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Jaded · « **Reply #2450 on:** 08 December, 2021, 09:38:26 am »

That’s sort of ok for the T20, lets hope they do better when the tests start.

Jaded · « **Reply #2451 on:** 09 December, 2021, 12:34:08 am »

Stokes No Ball.

Arse.

Plus. The Ashes Tests are on BT. How sad.

andyoxon · « **Reply #2452 on:** 10 December, 2021, 09:15:23 pm »

Have a feeling early wickets are coming up...

but you never know.

hatler · « **Reply #2453 on:** 10 December, 2021, 09:36:04 pm »

New ball due about ten overs in I think. I'm not holding out any great hope.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2454 on:** 10 December, 2021, 11:28:35 pm »

The Graun's ball-by-ball coverage pages are currently discussing the politeness of cricketers, and I have sent them the following contribution:

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Dear Grauniad,

Apropos your video of Norbert Philip, I was attendant at the B & H final of 1979, with my father (whose 107th birthday would have been today).

At the lunch break, we had a wander around Lords, neither of us having been there before. As we walked behind the pavilion, who should turn up in his primrose yellow 3.5 litre hatchback Rover but Mr. J. M. Brearley, the then England captain. He clearly had business to attend to.

As soon as he emerged from his vehicle, he was surrounded by small boys with pencils and scraps of paper. “Sorry, boys, I’m not signing autographs today. It’s my day off.” With that, he disappeared into a brick outbuilding, which had a sign on the door indicating that it was the Middlesex Club Office.

A short while later, he emerged, and the small boys surrounded him once again. A little more emphatically, but still with courtesy, he sad “No, lads! I am NOT signing autographs today. It’s my day off!”

As he climbed the steps at the back of the pavilion, I didn’t catch what the small boys said, but several hundred people thronged below heard the Great Man’s stentorian response:

“You are rude little buggers! Sod off!”

I remain, Sir (or Madam) your obedient servant,

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2455 on:** 10 December, 2021, 11:31:06 pm »

And they've published it!

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2021/dec/11/ashes-2021-22-day-4-four-cricket-australia-vs-england-first-test-live-score-card-aus-v-eng-start-time-latest-updates?page=with:block-61b3e1f58f08cfef2cf64ae4#block-61b3e1f58f08cfef2cf64ae4

Jaded · « **Reply #2456 on:** 11 December, 2021, 12:01:44 am »

Give us an O!

"O"

Give us a Dear...

andyoxon · « **Reply #2457 on:** 11 December, 2021, 12:07:07 am »

oops. Not even at the new ball yet.

Jaded · « **Reply #2458 on:** 11 December, 2021, 12:08:31 am »

and another one.

I'm so pleased it is on minority channel BT Spots, so that I do not have to hide behind the sofa.

andyoxon · « **Reply #2459 on:** 11 December, 2021, 03:06:43 pm »

Hum, so in the end probably a combination of Aus were just better/ Lyon vs Leach/ Eng lack of match fitness/ The 'Malan' effect/ Kookaburra ball/ 30C heat/ home support...

hatler · « **Reply #2460 on:** 11 December, 2021, 03:18:54 pm »

Still, if England progress at the same rate for the next innings they should be hitting 600.

andyoxon · « **Reply #2461 on:** 15 December, 2021, 07:29:53 am »

Broad & Anderson are in. Let's see if Eng can improve on a 9 wkt defeat...

andyoxon · « **Reply #2462 on:** 16 December, 2021, 08:05:37 am »

Hopefully the England bowling attack will find it's teeth.

CrazyEnglishTriathlete · « **Reply #2463 on:** 16 December, 2021, 08:59:30 am »

Quote from: Jaded on 09 December, 2021, 12:34:08 am

Plus. The Ashes Tests are on BT. How sad.

There is a silver lining - as a BT free home I am spared from being tempted to watch the inevitable - a little bit like being dropped on the club run and try to get back on but knowing, in my heart, that I will never do so.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2464 on:** 26 December, 2021, 01:36:08 pm »

wot a shoking sho by m.c.c. most deplorable a lot of rabits ect. ect.

Peter · « **Reply #2465 on:** 26 December, 2021, 09:01:08 pm »

Molesworth Cricket Chaps? (probly have mad a beter job of it, chiz)

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2466 on:** 26 December, 2021, 11:18:24 pm »

kepe a strate bat…

Jaded · « **Reply #2467 on:** 26 December, 2021, 11:23:22 pm »

COVID in the camp. Commentator has just been going on about the possible ramifications of a positive test.

Trouble is, as I see it, we've had two negative tests and we are a day into a third one…

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2468 on:** 26 December, 2021, 11:24:46 pm »

Ba-dumm and, moreover, TISH!

Peter · « **Reply #2469 on:** 27 December, 2021, 12:14:14 am »

Not quite the right place but seeing as Jaded is adjacent post-wise, I wonder if he's aware that the tune usually used for O Little Town Of Bethlehem is known as Forest Green?

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2470 on:** 27 December, 2021, 01:56:42 am »

Batsmanship by Mr Larrington, on Flickr

criket by Mr Larrington, on Flickr

hatler · « **Reply #2471 on:** 27 December, 2021, 10:05:24 am »

Bloody hell.

Jaded · « **Reply #2472 on:** 27 December, 2021, 10:14:13 am »

Quote from: Peter on 27 December, 2021, 12:14:14 am

Not quite the right place but seeing as Jaded is adjacent post-wise, I wonder if he's aware that the tune usually used for O Little Town Of Bethlehem is known as Forest Green?

I didn't, but I wonder why that is, there is a Forest Green* in Sussex, I think, could be related the that.

*one famous time a coach from a club playing us went there, instead of to here. I think it might have been a supporters coach…

Peter · « **Reply #2473 on:** 27 December, 2021, 11:10:27 am »

J, I don't know a lot about the origin of Forest Green, though it was used for sa folksong called The Ploughboy's Lament. I don't know where that originates - I should think ploughboys were pretty pissed off everywhere!. It Was Vaughan Williams who adapted it for the hymn.

rafletcher · « **Reply #2474 on:** 27 December, 2021, 11:15:11 am »

Quote from: Jaded on 27 December, 2021, 10:14:13 am

Quote from: Peter on 27 December, 2021, 12:14:14 am
Not quite the right place but seeing as Jaded is adjacent post-wise, I wonder if he's aware that the tune usually used for O Little Town Of Bethlehem is known as Forest Green?

I didn't, but I wonder why that is, there is a Forest Green* in Sussex, I think, could be related the that.

*one famous time a coach from a club playing us went there, instead of to here. I think it might have been a supporters coach…

OT, but I think the Sussex one is Forest Row. There is a Forest Green in Surrey.