The Ashes; First Test, Cardiff, July 8-12

[The Waugh Twins]

Fiery Red sees the 'Tachinator off.

Lets hope the next meeting is on a pitch with a bit of speed in it

It'll never happen is my guess.

[yorker_129-7]

Careful, you shouldn't criticise Botham online. I criticised him on Twitter once and he set his Twitter follower army on me.

Seriously.

Does he still smoke pot?

Straight up. I think my comment was that he should watch more county cricket when he basically said "England shouldn't pick Chris Woakes because I've never heard of him" or some such rubbish. Essentially he never bothers with the county stuff on Sky and only bothers paying attention to players playing for England. He didn't like that.

Mind you, all the Sky commentators have an inherent blindness to county players when internationals play. I remember a T20 game of Sussex vs. Kent last year where Sussex needed something like 20 off 2 overs and Paul Allott satted as Chris Jordan walked in "he's going to have to win it for Sussex here". This was despite Will Beer being 30 off 15 at the other end and going like a train.

[The Waugh Twins]

Lets hope Beefy doesn't come on here then.

Maybe he's Sussex?

[Aidan11]

Careful, you shouldn't criticise Botham online. I criticised him on Twitter once and he set his Twitter follower army on me.

Seriously.

Does he still smoke pot?

Straight up. I think my comment was that he should watch more county cricket when he basically said "England shouldn't pick Chris Woakes because I've never heard of him" or some such rubbish. Essentially he never bothers with the county stuff on Sky and only bothers paying attention to players playing for England. He didn't like that.

Mind you, all the Sky commentators have an inherent blindness to county players when internationals play. I remember a T20 game of Sussex vs. Kent last year where Sussex needed something like 20 off 2 overs and Paul Allott satted as Chris Jordan walked in "he's going to have to win it for Sussex here". This was despite Will Beer being 30 off 15 at the other end and going like a train.

I've always wanted to wind up Nick Knight to the point where he says "How many test runs did you get?" then I can reply by saying "Well I've never played test cricket but I'm still not far behind you".

[Arthur Crabtree]

Reckon a lot of Aussies will have turned in, but the day is still up for grabs. Two wickets and it's Australia's day.

[Aidan11]

Root gets off Nelson.

[Gingerfinch]

Root saves us again. Sounds like it's been a great counter attacking innings.

[sussexpob]

Lets hope Beefy doesn't come on here then.

Maybe he's Sussex?

An explanation as to this comment would be nice.

[The Waugh Twins]

Lets hope Beefy doesn't come on here then.

Maybe he's Sussex?

An explanation as to this comment would be nice.

I don't think Marks going to give you one.

[The Waugh Twins]

Lets hope Beefy doesn't come on here then.

Maybe he's Sussex?

An explanation as to this comment would be nice.

I don't think Marks going to give you one.

Yep I have to agree.

[Aidan11]

Fiery takes on Lyon now.

[The Waugh Twins]

Fiery takes on Lyon now.

Great shot that by the young lad from Canterbury.

[Gingerfinch]

Fiery takes on Lyon now.

Great shot that by the young lad from Canterbury.

He's from Kent?

[Aidan11]

Fiery takes on Lyon now.

Great shot that by the young lad from Canterbury.

We don't pick many from our own soil.

[The Waugh Twins]

That pull shot by Root reminded me of Michael Atherton. Got to say I haven't watched him play a lot of test matches, but I'm glad to see him now.

Not often these days are their batters that leave little gap between bat and pad.