THE NURDLER

Twitter Updates: 11/07/2009

• Morning, campers! Weather forecast for Cardiff is grim: http://bit.ly/7apdB #
• @the_ashes Jimmy very optimistic! They'll have to get onto the field on the first place… #Ashes #cricket #
• We were looking for the famous 'cricket rules for foreigners' joke when we found this patient summary for an American: http://bit.ly/OeMdK #
• Very useful when starting from scratch with someone who just doesn't get it at all – covers strategy, statistics, LBW, the lot. #
• Just went out in the garden. Admiittedly, we live nowhere near Wales. But God, it's damp. #
• OK, we're doing some under-the-bonnet tinkering with the blog so expect oddness – lets us know if it's still broken in half an hour's time. #
• In a development redolent of the sort of thing that happens to the TMS team, we interrupt Tweeting because a chimney sweep has arrived. #
• RT @Aggerscricket Me and Blowers in marzipan http://yfrog.com/5a6pkej [Best. Cake. Ever.] #
• If only we could put this much effort into winning cricket matches: http://img188.yfrog.com/i/25mu.jpg/ #
• RT @ECBTwelfthMan Weather not looking good today in Cardiff… #
• @aggerscricket The best bit is that the cake decoration features its very own cake #
• @aggerscricket Yes, but does @bumblecricket have people willing to create figures of him in marzipan? Who is winning in that contest? #
• Starting to look like we will start on time and even get the first session in before the heavens open. #ashes #cricket #
• Let's hope today's first session goes the way of yesterday's! #
• Will the Aussies declare any time soon, or play for a draw? #
• TMS Inbox the recepient of unconvincing email scams, same as the rest of us: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/8143340.stm #
• @alicefaucher Agreed – would not be at all surprised to see them declare. #ashes #cricket #
• Ere we go, ere we go, ere we go, TMS is on the air! #Ashes #cricket #
• Ponting being interviewed: "Awwww look…" It's like that I-Spy game we all used to play as kids. #Ashes #cricket #
• @And they're off. A reminder: Aus 479-5 at the end of play yesterday. We would not be surprised to maybe see a declaration. #Ashes #cricket #
• At the start of day 4 with the first innings still underway and bad weather forecast it's hard to see how a draw isn't on the way. #
• Aus 488-5 after 141st over. That's nine runs off that over. Raining at Worcester too. #Ashes #cricket #
• Aggers reports he's experienced the worst outbreak of seagull shit ever on his car. "They must have car washes every 200 yards in Cardiff" #
• Very nasty stuff, seagull shit. #
• Bowlers are Harry and Draco. #Ashes #cricket #
• Perhaps they should ship Hermione in from Worcester #Ashes #cricket #
• @maxinthebox We refer the honourable gentleman to our earlier Tweet suggesting Aus would likely declare. #
• Aggers on The Cake: "Blowers does possbily look a little bit like Fireman Sam." See for yourself here: http://yfrog.com/5825muj #
• Broad bowls a wide #Ashes #cricket #
• …and gets taken for a four with an extra cover drive. #Ashes #cricket #
• @cricketmad Has to be done as a matter of urgency, we would say. Broad is far too expensive. #Ashes #cricket #
• Aus 500 is coming up. Declaration? #Ashes #cricket #
• @theasheslive @nicwalmsley Even with the scoring going quickly, surely every hour that passes takes them closer to a draw? #
• RT @tomfordyce Menacing clouds. Bad news for the blokes who've come as Smurfs – that blue face-paint won't take kindly to a downpour #
• @preparat http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/4 #
• On TMS Vic Marks says what we thought two days ago: Cardiff have paid immaculate attention to detail in every respect – except the pitch #
• Broad bowls a maiden over #ashes #cricket #
• The Cardiff pitch is the elephant in the room. Not to detract from the overall achievement in staging this Test. #ashes #cricket #
• You Aussies like your golf nearly as much as your cricket, don't you? Aus commentator is complaining Open clashes with 2nd test. #
• @cricketmad Um… maybe he could think a bit harder about his bowlers. Oh, and his fielders. And then there was his batting. Oh wait #
• CMJ "Quite humid actually… A good morning for swing… Broad bowls dead straight" @bbctms #Ashes #cricket #
• Aus 505-5 in 149th over. Keep on batting, lads. Run up that score, for all the good it's going to do you #
• @crazymadthing Reminded of watching a pair trying to play golf in a howling gale on our S Coast once. Not a prob you have, we guess #
• Oh grief – the trumpeter's playing 'Two Little Boys' – that tune sticks like glue once you hear it. We're stuffed for days now. #Ashes #
• Freddie's taking a crack. Strauss! What are you thinking? We need spinners. Hopefully these will be Famous Last Words. #Ashes #cricket #
• @aggerscricket Is that Cork in Ireland – or Dominik Cork? *boom boom* #Ashes #cricket #
