Lighthouse

If a ball isn’t dead when the WK has it safely in hand and runs the length of the wicket to knock over both stumps, then it never will be. Imagine that happening on the first ball of a test match and the openers just keep running for 5 days straight. Match drawn on 8,463-0 off 0.1 overs.

Stressful game politics. Anne Widdecombe is 23.

If we’re doing John Cleese quotes; that ball is dead, it has ceased to be, it is no more. Bereft of life, it has shuffled off the wicket of life and joined the choir invisible. It has passed on and if you hadn’t nailed it to the stumps it’d be pushing up the daisies.

Must have done. Gleason ran well beyond the wicket when McD took the bails off and he got to the non-strikers end well before Hartley (who gave him a petulant barge for good measure).

I had to watch it a couple of times to realise they actually got a bye off the free hit. McDermott running the length of the wicket to plough everything down.

The first Hampshire game I remember watching properly was the 2012 final. Miller was slapping it all over the place and it came down to 11 off the last two balls. I can still remember Bumble saying, "foot behind the line young man," in reference to a then very green Chris Wood. You have to say the mental resilience of this team is quite astonishing. Night and day from Saints. To turn it around after the first four games like that and win what, 12 out of 13, including QF, SF and F is something in itself but the manner of some of the victories... just wow. That game in Taunton and the final today, the oponents looked like they were absolutely coasting to a win but the consistently excellent bowling and fielding just ground them down with no let up. That and we absolutely smashed the Northern group winners. Unreal T20 season.

F**k me, what an end to a game of cricket. A no ball, of all the times to pick one.

Not looking good, need something massive from the middle order.

I was talking about the revolver, you Wally.

Stonking! Who saw this coming after the first four group games?

I don’t think 190 will be enough on this wicket but it’s something to defend.

Do you mean to say that obese smokers in their fifties, sitting in direct sun all afternoon, drinking alcohol and not touching a drop of water or sun cream might have some problems?

A Calippo goes in quite nicely but I find a Magnum a bit of a struggle.

I fear you may be wasting your time.

As if by magic, a complete non-statement which offers absolutely no insight or opinion at all into anything.

Then don’t click on the threads about women’s darts.

Okay, I’ve moved a whole bunch of stuff to the lounge, so if you like talking about teenage boys in Texas or whatever… Please can we keep this thread to discussing actual games of women’s football. If, like me, that doesn’t particularly interest you then I suggest you simply don’t click on this thread. It’s not compulsory, you wouldn’t register on the darts forum to post 12 times a day about how darts is crap and you don’t watch it. Thank you.

No, that’s what they WANT to vote for but whether you like it or not, you’re voting to elect an MP. You aren’t choosing a cabinet or appointing any ministerial position, including the PM.

On the contrary, I think getting yourself sent off after 10 minutes make you more guilty than anyone else.

We’re basically the Watford of democracy.

You vote to elect an MP and your MP is now voting to elect a leader. Seems fair to me, regardless of party allegiances.

I feel this lacks some of the drama required. It needs more X Factor slow-motion montages, with Cheryl crying and a pointless cover of some Westlife ballad.

He may have been last season but he’s only going to get worse from here onwards.

He’s 34, no thanks.

Didn’t we nearly make Matt Piper our record signing but were pipped by Sunderland? He was then immediately crippled and never seen again. That might be real or a memory from one of my Championship Manager games c.2002. As an aside, nothing we attempt will ever trump Rivaldo to Bolton.