian]

looks all set for 500 plays 550

 

[Spark]

Anderson to Barath for half an hour could be fun to watch

 

[Chubb]

Why do the BBC employ that dip**** Tufnell? Complete nonentity.

Because he has a London accent. That is pretty much all there is to it - the BBC wanted more "common" voices in the TMS box.

Which incidentally I think is bull****. Plenty of comprehensive school plebs like me talk like a Head Boy at a minor public school...

 

[Spark]

Good effort to fall asleep after 15 minutes.

Anderson still bowling a subcontinent length here.

 

[TT Boy]

Kieran Powell went to Millfield, didn't know that. Obvious question, why wasn't he poached?

 

[Scaly piscine]

Good effort to fall asleep after 15 minutes.

Lightweight. My sister falls asleep in the middle of a sentence (not exaggerating).

 

[Burgey]

Lightweight. My sister falls asleep in the middle of a sentence (not exaggerating).

Hers or yours?

 

[uvelocity]

I think even the commentators have fallen asleep

 

[Woodster]

Real good battle going on here between Anderson and Barath, Jimmy favouring the inswinger slightly more than his more regularly used outswinger to right-handers, but Barath watching the ball closely and playing nice and straight and late. His two drives off Anderson have been very well executed and he picked the fuller length up well enabling him to get to the pitch of the ball.

It's excellent skill and control from Anderson because while he's mixing up his deliveries, his lines have remained very impressive.

 

[Spark]

Real good battle going on here between Anderson and Barath, Jimmy favouring the inswinger slightly more than his more regularly used outswinger to right-handers, but Barath watching the ball closely and playing nice and straight and late. His two drives off Anderson have been very well executed and he picked the fuller length up well enabling him to get to the pitch of the ball.

It's excellent skill and control from Anderson because while he's mixing up his deliveries, his lines have remained very impressive.

Whilst true I still think he's bowled a tad short.

EDIT: That's the way. Get it up there.

 

[uvelocity]

back the other way beautiful

 

[Howe_zat]

Whilst true I still think he's bowled a tad short.

Often the case if you're consistently "beating" the edge. Shoulodn't have lbw shouts called as going over at this stage either.

Atta boy.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Hers or yours?

zzzz

 

[Spark]

Last two balls were epic bowling. Pitched it up, had him for breakfast.

 

[LegionOfBrad]

First Jimmy man love of the summer!!!!!!!!

 

[Spark]

Often the case if you're consistently "beating" the edge. Shoulodn't have lbw shouts called as going over at this stage either.

Used to be called the Hilfenhaus syndrome.

Fixed it now obvs.

 

[ajdude]

fox sports are loving the abrupt ad breaks tonight aren't they

 

[Woodster]

Absolute beauty from Jimmy!! Set him up perfectly with a big away swinger inducing the drive, then with that in mind starts one off outside his off stump Powell thinks about leaving it and it ducks in late to thump into his off peg, top quality bowling.

 

[ajdude]

wow, just wow that's nuts haha.

and fox sports doesn't even wait to see what strauss'll do, wow