Steve Lukather - never heard of him?

You might know him better from ToTo.
In addition he's a very well respected session musician having performed with some legendary artists including on Michael Jackson's Thriller.

Anyway, here's an offering from Steve Lukather himself :

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/cly5397m30jo

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/cdxw1y79rnpo


Fair play to Michael Vaughan and Steve Smith

The pitch was poor and to have 36 wickets in 6 sessions less than two days will be scrutinised by the ICC no doubt.  Totally agree with Martin and Mike over their comments


Too many poor shots by the batsmen and line and length bowling . Makes you wonder where proper batting coaching and bowling coaching has gone. Remember when Sir Geoffrey said ' The Corridor of Uncertainty ' not now, get line lengths right. Play straight and each ball on merit and if its worth putting a bad ball away good. If you learn basics. Oh well

Quote from: Nbodger on December 27, 2025, 01:32:08 PMFunny no one in these comments has mentioned the state of the deck which had a significant impact on this game.

10mm of the green stuff left on top made it a unfair competition and there was only going to be one result, the bowlers won, the batsmen of both sides  would have a very difficult game and so it proved to be.



Sorry rant over

And a merry Christmas to you too!

Funny no one in these comments has mentioned the state of the deck which had a significant impact on this game.

10mm of the green stuff left on top made it a unfair competition and there was only going to be one result, the bowlers won, the batsmen of both sides  would have a very difficult game and so it proved to be.

Will the ICC take action?

Ironically it also gave England a win.

Yes Martin @port perran i totally agree with you about the state of English cricket in fact you rant sounded more like me.

Harry Brook is a very talented batsman, will probably be better than Root over time, he is very young and requires more experience in the long game, he for me is one who should be playing more county cricket grafting hard for his runs.

Cricket is a hard game mentally, concentrating all day whether batting or in the field, your only rest is when sat in the hut either out or waiting in anticipation to go out to bat.

The England set up basically only allows for preparation during practice / net sessions which it isn't important if you fail, they all need match practice on varying surfaces to allow them to know when to adapt to the conditions.

I am sure so called Bazball has changed since its inception. It is not never was about flashing at every ball, it was more about scoring quickly from ball 1, just look at a inform Root who looks to keep the scoreboard ticking over in low scoring shots, blink and he soon has a scored 50 that's without being aggressive.

I am not a fan of Stokes, for me he is hit and miss, yes he has had some winning scores with the bat whilst playing extravagant shots, take his match winning innings at Headingley with Leach, he was very lucky, Australia messed up on reviews and didn't have one left when it really counted else he was out. It was very entertaining day in the sun, yes I was there on that day as I had been on day 1.

Sorry rant over

OMG I forgot the red HAPPY XMAS socks and red Santa slippers!

No socks....

Quote from: Newportnobby on December 26, 2025, 04:10:13 PM.............Tell her I can't drink alcohol so she gets me strong ales................

Have you still got my home address?   

I got a couple of T-shirts, 6 more Newton Chambers Motorail wagons and 6 more Motorail carflats. I bought all the wagons for myself of course.
Off to Bristol in a minute to drink lots of beer, see Ruzz Guitar perform in the Old Duke, drink more beer, stop overnight and come home tomorrow to test my wagons whilst possibly drinking more beer.

Also went to see Devizes Town FC thrash local rivals Calne Town 4-1 yesterday (whilst drinking plenty of beer) where I also won £50 in their monthly lottery which I immediately told them to keep and put into the club funds.

All in all not a bad Christmas break 

Quote from: Bob G on December 27, 2025, 10:58:16 AM

Quote from: PennineWagons on December 27, 2025, 10:50:48 AMHmm. Bit grumpy with our post-Xmas hangover are we?
Pardon me for posting links to info which I thought the OP might find of interest.
PW

I've been on RMWeb a bit too much, probably!

Ah, that explains things then!
No worries, enjoy the rest of the holidays.
PW

Quote from: PennineWagons on December 27, 2025, 10:50:48 AM

Quote from: Bob G on December 26, 2025, 07:13:59 PM

Quote from: PennineWagons on December 26, 2025, 06:56:42 PMBoth were in the Farish catalogue from 2005-2009, so assuming that Farish only produced the one batch of each and then kept them in the catalogue until they were sold out, they're both twenty years old.

PW

I knew that, which is why I told the OP that in my first post. IDK why it was ever questioned.  Possibly because I was more interested in answering his original question rather than demonstrating how clever I was as a historian

Hmm. Bit grumpy with our post-Xmas hangover are we?
Pardon me for posting links to info which I thought the OP might find of interest.
PW

I've been on RMWeb a bit too much, probably!

Quote from: Bob G on December 26, 2025, 07:13:59 PM

Quote from: PennineWagons on December 26, 2025, 06:56:42 PMBoth were in the Farish catalogue from 2005-2009, so assuming that Farish only produced the one batch of each and then kept them in the catalogue until they were sold out, they're both twenty years old.

PW

I knew that, which is why I told the OP that in my first post. IDK why it was ever questioned.  Possibly because I was more interested in answering his original question rather than demonstrating how clever I was as a historian

Hmm. Bit grumpy with our post-Xmas hangover are we?
Pardon me for posting links to info which I thought the OP might find of interest.
PW