Cook would have been in 2 minds on that 4th evening - "do I bat until stumps and let Gary Ballance get his first Test ton, or do I leave him stranded and have a go at the Sri Lankans tonight?" His ultimate decision told against him in the end.
It'll be interesting to see if something similar happens in the England v India series next month. The Indians refuse to use DRS, so if they lose their last wicket to a dodgy LBW off the second last ball of the Test, that's the end of the Test
WOW!!! Talk about throwing fuel onto a fire: I can't see Warnie backing down.....
It's since been confirmed that Broad is the first female to take 2 Test hat tricksLove him or loathe him, Stuart Broad has become only the 4th bowler in Test history to take 2 Test hat tricks - following in the footsteps of Jimmy Matthews (who did it twice in the same Test!!!), Hugh Trumble and Wasim Akram. He achieved it overnight in the Second Test against Sri Lanka, but wasn't even aware he'd done so. He dismissed Sangakkara off the last ball of one over, and then took wickets off the first 2 balls of his next over.
So the guy might have trouble walking, but he can certainly bowl
Match scores after day 1 - Sri Lanka 257, England 0 for 36.
I still have that casette. Had a mate copy it to CD, sound is pretty crappy
I have that cassette too, which was a copy of a cassette. I think the copy might have even pre-dated dual cassettes with high speed dubbing. That would have it in the realm of the "place one cassette player in front of the cassette recorder". Of course it's probably oxidised so badly now anyway.
Sri Lanka's last 3 wickets put on 180, and they won by 100. Michael Clarke would have had a massive smile on his face this morning!!!
Feeling sorry for the Poms is about as foreign to me as feeling sorry for the Crows after a Showdown loss. This week has started beautifully: hopefully Port can make it an even better week on Sunday!!!!
Yeah I did say should feel a little bad but of course deep down I don't at all lol.
Never a truer word spoken, Seany. It makes me smile to think that, only 8 short months ago, Ian Botham opened his big mouth and predicted that England would win the Ashes 5-0. Things seem to have gone from bad to worse for the Poms since then: long may it continueYeah I did say should feel a little bad but of course deep down I don't at all lol.
From a neutral cricket fans point of view it would've been similar to when Kaspa & Binga had that last stand but because it was a Pom who's given his fair share of torment to us I couldn't give a rats toss bag hence why I posted it to laugh at his pain
From what I hear, the players aren't too keen on the idea. It'll be interesting to see what happens if it goes ahead - question is, how much play will actually played after dark? Assuming a 2pm start, stumps would be around 9pm. With daylight saving in full swing, play would probably finish around dusk, before the lights take full effect.
