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I don't like cricket I love it.........

Especially when England is all out on the first day of an Ashes Test Match for 260...


Who's surprised by an England batting collapse? Though I'd hold off on being triumphal until we've seen how Australia bat.

Silver Crusade

At least we can actually win a game occasionally... :P


I'm beginning to wish I cared about rugby instead


Pual wrote:
I'm beginning to wish I cared about rugby instead

I care about rugby.... we are just fine tuning for the world cup... ;-)

The bad thing is if we win we will have to keep Ponting on as captain.... Punter is a first class knob and Australian Cricket would be much better off without him.


The 8th Dwarf wrote:
Pual wrote:
I'm beginning to wish I cared about rugby instead

I care about rugby.... we are just fine tuning for the world cup... ;-)

The bad thing is if we win we will have to keep Ponting on as captain.... Punter is a first class knob and Australian Cricket would be much better off without him.

I always assumed you just kept him as captain to give us a chance

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The 8th Dwarf wrote:

I don't like cricket I love it.........

Especially when England is all out on the first day of an Ashes Test Match for 260...

After they walked through all of the warm-up matches the press over here have been assuming that we'll walk it.

Which is just daft.

I'm ignoring the cricket as I brace myself for Wales v. New Zealand on Saturday. I'm expecting a massacre.

Scarab Sages

Mmmmmm.....crickets


GeraintElberion wrote:


After they walked through all of the warm-up matches the press over here have been assuming that we'll walk it.
Which is just daft.

There was a fare bit of pre-match sledging going on.... Because I dislike Ponting so much I normally support the Westindi's hopping for the modern equivalents of Joel Garner or Viv Richards to arise and make cricket vibrant again.

GeraintElberion wrote:


I'm ignoring the cricket as I brace myself for Wales v. New Zealand on Saturday. I'm expecting a massacre.

Good luck..... I hope Wales wins over the Kiwi's.


The 8th Dwarf wrote:
Pual wrote:
I'm beginning to wish I cared about rugby instead

I care about rugby.... we are just fine tuning for the world cup... ;-)

The bad thing is if we win we will have to keep Ponting on as captain.... Punter is a first class knob and Australian Cricket would be much better off without him.

+1

He is a graceless, charmless bogan whose poor captaincy became apparent when McGrath, Warne etc retired.


Gallo wrote:
The 8th Dwarf wrote:
Pual wrote:
I'm beginning to wish I cared about rugby instead

I care about rugby.... we are just fine tuning for the world cup... ;-)

The bad thing is if we win we will have to keep Ponting on as captain.... Punter is a first class knob and Australian Cricket would be much better off without him.

+1

He is a graceless, charmless bogan whose poor captaincy became apparent when McGrath, Warne etc retired.

Very true.

The Exchange

The Crickets have never been the same without Buddy Holly.


The 8th Dwarf wrote:
GeraintElberion wrote:


I'm ignoring the cricket as I brace myself for Wales v. New Zealand on Saturday. I'm expecting a massacre.
Good luck..... I hope Wales wins over the Kiwi's.

You can hope all you like, but it's not going to happen! :p


Berik wrote:
The 8th Dwarf wrote:
GeraintElberion wrote:


I'm ignoring the cricket as I brace myself for Wales v. New Zealand on Saturday. I'm expecting a massacre.
Good luck..... I hope Wales wins over the Kiwi's.
You can hope all you like, but it's not going to happen! :p

Yeh I know... In Rugby I support anybody who is playing against New Zealand and in Cricket while Ponting is captain I support anybody who is playing against Australia - except when Australia plays England....

Sovereign Court

Interesting second day, from the highlights I saw it looks like things would be pretty even if it weren't for Mr Cricket.


I have zero interest in cricket and rugby, but atleast they are a little more interesting than football (which in turn is vastly more interesting than those pretend american sports)


Zombieneighbours wrote:
I have zero interest in cricket and rugby, but atleast they are a little more interesting than football (which in turn is vastly more interesting than those pretend american sports)

I especially like the World Series events where only US teams enter...

I thought Rugby was homo-erotica, that can't really be a sport surely?

