Reminder this starts tomorrow 4.30am. Looking forward to having some cricket to watch. Not quite a first choice XI with Stokes, Burns and Pope out but with Sibley, Crawley, YJB and Root (plus probably Lawrence making his debut) top order looks ok.
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[Cricket] Sri Lanka v England, Galle, First Test ****Official Match thread****
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pasty
A different kind of pasty
Alarm set for 04:15 
Mackenzie
Old Brightonian
Is it on TMS?
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Alarm set for 04:15
Alarm set for afternoon tea
Machiavelli
Well-known member
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Yes....I should add that Aggers will be commentating in his pjs
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/55621796
Mackenzie
Old Brightonian
I love a bit of cricket on at night. I can remember listening to Eng v WI when I was a kid.....”...and he’s up and he bowls, and he bowls to Larkins who leaves it alone outside the off stump. England are 43 for 2 and that’s the latest from Sabina Park”......
Happy days.
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Not the same nowadays.
Nothing beats having a tranny under the duvet in the small hours, fiddling about on the knob for a squeaky signal.
The 5LiveX app destroys all the romance of yesteryear.
Nothing beats having a tranny under the duvet in the small hours, fiddling about on the knob for a squeaky signal.
The 5LiveX app destroys all the romance of yesteryear.
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Not quite the same when the commentator isn’t at the ground either
How did you smuggle her in?
Cheshire Cat
The most curious thing..
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Larkins scored the winning runs in that Test Match (1990). Windies hadn't lost their in over 30 years.
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Used to struggle at school during away Ashes series as I’d stay up all night listening to it under the bedsheets. For home series during the summer hols I’d always aim to get up 5 mins before play started and spend all day watching it.
Can’t best test cricket, still the best form of the game
My worst radio experience of cricket was when we got absolutely slaughtered by Greenidge and Haynes at Lords in 1984 (I think). Went into work with us ‘only needing to declare quickly and leave enough time to bowl them out’ or something and finally win after what seemed like a lifetime of batterings. Rush to the car after work for the journey, turn the radio on.....expectantly flick to the cricket and .........
.........in he comes, West Indies now 314-1 and closing in on victory.......
We’d set them something like 340 in less than 80 overs. Can’t lose [emoji23][emoji23] Greenidge brutalised the whole attack for a double century. Scoring at that rate in a test match back then was pretty much unheard of.
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atfc village
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Wonderful Cricket ground ,grass banks right in Galle City centre . Stroll into town at lunch for a beer and some street food [and it was ok and i'm very fussy with stuff like that] Have a wander round the fort and still see the cricket from the battlements . Tuk Tuk back to the resort £3 and those drivers are mental. Tickets a snip at £1.50 a day ,would love to be there again
Ooh it’s a corner
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um bongo molongo
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I worry about how we’re going to take 20 wickets - spin to win out there and we just don’t have the spinners right now.
Not been but the seafood is supposed to be rather good. Definitely on the list.
blue-shifted
Banned
Galle absolutely beautiful. Wonderful venue
Looking forward to a good series, Hopefully SL put up a decent fight, unlike last time
Looking forward to a good series, Hopefully SL put up a decent fight, unlike last time