Comments on: Test match start days and the concept of ‘appointment to view’ https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/test-match-start-days-and-the-concept-of-appointment-to-view/2014/07/27/ Independent and irreverent cricket writing Mon, 28 Jul 2014 16:23:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.3 By: Balladeer https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/test-match-start-days-and-the-concept-of-appointment-to-view/2014/07/27/#comment-73102 Mon, 28 Jul 2014 16:23:20 +0000 http://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=12223#comment-73102 In reply to Balladeer.

Help. I’m still trapped, and there’s a bizarre humanoid house-servant who just hit an English fifty at a strike rate of more than 100. I’m scared.

]]> By: Bert https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/test-match-start-days-and-the-concept-of-appointment-to-view/2014/07/27/#comment-73053 Sun, 27 Jul 2014 20:46:19 +0000 http://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=12223#comment-73053 In reply to Balladeer.

Just go to sleep. By tomorrow evening you’ll be back in your own universe with England all out for 280.

]]> By: Balladeer https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/test-match-start-days-and-the-concept-of-appointment-to-view/2014/07/27/#comment-73052 Sun, 27 Jul 2014 19:15:37 +0000 http://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=12223#comment-73052 Erm… can somebody please help? My username’s Balladeer, and… er… this’ll be hard to believe, I know, but I think I come from a parallel universe. No, really. It’s similar in a lot of ways to this one I’ve found myself in, but in my universe, there’s no way that 2014’s England cricket team would end the first day of a Test match 247-2. No bloody way. Their openers get out cheaply, which precipitates a middle order collapse, and then if you’re lucky the lower order put on a few runs. This may all seem laughable to you, but really, that’s how things are in my world!

Anyone know how I get home? Or is this a regular thing? In which case, I might stay here – just to check, does Galaxy chocolate exist in this universe?

]]> By: Aks https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/test-match-start-days-and-the-concept-of-appointment-to-view/2014/07/27/#comment-73051 Sun, 27 Jul 2014 15:47:55 +0000 http://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=12223#comment-73051 Looks like Cook is going to use up all the runs he’s being saving up in the last 12 months in the next 3 matches.

]]> By: sam https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/test-match-start-days-and-the-concept-of-appointment-to-view/2014/07/27/#comment-73048 Sun, 27 Jul 2014 14:59:14 +0000 http://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=12223#comment-73048 In reply to Balladeer.

As ever, my Mohammed Shami dismisses my Sam Robson. I’m going to have to have a word with them.

]]> By: Balladeer https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/test-match-start-days-and-the-concept-of-appointment-to-view/2014/07/27/#comment-73047 Sun, 27 Jul 2014 14:46:26 +0000 http://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=12223#comment-73047 I feel that I owe the kingdom an apology. Both of my strike bowlers, Ishant and Liam, are out of this match – so Bhangra-Morris fusion is going into freefall. Sorry your majesty.

That, and I forgot to make Alastair Cook one of my openers. Rookie error there.

]]> By: Ged https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/test-match-start-days-and-the-concept-of-appointment-to-view/2014/07/27/#comment-73045 Sun, 27 Jul 2014 10:43:02 +0000 http://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=12223#comment-73045 Yup, for those of us who work, of course, it means that the “business end” of the game is all midweek and therefore most of the match will be hard to follow.

However, the old regular Thursday start slot means that I rarely get to follow Day One from the comfort of the sofa/garden chair. So today I am enjoying the rare experience of a Day One at home in leisure time mode.

But the ECB “appointment to view” hypocrisy is blatant, indeed flagrant.

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