Eng v Zim, T20 WC, Cape Town, 13th September

Aye ... and to think I sat and listen to that garbage thinking that any moment now these clowns are going to say something sensible.

Wrong! They both fed off each other, so much so, they made the Monty Python parrot sketch seem positively irksome .

Good thing i had the volume down then and most of the time i was thinking why the f*ck have they got Blackwell in the studio?

Breaking news - Flower is out injured.

Probably going to be crucial. The batsmen will struggle now.

Andy Flower has just been stretchered off the field during practice.

England in injury shock crisis.

Fred is passed fit.

Not sure of the point of playing him in this game really

JKLever wrote:Fred is passed fit.

Not sure of the point of playing him in this game really

Its not going to be a doddle, the shorter format is a good leveller.

If he's here he should play. We may well need him!

Pft, doddle.

No way we'll be needing tacs 'disinterested' thread

JKLever wrote:Pft, doddle.

No way we'll be needing tacs 'disinterested' thread

WIFAN's already there

England team is

Maddy, Prior, Wright, Pietersen, Collingwood, Flintoff, Shah, Mascarenhas,
Schofield, Broad, Anderson.


FFS - why is Prior opening when Wright does it for Sussex?

FFS, Schofield...

Doomed

Where's that 'disinterested' thread?

So who has missed out?

Snape, Tremlett, who else?

From Cricinfo:

12.45pm Good afternoon and welcome to our coverage of England against Zimbabwe from Cape Town. It's bright and sunny and the teams are out warming up. It's hard to tell how hungover the Zimbabweans are ... in the England camp Chris Schofield is bowling plenty of long hops in the nets.


It's the last line that is a bit worrying

Cor there are some bangers there though. Can't see too much wrong with Prior up top, he's simply got to throw the bat from the off, no crabbing himself in. Bang, bang, next. S'how T20 should be.

England win toss and bat.

Think i'd have rather put them in tbh.

Their dwayne dibbley type of bowling always causes us strife

JKLever wrote:England win toss and bat.

Think i'd have rather put them in tbh.

Their dwayne dibbley type of bowling always causes us strife

Neh, meat and drink. We'll get 450.

JKLever wrote:England team is

Maddy, Prior, Wright, Pietersen, Collingwood, Flintoff, Shah, Mascarenhas,
Schofield, Broad, Anderson.


FFS - why is Prior opening when Wright does it for Sussex?

FFS, Schofield...

Doomed

Where's that 'disinterested' thread?

I called that a few days back. I knew they'd stick baldy in there opening and using great logic have the guy called up especially to exploit the first 6 overs not even batting in them to start with.

Even I couldn't foresee Schofield though, is this some sick joke? Do the Zimbo's have a weakness against long hops?

I guess at least he's a good fielder. Barring Prior and Shah its an excellent fielding team.

Just looks a decent T20 outfit. Compact bowling for the most part, good options if the sh!t hits the fan, good fielding unit and good powerful batting.

Now watch us get 60ao, drop 5 catches in Zim's chase of 4 overs.

So it's official that Schofield has to have the FFS suffix?

Henry Nolonga wrote:So it's official that Schofield has to have the FFS suffix?

In the absence of Jon Lewis,FFS - I think we'll make it so

Ok, I'm orf to watch.

Will give my summary on our carp efforts during the break in innings

Your having a larf!

FFS of course Schofield gets an FFS tag, he is the epitomy of FFS.

Snape's not playing. Mistake! Apart from his bowling the man is a T20 tactical genius!

The usual Test match start from England.

Better 2nd over..13 off it.

How AGBB do you think we should go? Haven't seen the pitch, don't know a good score... same one as yesterday. 150 was probably par there overall.

Maddy GGGAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWNNNNNN!!!!!!!!

20-1

Start the Car

First wicket down after 2.3 overs...