The Official England Cricket Team Supporters thread

[ChairmanDan]

330/2

Double century partnership off 182 deliveries between Crawley and Root.

[ChairmanDan]

336/3

Crawley falls to Cameron Green on 189.

[ChairmanDan]

351/4

Root departs on 84.

[ChairmanDan]

Saturday is forecasted to be a complete washout, so a distinct possibility of a full day of lost play there.

Tomorrow morning looks showery but okay from lunch onwards.

Sunday overcast and showery but should be spells of play.

[Special_Olympiakos]

Overcast is ideal for seamers chasing wickets, not for batsmen trying to save a test match. If England pile on tomorrow they’ve every chance even with 2 sessions Sunday

[Lazarus]

@Special_Olympiakos

with 2 sessions Sunday

All eyes will be glued to this on Sunday

[ChairmanDan]

Think I’ll skip going to the Hurling Final on Sunday. It’s an afternoon for the television. Too much going on. Split season zealots, scheduling their showpiece event of the hurling year Head to head against the final day of an Ashes test match, the final day of the Open in the golf and the final day of the Tour de France.

[Bod95]

@ChairmanDan

Think I’ll skip going to the Hurling Final on Sunday. It’s an afternoon for the television. Too much going on. Split season zealots, scheduling their showpiece event of the hurling year Head to head against the final day of an Ashes test match, the final day of the Open in the golf and the final day of the Tour de France.

A John Bull like yourself has his priorities right, no business for you going near stick fighting.

[Lazarus]

The likes of @balbec and @Biff_Egan won’t know where to turn on Sunday

[ChairmanDan]

The law of unintended consequences. I’ve only gone and drawn the Man from Mullingar onto me on a cricket thread of all places

[Bod95]

I’m LK on 3 generations on both my parents side pal, I may reside out of the county but I know my lineage, I’m a born and bred Limerick man who represented his county at all levels in hurling up to senior as opposed to you who is a died in the wool Brit to a pretend hurling supporter from WD, CW or even WX, take your pick.

[balbec]

Priorities

[ChairmanDan]

Have a lie down and maybe listen to a bit of Joe Dolan. It’s very soothing.

[Bod95]

@ChairmanDan

Have a lie down and maybe listen to a bit of Joe Dolan. It’s very soothing.

Touché listen to Nigel Farage I’m sure you’ll find it equally soothing

[ChairmanDan]

Dry your eyes you big baby. If you go in with the size 12’s acting the hard man like you tried to do on the Munster hurling championship and Waterford hurling thread a few months ago, you might just get it back at you. To paraphrase the late Seamus Brennan, its senior hurling INTERNETTING around here and you don’t seem quite ready for it just yet.

@Bod95

He’s skin in the game with London Lancashire Carlow Wexford and Waterford GAA but yet is a royalist at heart it’s hard to keep up

@Bod95

You seem very excersised by the state of WD hurling, there’s a litany of moans on this thread, as a proud subject of his majesty I don’t understand why you’re bothered with Paddy’s stick fighting.

@ChairmanDan

Looks like I’ve drawn the Limerick supporting windbag from Mullingar onto me again. Is there not about 20 threads on the go where he could be jabbering away to himself about Limerick.

@Bod95

Here comes the Carlow Waterford Wexford Preston North London take your pick fanatic and all round loyalist to the blowharding again, you made a slur about me a few weeks ago that I haven’t forgotten, you claimed I was a Mullingar man supporting Limerick for your information and I’ve gone through the genealogy I am 100% Limerick born and bred and as are both sides of my parents generation going back 3 generations. How you can comment on GAA matters while being a rabid
loyalist is anathema to me.

@Bod95

A John Bull like yourself has his priorities right, no business for you going near stick fighting.

@Bod95

’m LK on 3 generations on both my parents side pal, I may reside out of the county but I know my lineage, I’m a born and bred Limerick man who represented his county at all levels in hurling up to senior as opposed to you who is a died in the wool Brit to a pretend hurling supporter from WD, CW or even WX, take your pick.

[Biff_Egan]

My beloved Aussies will be bowled out twice by then. On to the Oval. #Go Again

[Bandage]

Disappointing to read the aggressive exchanges here overnight, there’s a fine cricketing tradition in Mullingar.

Here we go. Stokes down the track swinging & missing wildly from second ball of the day.

[Bandage]

Carey misses a run out chance there. Stokes would have been gone.

[Tassotti]

I don’t see what the big problem is with coming from Mullingar, its a fine spot

[Bandage]

@Tassotti

I don’t see what the big problem is with coming from Mullingar, its a fine spot

+1. The Greville Arms Hotel, the Joe Dolan statue, the Dunnes Stores at the back of Cusack Park, the big wine wholesale store on the outskirts of the town. There’s an awful lot to like about the place. If I had one minor criticism, it’s the sheer multitude of roundabouts on the ring road. We’ve had to stop the car on the way to/from Center Parcs on more than one occasion to allow my older lad puke on the side of the road. That recycling centre in between roundabouts is also a good place to stop to vomit.

3 boundaries by Brook in that over. Cover drives & late cuts, terrific stuff.