England's Summer test matches, 2012

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Is anyone else thinking about going tomorrow?

Prices due to be announced by the MCC at 3pm

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Baron Greenback said:

Whoop 282-7 go on Finn go for it!

Have they announced what the score with tickets is for tomorrow?

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gmk666 said:

spikeyhead said:

Is anyone else thinking about going tomorrow?

Prices due to be announced by the MCC at 3pm

Gates open at 9am. Thinking about popping along. What time do people start queuing? Lots of articles online about them for the India match last year starting at 2am...

I've turned up at 11:30 before without an issue. It rarely sells out unless we're playing the Aussies.

I'm aiming at getting there around 11ish, pick up some lunch from the shop across the road from Panzer's Deli so I've got plenty of good food, a copy of the telegraph and some good weather. Hopefully we'll end up seeing some decent cricket but it would take several miracles for England to get a result from here.

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351 qll out, leaving us with 346 to win. That's a hellova target, especially against Morkel, Steyn et al

If we've only lost one or two at the close then I'll head down to Lords tomorrow.

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Shamelessly stolen from the BBC,


Right then, here's the list of successful fourth-innings chases bigger than this one - 418 (West Indies v Australia, Antigua, 2003); 414 (SA v Australia, Perth, 2008); 406 (India v WI, Trinidad, 1976); 404 (Australia v England, Headingley, 1948); 387 (India v England, Chennai, 2008); 369 (Australia v Pakistan, Hobart, 1999); 362 (Australia v WI, Guyana, 1978); 352 (Sri Lanka v SA, Colombo, 2006); 348 (WI v NZ, Auckland, 1969). Not forgetting India making 347 in the tied Test against Australia at Chennai in 1986.

So to win we'd end up with the 11th highest successful run chase in test history and the highest ever at Lords which isn't a high scoring ground.

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we're fooked, poor from skip

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Right, I'll be heading down to Lords tomorrow, not much chance of a result for us but stranger things have happened. Anyone else going?

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Just back home from Lords.

What a fun day it was. only a naive child thought at the start of the day that we had any hope of chasing that down, and fortunately there were 10,000 naive English children in adult bodies cheering away. Some excellent bowling in the gloom in the first session with a lot of movement of the pitch and in the air.

If we'd hung on to a couple of catches earlier or. ...
if Skip and Chef had scored a few or ...
if Taylor hadn't been run out going for a fourth

however the sun came out in the afternoon, the crowd lined up, Swann, Broad, Bairstow and Prior all entertained and gave the crowd a lot of entertainment.

We've not done the basics well this series, or in the sand through the winter. Hopefully the closeness of that final game and the fresh blood in the dressing room will be enough to get the engine firing on all cylinders again.

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Podie said:

Laurel Green said:

I see Kevin Pietersen has been left out of England's World Twenty20 squad.

Linky

Shame.

Great player IMO.

Sadly a little hot heated, although I think the ECB failed to help KP and stop the whole thing from getting out of hand.

I've managed many people over the years, and I'd rather have someone interesting than just wants to be a sheep, however there are limits to what is acceptable and I think that KP has gone way beyond those limits.

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Podie said:

Agreed. However, my point is you could see it coming. The ECB should have realised this and dealt with it accordingly - when they had the chance. Failure to do so is poor management.

We've no idea what has and hasn't been happening, except that it hasn't ended well. I suspect that the ECB should take some of the blame, but it may be only a few percent.

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and it's all over.

Never mind, there's still elenty billion more one dayers to go.

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The fat lady is singing

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Watching now,

Strauss retires from ALL forms of cricket.

Cook new England captain.

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141 for 5

Looks like the chokers have found the script at last

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Nearly there

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We've dropped two, if they were five down instead of three the game would already be in the bag.

I think our fielding is the one area we really need to work on.

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At least we're starting to remember how to play.

I'm a little concerned about Cooks lack of runs.

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We'll need some luck to put up a decent target.

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Gargamel said:

Oh and fair do.'s to SA Amla is looking a class apart at the moment. Fantastic batsman, nearly as good as KP

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Amla has batted sensibly, which is something KP has done about twice in his entire career.

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Good to see Monty back in the squad. I wonder if he's learned to catch?