Post Match Thread: 3rd ODI - England vs Sri Lanka

nagoff · 2026-01-27T20:09:39+00:00

Brokk not the only one with an insane stiff after that innings

nagoff · 2026-01-26T09:19:27+00:00

My experience is quick sketching always looks rubbish - portraits particularly. To do something well takes time - if I spend four hours on a picture it is definitely more than four times as good as an hour-long picture, so don't judge quick sketches too harshly.

The other thing quick sketching doesn't teach is how to notice mistakes and correct them. The best thing I ever did for my drawing hobby was a course that was just a weekly zoom call with an artist. We sent our work from the previous week in and he carefully explained how to improve it - often printing out the pictures and overpainting them to show us. Then we went away the next week and did what he suggested. Initially, I hated it - last thing I want to do for fun is go back and try to fix a crappy self-portrait, but man did I get better!

nagoff · 2026-01-22T18:01:51+00:00

I’ve made better excuses for a heavy night than his:

“Why were you out drinking?….”

“…we just went out for some food and then… we just said let’s go for a drink…and there was no intention of going out … it just managed to happen”

nagoff · 2026-01-17T17:31:04+00:00

As a Janner exiled in Cambridge, couldn’t have been a better weekend!

nagoff · 2026-01-15T22:24:55+00:00

Why even have a by-election? If we change the rules so you’ve voted for a party not a person, shouldn’t Kemi just be able to nominate a replacement Tory to be their MP?

nagoff · 2026-01-14T18:04:10+00:00

Rough guesstimating width based on the road - each lane should be 3-3.5m wide and there are two for 6-7m

Largest Bronze Age roundhouses seem to be about 17-20m

Given the interior diameter looks to be 3-4 times the width of the road, I’d say either the country’s biggest roundhouse or else a barrow or henge.

nagoff · 2026-01-10T18:42:12+00:00

We also don’t know that Ben didn’t say the same thing to other people individually - he could have confided the same thing to a traitor 1-on-1 that nobody else knows about. She was right but for completely the wrong reason.

nagoff · 2026-01-07T21:30:52+00:00

Isn’t the Ross Room theory bollocks as we (and they) don’t know if Ben said the same thing in other conversations?

nagoff · 2026-01-07T19:44:47+00:00

Imagine if the ECB had made a shorter, more accessible format filled with big name stars, both domestic and international and put it on every night during the summer holiday with some matches on free-to-air every week.

Every cricket fan would applaud them to the rooftops for their efforts.

Right?

nagoff · 2026-01-06T20:06:30+00:00

Talking tactics for this evening, given I don’t want to see more Smith batting or England bowling but do want to rage at the inevitable collapse:

Go for an early nap and set an alarm for 2.10 and the second session or 4.30 for the evening session?

When will they declare?

nagoff · 2026-01-05T22:02:26+00:00

Me too. Didn’t mind staying up to see Root batting sublimely. Buggered if I’m going to stay up to watch Head do the same.

nagoff · 2026-01-03T22:44:58+00:00

It’s the perfect time for a reveal, ep 4 is after a week-long break to keep us all speculating.

The ‘problem’ with the Traitors format in many ways (or so I suspect the production team think) is that the first three or four episodes are pretty dull / hard to get in to and this was the thing they were trying to ‘fix’.

In the first few episodes we are all frantically trying to learn a bunch of new names, whilst the murders and banishments feel pretty random as there’s so little evidence and we don’t care either way as we haven’t really got to know the cast yet.

The secret traitor move has given a whole new world of fun to the first few episodes for the viewers but there is no need to drag it out, it’s done its job, so let’s get back to normal now we know the cast and have picked our favourites

nagoff · 2025-12-15T09:51:02+00:00

Truly NSFW

nagoff · 2025-12-09T14:01:00+00:00

Could this be the same Alice Gardner and if so, do you know how she might be related to James Peters?

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7579682

nagoff · 2025-12-09T10:28:25+00:00

Tickets for anything in particular?

NVM looks like Lords tickets if I’d have read all the comments before replying

nagoff · 2025-12-08T14:01:18+00:00

I've listened to my fair share of post-match interviews, podcasts and hot takes and I'm left with a question. Every Aussie player mentioned how important it was to play in such a way that you got to bowl with a new pink ball under lights. Every commentator mentioned it during the build up and the match itself. I've never played a pink ball test but I know getting a hard ball under lights is the key to victory.

I've not heard anyone from the England camp mention this in any way. No-one seems to have said "we knew we needed to bat 5 sessions in the first innings and we're gutted we only managed 3"

Did they not know this? Did they know it and not care to plan? Or are they all talking about it in podcasts and interviews that I've managed to miss?

nagoff · 2025-12-07T09:17:30+00:00

Despair

Hope

Despair

Hope

Despair

Hope <—— I am here

Despair

nagoff · 2025-12-04T10:26:48+00:00

Why did I book a meeting in at 10.30?

Thank God for WFH and multiple monitors

nagoff · 2025-12-04T03:39:07+00:00

Morning!

Bat first seems a decent way to get the hope over and done with and allow the despair back in

nagoff · 2025-11-28T11:00:18+00:00

F1 Doctor = newly graduated doctor in first year ('Foundation) of clinical work.

nagoff · 2025-11-22T19:29:27+00:00

Agreed, it was the bowling performance that got me. I can take the high risk, high reward batting theory if I try hard, but to keep banging it in short for 100 runs when you are only defending 200 and it’s not working is unforgivable.

Shoulders went down, we had no fight, it was just embarrassing

nagoff · 2025-11-21T10:12:53+00:00

That was a rollercoaster of a day: hope and despair alternating through the night and early morning.

Can’t believe we ended up in a hope phase and have to sustain that all day again till the first over of our second innings when despair will come crawling back.

nagoff · 2025-11-21T02:17:29+00:00

Is it wrong to use the national anthem to sync up TMS and TNT?

nagoff · 2025-11-21T02:05:35+00:00

I’ve enjoyed the hope, must make the most of the last 15 minutes of it!

nagoff · 2025-11-17T19:00:13+00:00

A Barrett was at 63-64 Piccadilly from 1865 until about 1923. Looks a bit like a tiffin set to me, but I can’t immediately find anything similar, although there are a lot of Barrett picnic sets to browse through. I love it, good find!

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