Sounds like Collys about to hang up the boots

Wizard post that!

Thought you'd be Goblin that up.

Improbable.

Cricinfo saying Colly's told the team this is his last test. I salute a humble and valuable servant of english cricket, and hats off him to him for going at the right time. Must be amazing to have been a part of the team that so comprehensively pulverised the old enemy this series, but he never really looked like contributing (except in the bowling stakes...).

A fond adieu!

Fair play, has been a great servant and without him we wouldn't have won the Ashes in 2009.

Winkle Spinner wrote:Cricinfo saying Colly's told the team this is his last test. I salute a humble and valuable servant of english cricket, and hats off him to him for going at the right time. Must be amazing to have been a part of the team that so comprehensively pulverised the old enemy this series, but he never really looked like contributing (except in the bowling stakes...).

A fond adieu!

And the catching stakes. How many runs has he saved us? That Ponting catch maybe even changed the course of the series. Give him another MBE I say. There's at least a couple of Aussies who won't be sledging him about it this time.

I hope Colly takes the final catch. That would mean he has taken a catch with his last moment of Test cricket, taken a wicket with his last ever ball in Test cricket and as a batsman with his last ball gifted an Aussie pie chucker his only ever wicket in Test cricket with a ridiculous slog.

Gary 111 wrote:I hope Colly takes the final catch. That would mean he has taken a catch with his last moment of Test cricket, taken a wicket with his last ever ball in Test cricket and as a batsman with his last ball gifted an Aussie pie chucker his only ever wicket in Test cricket with a ridiculous slog.

As long as it's not a regulation catch. Something like a shot that seems to be going for six but Colly jumps 60 foot in the air to pluck it out of the sky would do nicely.

MBE? Huh!


LORD COLLYSWOOD OF SHOTLEY BRIDGE has a ring to it.


Baron Strauss of Lord's

Earl Bell of Birmingham

Duke Anderson of Kookaburra

Crown Prince Cook of Chelmsford

Pasha Prior of Hove and Basho

Tsar Trott of Tonnage

Sultan Swann of Spin

High King Tremlett of the Land of Giants

Me Old Flower Bresnan of Castleford

Finn End of the Wedge

and Count Kevin of Pietermaritzburg

Farewell Colly. Matt Prior came with him for his lap of honour, and draped Colly in the flag of St George. Huge cheers from the Barmy Army. A great moment.