What happened to Test Match Special?

[Burney]

He's scoring at 3 an over in a game where the top order were slagged off for the way they batted in the first innings

He scored 4 boundaries on a flat deck against a team whose best bowler is over 40.

[Pokster]

He scored 4 boundaries on a flat deck against a team whose best bowler is over 40.

So what???? As you often point out, Test matches are the purest form of cricket, we have 5 days to win the game so why should he try and score quicker than he has, especially as his place has been under threat wd kj

[Burney]

So what???? As you often point out, Test matches are the purest form of cricket, we have 5 days to win the game so why should he try and score quicker than he has, especially as his place has been under threat wd kj

His place is under threat because he's no fùcking good against the moving ball in testing conditions. The ability to make incredibly tedious hundreds against nothing attacks in South Asia has no bearing on that whatsoever. He is a very limited batsman and this innings stands as testimony to that fact.

The point that it was an intensely dreary innings and wholly without aesthetic merit stands.

[Pokster]

His place is under threat because he's no fùcking good against the moving ball in testing conditions. The ability to make incredibly tedious hundreds against nothing attacks in South Asia has no bearing on that whatsoever. He is a very limited batsman and this innings stands as testimony to that fact.

The point that it was an intensely dreary innings and wholly without aesthetic merit stands.

I thought you enjoyed the mind numbing boredom of test cricket, this should be right up your corridor of uncertainty

[Rich]

His place is under threat because he's no fùcking good against the moving ball in testing conditions. The ability to make incredibly tedious hundreds against nothing attacks in South Asia has no bearing on that whatsoever. He is a very limited batsman and this innings stands as testimony to that fact.

The point that it was an intensely dreary innings and wholly without aesthetic merit stands.

I'm afraid that the issue is that there are few alternatives. Who is this Burns chap? Seemed to get tied in knots by a middling spinner.

[Sir C]

He scored 4 boundaries on a flat deck against a team whose best bowler is over 40.

The bloke's swinging his stick in the middle of a constitutional crisis which is about to turn into a civil war, ffs. It's enough to put any man off his stroke, as it were.

[Burney]

The bloke's swinging his stick in the middle of a constitutional crisis which is about to turn into a civil war, ffs. It's enough to put any man off his stroke, as it were.

Sorry is this in Sri Lanka? Are they going to start topping each other again? They're a surprisingly irascible lot, aren't they?

[Sir C]

Sorry is this in Sri Lanka? Are they going to start topping each other again? They're a surprisingly irascible lot, aren't they?

The president has decided to replave the prime minister. With a bloke who used to be president, who he defeated in the last presidential elections. The real prime minister is barricaded into the prime minister's residence whilst the new prime minister has taken over his office. Parliament is due to meet on 14th November to decide who is the actual prime minister, but you know what these people are like. At some point, someone's going to get the machetes out.

[Burney]

The president has decided to replave the prime minister. With a bloke who used to be president, who he defeated in the last presidential elections. The real prime minister is barricaded into the prime minister's residence whilst the new prime minister has taken over his office. Parliament is due to meet on 14th November to decide who is the actual prime minister, but you know what these people are like. At some point, someone's going to get the machetes out.

We should intervene and offer to take over again. It's clear they can't manage, poor dears. They need the authority of Her Britannic Majesty to settle things.