Can I just apologise to all Australians...

[Idaho]

...for watching their demise on the cricket pitch with unbridled glee ;)

[Fragony]

I really don't see the connection with evil muslims taking over Europe, destroying our way of life, was that slang??

[Pannonian]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTqxJd_IAB8

Long time ago, in MCG
So the Melbourne papers say
Ricky Ponting's Test career
Ended on Boxing Day

Hark, the commentators sing
Listen to what they say
That Ricky Ponting will play no more
Because of Boxing Day

[Skullheadhq]

I really don't see the connection with evil muslims taking over Europe, destroying our way of life, was that slang??

Huh what? This is about cricket.

[Beskar]

No one watches cricket.

[gaelic cowboy]

Borrrrriiinng

[Fragony]

Huh what? This is about cricket.

Keeps amazing me as well, geddit huh huh ?

[JAG]

One of the finest sporting achievements I have had the pleasure to watch!

Great Job Boys!!!!!!!!!! The bleary eyes were well worth it!

[Louis VI the Fat]

Congratulations!

So with how many runs did you win, in which innings?

[JAG]

We won by an innings and (I think) 158 runs. The biggest defeat Australia have suffered on home turf for 98 years... OH yeah baby!

[Yoyoma1910]

The existence of cricket cannot be scientifically proven.

[pevergreen]

We won by an innings and (I think) 158 runs. The biggest defeat Australia have suffered on home turf for 98 years... OH yeah baby!

Wasn't that much, I heard on the news that it was only the worst since 1968. 3rd worst ever.

Cricket was good back at the turn of the century. Boring now. Give me the Waugh brothers, gilchrist, warnie, mcgrath etc

[Pannonian]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aaa5veY__D0

He bowls to the left
He bowls to the right
That Mitchell Johnson
His bowling is...

[Fragony]

The existence of cricket cannot be scientifically proven.

English sports in general http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...2546566693867#

[al Roumi]

There is no single better achievement for British sport than to beat Australians. Only becasue of course it tends to be the other way around most of the time...

I was thinking that perhaps the (fingers crossed) ashes victory was more about a poor Aussy team than outstanding English play, but even if the English team is comparatively better this year -the same was true of the Aus team with McGrath & Warne etc. So basically, there is still plenty of pride to be had from simply being the better team -especially when this si a generational contest.

[Ronin]

when I first saw the thread title I was thinking you were gonna say it was you who let the bath water running.

[Idaho]

Wasn't that much, I heard on the news that it was only the worst since 1968. 3rd worst ever.

Cricket was good back at the turn of the century. Boring now. Give me the Waugh brothers, gilchrist, warnie, mcgrath etc

You mean give you decent players? Australia not having decent players makes the game boring?

You don't realise the ripples of pleasure I get when Australians turn their backs on their own team after just one serious slapping. We English followed our team faithfully through decades when they were total rubbish. You lot play rubbish for a match and your own fans are booing and leaving the ground.

[Pannonian]

You mean give you decent players? Australia not having decent players makes the game boring?

You don't realise the ripples of pleasure I get when Australians turn their backs on their own team after just one serious slapping. We English followed our team faithfully through decades when they were total rubbish. You lot play rubbish for a match and your own fans are booing and leaving the ground.

"Atherton's Barmy Army".

[Idaho]

They were originally called Barmy Army by the Australians who couldn't understand why they showed up every two years to be crushed and still kept cheering and having a good time.

Seen some of the Aussie press this afternoon. They are delusional.

[pevergreen]

You mean give you decent players? Australia not having decent players makes the game boring?

You don't realise the ripples of pleasure I get when Australians turn their backs on their own team after just one serious slapping. We English followed our team faithfully through decades when they were total rubbish. You lot play rubbish for a match and your own fans are booing and leaving the ground.

We've got plently of other sports.

But yeah, no decent players anymore. Cricket only has attention paid to it, because its basically the only thing on during the summer, everything else has finished.

[Pannonian]

They were originally called Barmy Army by the Australians who couldn't understand why they showed up every two years to be crushed and still kept cheering and having a good time.

Seen some of the Aussie press this afternoon. They are delusional.

More specifically the 94/95 tour, when Atherton's team were beaten by everyone. In a quadrangular tournament where Australia B and Zimbabwe were included merely as cannon fodder, we failed to make the top two (the final was Australia A vs Australia B). It was then that one of the press made the comment about the English fans being absolutely barmy to spend so much money supporting such a rubbish team.

[pevergreen]

That sounds like a final I'd watch, Australia vs Australia.

[Idaho]

We've got plently of other sports.

But yeah, no decent players anymore. Cricket only has attention paid to it, because its basically the only thing on during the summer, everything else has finished.

Typical Aussie.

One hot summer's day a Fox was strolling through an orchard till he came to a bunch of Grapes just ripening on a vine which had been trained over a lofty branch. "Just the thing to quench my thirst," quoth he. Drawing back a few paces, he took a run and a jump, and just missed the bunch. Turning round again with a One, Two, Three, he jumped up, but with no greater success. Again and again he tried after the tempting morsel, but at last had to give it up, and walked away with his nose in the air, saying: "I am sure they are sour."

[Idaho]

English sports in general http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...2546566693867#

Yeah those crazy British sports... like - soccer, rugby, cricket, baseball, darts, snooker/pool/billiards, hockey, golf, bowling, etc, etc :p

[HoreTore]

Does this make up for them bringing Hitler into the world?

Also, may I remind you all of this quote:

"Sports - that's what they do, the people who didn't make it as footballers" - Rune Bratseth

[pevergreen]

Typical Aussie.

Cricket and tennis take too long. I watched for the players, not for the game.

Yeah those crazy British sports... like - darts

One hundred and eighty!

[Pannonian]

One innings victory down in Aussie-land
One innings victory down in Aussie-land
And if one innings victory is not enough for them
We'll make it two innings victories down in Aussie-land

Two innings victories down in Aussie-land
Two innings victories down in Aussie-land
And if two innings victories is not enough for them
We'll make it three innings victories down in Aussie-land

Three innings victories down in Aussie-land
Three innings victories down in Aussie-land
And if three innings victories is not enough for them
We'll take the bloody Ashes back, back to Pommie-land

[InsaneApache]

Not much of a cricket fan these days. One question though.

Are Australia the Newcastle United of the cricket world? You know, out of touch, living on past glories, subject to wild hallucinations and delusional?

Just askin' like.

[Pannonian]

Not much of a cricket fan these days. One question though.

Are Australia the Newcastle United of the cricket world? You know, out of touch, living on past glories, subject to wild hallucinations and delusional?

Just askin' like.

The comparison some are making is with the West Indies of the 2000s.

[Fragony]

Did he just say soccer