Don't watch it or comment on it then

Simple - just like you!

Sorry for the delayed reply Mike.

The Cricket sent me to sleep.







I've woken up now and it appears Canada have THREE Canadians in the team by the way. Thats 3 more than I thought it would be.

Go those crazy 'Canucks' I say

Or maybe they're Canadians with Indian etc backgrounds? Don't say you've just seen a load of foreign looking names and made an assumption.



You'll be producing Midsomer Murders next

tbf apparantly only 3 are Candian born.

but still legally Canadian in the way that Trott, Pietersen et al are English

Oh well, that's the end of that then. Shambles.

Don't worry - Wright will save the day.

I think we need 250 to have a chance here, Wright is going okay but he needs to stick around until the end and hopefully the others can give him a bit of support.

I wouldn't be surprised if a fair number of them want to come home after 5 knackering months away. Perhaps that explains the crap performances and lack of consistency

Care to explain whats 'knackering' about playing cricket?

One day cricket admittedly is a little more physical than the test match version.

On a test match if you are a lower end batsman like Jimmy Anderson you might spend 2 out of the 5 days sitting in the pavillion if your side is batting well.

Not exactly the Royal Marines selection course is it?



Cricketers must have the easiest life out of any 'sportsmen' this side of playing golf

If you've ever played, you'd know. Plus try spending 5 months away from home and travelling every few days and then tell me you're not tired and fed up.

You didn't think that reply through did you?

So whats 'knackering' about playing cricket?

Or not.

If you or I travelled abroad for 5 months there is a fair chance we would have to plan some (if not all) of our trip ourselves.

We would have to get ourselves to the airports, check our own luggage in, fly economy (maybe) find our way to our hotels, sort our own laundry out, Find something decent to eat, figure out how to get around the places we were going....and repeat this all over again when we moved off somewhere else.


An England cricketer doesnt have to do any of this.


They stay in all the top hotels, fly business class, escorted everywhere on arrival etc etc... all they have to do is turn up.


And then when it finally comes down to playing cricket, if it's a test match most of the team spend most of the game standing about on the boundary ropes signing autographs for spectators.






The poor souls must be worn out after 5 long arduous months of that

Simple equation then. Restrict the Windies to <243 runs or come home early.

The way Chris Gayle's started, they may as well get shifted to an earlier flight.

Bresnan two overs for 21 ... impressive.


Hang on Tremlett's out to beat him.
One over for 18.


50 for 0 (5.0 overs)

Game on now though.

This is infuriating. Every time I think England have no chance, they drag themselves back into it.

Is there a difference between the batting powerplay and bowling powerplay?

HTH

God that's close. Think they got the right call though.

England have made throwing away games an artform during this world cup.

Very clever smart. Most useful



I mean how does it equate out on the field as I had a quick look on google and couldn't find anything about a bowling powerplay. I understand that in the batting powerplay there can only be 3 outfielders. So what's different in a bowling one?

Nowt really. Just at whose behest it's taken.


This game is silly.