Wednesday, August 3, 2011

A TEST IN TWEETS!

This is an attempt to capture the 2nd Test match between India and England at Trent Bridge. It contains all types - fascinating, forthright, funny, harsh, matter of the fact, amusing, meaningless - of tweets I came across during the Test match

Day - 1

Cricketer_Dan Daniel Brigham
So how long til us in the media start putting pressure on Cook to score some runs? I give it one more failure

Sajesh Sajesh
There is a cricket match. My manager is working from home. These two events may or may not be related.

BoredCricket BCC!
by goku_utd
Good to see that Bhajji has picked up where he left at Lord's

cricketwballs cricket with balls
Lalit Modi lives in the MRF blimp. #truefacts

the_topspin Lawrence Booth
Strauss throws it away - again. And England are in a spot of bother at 85-4...

bhogleharsha Harsha Bhogle
with sreesanth and praveen kumar the tradition of swing bowling is alive. it is movement not pace that troubles quality batsman

cricketaakash Aakash Chopra
Playing the swinging ball demands a lot of guesswork...regardless of d number of years you've practiced the craft...you still need to guess!

cricketwballs cricket with balls
Bell might have made more runs than most today, but he'll be blocking his future kids from ever lookin at this this on youtube.

sehwagology Sunny
by goku_utd
yuvi is just taking his afternoon nap. siesta time baby. #engvind

sehwagology Sunny
by goku_utd
somebody tell dhoni, its okay if they go for shots. don't give singles you moron. #engvind

goku_utd Dipankar
Good thing about Broad knock, our batsmen will have no excuses now. #engvind

cricketwballs cricket with balls
Fun fact time: Had Dravid batted first drop, he would have faced a ball quicker that he did opening the batting.

cricketaakash Aakash Chopra
Hint of uneven bounce on day 1 combined with prodigious movement off the surface...only two possible results, provided it doesn't rain!

venkatananth Venkat Ananth
India's brief for tomorrow: bat through the 3 sessions. May not be as easy as it sounds given the conditions etc, but a super opportunity


Day - 2

venkatananth Venkat Ananth
Sreesanth's bowling was so good yesterday that its almost as if the Ian Bell episode didn't happen. Until we're reminded by #Bobilli. Fail.

cricketwballs cricket with balls
BBC saying that Laxman must have a great bat, no, he's just fucking awesome. Laxman could time a drive with a used condom.

ESPNcricinfo ESPN Cricinfo
England 0 for 2 with the reviews. Asad Rauf maybe a candidate for man of the match.

Gulasahi Steve Dawson
Wow. VVS Laxman is a beast. Dude just took an Anderson delivery in the 'nads. Carried on like he'd just played it back down the pitch

the_topspin Lawrence Booth
Bumble making good point re Swann: we were told he was fine, just as we were told by Strauss that Tremlett would be fine for this game...

cricketwballs cricket with balls
Trott is on because Strauss likes watching Dravid late cut.

cricketwballs cricket with balls
Man of the series is now between the English and Indian Physio.

the_topspin Lawrence Booth
Yuvraj does his best to go the way of Raina, but KP spills it. He juggled the Mukund catch too yesterday...

ZaltzCricket Andy Zaltzman
by ESPNcricinfo
Raina and Yuvraj have played the short ball today with all the confidence of a zebra impersonator doing a gig in a lion enclosure.

the_topspin Lawrence Booth
Swann kicks off the bails. Though not quite as elegantly as Michael Holding 30 years ago in New Zealand...

piersmorgan Piers Morgan
Rahul Dravid has become the cricketing version of the Berlin Wall. Need to knock the damn thing down.

venkatananth Venkat Ananth
Plaha being Plaha failed to grease his bat with vaseline.

cricketwballs cricket with balls
Ian Bell is a bit over-qualified to be a nightwatchman.

cricketwballs cricket with balls
This Dravid press conference is turning into an epic. He'll need a change of gloves soon.


Day - 3

sport_oliver Oliver Brett
by TestMatchSofa
Would like to thank the @TestMatchSofa team for making yesterday so enjoyable. Hope I didn't make too much of an arse of myself

venkatananth Venkat Ananth
Yuvraj before Plaha? Ultimate insult.

knittins Nitin Sundar
by venkatananth
Thought this day couldn't get worse? Think again - @LalitKModi has resurfaced with his spam tweets.

venkatananth Venkat Ananth
Dudes, if you'll are waiting for that second new ball, might as well forfeit the Test match.

cricketwballs cricket with balls
Sreesanth bows to the crowd who have been abusing him, better than a send off.

stephenfry Stephen Fry
by Gulasahi
Dhoni transformed from dastardly villain to sporting hero in seconds. Hurrah for him and for test cricket. What human activity comes close?

gauravkapur gaurav kapur
Bell done Dhoni !

cricketwballs cricket with balls
Forget whether that was out or not, you should get wickets for balls like that.

venkatananth Venkat Ananth
Give me Aleem Dar for the next Test please. Aleem Dar and Asad Rauf. I hope we wouldn't be discussing the DRS then. Enough.

Day - 4

venkatananth Venkat Ananth
Dear @bhogleharsha, India are usually a bowler short with Harbhajan on the field and not when he's off it.

warne888 Shane Warne
Ball swinging lots today as it's very humid here at Trent Bridge... Very good bowling day...

the_topspin Lawrence Booth
India look a defeated side this morning: 73 runs in the first 11 overs...

AltCricket Alternative Cricket
by venkatananth
MIchael Holding has a point. You'd be embarrassed if you had to explain to someone that India are the no. 1 side in the world.

Cricketer_Dan Daniel Brigham
With every boundary England score another young Indian cricket fan sees T20 as the better option

andymcg_cricket Andrew McGlashan
by ESPNcricinfo
478 to win for India. If they bat the rest of the match they'll get them #engvind

the_topspin Lawrence Booth
Broad in this series is averaging 60 with the bat and 10 with the ball

ESPNcricinfo ESPN Cricinfo
It is suddenly the 90s all over again. Tendulkar playing some gorgeous shots, but the score is 37/4. #EngvInd

Nadir_Hassan Nadir Hassan
by venkatananth
This England side is scary. Two genuine all-rounders in Bresnan, Broad. Five excellent fast bowlers, best spinner, solid batting.

cricketwballs cricket with balls
Indians won't be leaving yet, Praveen and Bhajji batting together, how much fun will that be.

SpiceBoxofEarth Dileep Premachandran
by venkatananth
English fans should be down on their knees thanking the Lord for what happened to Stanford. Else, they'd be up the same shit creek.

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