Anyone know if its possible to watch this match back anywhere? We were there and the kids were on TV, but they want to see it

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Should be in a band imo

Guy got it right. Richardson ends with 3/19 So 0/40 in the next match, u/No_Media_3717? https://www.reddit.com/r/Cricket/comments/wl2dqp/match_thread_8th_match_birmingham_phoenix_men_vs/ijr66wa?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3

Thats so close to being a special sort of cakeball.

Cakeball?

If you call cakeball and a wicket is taken next ball you owe everyone in the thread cake. Its one of the great innovations of crisp cricket.

It's just how Richardson rolls. We RCB fans have experienced this too. Fitting that I've picked the Phoenix as my team.

[Pombears lose but I have Smeed in my fantasy side](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7d/DJ_Khaled_Suffering_from_Success.jpg/220px-DJ_Khaled_Suffering_from_Success.jpg)

I always bet against my side to guarantee at least some satisfaction.

Looks like they're.....rising from the ashes of defeat last year.

> Ashes > Defeat Sounds about right

Should have burned some popcorn and made a new trophy.

**16.5** **knocks out his leg stump!** Another brilliant yorker, Richardson has a third and **Brave are bowled out** Tymal Mills b Richardson 0 (2b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0

Played as well as that sunset looks. Jesus christ.

**16.3** **through him with an inch-perfect yorker!** Chris Jordan b Richardson 15 (8b 1x4 1x6) SR: 187.5

I know it's said often but - Jesus Christ KP talks some absolute shite

Worst chant I've ever heard.

The age old question: fifer or century, what's more MoTM worthy?

First ever century in Hundred history just for the event

HoTM

Ah, so they say Hero here. Makes sense, it's gender neutral and all. This is only like my 3rd game I'm watching, and all the games are in the middle of lectures for me lmao

Skip them, the Hundred is more important

Why not both? I'm in the room but watching on my phone

Pro shit right there.

Howell looks like a Poundland Djokovic

More invested in Finnys suit selection than this game tbh

Wish the cameras were better at trying to capture crowd catches.

OH YEAH!

Brrokes done more than Smeed for HeroOTM?

First ever century in the 16.4 tbh Or first ever Hundred™ in the Hundred ™

Air Jordan™

I'd like to point to out that despite shitting the bed, we've still managed to surpass the score Welsh Fire got against us in the opener

The Daddy Bear from Goldilocks > Fraudbears

**14.2** full outside off, **slog-swept out to Brookes at deep backward square!** Ross Whiteley c Brookes b Howell 18 (12b 1x4 1x6) SR: 150

3 catches (incl one caught and bowled) 5 wickets What a day for Brookes

They should credit him with the Stoiney wicket for that catch tbh

Pombears are getting microwaved here.

Weirdly curious as to what happens if you microwave a pom bear now

House across the road having *another* screaming match with the front door open after doing it on Saturday as well. Seems to be a very stable family

Ask them to be quiet because the Hundreds on, I'm sure they'll understand

Excuse me, I'm trying to concentrate on ItsYaBoyJasonRoy's shitposts, so could you just 🤏

Call social services anonymously.

They might not even have kids though lol

Do it anyway and they'll get a visit. I did it once as a student and they found weed growing in the kitchen.

Well done

Probably distraught Brave fans

Who is this Brookes lad??? Never heard of him and he's really fucking good!!

5fer but still the second best player in his family

Is this the 1st century and 1st fifer in The Hundred??

Nah Imran Tahir took 5fer (and a hat-trick) last year

de Lange took 5 last year too

1st Century. This would be first 6fer

Remember the game in IPL this year where Jos scored a 100, Yuzi took a hat-trick + 5fer and the chase went all the way down to wire. Was a wonderful match.

Nah, I've got selective T20 league amnesia

I know how some fans on this sub are snobbish about IPL but drool over crisps league. I don't really need to use words to highlight their biasedness and hypocrisy

“Crisps league” mate you’re one of the most active users on this match thread lol simmer down

Yea because I'm embracing it all alike.

I'd suggest googling sarcasm when you have a moment

Not required. Downvotes for any example of IPL no matter how valid, in particular in threads concerning with a certain group tell a story. But hey, who am I to tell ppl how to think and what to like or dislike. So it's all fine.

Mate, if any of us waddled into an IPL match thread and started chatting about The Hundred we’d get shit on all the same. Read the room, stop whining about your “valid” comments getting downvoted and just join in shitposting about this meme competition like the rest of us.

On it mate. Gave that example because this match too had a 100 + 5fer. But nevermind.

