If you’d lost your job and your girlfriend within 24 hours I can’t think of anything more likely to tip you over the edge than a phone call asking if you want to be Tottenham manager
Last 10 Test hundreds by members of the Fab Four (most recent first):
Joe Root
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the umpires sat idly by and let Pat Cummins bowl 9 overs an hour yesterday but have intervened to deem it too dark to bowl Stuart Broad while wearing sunglasses. you can only laugh.
the year they get rid of the away goals rule is obviously the year Spurs get knocked out on penalties having scored more away goals, couldn't happen to any other club
"It's cocky" 😤
"It's arrogant and I think they should pay for it." 👀
Will England regret choosing Moeen Ali at 3⃣?
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Newcastle United’s club shop after all these years is now finally a place where fans can spend money without feeling shame of where the money is going
But unfortunately some “fans” continue to steal merchandise from the club and it needs to stop
#NUFC
Think this will settle in a bit when I'm less rattled as one of the funniest things I've ever witnessed. Joel saying it's too dark to bowl pace while not removing his sunnies.
Sure, 1 win in 6 is pretty abysmal, but I don’t see how anyone could think this is on Mourinho, unless you somehow think he’s in charge of tactics, team selection, training, man management and in-game changes
90% of this Australian side have sworn under oath that they can't tell when a ball they are holding and bowling with has been nuked with sandpaper so I'm sure it can't make that much difference
Something the umpires can't account for is England tried to get first ball prepared for reverse and couldn't make it work, so it had basically become useless. Changed ball lets them polish and bowl conventional swing. Aust were fortunate with a ball change at Leeds too
#Ashes
interesting stat from the South Africa test, apparently Virat Kohli has shouted into more stump mics today (1) than he's scored international hundreds since November 2019 (0)
Thought I wouldn’t be able to deal with Pat, Marnus and the Grade Cricketer being happy, but I’m currently overcome with giddiness at the thought of India failing to win their own rigged World Cup
Poch’s best PL years had these players in their prime;
Dele Alli
Toby Alderweireld
Christian Eriksen
Jan Vertonghen
Danny Rose
Kyle Walker
Hugo Lloris
Defensively, bar Romero, we have nothing near that standard.
Be careful what you wish for…
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Alastair Cook, Andy Zaltzman, Andrew Samson, Adam Mountford, Mike Selvey, Mark Pougatch, Malcolm Ashton and Phil Long it's difficult to think of many white men TMS has given a chance to over the last few years
We just had a Rizwan slog sweep for four that was not acknowledged at all because Tendulkar is talking about a breakfast before a game that happened 30 years ago
Since 2018 only three players (Marchant de Lange, Darren Stevens x2 and Lewis Gregory) have hit 17 sixes in a Championship season.
Ben Stokes hit 17 today
obviously Botham and Flintoff had their share of moments where they were just Him, but I don't think I've ever seen anyone have a 'mode' like Stokes does
Alastair Cook hit Test hundreds at the Gabba, Adelaide, WACA, MCG and SCG.
Only 15 Australians and one other non-Aussie (Sunil Gavaskar) can match this feat
win or lose, no-one will forget this famous Newcastle cup run in a hurry. Tranmere, Crystal Palace (on pens), Southampton - some giants were slain on their historic walk to Wembley
With shots like that it’s hard to forget that Ben Duckett’s temperament is so bad he spent his Boxing Day engagement celebration getting rattled into sending me a video of his front room to prove that he owns furniture
People will tell you England have had the luck this series even though in 10 innings Root has had two grubbers out of nowhere and one catch where Smith was allowed to drag it along the ground
My guess is that Kate Middleton has fallen foul of an addiction to the app “stick cricket.” Something I’ve been through myself and I don’t expect we’ll be seeing her until the next eclipse.
I know two facts about Marnus Labuschagne
- he was born in South Africa in 1994; the year that Nelson Mandela came to power
- his white parents chose to leave the country for some reason shortly after
Maybe they're not connected, I don't know
Gutted for Pope. This is a perfect opportunity to rectify the Foakes mistake and get Bairstow back in the role where he thrives, so get ready instead for Dan fucking Lawrence
England winning the first test in India on a really good pitch? I can only assume the curators will roll out similar pitches for the rest of the series