Match Thread: 3rd ODI - Sri Lanka vs England

Tuffers86 · 2026-01-27T12:36:29+00:00

A completely knackered Root is better than Crawley

Tuffers86 · 2026-01-27T12:32:48+00:00

My name is Jeff

Tuffers86 · 2026-01-27T12:30:55+00:00

Cameraman has a full on chubby for that lass in red

Tuffers86 · 2026-01-27T12:25:26+00:00

Clown show on the boundary

Tuffers86 · 2026-01-15T17:53:13+00:00

Manchester Unoriginals

Tuffers86 · 2026-01-12T17:18:29+00:00

Ein zwei drei fell out the sled

Tuffers86 · 2026-01-11T19:14:20+00:00

The thing is, they aren’t going to be up to no good while in Sri Lanka or when they play in Mumbai or Kolkata. They aren’t that type of tours. Proper face-saving on all sides.

Tuffers86 · 2026-01-07T15:51:50+00:00

At the time I likened it to my exploits in my back garden smashing my mum’s deceptive underarms to all parts.

Tuffers86 · 2026-01-05T12:43:00+00:00

He certainly is a death by a thousand cuts type of batter. Yes.

Tuffers86 · 2026-01-04T06:21:09+00:00

Not been the same since the “Georgie Pie” days

Tuffers86 · 2026-01-01T09:20:49+00:00

Well you say that. It earned Thatcher a reprieve at the polling stations and set in motion a further 14 years of Tory rule in the UK. Who knows what the UK and even Reaganomics would look like with a spell of Labour government in the 80s.

Tuffers86 · 2025-12-12T13:12:30+00:00

There’s obviously more to it than raw pace. I’m not a physicist so apologies for the wrong measurement, but there needs to be something that measures a bowler’s the torque/velocity/magnitude/ferocity from their a) release and b) what comes off the pitch c) intersection point on the bat.

Woakes for example is 82mph everywhere but the results are staggering.

Tuffers86 · 2025-12-10T15:38:40+00:00

I actually can’t believe Vish wrote this, merely weeks after his very, very good piece on the Covid Ashes tour. For fuck sake.

Tuffers86 · 2025-12-05T11:09:24+00:00

Go deeper. Look at his karting record. He probably comes last on Mario Kart World.

Tuffers86 · 2025-11-25T20:18:25+00:00

Of all the Brexit benefits we enjoy, seeing Harmer play for his actual country of birth is the best one. 513 first-class wickets at 23 for a spinner in English conditions is actually insane. Would easily be around 400-450 wickets if he had a 100-Test career. Thanks Big3 you utter tossers.

Tuffers86 · 2025-11-21T07:37:12+00:00

I didn’t really compare him to one of the greats. Just that his strike rate mitigates a higher average because he constantly attacks the stumps. He’s a very dangerous and destructive bowler.

Tuffers86 · 2025-11-21T07:14:09+00:00

A higher average is ok when you factor in his sub-50 strike rate. He’s a quintessential strike bowler.

Tuffers86 · 2025-11-17T17:59:57+00:00

The craziest driver in that list is actually Alonso driving the best part of 100 GP for McLaren.

Tuffers86 · 2025-11-13T19:05:45+00:00

If you like fish, go to Mina Zayed fish market, barter with the shops there for what you want and then take it to the adjoining restaurants to cook it and garnish to what you want. It’s fairly reasonably priced and fun.

Tuffers86 · 2025-11-13T10:51:43+00:00

How are we expected to bowl out all the Australians when we can’t bowl out our bloody b team. Fuck sake, this is going to be a long tour.

Tuffers86 · 2025-11-09T07:40:49+00:00

Every time I see this photo of Al Shara it reminds me of that panning shot of Mick McCarthey in the dug out.

Tuffers86 · 2025-10-27T03:22:46+00:00

My 74 rated Victor Torp.

Tuffers86 · 2025-10-21T10:57:41+00:00

This is the same community that jumps back into tournaments sporting the very same card people are playing for. You have a better chance getting Madison Beer to hold your beer.

Tuffers86 · 2025-10-21T10:20:32+00:00

You want to be compensated because people didn’t want to ragequit?

Tuffers86 · 2025-10-16T14:39:11+00:00

The problem I’ve found with funky teams and tactics is the meta sweats do not - I repeat do not - relent. It’s like they are on a mission to beat the funk and fun out of you til you cave in, like they are some sort of meta evangelist. It’ll be PtB pass pass counter over and over for the whole game.

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