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Re: The cricket...
« Reply #1050 on: 06 August, 2015, 11:59:35 am »
Does anyone think the Aussies are going to survive until lunch? ;D
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Re: The cricket...
« Reply #1051 on: 06 August, 2015, 12:01:53 pm »
 :o

I was in a meeting!

I miss the old days, when you could switch on the cricket, go out for a ride, come back and sit down and nowt much had changed.

And I can't get onto listen to TMS, dammit.

Re: The cricket...
« Reply #1052 on: 06 August, 2015, 12:03:04 pm »
Excerpt from an e-mail to the Telegraph's live coverage team:

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Is it true that Clarke’s bat is due to be sponsored by Imodium, because it hasn’t seen an outbreak of runs for quite a while now?

Make that the new team sponsor?  :demon:
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Re: The cricket...
« Reply #1053 on: 06 August, 2015, 01:11:47 pm »
Stuart Broad 8-15 in 9.3 overs...   :o   ;D

Just hope England doesn't follow suit with another collapse...   ;)
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Re: The cricket...
« Reply #1054 on: 06 August, 2015, 01:12:25 pm »
WTF Australia ????

 ;D

I've seen them get better Rugby scores than that
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Re: The cricket...
« Reply #1055 on: 06 August, 2015, 01:13:45 pm »
Someone called Extras was top scorer in the Aus innings on 14...

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Re: The cricket...
« Reply #1056 on: 06 August, 2015, 01:39:46 pm »
Apparantly England have bowled out Australia for 60 before - in 1888. And Australia went on to win!  :o
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Re: The cricket...
« Reply #1057 on: 06 August, 2015, 02:35:38 pm »
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Re: The cricket...
« Reply #1058 on: 06 August, 2015, 02:36:54 pm »
Crikey!
It is simpler than it looks.

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Re: The cricket...
« Reply #1060 on: 06 August, 2015, 03:24:35 pm »
Mind you, England and batting collapses are close friends. Let's hope they're not re-acquainted for the rest of the series.

Re: The cricket...
« Reply #1061 on: 06 August, 2015, 03:30:27 pm »
:o

I was in a meeting!

I miss the old days, when you could switch on the cricket, go out for a ride, come back and sit down and nowt much had changed.

Vic Marks has just made the point on TMS, that had you walked into the ground at 3pm, looked at the score and seen it was 80-2, you could easily have thought that it was a tight game, batting on a pitch that's giving a bit too the bowlers, run rate a bit slow, but nothing extraordinary in that. Then somebody taps you on the shoulder and says, 'hey mate, this is the second innings of the game'.

Really bizzare.

Poor old Jim Maxwell, who I always like listening too, has just come on air, and boy he sounds very flat indeed.
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Re: The cricket...
« Reply #1062 on: 06 August, 2015, 03:31:46 pm »
Mind you, England and batting collapses are close friends. Let's hope they're not re-acquainted for the rest of the series.

They could collapse for a 150. That's a useful 90 run lead!
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Re: The cricket...
« Reply #1063 on: 06 August, 2015, 03:58:33 pm »
Mind you, England and batting collapses are close friends. Let's hope they're not re-acquainted for the rest of the series.

They could collapse for a 150. That's a useful 90 run lead!
Don't forget the second innings.

Re: The cricket...
« Reply #1064 on: 06 August, 2015, 06:11:13 pm »
RootRootRootRoot...  :thumbsup:

SMHerald "Australia came into the Trent Bridge Test needing to make history, as the first team in almost 80 years to overturn a 1:2 Ashes deficit. Within one session they made history for a contrasting reason: crumbling for 60 in what became the shortest first innings of a match in Test history."
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Re: The cricket...
« Reply #1065 on: 06 August, 2015, 06:52:36 pm »
We'll all wake up tomorrow to discover it was a dream. 

There is no other explanation.


Re: The cricket...
« Reply #1066 on: 06 August, 2015, 06:58:05 pm »
RootRootRootRoot...

Which is 'Strine for what the Aussies are undoubtedly saying in the dressing room after stumps. :demon:
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Re: The cricket...
« Reply #1067 on: 06 August, 2015, 07:11:11 pm »
I missed actually watching it but from the press coverage it doesn't sound as cool as Devon Malcolm's demolishment of South Africa back in the 90s where it was ferocious bowling rather than crap batting that was on display.  That I did watch and it was awesome.


Shame Malcolm couldn't summon that ire up more often really.


Not that it's any less satisfying overall  ;D ;D ;D
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Re: The cricket...
« Reply #1068 on: 06 August, 2015, 07:15:28 pm »
RootRootRootRoot...  :thumbsup:

SMHerald "Australia came into the Trent Bridge Test needing to make history, as the first team in almost 80 years to overturn a 1:2 Ashes deficit. Within one session they made history for a contrasting reason: crumbling for 60 in what became the shortest first innings of a match in Test history."
:D

The other statoid (fromTMS) was that not since 2005 has one batsman scored double the total of the oppo TEAM

 (South Africa vs Zim I think - generally a much less close match than the Ashes).
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Re: The cricket...
« Reply #1069 on: 06 August, 2015, 07:19:50 pm »
Popped out and did a bit of gardening and missed a whole bloody innings!

Re: The cricket...
« Reply #1070 on: 06 August, 2015, 08:08:36 pm »
Popped out and did a bit of gardening and missed a whole bloody innings!
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Re: The cricket...
« Reply #1071 on: 06 August, 2015, 10:17:48 pm »
Now here's a good stat:

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Of the 114 balls bowled by England only eight were on the stumps. Would've done better if they left them all

https://twitter.com/plalor/status/629280819966775296

And this is lovely:

https://twitter.com/nottspolice/status/629240139340976128

I'm still catching up while I wait for Channel 5's highlights to start, and I don't understand why Australia dropped a bowler to replace him with a batsman.

I missed actually watching it but from the press coverage it doesn't sound as cool as Devon Malcolm's demolishment of South Africa back in the 90s where it was ferocious bowling rather than crap batting that was on display.  That I did watch and it was awesome.


Shame Malcolm couldn't summon that ire up more often really.


Not that it's any less satisfying overall  ;D ;D ;D

That's probably the most exciting sporting performance I've ever seen (on telly). Didn't he tell the Saffers they were history?

Re: The cricket...
« Reply #1072 on: 06 August, 2015, 10:33:27 pm »
That's the one - and he said it before he started bowling....

Re: The cricket...
« Reply #1073 on: 06 August, 2015, 11:06:15 pm »
Looks like Lyth will be back at Headingly next week.

Re: The cricket...
« Reply #1074 on: 07 August, 2015, 08:11:48 am »
Some rich pickings on the Aussie sites...

Perth Now.  "BEFORE lunch, they’d been Broadsided; by stumps all but Rooted. Australian cricket has spiralled into crisis after arguably the darkest day in Ashes history." 


"Only twice in Test history has a team that bowled first in a Test emerged from day one with a bigger lead: South Africa with 286 against Zimbabwe in 2005 and England 233 against Australia in 1896."  SMH
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