Its Summer! - the Fever Cricket Thread. (Part 2)

Pretty fair assessment bopman

willing to entertain arguments about dropping Macca for Ryder now...

though I like the attempt to counter attack, just a terrible choice of shot to that ball and int he previous over...

Doull- "There's a phrase that comes into cricket these days- it's the way I play- rubbish, absolute rubbish. You play the situation"

Anderson worked hard only to get out...could have been a hundred out there for him today the way he was playing...Liking the look of him. If he can chip in the wickets and the runs we are definitely a better team for him.

Roscoe needs to keep this up. If he plays this way, while also picking the moments, you've gotta hope he can start to achieve his potential...

Loving this Windies innings

McCullum out

Swan, Swan wont tear you apart, again..

Too little too late but i'm enjoying watching Australia roll over this evening.

I turned over during the tea break and saw Brett Lee bodylining Piers Morgan. That brought a smile to my face.

That was good tv. Only I wish he got hit by all six and maybe a couple in the head. His comments about "courage" stem from Jonathan Trott going home and Piers saying he had a lack of it. He is a full blown fudge wit.

He's an attention seeker. Which means he'll be loving it sadly. 

He has a broken wrist now so I hope it was worth it.

Good stuff - just a shame they gave him a helmet etc

Warne kissing his arse was cringe worthy. At least Healy ripped into him.

Worse was to come from Bill Lawry after Lyon edges one through third slip for four - "He's a proper batsman this lad, not just a bunny"

Yeah everyone who is saying he was brave/courageous etc are just feeling sorry for him. It was just pure stupidity talking himself into that situation and he was bound by his words so had to follow through.

been waiting a long time to see a batting display like this..

Am I reading cricinfo right? ODI 221/3 from 16 overs?!

Edit: ah 21 over match :)

Ridiculous hitting.

Jesse's back!

Good to see Milne getting a bowl too. Having a bowler who can get into the upper 140s would be useful (although potentially more so in test matches than in shorter forms where pace can be a disadvantage cos edges fly for 6 etc)

Milne's averages are pretty, well, average at domestic level, and god-awful at interntaional level, we need to send him down to CD for a few seasons so he can actually get some wickets and performances under his belt.

Fair call. I'm just smitten by sheer pace.

By the way, am I the only one who reckons we should treat Anderson's record as the fastest T20 ton of all time? Spellbinding knock but huge advantage to be had over all the players who had a different mindset over 50 overs.

Obviously it can't happen, what I think they will do is semi-asterisk Anderson's knock as the fastest ODI ton of all time, while Afridi's will be the fastest 50 over ton.

Lack of patriotism on my part. 

Meh. A world record is a world record. Doesn't matter how it was achieved.

It's just nice to be on the right side of a world record for once.

Astle's double-ton is still the fastest in tests isn't it?

It is! Good, because that remains my favourite innings of all time. I thought Sehwag had passed him but no, he has the next three on the list. Hopefully David Warner or some aussie boofhead doesn't break it anytime soon.

Great knock, just incredible. I remember an injured Cairns coming out to help him at no11

Astle would have been worth a mint in the IPL. Even his dibbly dobbly bowling would have been useful

Ah no? Didn't Adam Gilchrist take it off him?

Might need someone to google that (too lazy)

wow the Windian catching has been awful so far in this match

Wow, England are just terribad at the moment!