England Cricket

19:00 hrs,  Aussies struggling a little at present ~~ think I'll go and enjoy my evening meal  {  Chuckle chortle howl  HAHA   }

Not England's finest hour.😭.At least you had time to digest your evening meal Brian.😁.

Buuurrrrp !!

As you said Trellis, they make a habit of it don't they ~~ flattering to deceive , like that there curates egg  

 I don't believe it!!

There I was, sat on the sofa, feet up, brew to hand and watching Bairstow despatching Aussie bowlers to all parts of the ground. All's well  - until a comfort break. On returning I see no crikkit ont Tele, just a sign, informing me there's no satellite signal to my box! What the blazes is going on????!! Thoughts immediately turn to possible sabotage by the missus? Checks reveal this is not the case, but 3 hours later, 4 or 5 phone calls because I cannot understand the "helper" at the other end of the line, blood pressure off the scale - only to find out I need to book an engineer and the Convicts have won!

Disaster!!

 I don't believe it!!

Duplicate post Aaaaaaaarrrggghhh!

well, JR , I do hope you have been enjoying the early morning alarm calls from " The Fort", Galle, Sri Lanka   I've tried ever so hard to avoid rabbiting on about the wonderful exhibitions of commentary from all corners of the BBC's home territory !!

So the next lot will be from INDIA a week on Friday --  let us see if we can confuse Them as thoroughly as we confused the Sri Lankans  { well they serpently con fused A B M !!  }

Morning Brian (I'm sure I've heard that in commentary )

Have now settled in at the new place and even before we arrived, the engineer was booked for installation of Sky box  However, my blood pressure rose a few notches when said engineer arrived, announcing "We're not allowed in t'house cos of Covid, so no drillin 'oles in t'wall. Wire as t'come thru wind-er and we'll return when Covid's gone ta fix it!"(I'm learning the Yorkshire dialect)

As it turned out my missus' suspicions were unfounded when said wire came through window which closed tightly around it, thus allaying her fears of me (and more importantly, her) watching crikkit in sub-zero temperatures!

A fascinating series indeed, especially the fourth day, yesterday and a not unexpected win. I did think 'Lankans were a tad unlucky having got Sibley 'out' 3 times, only for the umpire's call to be incorrect on each occasion. Fortune favours the brave and Specsavers have still have a sale going on.

Looking forward to a much sterner test in India, as well as something decent to watch when I get 'outta ma pit,' drink an Americano and blink at the box until sun gets up.

So Zak Crawley has fallen foul (excuse the pun) of the highly polished marble floor outside the pavillion and will miss the first two Tests. Is this  a pre-match tactic of the opposition? 

Marble outside the dressing room indeed! It's the ball which needs polishing mate, not the floor! Whatever happened to good old timber boards which your spikes used to scuff and stick to? 

Anyway, roll on 4am tomorrow.

Channel 4  as well as Talksport, possibly / probably with that blithering  one second time lag, so it'll seem like I am there but getting an echo 

Not seen the area where ZC  fell  so can't be over critical of the youngster, but from JR's post it seems as if he was wearing spiked boots/shoes on a marble surface   none too bright I should think