Fixtures/b]
November
6 v Diamond Eagles, 50-over tour match, BloemfonteinEngland won by 185 runs
8 v Warriors, 50-over tour match, KimberleyEngland won by eight wickets
10 v South Africa A, 20-over tour match, Bloemfontein (d/n)Play starts 1600 GMT
13 1st Twenty20 international, Wanderers, Johannesburg (d/n)Play starts 1600 GMT
15 2nd Twenty20 international, CenturionPlay starts 1230 GMT
17 v South Africa A, 50-over tour match, Potchefstroom (d/n)Play starts 1230 GMT
20 1st one-day international, Wanderers, Johannesburg (d/n)Play starts 1230 GMT
22 2nd one-day international, CenturionPlay starts 0800 GMT
27 3rd one-day international, Newlands, Cape Town (d/n)Play starts 1230 GMT
29 4th one-day international, St George's, Port ElizabethPlay starts 0800 GMT
December
4 5th one-day international, Kingsmead, Durban (d/n)Play starts 1230 GMT
9-10 v SA Airways Challenge XI, East LondonPlay starts 0830 GMT
11-12 v SA Airways Challenge XI, East LondonPlay starts 0830 GMT
16-20 1st Test, CenturionPlay starts 0830 GMT
26-30 2nd Test, Kingsmead, DurbanPlay starts 0830 GMT
January
3-7 3rd Test, Newlands, Cape TownPlay starts 0830 GMT
14-18 4th Test, Wanderers, JohannesburgPlay starts 0830 GMT
[b]The England Touring SquadTest squad: Andrew Strauss (Middlesex - captain), Alastair Cook (Essex - vice captain), James Anderson (Lancashire), Ian Bell (Warwickshire), Stuart Broad (Nottinghamshire), Paul Collingwood (Durham), Steven Davies (Surrey), Graham Onions (Durham), Kevin Pietersen (Hampshire), Liam Plunkett (Durham), Matt Prior (Sussex), Adil Rashid (Yorkshire), Ryan Sidebottom (Nottinghamshire), Graeme Swann (Nottinghamshire), Jonathan Trott (Warwickshire), Luke Wright (Sussex).
One-day squad: Andrew Strauss (Middlesex - captain), James Anderson (Lancashire), Tim Bresnan (Yorkshire), Stuart Broad (Nottinghamshire), Paul Collingwood (Durham), Alastair Cook (Essex), Joe Denly (Kent), Sajid Mahmood (Lancashire), Eoin Morgan (Middlesex), Graham Onions (Durham), Kevin Pietersen (Hampshire), Matt Prior (Sussex), Adil Rashid (Yorkshire), Graeme Swann (Nottinghamshire), Jonathan Trott (Warwickshire), Luke Wright (Sussex).
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 9 November 2009 20:10 (fifteen years ago)
SA are the no1 ranked team in the world. Predictions anyone?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 9 November 2009 20:11 (fifteen years ago)
SA to win, but a close series. SA batting too strong, England won't take enough wickets.
― Neil S, Monday, 9 November 2009 20:13 (fifteen years ago)
And only people born in South Africa will score centuries? ;)
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 9 November 2009 20:13 (fifteen years ago)
Quite possible yeah! Alistair Cook, your country needs you!
― Neil S, Monday, 9 November 2009 20:14 (fifteen years ago)
I hope they dont push Trott up to 3. KP doesn't have a good enough defense to bat at 3, but then again, Bell hasn't exactly shone at 3. We seem to have too many batsmen that prefer to bat at 5!
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 9 November 2009 20:15 (fifteen years ago)
I expect Trott will be given a go at 3 since Bell scores all his runs at 5.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 9 November 2009 20:18 (fifteen years ago)
Still, we have a one day series to get out of the way first.
Good work setting this one up. My prediction is that South Africa will batter England, and that I'll hardly get to see any of it. I'm still resisting the call of Sky.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 9 November 2009 20:47 (fifteen years ago)
I'm predicting there will be more Scots than English on this thread as usual!!
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 9 November 2009 20:49 (fifteen years ago)
I am less than excited to see a whole series of South Africa vs South Africa A.
