England v South Africa, First Test at Lord's

jakarta

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The summer starts!

Saffers not a bad team but should have the beating of them at home.

Quite why Liam Dawson has been selected I have no idea, on the other hand given my prowess with both bat and ball...

 

jakarta

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Come on people, first Test Match of the summer and no-one interested?

 

Marshy

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at 11am i will be

 

Rodney Thomas

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Looking forward to it. Going Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Personally I thin our bowling looks a bit weak. Both Broad and Anderson are creaking a little and there's not a whole lot of back up around the county circuit.

 

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Rodney Thomas said:

Looking forward to it. Going Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Personally I thin our bowling looks a bit weak. Both Broad and Anderson are creaking a little and there's not a whole lot of back up around the county circuit.

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Just spray them with WD-40 and they will be fine.

 

jakarta

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Rodney Thomas said:

Going Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

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You are enjoying three consecutive days at a Lord's Test Match? I have taken an immediate dislike to you...

 

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coagulantwolf

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I'd be more excited if I could actually watch it - BBC comms it is.

 

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I was offered freebies for today and tomorrow, but turned them down as I couldn't REALLY spare the time off work.

Sat in my already sweltering office right now, feeling like a bit of a ****.

 

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Ballance. Meh.

 

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Elgar on debut proves himself to be a useless tosser, and Root on debut decides that England will have a bat - with a tinge of green in the wicket, and a pretty warm morning... this could be a brave decision!

 

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CHAPPERS said:

Ballance. Meh.

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He is the man in form in county cricket ( 11 innings, 815 runs at avg 101) and has a Test average of a shade under 40... seems to be a pretty solid choice to me.

 

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hans kraay fan club said:

I was offered freebies for today and tomorrow, but turned them down as I couldn't REALLY spare the time off work.

Sat in my already sweltering office right now, feeling like a bit of a ****.

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That is sad at more than 1 level. You really need to sort your priorities out HKFC.

I really can't afford to take time away from work but I'm taking my middle lad to Arundel tomorrow. Getting stuck in Arundel traffic on the return from my current commute to Cosham was the final deciding straw yesterday.

PG

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England: AN Cook, KK Jennings, GS Ballance, JE Root*, JM Bairstow†, BA Stokes, MM Ali, LA Dawson, SCJ Broad, MA Wood, JM Anderson

South Africa: HG Kuhn, D Elgar*, HM Amla, JP Duminy, T Bavuma, TB de Bruyn, Q de Kock†, VD Philander, KA Maharaj, K Rabada, M Morkel

Stat alert: England haven't lost in their last 17 Tests at Lord's when batting first. Last time they lost was against SA in 2003

 

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Last time we lost a test match at Lords batting first was back in 2003.......to South Africa.

 

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Can't remember the last time we lost at Lords when batting first.

Anyone know?

 

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jakarta said:

You are enjoying three consecutive days at a Lord's Test Match? I have taken an immediate dislike to you...

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I am indeed

 

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What happened to the bright new star, of the last series, Haseeb Hameed?

 

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hans kraay fan club said:

What happened to the bright new star, of the last series, Haseeb Hameed?

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Hardly scored a run in County Cricket this season i beleive...

 

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Peter Grummit said:

That is sad at more than 1 level. You really need to sort your priorities out HKFC.

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You are completely right, of course.

In my feeble defence, I was away Thursday, Friday and Monday in Stockholm (see the 'Have you ever won anything' thread for further details) and the tickets were only offered to me whilst I was away over there, with no easy access to rearranging the work stuff already arranged for these two days

 

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hans kraay fan club said:

What happened to the bright new star, of the last series, Haseeb Hameed?

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No runs for Lancs... 214 from 12 innings @ 19