Every comment he made was about some random cricketer who played like 3 tests a f*cking century ago and no one knew :lol:

You must be young then. Was the voice of the sport in the 80s and 90s. You should YouTube the video of him after the underarm incident.

He still focused more on the game than he did on his own personal glory something that cant be said for todays commentators.

:shock: :-s :roll: :oops: [-( [-x :-k :?

Yeh he was a decent commentator. Just brought up a lot of stuff that was like wtf are you on about mate :lol:

Most people would ask you wtf you're on about to be fair. His job was to commentate cricket - If you don't know the players that he's talking about, how is that his fault that you're not in the know? It's his entire job.

And lol at "decent commentator". The fuck are you on :lol:



Stop embarrassing yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlyG5wnW7I0

I don't know how to upload youtube links.

This is Shane Warne outwitting Darryll Cullinan. Richie susses it out as Warne does it and explains what Warne's doing. Then after Warne has bowled Cullinan, he explains it beautifully.

The guy was inimitable.

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Sky would be good because you get to listen to Mikey Holding who, imo, is the best cricket commentator in the world at the moment.

Ritchie is GOAT.

Yep love Holding. Big fan of Bumble even though he gets a bit chummy at times, and Ian Smith is class too.

I can't help but think he looks a but like Sasha Baron Cohen's "General Aladeen" from The Dictator :lol: Moeen Ali has a slightly narrower face though.

So England bowled out right at the end of Day 3 for 289. A pretty good effort by the Aussies. For it a little while it looked like Bell and Root were going to go on and put us to the sword, but once we got them out I thought we did well to curtail them to just over 400. So with 2 whole days of batting, we need 412 to win. Seems like a big total, but we've got 2 whole days of batting to do it in. All we have to do is play smart, and it's very do-able.

We've gone from being on the back foot in the first innings, to having an excellent chance of winning this. England will have to bowl really well. There's no reason why we can't go on to win this. England would surely have wanted 500+, and to bat well into after Lunch tomorrow.

Exactly^

Just play it smart and don't get out for shit LBWs.

Smith can put on 100+ most days quite easily, that total is well achievable however the bounce/turn in the pitch will really be there on Day 5 if we last that long (based off Lyon's bowling last night).

-PB

No chance we're gonna make 400 in the final innings. We'll get rolled tomorrow for 200. And Watson will get out lbw for 5.

This is most likely. Tough pitch to make 400 on. Still a chance though. Warner is the key IMO.

If we make it to stumps with 3 or less we are in with a chance.

-PB

A team has made 400+ in the final innings of a test very few times in the history of the entire sport. Its so unlikely, that if we did it, it would be our greatest ashes win ever.

In fact, I just checked it out that a team has only ever scored more than 400 runs in the final innings to win a test 4 times in the sport's history.

I think we can pull this off but everyone needs to pull their socks up. There's been a few selection mistakes imo.

Did they have 2 whole days to do it?

@ 160 overs its only like 2.5 an over.

-PB

Rogers needs to be the rock the innings is built around, he does not have to score much at all just occupy the crease. If he is 80 not out at stumps and we are not too many down then it will not be pretty cricket but will give a chance for victory. This is not about scoring runs, they will come if we bat long enough, it is about not getting out first and foremost.

They all took between 120 and 150 overs so I would say yes.

It will be very hard to defend on this pitch with their bowlers. The ball will seam and swing which will trap defending batsmen caught behind or LBW all day.

Our best chance would be to attack and hope for luck. Knock the cover off the ball early and stop it swinging. Stop their bowlers trapping us on the crease.

List of highest successful chases

http://www.itsonlycricket.com/entry/621/

Pakistan scored 3/382 to win against Ski Lanka only a few days ago, the sixth highest chase. It was also the highest inning of that match.

We don't have batsmen who can bat time though. Sure Rogers and Voges can, you can add Smith and Clarke to that maybe, but both of their natural games is to attack the bowling.

The worst thing our guys can do is try and change the way they play. It's just asking for trouble. IMO if we are going to win we'll need to score over 300 of them today.

The pitch is reversing both ways. No chance of Aussie pulling this off :lol:

If it's cloudy it will be lucky to make it to day 5 :lol:

Gah to lose Warner right on lunch, shit.

-PB

Fuck me.

-PB

1-0 Down, and Starc a chance to miss at least the next test. Siddle should do well at Lords though.

Yeah Siddle in for Starc, Marsh in for Watson.

-PB

There's every reason. The wicket is a nightmare to bat on. It would take players like Bradman, Dravid, Steve Waugh, etc. to do it. Unfortunately it's proving to be the case.

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