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stuart haffenden wrote:
Zombieneighbours wrote:
I have zero interest in cricket and rugby, but atleast they are a little more interesting than football (which in turn is vastly more interesting than those pretend american sports)

I especially like the World Series events where only US teams enter...

I thought Rugby was homo-erotica, that can't really be a sport surely?

As someone who has played rugby regularly since the age of 9 I would like to hear you explain your second statement?

I'm also interested in why you said it, as well as what it means?


GeraintElberion wrote:

As someone who has played rugby regularly since the age of 9 I would like to hear you explain your second statement?

I'm also interested in why you said it, as well as what it means?

Isn't Rugby the sport where beefy men run around wearing figure tight lycra-like material, tight shorts, grappling each other... nuff said.

Dude it was a joke. Please do not take my comments seriously or to heart, however I do have a gay friend that loves watching Rugby for that precise reason.


GeraintElberion wrote:
stuart haffenden wrote:
Zombieneighbours wrote:
I have zero interest in cricket and rugby, but atleast they are a little more interesting than football (which in turn is vastly more interesting than those pretend american sports)

I especially like the World Series events where only US teams enter...

I thought Rugby was homo-erotica, that can't really be a sport surely?

As someone who has played rugby regularly since the age of 9 I would like to hear you explain your second statement?

I'm also interested in why you said it, as well as what it means?

I think he is confused between Rugby Union and Rugby League. :-)

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stuart haffenden wrote:
GeraintElberion wrote:

As someone who has played rugby regularly since the age of 9 I would like to hear you explain your second statement?

I'm also interested in why you said it, as well as what it means?

Isn't Rugby the sport where beefy men run around wearing figure tight lycra-like material, tight shorts, grappling each other... nuff said.

Dude it was a joke. Please do not take my comments seriously or to heart, however I do have a gay friend that loves watching Rugby for that precise reason.

Ah, right, physical contact between men is gay. Gotcha.


Mike Hussey and Brad Haddin put on a Gabba record stand of 307 as Australia compiled 461 and a first-innings lead of 221 runs on day three of the first Ashes Test.

:-)


:-(

Or at least, that's the feeling here. At least Strauss didn't get done first ball. Saving the match will be a triumph now.

The Exchange

GeraintElberion wrote:
stuart haffenden wrote:
GeraintElberion wrote:

As someone who has played rugby regularly since the age of 9 I would like to hear you explain your second statement?

I'm also interested in why you said it, as well as what it means?

Isn't Rugby the sport where beefy men run around wearing figure tight lycra-like material, tight shorts, grappling each other... nuff said.

Dude it was a joke. Please do not take my comments seriously or to heart, however I do have a gay friend that loves watching Rugby for that precise reason.

Ah, right, physical contact between men is gay. Gotcha.

Lighten up. Anyway, he has a point. When I played rugby at school I was informed that there are two ways to hold someone in a scrum - round the waist and between the legs. For some reason, the rugby master was a great believer in the latter method.


England has to beat the Springboks today. Then we can have our coach fired!


xiN wrote:
England has to beat the Springboks today. Then we can have our coach fired!

Cool a South African... whats the RPG community like in SA?


I must say that irrespective of the final result, that was very generous of the Australian bowlers to take only one English wicket in the fourth day and to let both the openers each score over a hundred. After Hussey and Haddin's impressive scores it was very gentlemanly of the Australian team to let the English openers have some time out in the middle. :)
Given that Australia need to remove just two out of Cook/Trott/Bell to bowl the rest out cheaply, and then knock whatever score results off it's only a bit of a gamble to show such generosity, of course...


Charles Evans 25 wrote:

I must say that irrespective of the final result, that was very generous of the Australian bowlers to take only one English wicket in the fourth day and to let both the openers each score over a hundred. After Hussey and Haddin's impressive scores it was very gentlemanly of the Australian team to let the English openers have some time out in the middle. :)

Given that Australia need to remove just two out of Cook/Trott/Bell to bowl the rest out cheaply, and then knock whatever score results off it's only a bit of a gamble to show such generosity, of course...

for me its win - win, even if we we don't win...

Win = Thrashing the poms is always a joyous occasion.
Lose = 1 step closer to getting rid of Ponting.

