Bursting bubbles

Sturat Broad and Ian Bell. That is all.

The bubble was never fully formed. You play shit teams like Australia and India and you're going to feast like a starving Falstaff after smoking a henry of greens.

Aye. Still, given I never rated Broad, his form against us really surprised me, particularly in England. Then he stepped up v India against a good batting side (on paper).

Belf always looked technically sound, but Warne farked him in the head then the arse.

Warne? Shane f*cking Warne? Why single him out? Bell's been AF'd by anyone with some semblance of 'oomph'. Shucks, he was AF'd by a bunch of kids outside his local corner shop for coming back out having only nicked one packet of Rowntree's Fruity Mixerz.

As for Broad - as soon as he downed his pace he downed his threat. He only gained pace by going on a strength and conditioning programme (the same one as Finn). He needs to do it again. And quick.

Furry muff. It's just that Warne's toying with Belf in 2005 & 2006-07 sticks in my mind.

Everyone's had their fannyfun with Ian Ronald Bell. He's like the Katie Price of the Test arena.

Are you saying that you'd have to throw it around to hit the sides of Belf's bunghole?

I'm saying you could throw it three metres wide of off stump and he'd still get out.

I'm looking forward to a pretty 30 in T3.

Broad has slacked off, I reckon. Pure and simple. He got caught up in the whole 'best attack in the World' hype, stopped putting in the hard yards for a couple of months, and boom, he's fallen behind. His batting has gone backwards badly, as well.

skully wrote:I'm looking forward to a pretty 30 in T3.

I'm looking forward to see him put his head to the sky after he gets out, like he's been playing a blinder up until then.

With the whiplash sneer?

With the shake of the head and the incredulous smirk.

He learned everything he knows from Vaughan.

I'm looking forward to the "Look at me, I'm so tough and intimidating" skip down the wicket and hit over the top in his first three deliveries, before he doesn't do it again for the whole rest of his innings.

Still, I reckon he'll make runs at Calcutta. You read it here first. A pretty 60, at least.

lardbucket wrote:He learned everything he knows from Vaughan.

What positives would he take out of the first 2 Tests?

England won because Joseph William was born.

And that his maltesers have some matter in them.

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