NibblyPig

This is it boys and girls!

By jove I think we've won!!!

Brad Friedal (noun) 1. Superstar!

What a performance!

The commentator on ESPN thinks the ref has had an excellent game. I agree.

Good work by our new left back... is that Heskey back there?

Rafa's tapping his watch.

His pizza must be late.

BEAUTIFUL PENALTY!!!

PENALTY!

COME ON VILLA!

Shit shit shit shit shit

Come on Villa!

Old Man Friedal is having a crackin' game

I hope the Villa fans gave Lucas a standing ovation!

Big Brad has been absolutely spotless....

Wish I could say the same about my pants

Anyone else see Gerrard dive in the box just then? What a clown!

Argh! REO... put it in!

Christ! Brad is a having a great game!... let's hope he can keep up the heroics!

Great scoreline.

Let's not get ahead of ourselves though.

Liverpool could have had a number of goals so far. We need to be strong at the back. Let's hope NRC and Sidders keep getting back.

PS: the half-time analysts on ESPN are gutted. It's hilarious.

BOOM!!!!

CURTIS DAVIES!!!!

Fantastic!

Nice tackling by NRC again... keep it up, son

Cry me a **** river, Fernando

Great stuff, Brad! Nice save

Get in there, baby!!!!

MILNER... BEAUTIFUL!

Just checked it out: a bowler getting 15 wkts in a match has happened 12 times in test match cricket

However, I should note that there's probably only been about 2,000 test matches...

Compare that to the (I'm guessing here) approx. 250,000 MLB games there have been... (please let me know the exact number if you know)

A more apt analogy to a perfect game is perhaps: 10 wickets in an innings. Only happened twice in test cricket (Laker and Kumble)

Major League Baseball finally concedes that baseball is of fundamentally British origin

As for Buehrle's perfect game, I guess the closest cricket analogue (if there's any cricket fans reading this thread...), given that pitching in baseball is more akin to batting in cricket, would be a batsman scoring 180 runs in 5 overs.

Probably about 400,000 people have seen a perfect game live, of whom maybe 250,000 are currently alive.

180 runs in 5 overs would never happen I'm afraid, levi

To my knowledge, 36 runs in one over has only happened twice in first class cricket in the 130+ years of first class cricket (Sobers and Yourav)...

... only once has it happened in international cricket (and that was a piss-pot twenty20 game)

No-one has ever hit 7 sixes in a row... let alone 30

I think a perfect game is probably closer in equivalence to one bowler getting 15 wickets in a match. Without looking it up... I'd imagine it's probably only happened about 18 times in international cricket.

I'll hit submit and then check out cricinfo to see how wrong I am

What a cracking game!

Jason Bay and Kevin Youkilis... fantastic!

I went to the Sox game today ('twas a touch chilly out there!)... a nice 12-1 victory to move into second place in the AL East. Good stuff!