I was also at the Headingley test in the last Ashes, watched us get skittled on day 1, very tempting to give up and do something else but hung in there to see Stokes win the game for us. I doubt that is going to happen in this test though!
Seeing Cook talking about his 235* 10 years ago, I was there and then flew to Adelaide for the next one. The England team were on the same flight and I had a chat with several, including Alastair Cook in the queue for the toilet. He just said that was the first time he felt he’d played a major...
Either definition is worrying if applied to Albion:
1.
kill, destroy, or remove a large proportion of.
"the inhabitants of the country had been decimated"
2.
HISTORICAL
kill one in every ten of (a group of people, originally a mutinous Roman legion) as a punishment for the whole group.
"the...
Well it just shows that you can get some people to believe absolutely anything, however bizarre and unlikely. There is a lot of good humour on this board, a lot of it very dry and hardly likely to be advertised as ‘joke incoming’!. ???
Isn’t it strange how all those Spurs players with a positive test were recently seen boarding a private jet en route to Abu Dhabi. It may just be coincidental or to get some warmer weather to aid recovery but the Lewis Hamilton baseball caps make me think otherwise.
Recently there have been examples where all 4 West Midlands teams were at home on the same day. I remember reading about it somewhere saying that it never used to happen but WMP don’t seem to be so bothered now especially for cup games with lower gates.
And then leave BOTH of our world class bowlers out, including one who has previously got their opener out for fun who can then heave a sigh of relief and score more runs in one innings that he did in the whole of the previous series.
Oh and compound all of that with pub team fielding and field...