Give that man a goldfish.Botham, Willis, Underwood?
Was about to respond with that until I noticed you'd mentioned the date.Give that man a goldfish.
Was faintly surprised we never played Fred, Hoggy and Harmy together when each was over 200, but apparently not.
Fred got to 200 pretty late didn't he?Give that man a goldfish.
Was faintly surprised we never played Fred, Hoggy and Harmy together when each was over 200, but apparently not.
Yeah, against SA in 2008. Harmy made a brief comeback ofc but Hoggard never did after getting dropped earlier that year.Fred got to 200 pretty late didn't he?
If ding dong gets another century soon then it'll be the first time ever that England will have had three batsman with 20 centuries and three bowlers with 200 wickets.His failure to get to 200 means that Jason Gillespie is still the last crim batsman to make a double ton outside of Australia too.
His wicket did bring up a double century tho; he was Broad's 200th scalp. Meaning this is the first attack since 1982 where we're fielding a trio of double centurions. The last threesome, anyone?
And as they just took an early tea we could yet wind up with no actual lost oversSomeone to work out whether tea on the 14th day of the series is an Ashes record in terms of uninterrupted play in England.
Answer: England v Pakistan at Lord's, 2006, 50 Tests ago.Related - I wonder when was the last time a match in England had no play lost and was still a draw. Feeling it might be the sort of thing to throw at the get-on-with-it brigade that crops up whenever we're winning.
You weren't at Lords day 4Fair enough, my only memory of that Test is South Africa batting for what felt like 6 months.