Cricket

[sdennan]

anyone know the NZ v England result?

[Techno]

Didn't NZ just win ? 
After the heroic effort by England, with the bat, I might have got that wrong,
Cheers - Phil

[Ithoriel]

New Zealand    125-2 (12.2 overs)
England        123 (33.2 overs)

New Zealand won by 8 wickets

At least that's what the BBC reckons

[Leman]

England were battered.

[Zippee]

It was a reduced team game  

McCullum and Southee v England XI

England lost (badly)

[NTM]

Everything will be alright we've got Scotland next 

[Fenton]

It is a bit embarrassing when you play a day/night game and its over so quickly that the floodlights dont  even have to be switched on

[getagrip]

Everything will be alright we've got Scotland next 

The form we're in I wouldn't count on it

[FierceKitty]

If you mount strips of volcanic glass around the edge of a cricket bat, you're halfway to a far more entertaining passtime.

[getagrip]

If you mount strips of volcanic glass around the edge of a cricket bat, you're halfway to a far more entertaining passtime.

Didn't the Aztecs use to...oh...I see what you did there...

[Sandinista]

It's not proper cricket, the test matches are the only real form of the game. I don't watch this bastardisation of the game 

Cheers
Ian

[Roy]

Due to my IPL allegiance to the Kolkata Knight Riders I support the Indian cricket team

[Fenton]

Due to my IPL allegiance to the Kolkata Knight Riders I support the Indian cricket team

My wife likes KKR as well...though more to do with Shah Ruk Khan I think

[getagrip]

IPL is Bingo in cricket form!

[Ithoriel]

Don't watch this bastardisation of a game 

Cheers
Ian

FIFY

[Fenton]

Sadly I think the popularity of cricket is dying a death since it all went to SKY.

[getagrip]

Sadly I think the popularity of cricket is dying a death since it all went to SKY.

Murdoch poisons all his grubby little claws touch

[Fenton]

I shall be wrting to the ICC soon with my plan on how to fix international cricket

[getagrip]

Wow, two things you'll have to actually do for yourself in one day! 

[Roy]

Yeah, I think there should be a dedicated sports channel on free-to-view tv, as passed through a parliamentary bill, paid for with the TV licence, used in an effort to get more people active and into sports.
Drop Eastenders for a start, or shove it sideways onto a commercial channel. Cricket being a staple of the sports channel, as the sport is more open to people from a wider background. It's my opinion that amateur cricketers don't require to be as physically gifted as footballers/gymnastics/rowers/long-distance runners, so more children could be encouraged into the sport - a side benefit being they would be taught good manners and good sportsmanship (unlike football).

It won't happen. But it was something I thought of while waiting for the kettle to boil.