...and normal service is resumed by he England top order, 11-2 at lunch with Cook and Bell both out cheaply just before the break.

Exactly...it always seems to be Jimmy who's the fall guy (Stanford game, this test) and he's always going to have this "he's inconsistent" tag stuck unfairly to him...he's been, IMO, our best test bowler this past 12 months...maybe its because he's so quiet and such a good team man that he accepts it better than certain others who quit international one day cricket and such...mentioning no names

An interesting stat from sky earlier...Flintoff has 2 test 5 fers from 127 innings'...Monty has 8 from 61 innings'

I hate it when folk bring that up, for loads of different reasons, especially as he must have tens of 4 'fors' as he's one of theose bowlers. Add to that the pressure he builds, bowlers at the other end benefit from that but his figures don't. I used to work with a bloke who used to bring that up all the time to back up his argument that we 'wouldn't miss him'.

We need a Bothamesque Flintoff knock.

23/5.

Absolute poop.

Make that six.

I love the way its so easy to have a pop at them

26/7

No one in double figures yet.

...and Vaughn isn't good enough to get into this squad?

last time we were in the windies - he didn't look like he could get the ball off the square, so yes, he'd fit in nicely.

Fork in hell.

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