The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

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Re: The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

Post by JimC » Mon Mar 09, 2015 9:54 pm

At least Irish eyes are smiling... :hehe:
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Re: The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

Post by klr » Mon Mar 09, 2015 10:06 pm

JimC wrote:At least Irish eyes are smiling... :hehe:
Oh, we would never laugh at English misfortune. I'm sure you Aussies wouldn't either. :shifty:
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Re: The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Fri Apr 17, 2015 10:45 pm

Congrats to Jimmy Anderson. England's leading test wicket taker. He broke Ian Botham's record of 383 by one today against the Windies. I'm sure he'd have preferred somebody else to take those last 3 wickets though and wait a little longer. Kind of dampens the effect of breaking the record when you only draw a match that looked won. Well done the West Indies middle-order. :tiphat:

Somehow I can't see him lasting long enough to trouble Murali's world record though - another 416 wickets to go for that one! :shock:
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Re: The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

Post by Brian Peacock » Fri Apr 17, 2015 11:39 pm

England were lucky to get the draw, but Anderson certainly knows how to chuck a devious ball.
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Re: The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

Post by klr » Sat Apr 18, 2015 7:46 pm

Why a test over the 5 weekdays? Only cricket authorities could come up with something like that.
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Re: The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Sat Apr 18, 2015 11:13 pm

klr wrote:Why a test over the 5 weekdays? Only cricket authorities could come up with something like that.
Look, our people will talk to your sponsor's people and your sponsor's people can talk to our backer's people, who will liaise with the syndicate administration's people, who will decide when best suits all of our corporate interests. I'm sure we can come up with a kick-off time that is agreeable to both the quarterbacks and the short-stops. :tup:
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Re: The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

Post by JimC » Sat Apr 18, 2015 11:18 pm

I had forgotten to crow about the Australian victory in the final of the World Cup.

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Re: The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Sat Apr 18, 2015 11:31 pm

JimC wrote:I had forgotten to crow about the Australian victory in the final of the World Cup.

Cock-a-doodle-dooooo!
Who? What? Wasn't that back when W.G. was still playing? Bloody Aussies! Always living on past glories. :nono:
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Re: The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

Post by JimC » Sat Apr 18, 2015 11:42 pm

Bring on the Ashes!
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Re: The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

Post by Brian Peacock » Sun Apr 19, 2015 6:47 pm

And the sack cloth too!
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Post by Hermit » Sun Apr 19, 2015 7:21 pm

Saturday at the combined POW/concentration camp. Der Kommandant says: "It's sports day today. Seeing a lot of you are Aussies and Poms, and me being in favour of multiculturalism - well, to a point anyway - we'll have a cricket match, Aussies versus Poms of course." A Jew pipes up: "What about us?" Der Kommandant thinks about that for a moment, then comes up with the solution, which turns out to be the final one. "You? You can be The Ashes."

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Re: The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

Post by JimC » Sun Apr 19, 2015 9:20 pm

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Re: The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Mon Apr 20, 2015 1:32 am

Now this is quite a knock!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cricket/32376031

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Re: The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

Post by klr » Wed Apr 22, 2015 11:15 pm

Xamonas Chegwé wrote:
klr wrote:Why a test over the 5 weekdays? Only cricket authorities could come up with something like that.
Look, our people will talk to your sponsor's people and your sponsor's people can talk to our backer's people, who will liaise with the syndicate administration's people, who will decide when best suits all of our corporate interests. I'm sure we can come up with a kick-off time that is agreeable to both the quarterbacks and the short-stops. :tup:
Actually, it probably had something to do with Sky Sports also broadcasting the IPL. for which the weekends are peak broadcast times. So you were close enough. :hehe:
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Re: The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

Post by klr » Wed Apr 22, 2015 11:15 pm

Hermit wrote:Saturday at the combined POW/concentration camp. Der Kommandant says: "It's sports day today. Seeing a lot of you are Aussies and Poms, and me being in favour of multiculturalism - well, to a point anyway - we'll have a cricket match, Aussies versus Poms of course." A Jew pipes up: "What about us?" Der Kommandant thinks about that for a moment, then comes up with the solution, which turns out to be the final one. "You? You can be The Ashes."

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We used to tell Jewish jokes along those lines when we were in school. :shifty:
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