Comments on: Alastair Cook does the big shop

By: Bert

Bert — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 14:18:29 +0000

Apart from Hutton, Hammond, Sandham and Edrich, no player without a moustache has ever scored a test triple hundred for England. Cook is punching uphill with those kind of odds. Someone needs to take charge of this and insist he geta himself a Ronnie immediately.

By: BailOut

BailOut — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 13:26:04 +0000

Soon as I turn the radio on and AAAAARRRGGGGGGHHHHHH

Learned my lesson. Next time don’t you dare turn that dial, bailo.

By: BailOut

BailOut — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 11:51:20 +0000

In reply to Ged. I reckon the only way to solve our opening partner crisis is to clone the chef. If he can play til he is 45 like the batsmen of old (and to be fair he'll look about 30 by then) then that's long enough for his clone to reach his teens (by which time he'll look about 7, but that seemed to work out ok for Parthiv).

By: alphamonkey

alphamonkey — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 11:43:30 +0000

I think he’s gone beyond “big shop” now and moved onto storing tins of corned beef and rice pudding in the cellar in case of apocalypse.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 11:36:12 +0000

In reply to Bert. I do hope that Cook's pursuit of personal milestones doesn't hamper the chance of a decisive result in this match.

By: Bert

Bert — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 10:21:07 +0000

A wicket! Root is OUT!

Things are moving on at a pace now. There was I assuming that this match was heading for a full, pointless, soul-destroying draw when BAM – a wicket falls. No longer are England several hundred for three, they are several hundrwd for FOUR. In a few more days or weeks they’ll be ALL OUT, and if they can then skittle Pakistan for 700 or so, knocking off the runs in the remaining epoch should present few problems.

(All times given in apparent mental time.)

By: King Cricket

King Cricket — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 09:58:36 +0000

In reply to Balladeer.

Hoping the dish.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/929417.html

By: Balladeer

Balladeer — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 09:05:13 +0000

In your Twitter round-up, King, do we think Liam Plunkett is referring to the dish in front of him, or Mark Wood’s expression?

By: Balladeer

Balladeer — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 09:03:51 +0000

In reply to Ged. And now it's Pakistan who are adopting the foetal position. (Thought I'd try a different e-mail address, see what monster I get.)

By: Ged

Ged — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 08:21:57 +0000

Alastair Cook – first Englishman to score a double ton against Pakistan since I was born…

…although it had done before in my lifetime, by Ted Dexter in February 1962…

Artist’s Impression of Ged The Last Time

Legend.

(Cook, I mean, not me when I was a fetus).