Comments on: If England’s top three sets the tone, exactly what tone is it setting? https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/if-englands-top-three-sets-the-tone-exactly-what-tone-is-it-setting/2021/08/09/ Independent and irreverent cricket writing Wed, 11 Aug 2021 09:00:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.3 By: Felix https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/if-englands-top-three-sets-the-tone-exactly-what-tone-is-it-setting/2021/08/09/#comment-267708 Wed, 11 Aug 2021 09:00:25 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=25993#comment-267708 In reply to Ged Ladd.

Yesterday I was wit someone who was talking about the Birmingham Pentatonix, the London Shipits, and the southeast bravers.

The Hundred is on another level in terms of the educational factor.

]]> By: King Cricket https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/if-englands-top-three-sets-the-tone-exactly-what-tone-is-it-setting/2021/08/09/#comment-267707 Wed, 11 Aug 2021 08:41:38 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=25993#comment-267707 In reply to Ged Ladd.

We all can’t spake.

]]> By: Ged Ladd https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/if-englands-top-three-sets-the-tone-exactly-what-tone-is-it-setting/2021/08/09/#comment-267706 Wed, 11 Aug 2021 06:51:53 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=25993#comment-267706 Shove it up your Brydon, you Manchester Orifices (or whatever you are called)…London Spirit are the best cricket team in the whole world.

I can’t spake.

]]> By: Balladeer https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/if-englands-top-three-sets-the-tone-exactly-what-tone-is-it-setting/2021/08/09/#comment-267699 Tue, 10 Aug 2021 14:14:46 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=25993#comment-267699 In reply to Professor Colin Abernathy.

Bunny!

Er, sorry. The comment was good too. But… bunny.

]]> By: King Cricket https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/if-englands-top-three-sets-the-tone-exactly-what-tone-is-it-setting/2021/08/09/#comment-267697 Mon, 09 Aug 2021 19:24:18 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=25993#comment-267697 In reply to Professor Colin Abernathy.

It’s a strong and persuasive argument.

]]> By: King Cricket https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/if-englands-top-three-sets-the-tone-exactly-what-tone-is-it-setting/2021/08/09/#comment-267696 Mon, 09 Aug 2021 19:23:59 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=25993#comment-267696 In reply to A P Webster.

Lovely stuff.

]]> By: King Cricket https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/if-englands-top-three-sets-the-tone-exactly-what-tone-is-it-setting/2021/08/09/#comment-267695 Mon, 09 Aug 2021 19:23:33 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=25993#comment-267695 In reply to Bail-out.

Yes!

]]> By: Professor Colin Abernathy https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/if-englands-top-three-sets-the-tone-exactly-what-tone-is-it-setting/2021/08/09/#comment-267694 Mon, 09 Aug 2021 19:19:39 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=25993#comment-267694 I’d argue the tone of the England innings was a sort of muted, plaintive horn in the distance, warning inchoately of a coming danger in the midst, and occasionally slipping into slapstick farting noises every time the ball was around the top of off-stump/nipping back into the pads/available to be panic-flapped into an unsuspecting fielder’s hands. In which case the top three set the tone perfectly. Nothing prepares the mind for the sight of white-ball specialists and tail-enders looking bewildered by Test bowling like the top order playing like white-ball specialists and tail-enders bewildered by Test bowling.

(In fairness, Crawley showed a few glimpses of fluency, it was good to see Bairstow full of Hula Hoops and Celtic fire again in an England shirt again, and India’s attack looked menacing from the first step of Bumrah’s angry-supplicant runup.)

]]> By: A P Webster https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/if-englands-top-three-sets-the-tone-exactly-what-tone-is-it-setting/2021/08/09/#comment-267692 Mon, 09 Aug 2021 17:38:51 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=25993#comment-267692 In reply to A P Webster.

Messed up my last parenthesis there, it should of course be:

(Flipping) Murder(ed ‘Em) Ballads

]]> By: A P Webster https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/if-englands-top-three-sets-the-tone-exactly-what-tone-is-it-setting/2021/08/09/#comment-267691 Mon, 09 Aug 2021 17:37:44 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=25993#comment-267691 In reply to Stuart.

Stagger (Brett) Lee
Red Right Hand Bat
Dig in, Lazarus, Dig in
Straight (Drive) to You
(Flipping) Murder(ed ‘Em Ballads)

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