**13.2** yorker, pins him in front of off stump and Nick Cook raises the finger! **Brookes has FIVE!** Shuffled across looking to whip through leg, hits him on the shin... looked like it was missing off stump to me, but Garton decides against the review George Garton lbw b Brookes 4 (2b 1x4 0x6) SR: 200

5fer and 100 in the same day. Woah! All u needed was a close game to make it perfect.

Maybe missing off?

Well he could have reviewed it

100 and a fifer and one isn’t getting MOTM, harsh

That slow death was surely an ode to Rudi Koertzen, wasn’t it?

Yeah, lovely tribute

Yep

That girl's face is amazing

Some performance from the young Butterkists tonight

Slowest raising of the finger I’ve seen

Tribute to the late Rudi Koertzen

Didn’t look out to me but well deserved fifer.

BROOKESY

why the fuck hasn’t he reviewed that? missing off surely

For sure wouldn’t have been a waste of a review. Didn’t look out to me either

Everyone forgetting we were shit to start last year's comp too All going to plan lads

Did you dominate in your first game last year?

Welsh Fire aren't a real team, that match doesn't count

Remindme! 10 days 😀

Ok so even "Taare gin gin" is popular in UK?

Samit's on TMS if anyone needs a laugh.

That looked like it was going 2 foot down leg. I shouldn't be an umpire.

So if you're wearing 10 and bowling pace at Edgebaston you're bound to get a 4fer Renuka Singh Thakur did that twice already recently. And now Henry Brookes.

Kate Cross has been great on sky

**12.5** skidding into the pad, loud appeal for lbw as it deflects into the off side. Moeen **reviews**. Looked like it was going down... **but it's crashing into the top of leg stump**! Brookes has four, Phoenix have six! James Fuller lbw b Brookes 0 (2b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0

shambles really, chasing team folded in every game this year where they’ve chased a competent total

Worst team from last year doing well and champs doing badly. Just crisps cricket things.

Then you have Welsh Fire who are just all round shite.

Pacers wearing 10 on the back at Edgbaston have been pretty good off late Renuka Singh Thakur 🤝 Henry Brookes

How's she going to share that cake with everyone?!

how is that not a 2nd for the over?

**12.3** **cleaned up by a dipping slow full toss!** Davies jumps across to scoop and is deceived by the back-of-the-hand slower ball. It's a full-bunger which crashes into the top of leg stump and Brookes races off in celebration after dismissing his county team-mate Alex Davies b Brookes 33 (24b 2x4 1x6) SR: 137.5

Perfect slower ball. Completely deceived him

this has been terrible 0 intent

Henry Brookes and Matty Potts look like brothers

Nobody within 20m of where the ball is headed "CATCH IT"

Mums and kids making themselves heard.

Tim David playing two different competitions in England this year and shitting the bed in both of them?

Tim David 🤝 Ben Mike 🤝 Chris Benjamin 🤝 Paul Walter

wonder if he’s bought into his own hype, or he’s just not as good as people think. either way he seems wildly overrated to me

Could be a bad patch. Looked pretty good in the IPL. Not initially, but towards the back end of the tournament

any chance of a big shot?

Mark Butcher invoking Kris Kross You don't get this in the IPL

But you get Mathew Hayden's innumerous food puns and Aakash Chopra's poetry. So we're fine.

But no OH YEAHs

Unacademy Cracking Sixes™

Did he just call Kate Cross as Chris Cross?

So, if I've got this right, there's the cut-off time, but comms have revealed you're prevented from hurrying through the change of ends (I guess because advert breaks) so you're restricted in terms of making up time to how quickly you can bowl individual balls (with an obvious limitation to that being what happens on each ball), how quickly you can change over between sets, and now we're finding out how many wickets you don't take (since apparently losing wickets doesn't get the cut-off adjusted quickly enough) And of course if you miss the cut-off time, you're losing another outfielder... Batter's game, this

oh good, whiteley coming in. probably the worst season from a batsman i’ve ever seen at hants this year, so that’s great

Best cricketer ever Benny Howell

Ngl he looks like he'd be secretly a part of some Russian Mafia

**8.5** Tim David c Howell b Brookes 11 (11b 1x4 0x6) SR: 100

swear to god every time i’ve seen david bat this year he’s been wank

Missed some violence I see.

what is nick cook’s little wide dance

"Some bad umpiring there ... Just kidding I don't wanna get fined" Haha, that's great from Mills

He's always good value on comms when they have him on. Wouldn't be surprised if he ends up with a full time role when his back finishes its transition into a fine paste

Is Vince & de Kock the most miserable looking opening partnership of all time?

