Australia v England, 2nd ODI, Brisbane, 17 January, 2014

I last followed this game when Australia was 120/5 chasing 301 in the south Indian city once called Bangalore. Appropriately named, given what happened. It's called Bengaluru now, even more appropriate in Hindi.

Well bend me over and call me Sally.

skully wrote:He's done it!!! Un-farkin-believable!!!

Fork - legend!!! Mr Dog will be spewing that he missed this!!

Caught the highlights. You would have thought something like this could only happen in India with Joe the Bookie looking on.

You caught the highlights - England were caught in the headlights.

Forked over by a fork.

Yeah, it was only a JAMODI, but I woke up this morning and my first thought was "shit, we won that from nowhere last night".

Every now and then a classic remarkable effort is thrown up in the interminable clutter of one day cricket. Last night was such a moment.

Fork can dine out on that for ages. Well at least until Sunday at the SCG.  

embee wrote:WTF ?????

How the ****** do you let the last pair score 50 odd at 10 an over?

Fork basically farmed the strike brilliantly, and smoked a couple of boundaries in each of those 5 overs, many of them 6s. He never panicked, and got the equation down to 12 off the last. He managed to spoon a slower Brezzy bouncer over the keeper's head for 4 on ball one, then smashed 4s off the next 2 to not even bother taken it to the wire.

Remarkable display of cool finishing by Fork. It showed that his effort at Mohali last year was far from a fluke.

embee wrote:WTF ?????

How the ****** do you let the last pair score 50 odd at 10 an over?

At the present time, it's a very English thing to do.
And it's called a f**k up. . . where, right now, we couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery brimming with beer.

Get Freddie on the coaching staff - at least that would solve the piss-up problem.

skully wrote:

embee wrote:WTF ?????

How the ****** do you let the last pair score 50 odd at 10 an over?

Fork basically farmed the strike brilliantly, and smoked a couple of boundaries in each of those 5 overs, many of them 6s. He never panicked, and got the equation down to 12 off the last. He managed to spoon a slower Brezzy bouncer over the keeper's head for 4 on ball one, then smashed 4s off the next 2 to not even bother taken it to the wire.

Remarkable display of cool finishing by Fork. It showed that his effort at Mohali last year was far from a fluke.

All enabled by some horrendous English bowling, tactics and captaincy!

Well, that was the final insult of a miserable tour. Faulkner is definitely a dickhead.

From watching the highlights it seems every ball we bowled at him was on a good length and in the arc?

The very same good length that in the Test series eluded us like a 16 year old boy fumbling around in the dark trying to unhook a bra.

Henry Nolonga wrote:

Brass Monkey wrote:I'd love to be able to watch the funereal SL/Pak match.

Zee Cinema.

I'm assuming you already subscribe to the Asian channels on Sky/Virgin.

Henry Nolonga is definitely one of the more enigmatic posters on the Bails.

Apparently* the English Sun ran the headline "What the Faulk?"

Pithy.

Enjoy!!

England came to the fork in the road and ....

One thing forgotten in all this though and perhaps the only consolation for the poms is that despite the WTF finish, Australia managed to concede 300 too and their top order essentially failed which has been a common backdrop to the summer.

I imagine the fact that the Aus top order keeps failing, yet the Poms still can't win makes the whole affair even more galling to English supporters.

Gary 111 wrote:Well, that was the final insult of a miserable tour. .

Seems optimistic. There could be many more insults to come.

Henry Nolonga wrote:

Brass Monkey wrote:I'd love to be able to watch the funereal SL/Pak match.

Zee Cinema.

I'm assuming you already subscribe to the Asian channels on Sky/Virgin.

I did have it, but I gave it up when I couldn't understand words.

an absolutely golden thread...it should not be lost...think it shd be rikki'ed until the poms play in a match show some gumption..

feel a bit for timid timmy...the gently carthorse who can bowl (sort of) and bat a bit (sort of)..

and for Root whose career is in freefall

above all I feel for Cook, who has been decent throughout

was going to wrote on friday - where was Princess Filth?...but did not...he was clearly preparing his make up for the last appearance he was to make as a pom cricketer