The Official Cricket Thread

[FalseBayFC]

Ha ha Rilee jou poes! This bowler looks like Johnny Hill's brother. Like the kind of guys who live in caravans and tarmac your driveway.

[FalseBayFC]

7/2 in the first over. fucking useless.

all out for under 50.

Don’t exaggerate; it’s the first two overs.

If anything I think he's being over optimistic!

[Insane_Homer]

47/2 plays 46/2 game on

[Lobby]

47/2 plays 46/2 game on

These two going well, and moved ahead of England now. Looking very comfortable

[OomStruisbaai]

Young Stubbs gets going.

[OomStruisbaai]

Gets his 50 from 19 balls.

[OomStruisbaai]

Great innings from the youngster. He was tops in our local T20 competition. Boucher must get Brevis in the loop aswell.

[FalseBayFC]

Exciting finish to the SL-Pak test. SL need 4 wickets and the weather is closing in.

[OomStruisbaai]

Ha ha Rilee jou poes! This bowler looks like Johnny Hill's brother. Like the kind of guys who live in caravans and tarmac your driveway.

I gave you a day to reply on this but nothing?

[OomStruisbaai]

191/5 not that bad.

[OomStruisbaai]

Shamsi vs Malan

[OomStruisbaai]

Stubbs taking a hockey goal catch.

[OomStruisbaai]

Shamsi is just outstanding

[OomStruisbaai]

Protea test squad for England

Proteas Test squad vs England:
Dean Elgar (captain, Momentum Multiply Titans), Sarel Erwee (Hollywoodbets Dolphins), Marco Jansen (Gbets Warrios), Simon Harmer (Momentum Multiply Titans), Keshav Maharaj (Hollywoodbets Dolphins), Aiden Markram (Momentum Multiply Titans), Lungi Ngidi (Momentum Multiply Titans), Anrich Nortje (Gbets Warriors), Duanne Olivier (Imperial Lions), Keegan Petersen (Hollywoodbets Dolphins), Kagiso Rabada (Imperial Lions), Ryan Rickelton (Imperial Lions), Lutho Sipamla (Imperial Lions), Rassie van der Dussen (Imperial Lions), Kyle Verreynne (wicketkeeper, Six Gun Grill Western Province), Khaya Zondo (Hollywoodbets Dolphins), Glenton Stuurman (Gbets Warriors).

Wed 17-21 Aug 1st Test Match Lord’s
Thu 25-29 Aug 2nd Test Match Emirates Old Trafford
Thu 8-12 Sept 3rd Test Match Kia Oval

[Biffer]

Entertaining day in Edinburgh. Scotland scored 306,which was always going to be short, NZ knocked it off in 45 without too much panic - although on another day the false shots in the first ten overs and the loose shots that dropped between fielders might have led to wickets and something a lot tighter.

600 runs and beautiful sunshine for most of the day, can't beat that.

[OomStruisbaai]

The two T20Is against Ireland will be played on August 3 and 5 in Bristol. South Africa will then take on England in a three-Test series that begins on July 17 at Lord's - these matches are part of the World Test Championship. South Africa are currently leading the championship table, while England are placed seventh.

[FalseBayFC]

Ha ha Rilee jou poes! This bowler looks like Johnny Hill's brother. Like the kind of guys who live in caravans and tarmac your driveway.

I gave you a day to reply on this but nothing?

Ja he had a good innings. Terrible dropped catch though. Probably lost us the match

[Paddington Bear]

Cricket has plenty negative around it, but as of today my club has produced four professional players since we re-founded our junior section around 20 years ago and he bowled beautifully. Meanwhile our teamsheet for Saturday came out just after I checked that and all 11 of us are ex-products of that same junior section. Not a bad effort all round.

[Paddington Bear]

The Hundred returns tonight. Not everyone's cup of tea but hard to argue with ticket sales (apparently 85% sold and a quick browse of the website suggests this is pretty accurate) or the different demographics it seems to be engaging. Besides, the cricket was pretty good last year.