― The Velvet Underground & Nico Rosberg (King Boy Pato), Monday, 9 November 2009 22:00 (fifteen years ago)
we're South Africa right
― joekin' phoenix (country matters), Monday, 9 November 2009 22:32 (fifteen years ago)
more like Natal really
― The Velvet Underground & Nico Rosberg (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 00:33 (fifteen years ago)
my internet romance is cuter than your internet romance
― joekin' phoenix (country matters), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 00:34 (fifteen years ago)
<3
my internet romance has a basis in reality unlike your internet romance England's bowling attack
― The Velvet Underground & Nico Rosberg (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 00:36 (fifteen years ago)
douglas bollinger was SHITE for WORCESTERSHIRE and now he is your BEST BOWLER
― joekin' phoenix (country matters), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 00:37 (fifteen years ago)
oh do you mean the best bowler in the team that just beat India in India??
― The Velvet Underground & Nico Rosberg (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 00:38 (fifteen years ago)
they weren't trying...they beat THEMSELVES i mean 19 off 18 w/ 4 wkts in hand and trundler mcgay bowling = come the fuck on
― joekin' phoenix (country matters), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 00:40 (fifteen years ago)
crumbling under the mental pressure from MAGIC JOHNSON you know
― The Velvet Underground & Nico Rosberg (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 00:42 (fifteen years ago)
yeah ok you put 'em under the wood but i mean every internet romance ever >>> munaf patel, ishant sharma and ashish nehra
― joekin' phoenix (country matters), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 00:43 (fifteen years ago)
that'll be the first and last times I see those names in the same sentence as "internet romance", I hope
― The Velvet Underground & Nico Rosberg (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 00:44 (fifteen years ago)
an idea fraught with mischief, Google, and sheer unabated horror just crossed my mind, but i killed it by thinking about how nathan hauritz is the new gavin robertson
― joekin' phoenix (country matters), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 00:47 (fifteen years ago)
and wait johnson wasn't bowling during the final overs of that thrilling sachin-powered chase
because he was a LIABILITY
― joekin' phoenix (country matters), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 00:48 (fifteen years ago)
oh wait i mean he WASN'T IN THE XI
― joekin' phoenix (country matters), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 00:49 (fifteen years ago)
so THERE
compared to the English bowling attack which wouldn't be allowed inside the insurance office let alone offered a firm rejection on a policy
― The Velvet Underground & Nico Rosberg (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 00:50 (fifteen years ago)
anyway, Australian cricket talk belongs here: A Farewell to Beige, Cream and Off-White Jackets: The Official Cape of Good Hope 2009/10 Cricket Season Thread
this thread should be left to zings at the KP Krew
― The Velvet Underground & Nico Rosberg (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 00:51 (fifteen years ago)
Woo! The Ashes are back on peasant telly. In, uh, 2017. Will telly even exist then?
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 12 November 2009 11:51 (fifteen years ago)
now you will see fuck all cricket in the afternoons.Cricket on the BBC & Ch4:2 mins of cricket, 10 mins of pre racing bullshit,the horserace,10 mins after the racing,2mins of cricket (ch4 version has adverts too)If wimbledon or the british open is on you get even less.
Sky doesnt miss 1 moment, so if cricket returns to terrestrial tv then they must guarantee that every ball bowled will be shown.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 12 November 2009 15:03 (fifteen years ago)
dere pfunkboy:
all of these channels now have freeview options, red buttons and everything else a channel-hopping sports nut like myself might want
calm down
luv
moi
― the juddering triumph of camembert (acoleuthic), Thursday, 12 November 2009 15:04 (fifteen years ago)
denly and cook questioning why they were picked
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 13 November 2009 16:35 (fifteen years ago)
Geoff Boycott on TMS: "Another one goes playing across the line, that's elementary. That ball should have been hit straight back past the bowler. They might as well give the England batsmen a crooked walking stick."Wicket falls3.4 overs - WICKET! Cook lbw McLaren 11, Eng 25-2
Wicket falls3.4 overs - WICKET! Cook lbw McLaren 11, Eng 25-2
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 13 November 2009 16:36 (fifteen years ago)
oh no trott is the new shah/bopara
6.5 overs - WICKET! Trott run out 33, Eng 61-3What are you doing lad?! Just as England start to press the pedal to the metal, Jonathan Trott completely unnecessarily takes on the arm of Proteas captain Graeme Smith for a quick single and Roelof van der Merwe whips off the bails with the number three well short of his ground. Wreckless. Eoin Morgan gets off the mark first ball, England 62-3.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 13 November 2009 16:45 (fifteen years ago)
Colly hitting sixes!
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 13 November 2009 17:08 (fifteen years ago)
and out
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 13 November 2009 17:14 (fifteen years ago)
ok morgan, that six, was outrageous
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 13 November 2009 17:27 (fifteen years ago)
now a conventional big hit six!
