Voll Blau

Thank Christ haha. Good to have a chat with you yesterday. Stewards gave up on that daft end of the over rule pretty quickly.

What a day. Think I convinced a couple of non-cricket mates with that day out. Hope that's the case for a few in this thread too.

Josh Hull's mum too. She wasn't quite so composed, but seemed to find comfort in being in the mix with us pissheads.

Who else is in the Trent Bridge Inn pre-match?

Bang on. We've lost someone who would have been first name on the team sheet, so why shouldn't we pick someone who no doubt would have played most games if he'd been available?

Doubt any conversation involving Wayne White speaking could be classed as a "debate".

This one has got me going too. Love the appearance from much-missed Grace Road superfan Lewis singing 13 minutes in. Love how many neutrals and fans from the losing semi-finalists are cheering on every boundary against Surrey's superstars. Hampshire aren't quite in the same league as they were in that era but I still get the sense most neutrals will be behind us tomorrow.

Live here for those who don't have Sky subscriptions...

Anything beyond counting seats is beyond my abilities I'm afraid.

Hope we can channel the spirit of Trent Bridge 2006 on Saturday. Just love a Leicester team who can actually win in Nottingham!

Done a quick (not really counting properly) tot up of the greyed out seats around the ground and reckon it's about the 6-7,000 mark.

England trying to smash 400 but still only probably the third or fourth most interesting game of pro cricket that's been going on this afternoon. Switched straight from Leicestershire to see Warwickshire eight down chasing 176 after a daring declaration by Northants. God bless the streaming of Championship matches.

Some effort that. Let's go one better on Saturday now.

Umps having yet another word with Pujara...

Wants a fvcking slap.

Ridiculous send-off to Scriven there. Reckon they'll try to boot Cox into the sea if they get him out, the way they've been carrying on.

Fvck these dickheads.

Wouldn't get that these days sadly.

What an effort. Regardless of how this ends, they'll be able to take bags of confidence from this recovery into Saturday.

From the rules... https://resources.ecb.co.uk/ecb/document/2023/03/31/5b6de1b0-abea-4015-9620-7705542de999/3-Playing-Conditions-One-Day-Cup-2023.pdf With a 6.30 cut-off, I think you'd be extremely unlucky not to get a minimum 20 overs-a-side in. If it's on Sky, they'll want it done in a day too. TV pressure can account for an awful lot in these situations.

Remember going to that. Thought the attendance was a bit better, though remember it being a cold day. Most of the Sri Lankan team were fielding in fleeces during the final.

Yes, but think it's only if we don't get out there at all on Saturday.

With factoring in that we're sadly looking at rain on Saturday if this Ahmed v Evans debate is actually a thing.

I think it'd be a mistake not to use a player of Ahmed's ability in a final, even if we want to give Evans a gig, in circumstances where we've lost an international player who got us there. Could gamble on batting him 8 and in theory playing two spinners, assuming Mulder's fit and Salisbury isn't? Would probably require Ahmed, Ackermann and Kimber bowling at least 20 overs between them though.

Why are keepers called Ben so good?