*Official* T20 and ODI matches

[Howe_zat]

Athers still doesn't like Cook being in the ODI side.

Give it up, man.

 

[Cevno]

Already a rain delay.

 

[Outswinger@Pace]

Bairstow a 100%, genuine ranga of the highest order.

At this point I should apologise to his old man, whom I mistakenly booed, along with 40,000 others, all the way to the middle of the SCG in 1979-80 in the mistaken belief it was Mike Brearley under the lid, the latter having recently told Dennis Lillee he couldn't use an aluminium bat in a test at the WACA.

Oops.

Lol! What a story.

Btw, wasn't David Bairstow a much better-built man than Brearley? Kinda surprised that you'd mistake one for the other.

 

[Howe_zat]

Anyone else lol-ing at India getting destroyed by Cork, Mullaly, Lewis and Irani?

What an attack that was.

Also, Jack Russell looks a lot like the copper from the Village People.

 

[stumpski]

Really heavy shower just a they were about to start, but it's only cost half an hour - and hopefully no reduction of overs.

I like to give myself a challenge, the fathers and sons teams can be done, but you don't get very well balanced sides:

Dads

Len Hutton
David Lloyd
Colin Cowdrey
Micky Stewart
Chris Broad
Joe Hardstaff, snr
Alan Butcher
David Bairstow
Arnie Sidebottom
Jeff Jones
Fred Tate

Lads

Mark Butcher
Alec Stewart
Joe Hardstaff, jnr
Graham Lloyd
Chris Cowdrey
Johnny Bairstow
Richard Hutton
Stuart Broad
Maurice Tate
Ryan Sidebottom
Simon Jones

 

[Burgey]

Lol! What a story.

Btw, wasn't David Bairstow a much better-built man than Brearley? Kinda surprised that you'd mistake one for the other.

He was listed on the scoreboard to come in next (Brearley). And tbf I was at the back of the Bradman Stand.

And 10 years old

 

[Outswinger@Pace]

Lol..Fair enough, then!

R.I.P David Bairstow. Read a lot of good things about him in Sir Geoffrey' autobiography. Was perhaps the only man loved by most his colleagues in a very stormy Yorkshire camp at that time.

 

[Furball]

Is anyone else watching the Sky coverage of the 1996 series amused by the fact that Dravid doesn't seem to have aged at all in the 15 years since?

 

[Burgey]

Lol. Mark Ealham.

 

[Outswinger@Pace]

And Vinay comes in for Praveen.

They are going for the tried and the tested formula. Never mind if that strategy has always gone around the park in the past!

 

[Furball]

They are going for the tried and the tested formula. Never mind if that strategy has always gone around the park in the past!

They've only got two spinners in the squad though.

 

[Outswinger@Pace]

They've only got two spinners in the squad though.

Some people felt that the other pacer Varun Aaron could have got a game. I don't know how good or how bad he's looked in the tour games and the nets. But they sure seem hesitant to play him.

 

[Outswinger@Pace]

Bresnan and Finn bowling to the Indian top-order should be interesting, to say the least. Someone told me on YouTube that Finn has bulked up a bit and is now sending them down at real pace. Cool, if that's true!

 

[Cevno]

They've only got two spinners in the squad though.

Got Mishra in the squad too.

 

[Howe_zat]

Bresnan and Finn bowling to the Indian top-order should be interesting, to say the least. Someone told me on YouTube that Finn has bulked up a bit and is now sending them down at real pace. Cool, if that's true!

Last game Finn bowled his entire spell at 90+. He's been doing it in limited overs cricket for Middlesex too, I'm told.

 

[Furball]

Got Mishra in the squad too.

We're talking about bowlers, not batsmen though.

 

[Burgey]

Some people felt that the other pacer Varun Aaron could have got a game. I don't know how good or how bad he's looked in the tour games and the nets. But they sure seem hesitant to play him.

Should have picked Atul Sharma

 

[Cevno]

Some people felt that the other pacer Varun Aaron could have got a game. I don't know how good or how bad he's looked in the tour games and the nets. But they sure seem hesitant to play him.

Either they don't want to debut him in the ODI's or he hasn't looked too flash in the nets.

 

[Outswinger@Pace]

Should have picked Atul Sharma

Heard that he's India's representative in the next World Strongman competition. Russian and Ukrainian domination would effectively end with his participation!

 

[Outswinger@Pace]

Either they don't want to debut him in the ODI's or he hasn't looked too flash in the nets.

Or he could have bounced the skipper with a few short, quick ones in the nets. Never the best way to grab positive attention!