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    India v England, 3rd Test, Mumbai, Day One

    By Will 2 years ago, mid-March Leave a comment on this post

    Sorry - forgot about this Test! Good start for England…chat like the cricket-crazed fools you are

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    17 Responses to “India v England, 3rd Test, Mumbai, Day One”

  • Wraye wrote:
    March 18th, 2006 at 9.07 am

    Excuse me please, Will, but you FORGET????

    A critical Test for England, you work for cricinfo and you FORGET us ???

    For God’s sake, dear man, what were you drinking last night? ;)

  • Jess wrote:
    March 18th, 2006 at 9.12 am

    …forgotten…humph…*mutter*

    I don’t know why we’re the only ones on, Wraye. Even lazy boys will normally get up early for sport - it’s normally an effort of will to get my other half out of bed much before midday, but when we were living in California and the Old Firm games were on at about 4 in the morning, up he’d get to watch it on the computer. Bizarre.

    And there’s tea. Speaking of which…

  • Will wrote:
    March 18th, 2006 at 9.14 am

    Alas I was drier than a…erm, very dry thing. No booze last night. Anyway, must fly to work - click on some Ads once an hour to make me a copper or two, please :( :)

  • Jess wrote:
    March 18th, 2006 at 9.34 am

    Shah’s out hurt - cramp in his hands, apparently

  • Jess wrote:
    March 18th, 2006 at 9.42 am

    England need to chill out a bit, methinks

  • Wraye wrote:
    March 18th, 2006 at 9.43 am

    Ah Jess, how I so wish I could *see* this instead of just the radio and Internet. Jeeez, Strauss gets his 100 - oh wow! :)

  • Jess wrote:
    March 18th, 2006 at 9.45 am

    Me too! I’m going to see the folks next weekend, so might get to see the first ODI if I stay a couple of extra days.

  • Wraye wrote:
    March 18th, 2006 at 9.51 am

    Lucky, lucky you :)

  • Jess wrote:
    March 18th, 2006 at 9.56 am

    Heh, well I’m actually moving out to your neck of the woods in a few weeks, so we’ll be able to moan about the lack of coverage together…

  • Wraye wrote:
    March 18th, 2006 at 10.04 am

    going offline now - kids want breakfast. Keep in touch, Jess.

    Anyone else out there?

  • Jess wrote:
    March 18th, 2006 at 10.07 am

    Pesky kids! Let ‘em get their own…when I were lass, etc. etc.

  • Alan R wrote:
    March 18th, 2006 at 10.15 am

    I’m out in cricket limbo land too, here in France. But this is good stuff.

    When I visisted England a few years ago, I saw a couple of Middlesex matches, but at the time no one from Middlesex had anything to do with the English national team, and Lords was pretty empty. Who knew that two of the guys I watched would be accounting for a century and a half-century in a crucial match in India?

    And what’s going on in Germany? Are all the female COU readers moving there? :-)
    -Alan

  • Jess wrote:
    March 18th, 2006 at 10.20 am

    Who’d a thunk it? CMJ does a passable impression of Allan Border. And there was me thinking that all he could do was ‘posh middle-englander’.

  • Jess wrote:
    March 18th, 2006 at 10.49 am

    Ooh, a six for KP. His first of the match. Please don’t do that too much. Please.

    Anyone else around?

  • Jess wrote:
    March 18th, 2006 at 11.00 am

    Breakthrough for India - Strauss caught by Dhoni

  • Jess wrote:
    March 18th, 2006 at 11.08 am

    Heehee, Boycs is on form today.

    Talking to yourself is supposed to be a sign of madness. Someone come and talk to me, I’m bored.

  • The Googly wrote:
    March 18th, 2006 at 3.14 pm

    The luck of the debutant?

    It must be the luck of the debutant, surely. Owais Shah made fifty in his first Test today, to help give England a solid platform on day one of the third Test against India. But if statistics are anything to go by, luck isn’t the main contributor to E…

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