England v South Africa

[Swanjaxs]

Any lead over 100 will be gold dust...

 

[Swanjaxs]

Stop your nonsense Max, these proper cricketers are up early mun!

Cricket is for all troops! You don't have to know the difference between a knuckle ball and a wrong' un to enjoy the great game :lol:

 

[dickythorpe]

Eng 308/5 at tea
Stokes 98 not out
Foakes 61 not out

A pleasure to watch these 2.

England lead by 157.

Good contest

 

[dickythorpe]

Stokes gets his ton

 

[exiledclaseboy]

Superb batting performance. Nearly four an over again.

 

[Swanjaxs]

Fair play I'd have bitten your hand off for a 150 lead

 

[Niigata Jack]

You will get your wish one day Max...I had to jiggle shifts to get today off ...11 days on the trot.....but worth it.

No wonder you're a Legend on this forum Dicky

 

[Niigata Jack]

Stop your nonsense Max, these proper cricketers are up early mun!

Cricket is for all troops! You don't have to know the difference between a knuckle ball and a wrong' un to enjoy the great game :lol:

Prosser texted me earlier asking me what a googly was ffs, up to my neck in it I was as well ffs :x :lol:

 

[exiledclaseboy]

Enjoyed this snippet from The Guardian earlier.

“Quick Guide

Poetry in motion: An England Test record, of sorts …

In batting England into a dominant position Ben Stokes and Ben Foakes also staked a claim of setting a record for England’s highest rhyming batting partnership in Tests.

Quite whose record their 173 eclipsed rather depends on the level of poetic pedantry applied. Certainly they went past Stokes and Chris Woakes (83 in Auckland in 2018) and Woakes and Foakes (75 in Bridgetown earlier this year), while Peter Willey and Graham Dilley could muster only a best of 36 in Antigua in 1981.

Thereafter the vanquished contenders become a little more contentious. Pat Pocock and Tony Lock’s 109 in Guyana in 1968 was comfortably surpassed. They also went past the fairly spurious claim of Dennis Amiss and Mike Denness (151 in Christchurch in 1975) and the stretching-it-a-little-but-maybe-if-you-squint effort of Douglas Jardine and Bryan Valentine of 145 in Mumbai in 1933.

The global standard, though, remains the technically-correct-but-it-feels-like-a-bit-of-a-cheat duo of Mahela Jayawardene and Prasanna Jayawardene, who put on 351 for Sri Lanka against India in Ahmedabad in 2009. Those unsatisfied by that cop out may prefer to argue about the merits of the 206 made by Pakistan’s Inzamam-ul-Haq and Abdul Razzaq in Georgetown in 2000.”

 

[Muteswan]

Enjoyed this snippet from The Guardian earlier.

“Quick Guide

Poetry in motion: An England Test record, of sorts …

In batting England into a dominant position Ben Stokes and Ben Foakes also staked a claim of setting a record for England’s highest rhyming batting partnership in Tests.

Quite whose record their 173 eclipsed rather depends on the level of poetic pedantry applied. Certainly they went past Stokes and Chris Woakes (83 in Auckland in 2018) and Woakes and Foakes (75 in Bridgetown earlier this year), while Peter Willey and Graham Dilley could muster only a best of 36 in Antigua in 1981.

Thereafter the vanquished contenders become a little more contentious. Pat Pocock and Tony Lock’s 109 in Guyana in 1968 was comfortably surpassed. They also went past the fairly spurious claim of Dennis Amiss and Mike Denness (151 in Christchurch in 1975) and the stretching-it-a-little-but-maybe-if-you-squint effort of Douglas Jardine and Bryan Valentine of 145 in Mumbai in 1933.

The global standard, though, remains the technically-correct-but-it-feels-like-a-bit-of-a-cheat duo of Mahela Jayawardene and Prasanna Jayawardene, who put on 351 for Sri Lanka against India in Ahmedabad in 2009. Those unsatisfied by that cop out may prefer to argue about the merits of the 206 made by Pakistan’s Inzamam-ul-Haq and Abdul Razzaq in Georgetown in 2000.”

 

[Swanjaxs]

Enjoyed this snippet from The Guardian earlier.

“Quick Guide

Poetry in motion: An England Test record, of sorts …

In batting England into a dominant position Ben Stokes and Ben Foakes also staked a claim of setting a record for England’s highest rhyming batting partnership in Tests.

Quite whose record their 173 eclipsed rather depends on the level of poetic pedantry applied. Certainly they went past Stokes and Chris Woakes (83 in Auckland in 2018) and Woakes and Foakes (75 in Bridgetown earlier this year), while Peter Willey and Graham Dilley could muster only a best of 36 in Antigua in 1981.

Thereafter the vanquished contenders become a little more contentious. Pat Pocock and Tony Lock’s 109 in Guyana in 1968 was comfortably surpassed. They also went past the fairly spurious claim of Dennis Amiss and Mike Denness (151 in Christchurch in 1975) and the stretching-it-a-little-but-maybe-if-you-squint effort of Douglas Jardine and Bryan Valentine of 145 in Mumbai in 1933.

The global standard, though, remains the technically-correct-but-it-feels-like-a-bit-of-a-cheat duo of Mahela Jayawardene and Prasanna Jayawardene, who put on 351 for Sri Lanka against India in Ahmedabad in 2009. Those unsatisfied by that cop out may prefer to argue about the merits of the 206 made by Pakistan’s Inzamam-ul-Haq and Abdul Razzaq in Georgetown in 2000.”

https://youtu.be/oh4iF_Si_2E

 

[Swanjaxs]

Anderson and Robinson bang on the money this morning

 

[exiledclaseboy]

Start the car.

 

[Swanjaxs]

Superb from the seamers today

 

[exiledclaseboy]

Superb from the seamers today

Yup. Brilliant all round match performance. Fully expect them to goon amd win the series the week after next.