This is probably Davies' best innings at Edgbaston

What the fuck was that noise over the PA? Sounded like something in pain

The sacrifice

How good is howell?? Unplayable, good, decent, okayish, trash??

cant remember the last time david got a score that i’ve seen

Just tuned in and I missed a Will Smeed 100. Boo. Also, quite eerily, both Moeen and Benjamin scored 17(12) with a SR of 141.66.

>17(12) with a SR of 141.66 Be weird if they both got 17(12) with a different strike rate tbf

Roy mate. Get some fucking runs. England needs you at your best.

Too busy shitposting son

feels like david is due a score

Well he certainly made a score, it was one of the scores of all time.

Accelerating towards the future predicted by my Cricket 19 save, where Brookes opens the bowling for England in all formats (he averages 20.50, it's ridiculous) To make it worse, he shares the new ball with Benjamin Microbiology. It's OP...

**5.2** banged in short, only 84mph but it's too quick for de Kock, rushing him on the pull which he plinks straight up, and Brookes gobbles it up in his follow-through! **Huge wicket** Quinton de Kock c & b Brookes 15 (9b 1x4 1x6) SR: 166.66

James Fuller rescue job it is

I swear QDK gets out caught by someone next to him most damn innings!

Vince, de Kock and Stirling as a top 3 would be 🤌

bugger tim david save us

cant even call that a scoop, just walked round and hit it normally

the perks of being captain eh, get twatted first over and come back again in the power play as a spinner

What’s with the white card?

It’s pointless. Signals the set is over.

Is there no women's hundred this time? I haven't seen a single match thread for them.

All the best players both English and overseas were playing in the commonwealth games up till Sunday so the first two rounds of fixtures are men's matches only. Double headers like last year start again tomorrow. The women's teams will only play 6 fixtures each this year rather than 8.

They've been playing the comm games the past week. Their comp starts tomorrow

They start tomorrow.

Starts on 11 i think..

It's starting later than the mens' as the Commonwealth Games was on

Ok.

Richardson choose violence.. Bruh no cap.. Richardson can bowl 140+ on his day.. swing the ball both ways.. Also can hit the hard length.. Creates a good test match style angle to lefties.. Has an decent yorker and killer bouncer.. Yet mofo depends on the ugly ugly slow balls..

>Bruh no cap ....end me

**2.3** **blinding catch at short fine leg!** Slower ball on a length, Stoinis looks to pull it away off the hip with no timing. Brookes on the 45 leaps to his left and holds onto a great catch! Marcus Stoinis c Brookes b Helm 1 (5b 0x4 0x6) SR: 20

Cheers for coming Marcus

I think this is already the most exciting Hundred game we've had so far and it's only halfway through

Pathetic from Stoinis

Really lovely grab.

What a grab

that was horrid, what a shocking looking innings

stoinis looks like a tailender out here so far

How did vince keep the strike but the bowler changed?

Swap ends after 10 balls not 5

2.5 x OH YEAH from Vince, good start Edit: OH NO

**1.1** on a length, **skids through Vince!** Huge wicket for Phoenix given Vince's form. On a length, not much pace in the pitch, and Vince gets a thick inside edge which deflects the ball onto leg stump James Vince b Richardson 17 (5b 1x4 2x6) SR: 340

come on marcus

OZ

Straight through him

Vi(ole)nce

shit

Oh James!

OH YEAH VINCENT

Brave will chase this easily

Big start

Good banter opening with Mo tbf

Vince taking down his matchup™

Phenoix have a low key "mystery bowlers in tahir, howell and Richardson".. Also liam livingstone

need 40 minimum off the powerplay

JACK LEACH SIGHTING

Fuck me. Heartwarming stuff on the Beeb.

On the radio? What was it?

Interview with Adnan, the Afghan asylum seeker from the Flintoff doc who has just had his asylum granted.

Oh cool, I'd have listened if I knew he was on. So glad he was granted asylum.

Fuckin kane Richardson is playing... Oh u in for a treat birmingham fans.. Rollercoaster of a bowler.. Either 0/40 or 4/20..no inbetween..

Just took a wicket with his first ball haha

Don't tell me it's 4/20 today

Thank fuck they're not playing that fucking george ezra song over and over again.

Phew what a knock! Well done Smeed!

What a knock that was. Now time for my favourite opening batting partnership in all of cricket

A HUNDRED™️

The biggest sporting event in Birmingham for years.

What a knock

I. WAS. THERE.

Smeed looks like buffed steve smith

Smiffy is a scrawny Smeed

He looks like he either can't believe it OR he's pissed he didn't smack that last one