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 13 November 2009 17:28 (fifteen years ago)
202-6 Morgan 85 n.o.
Smith & co will prob wipe those off in 15 mind you, but it's a good score.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 13 November 2009 17:37 (fifteen years ago)
Typical, it's pissing down.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 13 November 2009 18:55 (fifteen years ago)
a. stoked, b. who wants to watch this (well, the last two sessions of a day) in a pub avec moi
lookin at you, uptosmelleven
― 102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic), Thursday, 10 December 2009 04:50 (fifteen years ago)
L. Jagger in watching England lose whilst drinking bottles of Strongbow shock.
― Worse Lieutenant (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 10 December 2009 04:53 (fifteen years ago)
at least we weren't outplayed at home by the women's institute amirite??!
― 102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic), Thursday, 10 December 2009 04:54 (fifteen years ago)
there's a new cider taking over the country and it's called WESTON'S!!!
― 102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic), Thursday, 10 December 2009 04:55 (fifteen years ago)
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y161/MarkGrout/indie.jpg
― 102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic), Thursday, 10 December 2009 05:00 (fifteen years ago)
Until they base an advertising campaign on the theme of "love".
― Worse Lieutenant (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 10 December 2009 05:00 (fifteen years ago)
btw Aspall's is kinda terrible, Kopparberg still scarily drinkable
― 102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic), Thursday, 10 December 2009 05:02 (fifteen years ago)
CIDER. Now that's powerful stuff.
― Worse Lieutenant (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 10 December 2009 05:06 (fifteen years ago)
Cider changes things.Upsets things.Conquers things.Cider is at the root of everything good that has ever happened, and will ever happen.
― Worse Lieutenant (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 10 December 2009 05:08 (fifteen years ago)
Not you, Saffer Graeme. You're OUT and your team has FAILED
― HELLO MY NAME IS TWILIGHT AND I AM A DRACULA (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 13:40 (fifteen years ago)
blimey
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 13:43 (fifteen years ago)
hi!
― what kind of present your naked body (Upt0eleven), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 13:51 (fifteen years ago)
lj enjoying it?when will SA start pretending it's too dark to bat?
― Pfunkboy : The Dronelord vs The Girly Metal Daleks (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 13:57 (fifteen years ago)
i went to see Avatar and came back to THIS
― jabba hands, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 14:41 (fifteen years ago)
would have had more fun sitting here refreshing cricinfo tbh
― jabba hands, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 14:45 (fifteen years ago)
graeme swann = the real sports personality of the year
― jabba hands, Saturday, December 19, 2009 2:21 AM (1 week ago)
― jabba hands, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 10:47 (fifteen years ago)
Maybe they should give him an OBE then.
― Christmas With Mark Hollis (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 10:51 (fifteen years ago)
the keys to australia
― HELLO MY NAME IS TWILIGHT AND I AM A DRACULA (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 10:58 (fifteen years ago)
He's not THE HAURICANE.
― Christmas With Mark Hollis (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 11:50 (fifteen years ago)
I always thought THE HAURITZER was a better nickname
― HELLO MY NAME IS TWILIGHT AND I AM A DRACULA (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 11:55 (fifteen years ago)
He doesn't have the explosive "aggro" of a Stuart MacGill to be named after a gun.
― Christmas With Mark Hollis (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 12:08 (fifteen years ago)
Sixteen overs left. Five wickets in hand. Never in doubt.
― what kind of present your naked body (Upt0eleven), Thursday, 7 January 2010 14:41 (fifteen years ago)
wasn't gonna jinx it by posting in this thread.....
― jabba hands, Thursday, 7 January 2010 14:49 (fifteen years ago)
If only Pakistan had an eighth of Ian Bell's steel
― Electric Universe (wherever that is) (acoleuthic), Thursday, 7 January 2010 14:49 (fifteen years ago)
Ctrl-F "Rorke's Drift" - found nothing. Maybe I'm on the wrong thread.
Exciting though, innit?
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 7 January 2010 14:51 (fifteen years ago)
Collingwood - 40 from 188 ballsBell - 68 from 182
Now that's test cricket.
― what kind of present your naked body (Upt0eleven), Thursday, 7 January 2010 14:54 (fifteen years ago)
Collingwood gone.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 7 January 2010 14:55 (fifteen years ago)
lj you need to beat him^ up for jinxing itxp
― Pfunkboy : The Dronelord vs The Girly Metal Daleks (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 7 January 2010 14:55 (fifteen years ago)
bugger. not my fault.
