No England player has ever been shit on to the extent Matthew Hoggard has.

He took six wickets the first innings in a Test I was at, at Kandy but did a fetlock bowling at the start of the second innings. He missed the game at Colombo but wasn't badly injured he was bowling in the nets throughout the test and on the square in lunch/tea breaks. He then played at Galle and had a poor game, he played at Hamilton in the first test in New Zealand and again had a poor game. He was then binned and hasn't played since on the back of TWO poor games!! Harmison gets chance after chance and hasn't performed for three years.

He's a great bowler on flat tracks as well with his cutters and ability to swing the ball in most conditions, we have played on a lot of flat wickets recently as well

I've said it before, cricket is for the homs and the gays

Harmison has been out of form for years,he shouldn't play for England again.
If he didn't play for Durham you lot wouldn't be pissing yourselves anyway.

You're a funny guy chip!

I've never bowled leg spin.

I thought we were never gonna take another wicket.

I don't think we are.

Agreed

What's about exactly ... I thought the Umpire's word was sacrasant .. Its encouraging players to question the decision of a match official and sending the wrong signal to the youngsters out there..



Its definitely not cricket.....

It shouldn't be used for LBWs. Leg Before's are just guesswork down to the judgement of the standing umpire. This is the bit I hate about it and hopefully the ICC will remove referrals for this.

Just catching up on the cricket now. WTF is happening with these referrals?

Is Daryl Harper related to Lee Mason?

Howay then cliché time:

"This match has got draw written all over it"

The pitch is as flat as a pancake.

Can someone explain to me what Owais Shah is bowling?

This is an awful wicket for the game of cricket, the ICC have to do something about tracks like this.

I think it's called right-arm soup.

The only exciting thing about this test is Nasser's grilling of the ICC referee over the referrals.

And the fanny in the crowd.

We've got a wicket!!!!

you aint there though, you're here!


ho ho ho

I think we're only keeping the West Indies in so that we don't go through any more referrals in this game.

gravy was on with his apprentice last night in full swing, looks like hes emigrated to barbados

one of the commentators came up with a brilliant idea or desperate plea which ever way you look at it. "when the west indies get to 600 cant we all just shake hands and go home" think it was holding not sure tho.

The way its going I can actually see us losing this game.

To quote Bumble (who doesn't look well by the way) on Sky about ten minutes ago "If we lose this I'll show me backside on the Brecon Beacons"

The wicket is still as flat as a Witches tit, if this was a timeless test it would still be a draw because they had to catch the boat home.

We should hold on but this is England. We can fold faster than the global economy.

Some of Sussex's post are more interesting than the cricket.

Lets hope there's more life in the pitch in the next game.

a total of 1,600 runs in the match!!!!
Frig!!

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Lets hope there's a pitch for the next game....

No. thats wheel spin

This is the ball they are using......

Thank heavens that's over.

whats the most runs ever score in a test? that one cant be far off

It was only 14th (though the top 2 were timeless tests)

http://stats.cricinfo.com/ci/content/re ... 84002.html

That top one on the list - 680 plus EIGHT ball overs! The mind boggles.

In that Sri Lanka one, they were obviously only in it for the record if they just kept batting till Buddha got up from under his tree even when they were already hundreds ahead.

74 for i at lunch in Trinidad. We need a big score from Shah, as Shah does for his career.

This is like watching paint dry.

Yeah but wickets like this and the one in Jamaica will killl Test cricket MJ.

Looks like we've lost the series.

I meant Barbados.

I hope something dramatic happens on the final day. Its a bit like in India - win the first game then make all the other pitches like roads so there's no chance of a result..

This will cheer up all the bored cricket fans:

oo yes ill have two of those

The South Africa v Australia test is more exciting than ours at the moment. Been a good day's play so far.

Concurring longly and loudly.

Kallis has just found out the problem with trying to eat a cricket ball.

Johnson is quick.

I'm now worried about our chances of getting back the Ashes watching this.

Prior and Colly tons.