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13 minutes ago, Toonpack said:

So PL witnesses history twice, Bethels first senior (1st class) ton and the biggest one day margin in history. Canny.

First Professional / senior / international ton. ODIs have List A status but they are not first class matches. Like Virat Kohli has 82 international centuries (Test/ODI/ T20 Internationals) but ‘only’ has 37 first class ones. 

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2 hours ago, Toonpack said:

So PL witnesses history twice, Bethels first senior (1st class) ton and the biggest one day margin in history. Canny.

 

Feel privileged to see that spell from Archer 👍

 

And a century from Joe Root 😃

 

 

 

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3 minutes ago, PaddockLad said:

 

Feel privileged to see that spell from Archer 👍

 

And a century from Joe Root 😃

 

 

 

And your shirt put this lad off

 

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Brilliant day for it folks B)

 

Heavy rain shower lasted no more than 5 mins. By which point South Africa had packed up and fucked off. 
 

Mental game.

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2 hours ago, Toonpack said:

So PL witnesses history twice, Bethels first senior (1st class) ton and the biggest one day margin in history. Canny.


Not to mention Archer with 4 for 5

at one point. Couldn’t believe what I was seeing :lol:

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10 hours ago, PaddockLad said:

60 seconds after the toss the heavens opened 🤣 Saffers won & choose to bowl... So would I tbf :cuppa:

 

Update: rain now stopped, sun breaking through... 🤷‍♂️


Where were you sat? I was just to the right of the pavillion.

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It would be nice if Archer could reproduce that this winter against the Aussies. We’re probably going to need him and Wood available for at least 3 tests each if we’re going to have a sniff of a chance. I just hope it’s a competitive series tbh 

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11 hours ago, Craig said:


Where were you sat? I was just to the right of the pavillion.

 

We were just to the right of the sight screen at the hotel end. Got back home  and found some live football on bbc2. A somewhat "tired and emotional" Mrs PL peered at the screen...  "Is that Nigeria or Northern Ireland?" :lol:

 

 

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1 minute ago, PaddockLad said:

 

We were just to the right of the sight screen at the hotel end. Got back home  and found some live football on bbc2. A somewhat "tired and emotional" Mrs PL peered at the screen...  "Is that Nigeria or Northern Ireland?" :lol:

 

 

 

Mrs PL Reported

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I think he’s great tbh. And he’ll know exactly what other coaches are getting. The owners of the 100 franchises are all dodgy venture capitalist outfits anyway. It’s a load of shite and has completely fucked up the English test summer too

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Yeh its an absolute joke of a competition, especially for North East fans - out nearest team is Headlingley ffs :lol:

 

I think its good for women’s cricket but its absolutely knacked everything else. 
 

Durham were going well in the blast before a ridiculous 6 week (iirc) break to facilitate the 100. 

 

That’s before we get on the England T20s/ODIs in late september. Absolutely farcical.

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1 minute ago, Tom said:

Yeh its an absolute joke of a competition, especially for North East fans - out nearest team is Headlingley ffs :lol:

 

I think its good for women’s cricket but its absolutely knacked everything else. 
 

Durham were going well in the blast before a ridiculous 6 week (iirc) break to facilitate the 100. 

 

That’s before we get on the England T20s/ODIs in late september. Absolutely farcical.

Agree on women’s cricket. Also would add it gives people the opportunity to see international cricketers on terrestrial tv. 
But the negatives far outweigh the positives imo. 
And I know I’m a bit of traditionalist when it comes to cricket but the English test summer being over at the end of July / beginning of August is sacrilege imo. And they’ve even done that when you’ve had the (financial) big guns in Australia and (more recently) India touring. 
Also, when it started the :quotes:  strategic partners :quotes: could only hold a 49% stake. But that’s quickly been dispensed with. 

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12 minutes ago, Tom said:

Yeh its an absolute joke of a competition, especially for North East fans - out nearest team is Headlingley ffs :lol:

 

I think its good for women’s cricket but its absolutely knacked everything else. 
 

Durham were going well in the blast before a ridiculous 6 week (iirc) break to facilitate the 100. 

 

That’s before we get on the England T20s/ODIs in late september. Absolutely farcical.

 

i watched the t20 finals day at edgbaston in mid september last year - it was so cold we ended up leaving before the end 

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1 hour ago, Tom said:

Yeh its an absolute joke of a competition, especially for North East fans - out nearest team is Headlingley ffs :lol:

5° too cold

 

52 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said:

 

i watched the t20 finals day at edgbaston in mid september last year - it was so cold we ended up leaving before the end 

See, even Birmingham is too cold for Southern softies. 

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1 hour ago, Alex said:

Agree on women’s cricket. Also would add it gives people the opportunity to see international cricketers on terrestrial tv. 
But the negatives far outweigh the positives imo. 
And I know I’m a bit of traditionalist when it comes to cricket but the English test summer being over at the end of July / beginning of August is sacrilege imo. And they’ve even done that when you’ve had the (financial) big guns in Australia and (more recently) India touring. 
Also, when it started the :quotes:  strategic partners :quotes: could only hold a 49% stake. But that’s quickly been dispensed with. 


Yeh tbh I think the blast is about modern as I want cricket to get, the idea we needed something further is madness.

 

I did enjoy the india series, it was class but agree that the test season & even limited overs games were messed around by the 100.

 

Overall I just don’t like the format tbh

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27 minutes ago, RobinRobin said:

5° too cold

 

See, even Birmingham is too cold for Southern softies. 

 

it's a long old day to be sat out in 13 degree weather. 10am-10pm! 

 

it was also obvious pretty early in somerset's innings that gloucestershire were going to win so we fucked off early to the sanctuary of the boozer 

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