[OomStruisbaai]

Proteas vs Ireland first T20 starts in a hour

[OomStruisbaai]

Proteas batting first.

[OomStruisbaai]

Another 50 for Reeza Hendricks

[OomStruisbaai]

Stubbs straight into it again.

[OomStruisbaai]

Nice little knock from Pretorius got us to 211

[OomStruisbaai]

Irish came close. Some good tonkers in their team. Not much support for them in Bristol.

Good to see Parnell back. Our T20 team really improved a lot.

[OomStruisbaai]

ENGLAND SQUAD FOR THE FIRST TWO TESTS AGAINST SOUTH AFRICA:

Ben Stokes (Durham, capt), James Anderson (Lancashire), Jonny Bairstow (Yorkshire), Stuart Broad (Nottinghamshire), Harry Brook (Yorkshire), Zak Crawley (Kent), Ben Foakes (Surrey, wkt), Jack Leach (Somerset), Alex Lees (Durham), Craig Overton (Somerset), Matthew Potts (Durham), Ollie Pope (Surrey), Ollie Robinson (Sussex), Joe Root (Yorkshire)

FIXTURES

17-21 August : England v South Africa, 1st test, Lord's

25-29 August: England v South Africa, 2nd test, Old Trafford

8-12 September : England v South Africa, 3rd test, The Oval

[OomStruisbaai]

After England it's to India again

South Africa tour to India itinerary

T20s

28 Sept — 1st T20, Trivandrum

2 Oct — 2nd T20, Guhawati

4 Oct — 3rdT20, Indore

ODIs

6 Oct — 1st ODI, Ranchi

9 Oct — 2nd ODI, Lucknow

11 Oct — 3rd ODI, Delhi

[inactionman]

The Hundred started last night - despite all the fireworks it was a bit of a whimper.

Bairstow-less Welsh Fire could barely get the ball off the square.

[Paddington Bear]

The Hundred started last night - despite all the fireworks it was a bit of a whimper.

Bairstow-less Welsh Fire could barely get the ball off the square.

The Welsh Fire are noticeably poorer than the rest of the comp - 41 dots in 100 balls! As much as it is nice to have a Welsh side to see get battered I'm not sure it was a great one to stick on the BBC.

[inactionman]

The Hundred started last night - despite all the fireworks it was a bit of a whimper.

Bairstow-less Welsh Fire could barely get the ball off the square.

The Welsh Fire are noticeably poorer than the rest of the comp - 41 dots in 100 balls! As much as it is nice to have a Welsh side to see get battered I'm not sure it was a great one to stick on the BBC.

Their rotten luck to have an away match at Southern Brave (weird name) first-up, they do look a good team.

[Thor Sedan]

Sigh.....NZ playing the Netherlands - batting first and are looking awful at 60/2 after 10. Making the Dutch look like world beaters.

[Thor Sedan]

Scratch that - 61/3 and not getting any better.

We have looked pretty average over the Ireland, Scottish and Dutch games.

[OomStruisbaai]

T20?

[Thor Sedan]

T20?

Yep.

Scraped through to 148. Netherlands bowled well...but NZ were clueless.

[OomStruisbaai]

Movement? Our spinners have been great. All those years we try and knock everybody out with quicks

[OomStruisbaai]

Netherlands look down and out.

[OomStruisbaai]

Our hockey knocking NZ out and making the Commonwealth semis for the first time. Know the Cassiem broers well.

[Paddington Bear]

Went to my first Hundred game last night and it was a cracker, Oval left needing 6 off the last ball after a pretty remarkable fightback.
Over 20,000 in with most having paid £30+ a ticket isn't a bad effort either, and the atmosphere was less rowdy than T20s at the Oval can be. One bloke lobbed a pint and got kicked out in a rare example of the stewards doing their job.
DJ seems unnecessary but the cricket was good and I'd certainly go again. Shorter game left time for a curry afterwards as well.

[OomStruisbaai]

2nd T20 vs Ireland tonight.

[OomStruisbaai]

Ireland won toss SA batting.