Pakistan v England

Post by **M H** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 7:01 pm

Not sure about a couple of these selections

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/16103086.stm

Post by **Randall** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 7:02 pm

rushing the tests through to get to the throw away stuff i see.

Post by **M H** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 7:05 pm

All about the money mate but for my money you can't beat test cricket

Post by **Randall** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 7:05 pm

can never think of us touring pakistan without visions of gatting and shakoor rana, have we been back there since?

Post by **M H** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 7:11 pm

We have mate but we aint likely to be back there for a while. I remember that incident as well, was funny as fuck

Post by **Randall** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 7:14 pm

gatt never had much luck did he, caught over the side with a barmaid the next year and stripped of the captaincy if memory serves.

Post by **M H** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 7:18 pm

Add Warne's first ball and his broken nose to that as well mate

Post by **Randall** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 7:21 pm

i thought of warnes first ball after i typed that.

went on the second rebel tour of south africa as well.

had he not got the sack gooch may never have got the job so it worked out for the best if not for him.

Post by **welsh** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 8:53 pm

Darth Randall wrote:can never think of us touring pakistan without visions of gatting and shakoor rana, have we been back there since?

I can remember England winning a test series out there in almost pitch black conditions with Nasser Hussain.

Post by **Mr Sheen** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 9:28 pm

welsh wrote:
Darth Randall wrote:can never think of us touring pakistan without visions of gatting and shakoor rana, have we been back there since?
I can remember England winning a test series out there in almost pitch black conditions with Nasser Hussain.

Yeah, the Pakistanis were time wasting hoping it'd be called off, but the umpires effectively told them it's their own fault they're playing in the dark. I remember fielders going the wrong way when Thorpe and Hussain were knocking the last few off. Eleven bloody years ago now!

Post by **Mr Sheen** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 9:30 pm

Darth Randall wrote:i thought of warnes first ball after i typed that.

went on the second rebel tour of south africa as well.

had he not got the sack gooch may never have got the job so it worked out for the best if not for him.

He was a fucking joke as captain. Only won two tests, but was lucky that they were both Ashes tests against a pisspoor, rebel tour affected Strayan team.

Post by **Randall** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 10:47 am

Mr Sheen wrote:
Darth Randall wrote:i thought of warnes first ball after i typed that.

went on the second rebel tour of south africa as well.

had he not got the sack gooch may never have got the job so it worked out for the best if not for him.
He was a fucking joke as captain. Only won two tests, but was lucky that they were both Ashes tests against a pisspoor, rebel tour affected Strayan team.

two more than botham managed

did have a pretty naff team at the time and gooch our best player was banned i think.

Post by **Mr Sheen** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 1:09 pm

Darth Randall wrote:
Mr Sheen wrote:
Darth Randall wrote:i thought of warnes first ball after i typed that.

went on the second rebel tour of south africa as well.

had he not got the sack gooch may never have got the job so it worked out for the best if not for him.
He was a fucking joke as captain. Only won two tests, but was lucky that they were both Ashes tests against a pisspoor, rebel tour affected Strayan team.
two more than botham managed

did have a pretty naff team at the time and gooch our best player was banned i think.

No, mate, Gooch was back over a year before Gatting took over. He captained a team with Gooch, Gower, Lamb, Botham, Dilley and Broad at their peak, which wasn't a West Indies beater, but should have beaten India, New Zealand, etc.

Post by **Randall** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 1:30 pm

it was an england team that always underachieved.

a team far less than the sum of its parts it seemed.

Post by **Mr Sheen** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 2:31 pm

Darth Randall wrote:it was an england team that always underachieved.

a team far less than the sum of its parts it seemed.

Yeah, England's greatest wicket taker, two of our top three runscorers and some talented players, but all they really did was beat Australia repeatedly. Having said that, I'd have coped if that had continued

Post by **Randall** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 8:55 pm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport/hi/english/ ... recard.stm

dont recognise half the aussie team.

Post by **Randall** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 10:43 am

http://www.businessdorset.co.uk/sport/n ... dmark_ton/

sachin comes up short again.

Post by **Randall** » Thu Dec 29, 2011 6:14 pm

aussies beat india and sri lanka beat the boks at home.

wouldnt have been many forcast that.

Post by **Randall** » Thu Dec 29, 2011 6:15 pm

and a pair for kallis, a rare animal.

Post by **Randall** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 8:12 pm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport/hi/english/ ... recard.stm

india getting humped again.