Off Topic Sport Other than Football - formerly the Ashes Thread

From one extreme wicket to another?

 

Much better pitch. Pretty even contest between bat and ball
Brook going very well again.
Got a feeling it’s going to be a day for the Harrys.

 

Good to get back to Cricket, a sport where the best team nearly always wins. Plus listening to the ball striking willow when looking outside my village is covered in snow is a little luxury.

 

How true was that

 

With a day off , got up early to watch the cricket only to find my satellite signal was down , TMS it is but it seems so much better to listen

 

Great win , well done England, I have to say that I enjoyed the TMS commentary, great atmosphere and description

 

It's been there all my life, right from when I was a small boy and my father had to rig up a wire arial from the old radio trying to get a signal. It was on Radio 3 in those days. It's moved all over the BBC since from Radio 4 and so on. Bearders & Johners and the great John Arlot. Especially good listening in the winter bringing a little bit of sun.

 

There remains something evocative about listening to cricket on TMS, even though its halcyon days of Jonners and Blowers has passed, the new breed still paint great pictures and are excellent commentators.

Radio sport commentators in most sports are better than there TV counterparts these days. It does make you hanker for the days of Richie Benaud.

 

Absolute result, sent Mrs Conn out onto the roof armed with her trusty broom to clear the snow from the dish, she only fell off 3 times but she is made of stern stuff , a stiff Brandy and rub down with the sporting life should see her alright

 

Just a reminder that Man Utd killed Rod Hull.

 

Billy Connolly once said to Emu , if you try that again I will break your ****ing neck and his arm at the same time

 

Harry Brook - 100 again
The technique of Root with the power of Stokes
He’s going to be around for a while

 

These pitches in Pakistan have been fairly dead, but Brook has exploited and taken advantage very well, we can`t fault his application and he has flourished when other more established players have struggled, he looks a real talent in all formats, Yorkshire don`t half produce some good players. England are looking like having some selection dilemmas for The Ashes next summer, with players staking a claim and others returning from rest and injury.

 

I had him losing before that, too. Absolutely devastating knockout.
Glad he didn't follow up before Xhoxhaj went down. Could've really hurt him badly.

 

If you ever wondered what happened to David Cameron, put the World Darts Championship on tonight.

 

Is he the board...?

 

You wish
The treble twenty segment

 

David Cameron last night, Jimmy Hendriks tonight.
Reincarnated as a balding, bespectacled Dutch bloke

 

Luka Doncic scores historic 60-point triple-double in Dallas Mavericks win


https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/basketball/64107654

 

When did Lewis Holtby take up darts..

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