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ok cricket may not be to everybody's taste, so comments like "i hate cricket" aren't helpfull here, but there's the obligatory dont care option.... :lol: :lol:
who's gonna win....?
but there's the obligatory dont care option.... :lol: :lol:
:-s
much as i'd love england to win they don't have a hope of a win
but you never know
diamond
21-07-05, 09:47 AM
I love cricket and really wanna see England win the ashes, i know it's a long shot but you have to be optimistic. I can dream can't i? :lol:
FWIW
i reckon we've a good shout. they wont tub us like they have in the past, there wont be a 4-0 or 3-0 drubbing. but the problem i see is can we get 20 wickets a match? front line bowling is good, flintoff and jones are pretty good as first change but thereafter we're weak on options.
i reckon 2-1 either way....if pushed i'd say to auz
diamond
21-07-05, 10:09 AM
Haydn's gone for 12 off hoggard, it's starting to hot up :D
Please don't let the aussies win. Can you imagine how unbearably cocky they'd be?
Nutkins
21-07-05, 10:53 AM
The Aussies are cocky, but they're are also bloody good.
I would like to see England win, because I'm patriotic.
But why ....
.... cricket?
I remember watching Essex, at Chelmsford. With a pint in my hand, I managed to fall asleep through all the boring bits. Basically, I missed the whole match ..... but my pint was still there. Never again, shall I risk such chances of spillage. :wink:
Maybe, full contact cricket (young ones stylee?) is the only answer.
Can you imagine how unbearably cocky they'd be?
Waaaay cockier than normal - off the "Cockiness Scale".
66-4 now :D
Nutkins
21-07-05, 10:57 AM
66-4
COME ON
That good then? :lol:
Ah cricket - the only sport in the world to make golf look exciting. :lol:
So where is the Don't Care option then? :?
Ah cricket - the only sport in the world to make g*lf look exciting. :lol:
So where is the Don't Care option then? :?
ah, its gone!
:cry:
i'll shall change, sorry!!
Ah cricket - the only sport in the world to make g*lf look exciting. :lol:
So where is the Don't Care option then? :?
You're only miffed coz Scotland is classed as a "Minor County" in cricket.
Good job they don't do the same thing in football, eh? :P
Ah cricket - the only sport in the world to make g*lf look exciting. :lol:
So where is the Don't Care option then? :?
ah, its gone!
:cry:
i'll shall change, sorry!!
bugger i cant add it now :?
maybe admin can do so for me?
Minor collapse going on! As long as they don't put on an awesome late innings partnership....then so far, so good.
Good job they don't do the same thing in football, eh? :P
Pub team would be more appropriate! :lol:
Glynmitch
21-07-05, 11:08 AM
Cricket is MORE boring than football :roll:
Nutkins
21-07-05, 11:10 AM
Cricket is MORE boring than football :roll:
I like this man. I'd buy him a drink any day.
I would love England to win
Cricket is MORE boring than football :roll:
I like this man. I'd buy him a drink any day.
...and then throw it at him! :)
Are you Scottish? If so, then I guess it's understandable why sport is not so appealing. Meeeoooww! :P
Glynmitch
21-07-05, 11:26 AM
Where's my handbag?!?! :lol:
fifth wicket goes a tumblin'
Nutkins
21-07-05, 11:34 AM
It's clobbering time.
I'll get my coat ....
There is only one thing I know more boring than cricket and that's the mega chat thread. :roll:
:lol: :lol:
Cloggsy
21-07-05, 12:48 PM
I think we might actually win it this time TBH :D
I think we might actually win it this time TBH :D
Think it, don't say it #-o
178-8 Yay! - Get them out for 200 and get batting!
Scooby Drew
21-07-05, 01:44 PM
190 all out!!!!!!!!!!!
Salad Dodger
21-07-05, 01:50 PM
Ah cricket - the only sport in the world to make g*lf look exciting. :lol:
So where is the Don't Care option then? :?
Took the words right out of my mouth :thumbsup:
It's all going pear shaped :(
11-2 aint the best of starts, granted.
but we will recover and finish the day on something like 120-2
Nutkins
21-07-05, 02:47 PM
It's all going pear shaped :(
A comment that goes hand-in-hand with English cricket. See, we've had a few good results and you get lead into a false sense of security. :lol:
I just going to be generally thick here but where are they being played this year? and if they are in England this year does it mean Austraila next year?
btw - much as it pains me to say it - i think Aus will win
Nutkins
21-07-05, 02:53 PM
I just going to be generally thick here but where are they being played this year? and if they are in England this year does it mean Austraila next year?
Ah, bless! Such innocence. Who wants to tell her? :lol: :wink:
Scooby Drew
21-07-05, 02:54 PM
The Ashes are always played in England and the trophy always stays here, even if the Aussies win. Lately it has been the only way that the English ever get to see the trophy...