Silver Crusade

Well there you go then. What a difference a day makes.

Looks like Strauss' boys have a lot of fight after all. Not a good omen for the Aussies...


The 8th Dwarf wrote:
GeraintElberion wrote:
stuart haffenden wrote:
Zombieneighbours wrote:
I have zero interest in cricket and rugby, but atleast they are a little more interesting than football (which in turn is vastly more interesting than those pretend american sports)

I especially like the World Series events where only US teams enter...

I thought Rugby was homo-erotica, that can't really be a sport surely?

As someone who has played rugby regularly since the age of 9 I would like to hear you explain your second statement?

I'm also interested in why you said it, as well as what it means?

I think he is confused between Rugby Union and Rugby League. :-)

*Sudders* Rugby League....why, why would you mention that?

The Exchange

so can someone please explain what this has to do with Buddy Holly?? He was not English.

Liberty's Edge

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Crimson Jester wrote:
so can someone please explain what this has to do with Buddy Holly?? He was not English.

Soory, CJ. We're talking about sports the rest of the world play. I can see why Americans might get confused by that thought.

The Exchange

Paul Watson wrote:
Crimson Jester wrote:
so can someone please explain what this has to do with Buddy Holly?? He was not English.
Soory, CJ. We're talking about sports the rest of the world play. I can see why Americans might get confused by that thought.

There is a rest of the world???

sorry couldn't help myself

Liberty's Edge

Pathfinder Pathfinder Accessories Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber
Crimson Jester wrote:
Paul Watson wrote:
Crimson Jester wrote:
so can someone please explain what this has to do with Buddy Holly?? He was not English.
Soory, CJ. We're talking about sports the rest of the world play. I can see why Americans might get confused by that thought.

There is a rest of the world???

sorry couldn't help myself

No problem. Neither could I, after all.


Crimson Jester wrote:
so can someone please explain what this has to do with Buddy Holly?? He was not English.

Buddy Holly was a great medium paceman and was a dab hand with the bat (although his weakness was the hook-shot). He wrote Peggy Sue while on tour with the Scunthorpe 11.

The English cricket team were considering having him and the corpse of WG Grace open for them in the 50's....

The English with their pasty, twisted, sun deprived bodies were no match for those of the hardened sun drenched convicts that they had to face.

There is also the curse that the English are to be bad at any sport that they invent. The actual curse can be found in McBeth "Hubble bubble toil and trouble, wickets fall and goalies fumble"....

Unfortunately the plane crash happened killing Buddy and the cost to animate WG Grace was too much for English Cricket and the plan failed.


The 8th Dwarf wrote:
Crimson Jester wrote:
so can someone please explain what this has to do with Buddy Holly?? He was not English.

Buddy Holly was a great medium paceman and was a dab hand with the bat (although his weakness was the hook-shot). He wrote Peggy Sue while on tour with the Sc~~@horpe 11.

ROFL....

Scun thorpe is a rude word........ Filter doesn't like it.


Hah. Good game. England managed to avoid losing at Brisbane for the first time in years, there were records broken all over the place by both sides, and there was still time for Ponting to make a quickfire fifty at the end. Who says a draw can't be interesting (at least when TMS are commentating...)? ;)

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Charles Evans 25 wrote:

Hah. Good game. England managed to avoid losing at Brisbane for the first time in years, there were records broken all over the place by both sides, and there was still time for Ponting to make a quickfire fifty at the end. Who says a draw can't be interesting (at least when TMS are commentating...)? ;)

Lovely stuff, and TMS is a magnificent beast.

Everyone who admires cricket should also have a taste of The Duckworth Lewis Method

Especially good is their song about the ball of the century, written from Gatting's point-of-view. Genius.


GeraintElberion wrote:
Charles Evans 25 wrote:

Hah. Good game. England managed to avoid losing at Brisbane for the first time in years, there were records broken all over the place by both sides, and there was still time for Ponting to make a quickfire fifty at the end. Who says a draw can't be interesting (at least when TMS are commentating...)? ;)

Lovely stuff, and TMS is a magnificent beast.

Everyone who admires cricket should also have a taste of The Duckworth Lewis Method

Especially good is their song about the ball of the century, written from Gatting's point-of-view. Genius.