• Trumpeter now playing "I should be so lucky" – by one K Minogue (Miss). Is this some sort of a joke? #ashes #cricket #
• Score currently 521-5 in 151st over with (for what it's worth) Fred and Broad bowling. Batsmen growing new shoots and throwing out leaves. #
• Statisticians let loose on the question of whether North is the first compass point to play Test cricket. #
• They've found lots of variations on 'south-' and 'east-' and some juniors with suitable names – but the honours may go to North #ashes #
• 13 overs bowled by noon. Score is 523-5. Blowers entering the box. #Ashes #cricket #
• Tuffers agrees with us! (Or maybe we agree with Tuffers) RT @philtufnell Give the man with the trumpet a bowl or get a spinner on #
• Monty! #Ashes #cricket #
• @bbctms Modesty ) in reply to bbctms #
• @bbctms Judging when to declare #
• @alicefaucher We want to put in a special request for the Open All Hours theme tune: http://bit.ly/l1Yi6 Seems to suit the mood #
• Boycott comes into the box and sets about being pungent #Ashes #cricket #
• Proper little ray of sunshine, isn't he? #Ashes #
• RT @TheBarmyArmy We want to put in a special request for the Open All Hours theme tune: http://bit.ly/l1Yi6 Seems to suit the mood #
• Boycs: "I hope it doesn't rain at all. If England want to get out of jail, they should do it through their own ability, not the weather." #
• Blowers: "It has been immensely disappointing." Are we sensing a distinct loss of patience among the commentators? #ashes #cricket #
• RT @TheAshesLive How thirsty can they be after 1 hour's play? You'd think Aus would be keen to get on with it #
• @theasheslive Certainly very disappointing after great sessions on days 1 and 2. Hate that we are relying on rain. #
• 530-5 at the end of the 154th over. Commentators mention pale sunshine and are getting sceptical abt rain. BBC forecast unchanged. #ashes #
• BBC weather forecast for Cardiff here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/4 #
• Apparently there was a brief alleged siting of spin in the Swalec Stadium – but reports proved unfounded #ashes #cricket #
• RT @the_spin Monty beats Haddin and there are oohs and aahs: England's first moral victory of the day at 12.14pm #
• Here we go – Boycott laying into Strauss. Never mind that he has to get us through four tests after this one. Let's knock him down now. #
• @james277 Agreed, however Strauss is the captain we have, for good or ill, and it's counterproductive to shoot him down mid-series #
• Blowers wonders if seagulls, flying lower today, can sense incoming rain #
• Aus 536-5 in 157th over. North reaches 75. #ashes #cricket #
• New ball in around 3 overs. Worked yesterday… #
• Much better, that last over, despite LBW appeal turned down #
• Swann has left the field. 12th man Graham Onions on. #ashes #cricket #
• Aus 538-5 1n 159th over. #
• Monty's having a bowl arond the wicket – with insufficient variety, according to Aggers #ashes #cricket #
• @followtheashes "Awwww, look mate…" #ashes #cricket #
• Swann coming back on. #ashes #cricket #
• Blimey. Have TMS in one ear, F1 quali on telly. F1 package is playing "Soul Limbo" WTF? and again, WTF? *brain explodes* #ashes #cricket #
• Boycott's view: "We're all f*d. I'm f*d. You're f*d. The whole department is f*d. It's the biggest cock-up ever. We're all completely f*d.” #
• The trumpeter has a crack at Waltzing Matilda and gets a rousing response. Perhaps he'd like to go and sit with the Aussies… #
• RT @tomfordyce Sun now shining in Cardiff. #
• Aus 559-5 and North tempted to take a swipe at that last one. The spinners persevere. #
• Jim Maxwell: "It's going alright this morning." Bastard. #ashes #cricket #
• New ball and Fred to take it. Gooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan Fred! #ashes #cricket #
• Fred showing some appreciation of short balls. North hits a four, but has Freddie unsettled him? #ashes #cricket #
• Six wickets for Katherine Brunt. They want to give her an outing in Cardiff. #ashes #cricket #
• Aus 571-5 in 165th over. Anderson is bowling this over. #ashes #cricket #
• @aggerscricket @bbctms @tmsscorer Got there first! CMJ's first follower! Gosh we are proud… @cmjcricket #
• And North becomes the third centurion in this innings off 226 balls. #ashes #cricket #
• @aggerscricket @bbctms @tmsscorer Better warn @cmjcricket that his inbox is filling up with hundreds of emails as people subscribe… #
• Doctrove goes upstairs! A review, but no wicket #ashes #cricket #
• RT @BumbleCricket It has been suggested by email Atherton bears a likeness to HRH The Princess Royal. One is not amused! #
• Last ball before lunch. Aus 577-5, 166 overs. North on 101, Haddon on 50 in a partnership worth 103. #ashes #cricket #
• Bowling figures too horrid to repeat #ashes #cricket #
• Vic Marks opines Eng can't win, (right…) and will have to play well for draw. Draw still favourite. #ashes #cricket #
