Vaughan knee will be ok;using SA as springboard to Ashes

So it's welcome to the house of fun?

Red wrote:He's also confident his wonky knee can get through the season.

He should be OK, playing down the wrong line and getting bowled out for single figures every other innings shouldn't cause him too much distress.

I think it's great that he's playing this series. It'll boost the TV commentary credibility next year to have player who's retired so recently in the box for the 09 Ashes.

GT: Nah, he can take the positives out of that.

Serioulsy, is there anything Yaughan can't take positives out of?

Zat wrote:I think it's great that he's playing this series. It'll boost the TV commentary credibility next year to have player who's retired so recently in the box for the 09 Ashes.

A big hit in the box?

His pain is just beginning.

PeterCS wrote:A big hit in the box?

That was Bumble facing Thommo, wasn't it?

It's a not uncommon occurrence.

Flynn probably wishes he had got half-spayed instead of dedented.

PeterCS wrote:GT: Nah, he can take the positives out of that.

Did Vaughany get interviewed at the close of play? Just how many positives were there today?

Errol?

Danny (not ours)

GT: I didn't see.

Geoffrey Trueman wrote:Did Vaughany get interviewed at the close of play? Just how many positives were there today?

Don't know, but can you imagine it?

Interviewer: Michael, a great day for England, 309 for 3, batting looked really easy out there.

Yaughan: Yes, The first one I faced I saw like a watermelon...

Zat wrote:So what happens if England are smashed by South Africa and Yaughan plays like crap? Not a great 'springboard'.

Bumpity bump...

The knee is fine. ...

but the form is...?

Zat wrote:

Zat wrote:So what happens if England are smashed by South Africa and Yaughan plays like crap? Not a great 'springboard'.

Bumpity bump...

sage and prescient comment from zat

horace wrote:

Zat wrote:

Zat wrote:So what happens if England are smashed by South Africa and Yaughan plays like crap? Not a great 'springboard'.

Bumpity bump...

sage and prescient comment from zat

Even more so. I'm starting to like Yaughan more and more.

Zat wrote:but the form is...?

hard to judge in one ball

Geoffrey Trueman wrote:

PeterCS wrote:GT: Nah, he can take the positives out of that.

Did Vaughany get interviewed at the close of play? Just how many positives were there today?

There were things England could be positive about - but only in the same way you could be HIV positive.

He should be kneecaped.

mynah wrote:

Geoffrey Trueman wrote:

PeterCS wrote:GT: Nah, he can take the positives out of that.

Did Vaughany get interviewed at the close of play? Just how many positives were there today?

There were things England could be positive about - but only in the same way you could be HIV positive.

Well SA is nearly 200 still in deficit, the weather may assist the swing bowlers today, they have Harris at the crease and they dismissed the effeminate captain cheaply.

This test is still delicately poised.

Demelza wrote:kneecaped

Sounds like something Superman would wear at a bucks night.

For just a moment, I thought cricinfo had left the man who is using this series as a springboard to the Ashes off the list of series bating averages...

Lurking just above Monty Panesar in Engalnd's averages, there he is...

MP Vaughan
Mat 3
Inns 5
NO 0
Runs 40
HS 21
Ave 8.00
BF 82
SR 48.78
100s 0
50s 0
0s 2
4s 7
6s 0

Bring on the Ashes I say.

You can have 'em now.

They come gift wrapped and signed off with love by Petey and Mikey.

Leave me out of this.