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  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,844
    FFS Smith, we all wanted to see Jimmy bat  :D
  • thetomahawkkid
    thetomahawkkid Posts: 763
    Not looking good for anyone with tickets for the weekend. The way test cricket is played nowadays, it must be getting close to the point when they decide to cut the games to four days. It is not good for anyone when test matches regularly get completed with days to spare. Perhaps we need to start batting like there are five days! 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,844
    thetomahawkkid said:
    Not looking good for anyone with tickets for the weekend. The way test cricket is played nowadays, it must be getting close to the point when they decide to cut the games to four days. It is not good for anyone when test matches regularly get completed with days to spare. Perhaps we need to start batting like there are five days! 
    Not good for anyone with Friday tickets...  :#
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,764
    Two first innings…

    Holder 0 (1) b Atkinson

    Atkinson 0 (1) b Holder

    First time ever in a Test match?
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,952
    Callumcafc said:
    Two first innings…

    Holder 0 (1) b Atkinson

    Atkinson 0 (1) b Holder

    First time ever in a Test match?
    Andy Zaltzman said on TMS that it was the first time it had happened in a first innings (that he could find), has happened in the second innings a few times apparently.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,952
    edited July 2024
    I enjoyed Tuffers trying to stifle his giggles after Alison Mitchell said she had good memories of doing "bareback riding in the sea" in Jamaica.
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,333
    killerandflash said:
    thetomahawkkid said:
    Not looking good for anyone with tickets for the weekend. The way test cricket is played nowadays, it must be getting close to the point when they decide to cut the games to four days. It is not good for anyone when test matches regularly get completed with days to spare. Perhaps we need to start batting like there are five days! 
    Not good for anyone with Friday tickets...  :#
    That’s me. Won’t bother going and hope we wrap it up in 15 overs. At least, I’ll get a refund.
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    I left work early and went up about 4.15. So frustrating all the people leaving in their egg and bacon and faded red trouser droves and no way of getting in. So many spare seats and only about 10 people trying to buy tickets to get in. Surely they could sell £50 tickets on door for last hour. Anyway, bit the bullet and bought a return in grandstand that appeared online knowing I’d get refund for sat and sun (and poss tomorrow afternoon) and had an enjoyable couple of hours. 
    At least 2 Charlton shirts on show, 1 in grandstand in front of where I perched and one in Compton upper in block along from where my husband was all day.
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    Unfortunately means we won’t make it to Canterbury for the women this evening! 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,844
    thai malaysia addick said:
    killerandflash said:
    thetomahawkkid said:
    Not looking good for anyone with tickets for the weekend. The way test cricket is played nowadays, it must be getting close to the point when they decide to cut the games to four days. It is not good for anyone when test matches regularly get completed with days to spare. Perhaps we need to start batting like there are five days! 
    Not good for anyone with Friday tickets...  :#
    That’s me. Won’t bother going and hope we wrap it up in 15 overs. At least, I’ll get a refund.
    0-15 overs is a full refund
    15-30 overs is a 50% refund

    I've been to rain affected days at Lord's, where 33 overs have been bowled, and got nothing...
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  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,017


    Cracking day with my Barbadian Bestie from Uni.  If you look closely, thats Simon from Sky's Soccer Saturday behind us in the red t shirt!

    £9 a pint of Guinness.  Christ alive.
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,207
    I have been given a free tickets for the 3rd day of the test but have been wary on the score today hoping that the WI don’t get bowled out. My debut visit to Lords to watch cricket although I did go there on a school outing when I was a kid to see the museum and the ashes. There are four of us going with 4 bottles of Champagne. Hopefully we will get through them before the Windies are bowled out. 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,314
    The price of beer is easily the worst thing about attending international cricket, and it isn't particularly close 
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,952
    North Lower Neil said:
    I enjoyed Tuffers trying to stifle his giggles after Alison Mitchell said she had good memories of doing "bareback riding in the sea" in Jamaica.
    Found the clip!

