We demand that you do something that gets the attention of the TMS team.Xamonas Chegwé wrote:A fucking excellent day of cricket. I am roasted, half pissed and my voice isn't working! And I'll be there tomorrow to see how this one plays out.
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Ed Cowans has dragged my fantasy team down badly. I'm dropping him for the second test. Everyone else has contributed.
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So fucking close C'MON AUSSIE C'MON
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20 runs to get. I wonder if Pattinson, Haddin or any of the team-mates can swallow a bite for lunch.
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Unsurprisingly, the fielders are crowding in close up, but five runs in the second over is pretty good, especially with Haddin retaining the strike.
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Fuck. Lost by 15 runs.
O well. Twas a good match. Certainly better than anything the one-dayers can dish up. Roll on, Lord's.
O well. Twas a good match. Certainly better than anything the one-dayers can dish up. Roll on, Lord's.
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Phew!
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Lost by 14 actually.Hermit wrote:Fuck. Lost by 15 runs.
O well. Twas a good match. Certainly better than anything the one-dayers can dish up. Roll on, Lord's.
You needed 15 more for a win. And it was another great (half)day of crikkitz!1!! 
There was never really a moment in this entire match when either side could be said to be clearly in front - as soon as one started to think they might be getting close to that point, something happened to turn the tables. I only hope the rest of the series is like this. If so, we are in for one fuck of a rollercoaster ride!
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OK, OK, pedantic one. I was discounting ties. How many of them did we have in the history of test cricket? That's right: Two. Both of them involved Australia, but neither England.
But yes, a close test makes for excitement, but so do the vagaries of the game that can bowl over what seems like a foregone conclusion without the bat of an eyelid. One such occasion occurred when Australia enforced the follow on and Ian Botham smashed us to oblivion with ball (aided by Willis) and bat. Alan McGilvray, the best cricket commentator ever, and his capable colleagues painted such a good picture with their words that it had my ears being practically glued to the radio each night for the duration, shouting encouragement to our team and wincing at all the misfortune that befell us. No TV coverage where I lived at the time, but that didn't matter. I knew where second slip was or what a glance down the leg side looked like by then, or a hook that gets chased down and caught by the backward square leg as he scrambles toward the boundary.
With commentary like McGilvray & Co's even a seemingly interminable succession of eight-ball maiden overs featuring Geoffrey Boycott can be enthralling. That is, incidentally, how I discovered / got hooked by cricket somewhere in the early seventies. And I didn't mind that ChappellI and Chappell G smashed the living daylights out of whatever delivery came their way while Lillee D and Thompson J smashed the living daylights out of the opposing bats, until the Windies came to the party anyway.
And then came Packer's ODIs. Meh.
But enough of my rambling, and on to the next test. We'll beat you there, weather allowing, and go on to win the Ashes back. So there. :raspb:
But yes, a close test makes for excitement, but so do the vagaries of the game that can bowl over what seems like a foregone conclusion without the bat of an eyelid. One such occasion occurred when Australia enforced the follow on and Ian Botham smashed us to oblivion with ball (aided by Willis) and bat. Alan McGilvray, the best cricket commentator ever, and his capable colleagues painted such a good picture with their words that it had my ears being practically glued to the radio each night for the duration, shouting encouragement to our team and wincing at all the misfortune that befell us. No TV coverage where I lived at the time, but that didn't matter. I knew where second slip was or what a glance down the leg side looked like by then, or a hook that gets chased down and caught by the backward square leg as he scrambles toward the boundary.
With commentary like McGilvray & Co's even a seemingly interminable succession of eight-ball maiden overs featuring Geoffrey Boycott can be enthralling. That is, incidentally, how I discovered / got hooked by cricket somewhere in the early seventies. And I didn't mind that ChappellI and Chappell G smashed the living daylights out of whatever delivery came their way while Lillee D and Thompson J smashed the living daylights out of the opposing bats, until the Windies came to the party anyway.
And then came Packer's ODIs. Meh.
But enough of my rambling, and on to the next test. We'll beat you there, weather allowing, and go on to win the Ashes back. So there. :raspb:
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Orly? Beefy hasn't lost his wager yet, mate...Hermit wrote:But enough of my rambling, and on to the next test. We'll beat you there, weather allowing, and go on to win the Ashes back. So there. :raspb:
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Either way
cricket is good stuff*.
*excluding the patches advertising insurance companies, purveyors of piss and suchlike.
cricket is good stuff*.
*excluding the patches advertising insurance companies, purveyors of piss and suchlike.
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Some folk think that Test cricket is boring? That was a brilliant 5 days of sport for me. Looking forward to the other test matches.Hermit wrote:Either way
cricket is good stuff*.
*excluding the patches advertising insurance companies, purveyors of piss and suchlike.
I'm sure you do as well.“I wish no harm to any human being, but I, as one man, am going to exercise my freedom of speech. No human being on the face of the earth, no government is going to take from me my right to speak, my right to protest against wrong, my right to do everything that is for the benefit of mankind. I am not here, then, as the accused; I am here as the accuser of capitalism dripping with blood from head to foot.”
John Maclean (Scottish socialist) speech from the Dock 1918.
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Who wants any more of that 20-20 rubbish then? This is the real deal. Roll on Lord's on Thursday ...
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Take that Jim you fooking swine. We won again. Lords is awaiting for the next thrashing.
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