England Touring Sri Lanka

[Grazer]

Was unlucky Gra but he did his job

I guess but still needed him to stick around longer. Solid knock though

[M H]

103 runs or 5 wickets, real test match cricket

[Grazer]

103 runs or 5 wickets, real test match cricket

Works gone out the window!!!

[Grazer]

88 runs or 4 wickets....

[M H]

Game on mate

[Oche Balboa]

Patel shot selection was poor.

[D & B]

Lets hope it doesn't come down to Monty.....

[M H]

Advantage Sri Lanka, Trott's gone!

[D & B]

How many did Monty get?

[martin71109]

How many did Monty get?

didn't trouble to score card!

[Randall]

ffs, asked an old boy how it was going mid morning and he said we were bang on track!

[Knots & crosses]

You were. Then you remembered you were English.

[Randall]

seems to me they have all joined the trade union movement, one out all out.

12 wickets to a finger spinner, the mind boggles.

[Randall]

A TALE OF TWO AVERAGES
Name 2012 average Career av
A Strauss 25.4 41.2
A Cook 13.5 47.9
J Trott 35.6 53.6
K Pietersen 12.5 48.2
I Bell 14.5 46.8
M Prior 33 43.6

says it all, must be time for a change.

[M H]

Or time for them to find some form mate. Trott and Prior found some today

[Randall]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cricket/17560106

gooch was approaching the best years of his life at 35.

[M H]

I remember it mate, I wondered how and why the selectors kept faith with him in the early days but he did mature well.

[Randall]

for much of his test career gooch averaged a steady 36, which against the attacks of those years wasnt bad anyway.

when he assumed the captaincy i think he averaged nearer 50.

strauss isnt really from the gooch mould i suppose.

[M H]

I rate Strauss as a batsman and think he's far better than Gooch at this point. He's a bit negative as a captain but when was the last time England was first in the test rankings?

[Randall]

i cannot rate strauss above gooch, maybe rose tinted specs but there you go.

i dont think we have been since the rankings started, lose the next text against sri lanka and we wont be any longer.