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by **Goram** » Sat Aug 02, 2014 8:01 pm

Liventia wrote:Jordan Clark bowled a TRIPLE wicket maiden in a T20 quarterfinal for Lancashire v Glamorgan today.

Hat trick?

by **Liventia** » Sun Aug 03, 2014 3:14 am

GOram wrote:
Liventia wrote:Jordan Clark bowled a TRIPLE wicket maiden in a T20 quarterfinal for Lancashire v Glamorgan today.

Hat trick?

Nope. His first two overs went like this:
1 . 1 2 W . | W . W . . W

Meaning he took 4/0 in 8 balls.

by **Liventia** » Sun Aug 03, 2014 5:30 am

England have called up Steven Finn to replace the injured Liam Plunkett in the Test squad for Old Trafford.

by **Uitbregen** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 5:13 am

Jason Roy just hit Sachith Pathirana for 5 sixes in an over for England Lions against Sri Lanka. 51* off 25 balls.

EDIT: Make that 51, out.

by **Patistan** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 10:20 am

It was beautiful how Younis Khan and Misbah also Asad recovered Pakistan from their disastrous start in the 1st test against Sirilanka

by **Uitbregen** » Thu Aug 07, 2014 3:55 am

~~India 8-3. Solid.~~ 8-4.

by **Jeckland** » Thu Aug 07, 2014 8:36 am

Wow. What a great bowling performance. Broad was sublime, as was Anderson. I think the England cricket team may finally be back on track.

by **KoloToure** » Thu Aug 07, 2014 9:01 am

And England's lack of a decent opening partnership struggles on.

by **Liventia** » Thu Aug 07, 2014 11:30 am

Jeckland wrote:Wow. What a great bowling performance. Broad was sublime, as was Anderson. I think the England cricket team may finally be back on track.

Wait till both sides have batted on this. England look like they may fall for about 200.

by **Uitbregen** » Sat Aug 09, 2014 8:52 am

This. Is. Fantastic.

by **Goram** » Sat Aug 09, 2014 10:24 am

Uitbregen wrote:This. Is. Fantastic.

Bloody marvellous.

by **Uitbregen** » Sun Aug 10, 2014 3:21 am

Interesting game being set up at Galle. Pakistan lead by 96 runs in the second innings, with 1 wicket left. There are about 17 overs left in the game, so there could be an exciting little chase.

Correction: 99 runs in 21 overs. Fairly straightforward.

by **Liventia** » Sun Aug 10, 2014 3:33 am

Unchanged England squad for the Oval: the 11 who played at Manchester, plus Finn and Stokes.

by **Uitbregen** » Sun Aug 10, 2014 3:42 am

Liventia wrote:Unchanged England squad for the Oval: the 11 who played at Manchester, plus Finn and Stokes.

It's gotta be Finn for Jordan, Jordan simply too erratic. Well, more so than Finn.

by **Jeckland** » Sun Aug 10, 2014 12:43 pm

Uitbregen wrote:
Liventia wrote:Unchanged England squad for the Oval: the 11 who played at Manchester, plus Finn and Stokes.

It's gotta be Finn for Jordan, Jordan simply too erratic. Well, more so than Finn.

It shoulod be, but England seem to be finding any and every excuse to keep Finn out.

by **Liventia** » Sun Aug 10, 2014 5:59 pm

No. I generally think the principle that you don't change a winning side is a sound one. Jordan bowled better second innings at OT.

by **Uitbregen** » Mon Aug 11, 2014 12:42 am

Liventia wrote:No. I generally think the principle that you don't change a winning side is a sound one. Jordan bowled better second innings at OT.

I'd have to disagree. Jordan was somewhat of a dead weight in that Test, as in, we completed our objectives without much input from him. Sure, he took the last two wickets, but bouncing out an Indian No. 10 and bowling Pankaj Singh is really not an amazing feat. He bowled too erratically, and it's only because the Indians were tripping over themselves to get out that he didn't suffer more. An economy of 5.41 against a side seriously struggling isn't good enough.

But, one real positive is his fielding. He's an ace whilst fielding at slip against the spinner, and pretty decent in the cordon. So that could save him.

by **Liventia** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 4:19 pm

These brilliant drawings have just gone on auction for charity: http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/cricketunited/m.html

by **Goram** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 4:54 pm

Liventia wrote:These brilliant drawings have just gone on auction for charity: http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/cricketunited/m.html

The two Bumble's and Jos Buttler's Nas are quality.

by **Liventia** » Wed Aug 13, 2014 2:14 pm

Stumps on day one of the only women's Test of the summer, at Wormsley:

England 92 all out (Taylor 30, Niranjana 4/19)
India 87/6 (Mandhana 22, Gunn 4/13)
India trail by five runs with four wickets remaining in the first innings

That's a dodgy-looking scorecard! 16 wickets for less than 180 runs in a day…

by **Liventia** » Thu Aug 14, 2014 9:03 am

Painful as a Middlesex fan.

One Day Cup at Lord's (rain reduced to 45 overs): Notts 368/2 (Hales 141, Taylor 100, Lumb 81)
If this had been a full game they would've got 400.

Middlesex set 373 to win from 45 overs. Bowled out for 80 in 13.3 overs chasing a revised target of 158 from 16 overs.

by **Liventia** » Fri Aug 15, 2014 11:08 am

England brilliant again today. The highest first-wicket stand of the summer for England.

by **Goram** » Sat Aug 16, 2014 6:23 am

If you told me this would happen after the Lord's test, I don't think I'd have believed you.

by **Uitbregen** » Sun Aug 17, 2014 8:27 am

I had tickets for the fifth day, but I'm pretty glad I don't need them!

by **Afalia** » Sun Aug 17, 2014 8:29 am

Wow. This was unexpected.

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