• Aussies doing annoyingly well but still think that, at this point, they will have their work cut out to get anything better than a draw. #
• Of course, some rain would have helped. #ashes #cricket #
• Bangladesh bowled out for 238, WI strikebreaking side 17-1 #ashes #cricket #
• Off to watch F1 quali now. #
• @maxinthebox Try this, it's our F1-centred Twitter feed (and accompanying site): @BritsOnPole #
• It's raining in blasted Germany. #
• 579-5 following first over after lunch #ashes #cricket #
• Overdue tactics discussion on TMS says Aus declare and put England in late this evening #ashes #cricket #
• Everything swings on whether Aus have to bat again. Still personally betting on a draw.#ashes #cricket #
• Speculation that Freddie is feeling the strain, just when you were feeling nice and cheerful #ashes #cricket #
• CMJ: "I do declare that the sun is out." #ashes #cricket #
• Aus 600 up #
• And Mark Webber on pole in Germany. #
• Delighted for him on a personal level, it's been a long time coming. #
• Bowling pack is shuffled again. Monty falls out. #
• BBC Weather still claiming a downpour on the cards, though a crate or two of salt is obviously in order with that forecast #
• @aggerscricket At the end farthest away from yourselves and work inwards. What kind of cake is inside? #
• Haddin's century is up. #
• @bumblecricket Got rid of Gilchrist and this bloke comes along. #ashes #cricket #
• Pffft. Where's the entertainment value, we ask you? Commentators no longer bothering to disguise impatience. #ashes #cricket #
• Calls for Strauss' head in a bucket imminent. We say: at least he was prepared to take the job on, unlike some others in team #ashes #
• TheNurdler RT @Grzeg Harmison, Onions and Sidebottom due for 2nd test recalls [Certainly Swann has shot his bolt. Not sure abt Harmy] #
• Not confident Siders could have done much today. Knew as soon as we passed 400 that Aus were on for a big total. #
• RT @cmjcricket These computer things might catch on one day. [Until then we have a very nice Babbage Engine you could borrow] #
• WICKET Haddin goes on 121 and Aus declare #
• Aus declare on 674-6 – that means Eng have to get 241 to make Aus bat again and have the possibility of a draw #ashes #cricket #
• The hour of the nurdling batsman is upon us! Strauss doesn't play in Twenty20, after all #ashes #cricket #playingforadraw #
• William Hill offering Draw 2/5 Aus 7/4 #
• RT @the_spin Some thoughts on where England go from here (other than straight to bed without any supper) http://bit.ly/yuY0E #
• It's raining everywhere in the world where they've built a bloody racetrack. Why is perennially wet Cardiff currently dry? #
• Thing is, England can draw it by whatever means – but the usual Aus MO, which is maximum psychological damage asap, has already come to pass #
• Vic Marks re absent rain: "I'm beginning to think we didn't land on the moon" #ashes #cricket #playingforadraw #
• CMJ confesses on air that he has been persuaded by Aggers to subscribe to Twitter "on a 60-day trial" #
• @cmjcricket Stick with it! We're delighted you decided to join the conversation #
• OK, back to play. Strauss and Cook open the batting, Johnson is bowling. Starts with a wide. #ashes #cricket #playingforadraw #
• Boycott: "We'd all like a bat on that pitch." Reminder: Eng need 242 to make Aus bat again. Clearly more to make it meaningful. #ashes #
• They can score as slowly as they bloody like this afternoon #ashes #cricket #playingforadraw #
• And Cook hits a four. #
• CMJ "If that had stuck, what a fool Cook would feel" Hear hear! #ashes #cricket #playingforadraw #
• RT @Aggerscricket Looking at the radar, the rain has reached Swansea #
• We say to Andrew Strauss: Keep Calm and Carry On #ashes #cricket #playingforadraw #
• @ecb_cricket Even if Eng get a draw the Aussies have taken their usual approach of roughing up the opposition and breaking their resolve #
• Blowers is talking about the encounter with a bus (it ran him over) that ended his chances of playing professional cricket #
• Aus bowlers are now discovering something of the limitations of the pitch (touching wood as typing these words) #ashes #cricket #
• WICKET Umpire Dar's first LBW of the match Eng 13-1 and it's Cook who has gone. #ashes #cricket #
• In comes Bopara. Leave them alone if possible, Ravi. Leave them alone. #
• WICKET Bopara lbw Eng 17-2. #
• It's getting to be time to find out where we left our lives on Wednesday when we sat down to follow this, and go and fetch them. #
• Can recommend this course of action to all. There must be some paint drying somewhere that would provide more entertaining viewing. #
• We leave readers with the following: http://bit.ly/cVDyS #
• RT @AynitShah what a miserable day! but still, always something to look forward to! [We like your attitude, sir!] #

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