    https://x.com/AlexHartley93/status/1811454916730233063
  • greenwichred68
    greenwichred68 Posts: 277
    I was there today in there today in the Edrich upper.Great view.Im there tomorrow in Compton upper to say farewell to an absolute legend.Will be an emotional day(if theres any play).Jimmy thanks for the memories.
    On to the game and what a talent we have in Jamie Smith.Looks claas.In fact the future looks good with Crawley Brook Smith Atkinson.Would of been good to see Bashir get a few overs.Maybe tomorrow..I hope.Dillon Pennington gets a chance at Trent Bridge.Looks a quality bowler.
    I feel for the Windies.I grew up watching them batter us everytime in the early 80's.Haynes Greenidge Richards Lloyd Logie Dujon Marshall Garner Holding Roberts.Even the likes of Ambrose Walsh Lara Richardson Chanderpaul Hooper W.Benjamin etc etc in the 90's.So sad to see the decline of West Indies cricket.I got my love for cricket watching that 80's team.I hope somehow they get back to their glory days but cant see it☹️
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,844
    I'd forgotten that I'd watched Smith flaying Kent all over the park last year in the County Championship game at Canterbury where we were completely on top and they chased down 501...
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,844
    All this rapturous welcome will look silly when the West Indies bat all day and finish the day on 350-8.
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,670
    edited July 2024
    I was at Lords 21 years ago on the opening day of the first Test against Zimbabwe with St.Leonards who posts on here when Jimmy Anderson made his England debut. 
    He went for 17 in his 1st over. 
    Little did I know then that he would go on to take over 700 Test wickets. 
    A true great of the game. 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    They should let him play another Test to overtake Warne. Only needs another 5. Then, once he's done that he should carry on 'til he overtakes Murali. Only needs 97 so he should get those before he reaches 50. 
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,849
    So we want another 2 for jimmy and 1 for Atkinson so they get a 5fer and 10fer 

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  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,844
    My favourite live Jimmy memory is being at Trent Bridge when he got his 81. I'm not sure I've ever celebrated a batsman getting a 50 so much! 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    edited July 2024
    Has there ever been a worse West Indies batting line up than this? Not their fault because they are so inexperienced and batting in very difficult conditions but the likes of both Scotland and Ireland would do better than 213-17. 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,314
    Addick Addict said:
    Has there ever been a worse West Indies batting line up than this? Not their fault because they are so inexperienced and batting in very difficult conditions but the likes of both Scotland and Ireland would do better than 213-17. 
    2000 was almost psychedelically bad from them tbf
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,844
    10 for Atkinson. Any other scenario, he'd be the headline maker  :D
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,849
    North Lower Neil said:
    Callumcafc said:
    Two first innings…

    Holder 0 (1) b Atkinson

    Atkinson 0 (1) b Holder

    First time ever in a Test match?
    Andy Zaltzman said on TMS that it was the first time it had happened in a first innings (that he could find), has happened in the second innings a few times apparently.
    would love to know what database he uses to search for his stats
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,670
    Addick Addict said:
    Has there ever been a worse West Indies batting line up than this? Not their fault because they are so inexperienced and batting in very difficult conditions but the likes of both Scotland and Ireland would do better than 213-17. 
    Only one of this West Indian side has a batting average of over 30.
    I cannot ever remembering that happening before. 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,844
    Addick Addict said:
    Has there ever been a worse West Indies batting line up than this? Not their fault because they are so inexperienced and batting in very difficult conditions but the likes of both Scotland and Ireland would do better than 213-17. 
    I'd fancy the current Kent side against the West Indies at the moment...
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,844
    Get Atkinson off, he's too good! 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    We now know why McCullum isn't worried about the lack of game time that Bashir is getting in county cricket and is being given the opportunity to develop his game in the Test arena instead. Zero overs, zero wickets, zero catches and zero runs. TFC son, hope you enjoyed the lunches and teas. 
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,670
    killerandflash said:
    Addick Addict said:
    Has there ever been a worse West Indies batting line up than this? Not their fault because they are so inexperienced and batting in very difficult conditions but the likes of both Scotland and Ireland would do better than 213-17. 
    I'd fancy the current Kent side against the West Indies at the moment...
    Steady on.

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