The Ashes are always played in England and the trophy always stays here, even if the Aussies win. Lately it has been the only way that the English ever get to see the trophy...
this statement is incorrect
the trophy does indeed always stay here, at Lords, but the Ashes are alternated between Auz and England
18-3 Is that a large lady I hear singing?
18-3 Is that a large lady I hear singing?
19-4.....
I want it to rain!
for four days?
21-5
wooooo hoooo we got 2 runs between wickets
Scooby Drew
21-07-05, 03:28 PM
Maybe the South African traitor will come to the rescue (I doubt it though)
155 all out
last wicket put on 33...
35 runs behind, could have been soooooo much worse
Maybe the South African traitor will come to the rescue (I doubt it though)
Sore point, fella?
Cloggsy
22-07-05, 10:45 AM
could have been soooooo much worse
You're telling me... I knew this would happen, bloody England get the Aussies out for a piddling little score, then we get an even worse score :roll:
Roll on England's second innings bowling attack... Lets get back to the 'bodyline' tactics :twisted:
could have been soooooo much worse
You're telling me... I knew this would happen, bloody England get the Aussies out for a piddling little score, then we get an even worse score :roll:
Roll on England's second innings bowling attack... Lets get back to the 'bodyline' tactics :twisted:
this, IMHO, is what we did wrong last time! we "body-lined" mcgrath, cheesed him right off we did, look what happened :shock:
Scooby Drew
22-07-05, 11:06 AM
Maybe the South African traitor will come to the rescue (I doubt it though)
Sore point, fella?
Actually he is probably not a traitor, he probably got booted out of the country for that ridiculous barnet.
Oh hell it's that time again! :evil:
Can't stop... the flashbacks...
It is an idyllic summer's Sunday in semi-rural England. Birds have stopped singing in the trees due to the heat, newly washed cars twinkle in the sun and the distant drone of a dozen lawnmowers lays claim to a few hard working sons. Lucky toddlers play in paddling pools in numerous back gardens, or find juvenile solace in the cool, shaded glow of the television under a Mother's watchful eye.
The village green is separated by a dusty beaten path and a hedge. On one side is 'The Rec'. Where battered wooden see-saws and a round-about challenge the newly erected 'Rustic Adventure Play Castle' for children's attention. On the other side, the Cricket Pitch.
A small child stuggles in dismay, pausing occasionally to listen with longing to the sounds of merry play. The actual sight that would torment them further is blocked by the ever present hedge. Left purely to their imagination they can only yearn for the joy and adventure that is being denied as the strain once more against the bonds that hold them.
A mother turns from watching her husband walk out to the stumps. Bat in hand, whites gleaming with her own handiwork.
"Oh for heaven's sake K________. Will you stop trying to strangle yourself in your pram and just sit still and watch the game."
Straps are tightened and any chance of discovering the joys of the Rustic Adventure Play Castle are destroyed.
And so a hatred of Cricket is born. :evil:
Oh hell it's that time again! :evil:
Can't stop... the flashbacks...
It is an idyllic summer's Sunday in semi-rural England. Birds have stopped singing in the trees due to the heat, newly washed cars twinkle in the sun and the distant drone of a dozen lawnmowers lays claim to a few hard working sons. Lucky toddlers play in paddling pools in numerous back gardens, or find juvenile solace in the cool, shaded glow of the television under a Mother's watchful eye.
The village green is separated by a dusty beaten path and a hedge. On one side is 'The Rec'. Where battered wooden see-saws and a round-about challenge the newly erected 'Rustic Adventure Play Castle' for children's attention. On the other side, the Cricket Pitch.
A small child stuggles in dismay, pausing occasionally to listen with longing to the sounds of merry play. The actual sight that would torment them further is blocked by the ever present hedge. Left purely to their imagination they can only yearn for the joy and adventure that is being denied as the strain once more against the bonds that hold them.
A mother turns from watching her husband walk out to the stumps. Bat in hand, whites gleaming with her own handiwork.
"Oh for heaven's sake K________. Will you stop trying to strangle yourself in your pram and just sit still and watch the game."
Straps are tightened and any chance of discovering the joys of the Rustic Adventure Play Castle are destroyed.
And so a hatred of Cricket is born. :evil:
get over it :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
I'll get over it when my Dad gets over never having made a Centuary. :evil:
:wink:
I'll get over it when my Dad gets over never having made a Centuary. :evil:
:wink:
:D
aw bless! tell your dad i've not made a century either, in fact far from it. bestest ever was 48....anyway, i digress. its a beautiful game!
Cloggsy
24-07-05, 04:03 PM
Ah well... There's always the second test :roll:
Anonymous
24-07-05, 04:22 PM
Look at the last 6 players - they made a whopping 9 runs between them. Absolutely attrocious performance again (Pietersen excluded).
They need to get rid of Giles and get Collingwood in his place.
I take it its over what was the score then - no where near a tv at the min!
Anonymous
24-07-05, 04:35 PM
England 155 & 180
Australia 190 & 384
England lost by 239 runs.
England 155 & 180
Australia 190 & 384
England lost by 239 runs.
Thanks :roll:
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