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Really enjoyed today, still feels like we have a chance.

To be fair the cheats thing applies more to bending the rules over many years and incidents, not just this one. When it’s within the rules and not within the spirit, you guys claim ‘but it’s within the rules’. When it’s not within the rules, you claim it should be or that the rules need to...

Good batting day ……. potentially

In a restaurant in Leeds and all the commentators such as Aggers, Jim Maxwell, Andy Zaltsman, Alastair Cook, Glenn McGrath etc are on the table next to me. So wanted to sledge McGarth, settled for a friendly chat with Aggers instead!

I imagine it was at a lady in a flowing skirt climbing up a ladder ….. 😆

Don’t believe a word Cummins says anymore

I’ve sat near those Aussies. The tours are not cheap and they get carted everywhere on their ‘organised’ tours. They are all of a certain age and stage and all look like they have sat in the sun drinking beer for far too many years than is good for their health. But they have to put up with...

I’ve noticed that the Australians are very good at coming up with a counter argument or example, and for them that’s enough. It doesn’t matter if the facts are different, or if the example is irrelevant or if they are at completeLy different levels of severity, for them one argument countered by...

Just watched Cummins being interviewed about his team’s ‘flawless’ behaviour over the last 2 years. He is citing how well they reacted to the Starc catch being overturned as evidence of that. I still just don’t get that one at all, he grounded the ball while in motion and having had it in his...

And QPR / West Ham. I always liked the goals at Hampden with the square posts and so deep you could park a couple of cars in them!

Then you can add Hearts/Hibs and Dundee/Dundee United to that list too. Same as in Glasgow, just on a smaller scale.

Liverpool and Everton fans - booing the national anthem, lack of contrition over Heysel, starting the tragedy chanting (Munich) but then having a problem with it when done in their direction, believing themselves to be more important than the rest of the country (Scouse not English) and yet...

I think plenty of them do genuinely believe that drivel.

I will happily oblige and boo for you on Friday - Sunday. I’m hoping it will be really lively. The other interesting dynamic is that they often sit those Australian tour groups right in the middle of the western terrace. Last time I was there , the Aussies were complaining about everyone...

And interestingly if you watch it again the umpires actually refer it for a run out, not a stumping, so they clearly didn’t have a scooby what was happening either (maybe because they weren’t actually looking!).

Could play Foakes AND Bairstow then?

I will be driving up on Thursday listening, and there on Friday - Sunday. I was there in 2019 to see Stokes score that amazing 100 too, but equally saw us skittled in the first innings and on a previous visit there too. Didn’t get there in ‘81 but saw Botham smash it around in ‘85, so have had...

The thing about club cricket, which I played for many years, is that the standard of umpiring was frequently awful. I remember appealing for an lbw that might just have hit a 5th stump and it being given. I also remember batting nicely, 30-ish not out and being given out in similar...