Today's cricket

[Derby Tup]

Might be being slightly apocalyptic here but we could be witnessing the beginning of the end of world test cricket.

First the West Indies and now Pakistan - great test sides destroyed by infighting and the greed and corruption of their administrators and by the joke that is 20-20.

It would have been unthinkable even just five years ago that Pakistan would send over a test side this inexperienced and poor. Now they just don't care about test cricket, in the same way as it has been more or less abandoned by the West Indies - who not long ago were the best side in the world.

Latest news makes terribly sad reading :thunbdown:

[Alf]

Latest news makes terribly sad reading :thunbdown:

Oh I don't know we won

[ZootHornRollo]

Oh I don't know we won

aye I don't think anything can be taken away from England's victory, it was well-earned.

But as DT says, tis sad days for test cricket. I wonder how much of this was born out of envy regarding the IPL? i.e., Pakistan players being excluded from that competition and its attendant riches, seeking other 'sources of income'.

Then again, everyone in cricket has known for decades that Pakistani cricket authorities are corrupt, it's just taken a surplus of blindingly obvious evidence to get past the politically correct barriers.

[Swoop]

Lancashire: Yet to bat
Nottinghamshire: 85-2 (24.2 overs)
Delayed
Bright light stopped play

[IanDarkpeak]

I've no nails left what a cliff hanger, brilliant last 4 overs, dead and buried with flowers on the grave and we still won.

Phew!

Lets hope for some easy games in the 1/4's

[Alf]

I've no nails left what a cliff hanger, brilliant last 4 overs, dead and buried with flowers on the grave and we still won.

Phew!

Lets hope for some easy games in the 1/4's

England must be the most entertaining side to watch in the competition so far!

It was a great finish though

[OneOffPoet]

England are a good bet to win the trophy perhaps? Not the best side but proving hard to beat when it counts.

[noel]

England are a good bet to win the trophy perhaps? Not the best side but proving hard to beat when it counts.

Except for the two games that they lost.

[IanDarkpeak]

Except for the two games that they lost.

ahh but we only lose to the no hopers, we've done quite well against the top teams

[OneOffPoet]

Except for the two games that they lost.

When it counts, like today for sure

It's bizarre how the results have gone, and England are beatable one day and unbeatable in tight situations the next. Real dark horses I think. Worth a fiver on them to win?!