WTF!!! Our annual Dunblane cricket match today, lovely day, me 10 no for first time (have to retire on 10). Our team won the wooden stumps trophy and we had a lady playing (diversity eh) who got 6 (hockey player - good eye) and 1 spectator. Then to the pub to find England needing 9 to win - WTF!!! What could be better! BTW to play in the Dunblane cricket match you only have to be able to stand up, cricket skill optional.
Don't forget about Archer from Barbados ! Someone like Nigel Farage is a cricket fan I believe? Must have mixed emotions. Mind you we did have Jack Leech from somewhere in Somerset .
Amazing result.... We were on a local Riverside beach with almost no signal.. But just got the result and managed to tell another English family who had not dared to take their phones with them... Such an incredible outcome...
I see Smith has started sledging Archer before the game even starts When Smith walks up to the wicket to bat all the bowlers should ask if they can borrow the sandpaper he always keeps in his pocket Then when he is dismissed say don't bother we don't need it now Childish and unsportsmanlike I know but that is all the Australians seem to understand these days
He is obviously scared of Archer and I think sledging him now is the best way of getting a few more bouncers served up. Archer should bowl him a 90mph yorker instead to make him dance although he does not need much encouragement to fidgit. Personally I think the booing has been overdone. They served their time and have got the message.
He was asked how he'd deal with Archer - he gave an honest answer. Nothing to do with sledging. Given the sporting way in which they accepted their defeat last week you're very wide of the mark I would suggest.
Broad gets Warner and Harris in first half an hour. Goodness knows what the average of the openers is for both sides but must be close to single figures!
