Unbelievable. Quickest 5 for, ever maybe? I went to edgbaston day one on a corporate do and through poor travel planning missed first 30mins. Turned out to be a great day but at the time I was mildly irritated missing a wicket but couldn't really say much as it was a freebie. If I was 40 mins late to this I'd be inconsolable.

29/6 30 mins of play i bet there's no finer sight than seeing Mitchell Johnson skulking into bat.

What the @#/? is happening. I must be asleep

What a start. Pessimist alert they're going at 10 an over. Ha

Think boycott had a mentality where he would only bat for himself and if it benefited the team it's a bonus if not fine but it was all about him. More often than not if you do well as an individual it does benefit the team but scenarios arise when need quick runs to either win or try set targets then boycott was too selfish to adapt. Famously botham was sent in vs New Zealand to run him out in one such scenario. Quite funny really. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAeFm22xB7Q&sns=em

So 121 to win. In 1981 at Edgbaston Australia needed 151 to win and we got them out for 121. Botham finished with 5/11. Let's hope it's not roles reversed today.

http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/33151043 Anyone heard of this fella before? Not too sure about the "British" boxer claim in the title.

My 2 concerns going into this are top order who have by and large been terrible all year. This 30/3 stuff cannot continue. And the bowling worries me. No spinner of note, Jimmy at the moment is blowing hot and cold and so far hadn't troubled their top order, broad as always been an unplayable 6/30 man or a 1/80 more often the latter, wood looks ok so far but still inexperienced jury still out and if he's injured Finn who hasn't done it for me, then stokes who is average enough for a 4th seamer. Still edgbaston been a good hunting ground so against the odds I'm being optimistic for this one and say jimmy will rip through them...

With all the washouts last night it's Kent vs Lancashire in the quarter final of t20 on sat August 15th. 5 of us have decided to go down to that and miss the Huddersfield game. Comes to a thing where a 600 mile round trip to Canterbury to watch lancs in t20 is more appealing than watching rovers 50 miles away.

A slight thing to raise my cricketing spirits is lancs are dominating in the 1st vs 3rd clash. In fact at stumps the partnership between prince and petersen stands at 321 not out. 364 is the county record 3rd wicket partnership held by athers and fairbrother vs Surrey at the oval in 1990. So 43 behind that or 50 behind the best ever partnership of 371 held since 1928.

Well this is a disgraceful showing. I'm tempted to say get rid of the top order particularly lyth, ballance and bell. But I don't know who's around to come in that's any good. Cook isn't the man he was in spite of being better recently. Lyth so far doesn't look good enough for the step up to test quality, robson wasn't good enough, Compton wasn't good enough, carberry wasn't good enough, lees is a poor man's lyth, hales is more of a one day man. As for nos 3-4 ballance and bell looking gash but the door firmly shut on kp, Bairstow struggled with the step up, Taylor from notts, Morgan, vince from hants. Any changes are risks at this stage so prob have to stick with what we've got. Could be a long old summer.

These have been England's starts to test innings in 2015: 42/3 today 30/4 73/3 43/3 177/1 62/4 30/4 74/3 38/3 62/6 125/1 144/1 34/3 52/3 Other than the innings vs New Zealand and both innings in Grenada it's pretty rank stuff from the top order. Embarrassing actually. Perhaps more surprisingly during that period not lost a series (yet).

2 bloody awful shots.

Crolla will be gutted. To score Perez winning even though he had 2 points deducted was a very harsh decision on Crolla but sure there'll be a replay. Watched that David price fight other day. What a pudding. From what I've seen of him it's time to hang up his gloves before he comes to serious harm judging by the length he was out cold for. He's no chin and blatantly can't cut it in professional heavyweight.

I love bumbles impression of Bob Willis. http://youtu.be/zQXK1cP2ywI

I know your pain. I had a Hoover going full blast just at the last knockings I got short shrift when unplugged it. Really hope it's a nice day tomorrow and she's outside sunbathing then I'll get the strimmer out. Not that I'm petty and hold a grudge. Domestic bliss aside great win. I really didn't see us winning especially inside 4 days.

History would say so but they do have plenty of time and just the other day Pakistan chased down 380 vs Sri Lanka so I think the modern player has a mindset that nothing's impossible and in the way the 50 over game has moved on I suspect with time there'll be more and more big run chases. May still be enough probably will be but with a 350 ish lead with 5 wickets left it should have been more.

At 236/5 would have liked more than 289 all out. So 53 for last 5 wickets may end up costing us but 411 is still a decent lead.

That's just 3 home series in 6 years it's 5 in total 2009, 2010/11, 2013 and 2013/14 and 2015. Far too much. Problem is the ecb and Australian equivalent only see sell outs and $£$£

My concern is still can we get them out twice. In my opinion jimmy is the only decent bowler we have and the Aussies will just look to see him off then go to town on the rest. Broad not the man he was and even in his pomp he would do nothing for several innings then suddenly get 7 wickets. Stokes is meh. Ali is not a bowler. And wood is still very green and not exactly been inspired by him but not writing him off either. For years I've felt regardless of what anyone else in the team does unless jimmy performs in at least one innings we won't win.

I could never take any consolation from Yarkshite winning tonight. To me they are the cricket equivalent of Burnley. Without the all consuming visceral hatred of course. Just a mild disliking. In these very very lean years for rovers bouncing around the western terrace last month celebrating a lancs win was my best live sporting moment since venkys came into town like a bloody torbnado

We've dug a big hole for ourselves after those defeats last week but it tends to be the way we do it in t20. Start well, implode, rip up the plan, start again with an amended line up, recover and more often than not into the quarters. We're not a million miles away and as we've still got to play this seasons best teams worcs (1st), bham (2nd) twice, Leicestershire (3rd), yarkshire and notts it's in our own hands.

Big game tonight for lancs as far as domestic t20 goes . For all we have clawed our way into 4th if yarkshire/Northants/notts below win and Lancs lose could finish the day in 7th but if lancs win and Leicestershire lose could finish the day in 2nd. But as most teams have a game in hand on us it's a "must win". Fingers crossed mccullum doesn't get going and Faulkner puts another shift in.

I must admit my nimbyism would probably kick in if they ever did it near me. The old not in my yard mentality. It would be a hoot to see the reactions of the home county lot if it was being done there. A bit before my time but people use to campaign against castle cement existing, initially on emissions (which consistently passed whatever criteria they needed to) then on the basis it was an eyesore and property prices would go down. Ultimately it's an industrial plant providing a much-needed commercial product and still one which is a big employer in the town and house prices stayed very strong competitively to rest of East Lancs. I loved the irony that the main campaigner against castle cement and its emissions and health implications was apparently a 30 a day smoker.

Heard on the radio there's been anti fracking protests in Preston. So I was thinking where do actual local people sit on fracking in Lancashire? Much of a concern? Don't know much about it myself but seems to me as there's no industry as such or money coming into this area if it brings in investment and jobs then nothing there's not much else going on. If it was we were sat happily on diamond/gold mines and oil fields there'd be no need to bother fracking but where there's nothing surely beggars can't be choosers. From what I've gleaned from the news clips the companies seem to say after teething problems there's limited to no environmental impact whereas the protesters cracking on like it'll be Armageddon. It also seems swampy and his protesting mates aren't from the area and just tour up and down protesting. So either the protesters are right (not too sure about that) and it's a problem or they are just this generations Luddites and hippies with too much time on their hands who are likely to be protesting anything and everything from fracking, hs2, hs3, runways, etc.