Hasan Ali dismisses Suranga Lakmal (via ICC)
“300-plus scores? No, thank you. We’ll just persist with our old approach of bowling the opposition out for slightly less than our own low score, if that’s all right with you.”
Pakistan held South Africa to 219-8 off 50 overs. Sri Lanka managed a whopping 236 all out against them. Pakistan being Pakistan, the latter was almost enough.
But it wasn’t enough.
Pakistan – supposedly the most crisis-raddled of all the sides – swan into the semi-finals like a swan that’s decided to walk even though it has a broken leg.
June 12, 2017 at 7:24 pm
One of your best hover captions yet.
June 12, 2017 at 7:48 pm
Pulled out all the stops.
June 14, 2017 at 3:14 am
I wish I could see hover captions on phones.
June 12, 2017 at 11:29 pm
Cracker of a simile too:
“…swan into the semi-finals like a swan…”
Cracking.
June 13, 2017 at 10:07 am
Noun phrase, innit.
June 13, 2017 at 11:20 am
“Graeme Swann swans in to bowl like a swan” would have made my week, back then.
Thems was simpler times.
June 13, 2017 at 11:48 am
Get that uneaten Nuneaton buneaten.
June 13, 2017 at 2:31 am
Essex are top of the county championship! TGNW lives yet! TGNW! Cookie! Ravi! Tendo! Westley! Browne!!
June 13, 2017 at 12:53 pm
Meanwhile at Taunton…
OH GOD NO!!! PLEASE!!! I can’t. It’s even more horrific than yesterday. I’d rather watch a Steve Smith Ashes double-century.
June 13, 2017 at 7:54 pm
Oh and to Adam Lyth too! I feel for you. Had wanted your lot to win the Championship so badly last time out, for history and Tres’s sake. Not on this year.
I’m astonished Essex are in contention, let alone leading the pack. What year is this again?
June 14, 2017 at 7:21 am
has Goochie made a comeback?
June 13, 2017 at 3:47 pm
I see a chap named Nick Gubbins in contention for one of the the England opening slots. Is he a proper opener? Or more of a bits and pieces player?
June 13, 2017 at 10:10 pm
Proper opener. Will open for England – possibly even an FEC. Not ready yet.
June 13, 2017 at 11:24 pm
I wasn’t ready for this. A quick Google on FEC threw up federal election commission, then forward error correction. A quick Google on FEC cricket threw up Michael Atherton. That didn’t help open up the subject. 5th link gave me future England captain. Omg.
June 13, 2017 at 11:25 pm
We started with the subject of Gubbins.
June 14, 2017 at 10:47 am
Am I the only one who appreciated your fine pun on the name ‘Gubbins’?
June 14, 2017 at 11:55 am
@Mike, looks like it. 🙂
June 13, 2017 at 11:28 pm
A fiver on forward error correction, Ged 😛