Well played England.

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The 8th Dwarf wrote:
GeraintElberion wrote:
Charles Evans 25 wrote:

Hah. Good game. England managed to avoid losing at Brisbane for the first time in years, there were records broken all over the place by both sides, and there was still time for Ponting to make a quickfire fifty at the end. Who says a draw can't be interesting (at least when TMS are commentating...)? ;)

Lovely stuff, and TMS is a magnificent beast.

Everyone who admires cricket should also have a taste of The Duckworth Lewis Method

Especially good is their song about the ball of the century, written from Gatting's point-of-view. Genius.

Well played England.

Good match, you must be unhappy with Ponting's fifty.


GeraintElberion wrote:
The 8th Dwarf wrote:
GeraintElberion wrote:
Charles Evans 25 wrote:

Hah. Good game. England managed to avoid losing at Brisbane for the first time in years, there were records broken all over the place by both sides, and there was still time for Ponting to make a quickfire fifty at the end. Who says a draw can't be interesting (at least when TMS are commentating...)? ;)

Lovely stuff, and TMS is a magnificent beast.

Everyone who admires cricket should also have a taste of The Duckworth Lewis Method

Especially good is their song about the ball of the century, written from Gatting's point-of-view. Genius.

Well played England.
Good match, you must be unhappy with Ponting's fifty.

They wont get rid of him mid series..... but yeh I think the realisation is settling in, that he is done for.

Although Clarke hasn't done much to impress me.


Well played England...I am now eating humble pie.

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The 8th Dwarf wrote:
Well played England...I am now eating humble pie.

Yep, good day.

You have to keep in mind what Geoffrey Boycott said on the radio this morning: "You never know how good a wicket is until both sides have batted."

If England go for 210 then Australia have a good score. Maybe just take the humble pie out of the freezer so it can start defrosting, but don't eat it yet. :D


GeraintElberion wrote:
The 8th Dwarf wrote:
Well played England...I am now eating humble pie.

Yep, good day.

You have to keep in mind what Geoffrey Boycott said on the radio this morning: "You never know how good a wicket is until both sides have batted."

If England go for 210 then Australia have a good score. Maybe just take the humble pie out of the freezer so it can start defrosting, but don't eat it yet. :D

On the other hand, NOW might be a good time to be warming up the oven. Tally ho, chaps, show the convicts how this most English of games should be played. But keep the Anmate Dead ready just in case we ned W G Grace to finish them off.

Grand Lodge

I woke up this day to a score of 297-2.

You could argue that the Aussies managed twice as many wickets as at the Gabba - but I doubt it will cheer them up. The beauty about cricket is - as a statistical minded person you can see it slowly evolve - just for everything to crush down when several wickets fall in quick succession.

I'm German - but living long enough in the UK now to be firmly on the England side.

Too bad it's the middle of night - other vice I would follow it ball by ball.

Thod

Liberty's Edge

Isn't Cricket that game the English invented and get their asses kicked by the entire world playing?

Liberty's Edge

stuart haffenden wrote:
Zombieneighbours wrote:
I have zero interest in cricket and rugby, but atleast they are a little more interesting than football (which in turn is vastly more interesting than those pretend american sports)

I especially like the World Series events where only US teams enter...

I thought Rugby was homo-erotica, that can't really be a sport surely?

Hey, we let the Canadian team play in the World Series every once in a while!

Plus, the players are the best (well, in the case of Cubans, the best that could escape if they weren't born here) from everywhere they play baseball. So where the teams are is irrelevant, the baseball world is well represented.


houstonderek wrote:

Isn't Cricket that game the English invented and get their asses kicked by the entire world playing?

No no no no no... it's one of a number of games we invented to get our asses kicked at playing


Just don't mention the World Cup 2018 or 2022

Liberty's Edge

DM Wellard wrote:
Just don't mention the World Cup 2018 or 2022

Huh? We don't care about that. Seriously, outside of a few of us who just love sports in general (like me), most Americans rank soccer below sticking hot soldering guns in their ears on the "stuff I'd do with a gun stuck to my head" list.

It was just another occasion for Obama to show his irrelevance away from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

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