Real cricket.

[Sweder]

Can I reply? Yes.

Will I reply? No.

Ooops.

I can reply now, too. Yay! I had written a gratuitous piece of gloating earlier, but that got lost in the cyber-ether. I'll refrain, in any case, until after tonight's game. For some reason I'm not feeling too confident, even though I gather your lot have lost Broad. Hmm.

Frankly I'm appalled at the selectors indolence visa vis Bopara.
The man is clearly struggling with inner demons yet we insist on thrusting him into the fray. Sure as rotten eggs are rotten eggs he tries to force the issue only to end up waddling disconsolately off again having played a lame shot or left a straight one.

Apparently we have a wunderkind in Rashid.
No doubt we'll wait until the series is lost before exposing him to the world.

Sigh.
Still, at least we have the Little Urn