― what kind of present your naked body (Upt0eleven), Thursday, 7 January 2010 15:01 (fifteen years ago)
Yeah, really not looking so good now. 12 overs, three wickets.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 7 January 2010 15:05 (fifteen years ago)
I didn't actually jinx it! The Shermanator prevails. Make him captain ffs ;-)
― Electric Universe (wherever that is) (acoleuthic), Thursday, 7 January 2010 15:06 (fifteen years ago)
oh wait you mean Nick! Yeah, I'll roll to Dulwich with some dudes
― Electric Universe (wherever that is) (acoleuthic), Thursday, 7 January 2010 15:07 (fifteen years ago)
O
― Electric Universe (wherever that is) (acoleuthic), Thursday, 7 January 2010 15:41 (fifteen years ago)
17 balls. That's all.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 7 January 2010 15:43 (fifteen years ago)
aargh can't stand this
― Neil S, Thursday, 7 January 2010 15:44 (fifteen years ago)
btw it would be tough on SA if this was drawn too
― Electric Universe (wherever that is) (acoleuthic), Thursday, 7 January 2010 15:46 (fifteen years ago)
;-)
now come the fuck on graeme onions
― Electric Universe (wherever that is) (acoleuthic), Thursday, 7 January 2010 15:53 (fifteen years ago)
Morkel v Onions for six balls.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 7 January 2010 15:54 (fifteen years ago)
2 balls....
― Electric Universe (wherever that is) (acoleuthic), Thursday, 7 January 2010 15:56 (fifteen years ago)
review!
― Neil S, Thursday, 7 January 2010 15:57 (fifteen years ago)
not out!
last ball!!
― Electric Universe (wherever that is) (acoleuthic), Thursday, 7 January 2010 15:58 (fifteen years ago)
yesssssss
― Electric Universe (wherever that is) (acoleuthic), Thursday, 7 January 2010 15:59 (fifteen years ago)
Love them Onions!
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 7 January 2010 15:59 (fifteen years ago)
yesss!!! lol xp
― Neil S, Thursday, 7 January 2010 15:59 (fifteen years ago)
:D
― jabba hands, Thursday, 7 January 2010 15:59 (fifteen years ago)
i can sit down now and stop pacing the room
― Pfunkboy : The Dronelord vs The Girly Metal Daleks (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 7 January 2010 16:00 (fifteen years ago)
a cracking series this btw fuck 20/20
― Pfunkboy : The Dronelord vs The Girly Metal Daleks (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 7 January 2010 16:01 (fifteen years ago)
From Shay Ladd, London, TMS inbox: "And Onions has reduced the South Africans to tears... That would normally be too awful a joke to make but I am dancing round the office with my shirt over my head - my judgement has clearly been compromised!"
― Pfunkboy : The Dronelord vs The Girly Metal Daleks (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 7 January 2010 16:04 (fifteen years ago)
Never in doubt.
― what kind of present your naked body (Upt0eleven), Thursday, 7 January 2010 14:41 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― what kind of present your naked body (Upt0eleven), Thursday, 7 January 2010 16:07 (fifteen years ago)
dont you fucking ever do that again btw !! :)
― Pfunkboy : The Dronelord vs The Girly Metal Daleks (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 7 January 2010 16:14 (fifteen years ago)
This has real parallels with the WI-England series of last year. With us as the WI.
― Electric Universe (wherever that is) (acoleuthic), Thursday, 7 January 2010 16:17 (fifteen years ago)
I've been busy all day, devastated to miss this. Is anything in sport a tenth as thrilling as a test match drawn on a knife-edge?
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 7 January 2010 17:51 (fifteen years ago)
yeah, winning one.
― Pfunkboy : The Dronelord vs The Girly Metal Daleks (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 7 January 2010 17:59 (fifteen years ago)
So.... that went well.
― what kind of present your naked body (Upt0eleven), Thursday, 14 January 2010 13:04 (fifteen years ago)
woooooooo go lads
― Do the english boil pizza? (acoleuthic), Thursday, 14 January 2010 14:56 (fifteen years ago)
I CAN FEEL AN EPIC DRAW COMING ON
― jabba hands, Thursday, 14 January 2010 14:58 (fifteen years ago)
this England team's deficiencies could run, but they couldn't hide
― Do the english boil pizza? (acoleuthic), Sunday, 17 January 2010 10:32 (fifteen years ago)