Pie Chucker

Is it me, or are Cook are Vaughan not on fire? Cook on fire! It was an absorbing day’s cricket, with the BBC OBO providing some usual star moments. After Vettori thrust England in, it looked like a wise move as England slumped to 44-2, but at 84-2 at lunch, England had somewhat recovered.

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Pie Chucker apologises to New Zealand fans everywhere.  As soon as we said England would probably lose this 2nd Test the writing was on the wall for the Black Caps.  In light of this, we’d like to congratulate Australia on their 2009 five nil Ashes whitewash…

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Wow. England started the morning at about 250 runs short of NZ’s 1st innings total of 381-9 (no teeth Flynn was absent, having become an automatic Leeds United fan). They put up feeble resistance and bar Stuart Broad (30, 4 fours) got almost no runs, sneaking past the follow-on target. I at this moment felt […]

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What is Peter Moores doing allowing Flintoff to play for Doncaster Rovers in the play-off final. I was disgusted to see Michael Vaughan celebrating with Justin Langer and Brett Lee. We need more hostility in the Ashes build-up.

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I read in various sources that Jimmy Anderson had broken teeth. Erm. That’s what (Goodnight) Anderson does. I fail to see why this is news. Rumour has it that the Australians are not coming to England next year, due to sheer terror at the prospect of facing him.  

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The message to the New Zealanders yesterday was clear: Don’t mess wiv da Burnley Bronco.  On his home ground Jimmy Anderson bullied the Tourists into submission.  Well, he hit two batsmen in the same over and in the absence of an English Courtney Walsh, England fans have to make do with this level of intimidation.  Perhaps it […]

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Steve Harmison used the recent Durham v Yorkshire fixture to boost his chances of a return to the England side; he broke rival bowler Matthew Hoggard’s thumb.  Of course Hoggard isn’t actually in the England team otherwise he would have been at Lords, not the Riverside, but as the 12th man he is above Harmison in […]

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Just 8.5 overs were possible on the 3rd Day at Lords, during which Cook reached 50 as the openers guided England to 89-0.  lay was delayed for 25 minutes in the morning, but worse was to follow as there was no cricket at all between lunch and stumps.  Strauss (31) and Cook (53) will resume […]

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There wasn’t much play on Day 2 of the 1st Test between England and New Zealand, but the Hosts had the best of what was on offer.  New Zealand started the day on 208-6 and having dawdled to 277-9, Vetorri decided that enough was enough and declared in a novel manner; he left a straight […]

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The first day of this Test Match Series was delayed by the inevitable rain, but even the cricket proved to be predictable.  Vaughan won the toss and put the Kiwis in only for their top order to fail and their middle order recover.  New Zealand were 104-5 at one point, before a 6th wicket stand […]

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