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Tangle Member Posts: 9516 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 5.1 |
Sounds like the ball is spinning at right angles. Ozzies not even bad enough to touch it.
Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android |
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vimesey Member (Idle past 103 days) Posts: 1398 From: Birmingham, England Joined: |
Three wickets for two runs - a good summer to be an English cricket fan :-)
Could there be any greater conceit, than for someone to believe that the universe has to be simple enough for them to be able to understand it ? |
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Cricket was bigger than baseball in the U.S. until around the time of the civil war. Ouch. That is indeed faint praise.Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846) I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree; ‘That the intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how the heaven goes.’ Galileo Galilei 1615. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass
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Tangle Member Posts: 9516 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 5.1 |
I wonder if the French will now burn a bicycle?
Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android
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Straggler Member (Idle past 96 days) Posts: 10333 From: London England Joined: |
Well we won. Frankly it was a bit too easy. I obvioulsy want England to win but it would be nice if the Ozzies put up a bit of resistance.
What with tennis, rugby, cricket and cycling I'm a bit lost as to how to react to all this British sporting success. It's all very unnerving.
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Straggler Member (Idle past 96 days) Posts: 10333 From: London England Joined: |
What a great pub quiz question.
bluegenes writes: The first cricket international was the U.S.A. vs Canada, played at a New York cricket club. From Wiki:
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Straggler Member (Idle past 96 days) Posts: 10333 From: London England Joined: |
England have set Aus 299 to win in the final innings of the 4th test. With two days to go (rain allowing) this must be a result match.
Can Aus pull off a remarkable victory and maintain some chance of at least drawing the series? Or will England make it 3-0? The smart money must be on England. But those of us who have lived through England's darker times will probably never be able to quite rid ourselves of the nagging doubt that comes from repeatedly seeing your team repeaetedly snatch defeat from the jaws of victory..... :irrationally anxious England supporter:
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Straggler Member (Idle past 96 days) Posts: 10333 From: London England Joined: |
60 for no wicket.
Australia are motoring. Is it time to start praying for rain?
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Straggler Member (Idle past 96 days) Posts: 10333 From: London England Joined: |
I've been teaching my 7 year old son how to play cricket recently because he's been asking me about this ashes stuff I keep watching on TV and listening to on the radio. We roped in Mrs Straggler to do some fielding (i.e. ball fetching). She's Argentinian.
Trying to explain the rules of cricket to an Argentinian woman turned out to be the very definition of impossible. Even our barely-lingual-only-just-out-of-diapers 3 year old had a better grasp of what was going on than she did after an hour in the park. "No mama. No like that."
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Tangle Member Posts: 9516 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 5.1 |
No need to panic yet, it just needs a couple of wickets and everything changes.
Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android
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Straggler Member (Idle past 96 days) Posts: 10333 From: London England Joined: |
(***Straggler leaps around chanting in what he hopes is something resembling a rain dance***)
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Straggler Member (Idle past 96 days) Posts: 10333 From: London England Joined: |
Should we panic yet......?
I'm preparing to panic.
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ringo Member (Idle past 442 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
"I may not know much about golf but I know how to hold the bat."
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Tangle Member Posts: 9516 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 5.1 |
5 down. Delay panicking a while longer
Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android |
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Tangle Member Posts: 9516 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 5.1 |
6 down. Stop the rain dance (for now).
Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android |
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