Comments on: England to win the Ashes via airy off-side drives https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/england-to-win-the-ashes-via-airy-off-side-drives/2017/09/27/ Independent and irreverent cricket writing Thu, 28 Sep 2017 14:32:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.3 By: Aditya https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/england-to-win-the-ashes-via-airy-off-side-drives/2017/09/27/#comment-253080 Thu, 28 Sep 2017 14:32:55 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=18794#comment-253080 Ok, silly comments apart, http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/41433110

I guess the video changed things.

]]> By: Aditya https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/england-to-win-the-ashes-via-airy-off-side-drives/2017/09/27/#comment-253079 Thu, 28 Sep 2017 13:00:24 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=18794#comment-253079 FFS ECB Y U NO PICK BETTER SQUAD? SMH

]]> By: Mike https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/england-to-win-the-ashes-via-airy-off-side-drives/2017/09/27/#comment-253078 Thu, 28 Sep 2017 12:40:25 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=18794#comment-253078 Well now. Some might think I’m the type to come on here and gloatingly tell Middlesex to shove their pitch complaints up their arse, learn to play spin properly, get some better players, enjoy their trips to Leicester and Cardiff, etc etc, but no, not me. I’m going to rise above it and offer my heartfelt commiserations to the losing side and wish them a speedy and smooth return to the upper echelons of English cricket*

*Dependent on results elsewhere. May have to re-write for Hampshire somehow.

]]> By: Balladeer https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/england-to-win-the-ashes-via-airy-off-side-drives/2017/09/27/#comment-253077 Thu, 28 Sep 2017 09:40:19 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=18794#comment-253077 In reply to Ged.

If that means more of him on TMS, where I can actually experience him, I’m all for that.

]]> By: Mike https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/england-to-win-the-ashes-via-airy-off-side-drives/2017/09/27/#comment-253076 Thu, 28 Sep 2017 09:05:03 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=18794#comment-253076 In reply to King Cricket.

FYI – not a real hamster.

]]> By: Mike https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/england-to-win-the-ashes-via-airy-off-side-drives/2017/09/27/#comment-253075 Thu, 28 Sep 2017 09:00:15 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=18794#comment-253075 In reply to King Cricket.

Trying to decide if Alex Hales gets a sly kick in at one point on a bloke who’s already been floored by Stokesy, sort of like the Richard the Hamster Hammond role when May and Clarkson have already done all the big hitting.

]]> By: Ged https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/england-to-win-the-ashes-via-airy-off-side-drives/2017/09/27/#comment-253074 Thu, 28 Sep 2017 08:40:13 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=18794#comment-253074 In reply to alphamonkey.

James Taylor seems to have slipped of Sky TV’s radar.

Perhaps he is doing other stuff now by choice, but I thought he was very solid on the punditry and came across very nicely.

Not a face for TV in the “Nick Knight/David Gower” style, but he is televisual enough in a Rob Key/Nasser Hussain sort of way.

]]> By: King Cricket https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/england-to-win-the-ashes-via-airy-off-side-drives/2017/09/27/#comment-253073 Thu, 28 Sep 2017 06:27:28 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=18794#comment-253073 In reply to alphamonkey.

England miss James Taylor.

]]> By: alphamonkey https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/england-to-win-the-ashes-via-airy-off-side-drives/2017/09/27/#comment-253072 Wed, 27 Sep 2017 23:19:27 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=18794#comment-253072 Just seen Vince’s interview on cricinfo regarding his selection: “Surprised” and “grateful”.

Not really the “it’s about bloody time” response KC advocated when James Taylor got his chance.

]]> By: daneel https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/england-to-win-the-ashes-via-airy-off-side-drives/2017/09/27/#comment-253071 Wed, 27 Sep 2017 22:11:45 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=18794#comment-253071 In reply to King Cricket.

You wouldn’t see Ian Bell getting involved in that sort of shenanigans.

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