...for watching their demise on the cricket pitch with unbridled glee :laugh4: ;)
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...for watching their demise on the cricket pitch with unbridled glee :laugh4: ;)
I really don't see the connection with evil muslims taking over Europe, destroying our way of life, was that slang??
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
Huh what? This is about cricket.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fragony
No one watches cricket.
Borrrrriiinng
Keeps amazing me as well, geddit huh huh ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Skullheadhq
One of the finest sporting achievements I have had the pleasure to watch!
Great Job Boys!!!!!!!!!! The bleary eyes were well worth it!
Congratulations!
So with how many runs did you win, in which innings?
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!
The existence of cricket cannot be scientifically proven.
Wasn't that much, I heard on the news that it was only the worst since 1968. 3rd worst ever.Quote:
Originally Posted by JAG
Cricket was good back at the turn of the century. Boring now. Give me the Waugh brothers, gilchrist, warnie, mcgrath etc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aaa5veY__D0
He bowls to the left
He bowls to the right
That Mitchell Johnson
His bowling is...
English sports in general http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...2546566693867#Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoyoma1910
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.
when I first saw the thread title I was thinking you were gonna say it was you who let the bath water running.
You mean give you decent players? :laugh4: Australia not having decent players makes the game boring?Quote:
Originally Posted by pevergreen
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".Quote:
Originally Posted by 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.
We've got plently of other sports.Quote:
Originally Posted by Idaho
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Idaho
That sounds like a final I'd watch, Australia vs Australia.
:laugh4:Quote:
Originally Posted by pevergreen
Typical Aussie.
Quote:
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."
Yeah those crazy British sports... like - soccer, rugby, cricket, baseball, darts, snooker/pool/billiards, hockey, golf, bowling, etc, etc :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Fragony
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
Cricket and tennis take too long. I watched for the players, not for the game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Idaho
One hundred and eighty!Quote:
Originally Posted by Idaho
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
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. :beam:
The comparison some are making is with the West Indies of the 2000s.Quote:
Originally Posted by InsaneApache
Did he just say soccer
It's an English word for the sport that we on this island usually call just "football".Quote:
Originally Posted by Fragony
Short for association football. I've never understood the fuss about using that abreviation.
On the topic of the cricket, I like a good game regardless of who's winning, but all the players lately have been boring, so I haven't been watching much. I agree with Idaho about all the people who start whinging as soon as we lose a few matches. It's just not cricket.
What do you call a world class Australian cricketer?
Retired! :laugh4:
Got a better one than that....
:laugh4:Quote:
A lady walked into a Police Station and the desk Sergeant said "Can I help you?"
"Yes" she said, "I'd like to report a case of sexual assault".
"Where did it happen?" the Sergeant asked.
"In the park just down the road" she replied.
"Can you describe what happened?"
"Yes, I was walking along the footpath in the park near the trees when a man jumped out of the bushes and dragged me in there, removed my underwear then he dropped his pants to his knees and had his way with me".
"Could you give me a description of him?"
"Yes, he was wearing white shoes, long white trousers, a white shirt and he had these two big long pads from his feet up to and over his knees, one on each leg".
"Sounds to me like he was a cricketer, most probably a batsman", said the Sergeant.
"Yes", said the lady, "He was an Aussie Cricketer".
"That's very observant", said the Sergeant, "You worked that out from his accent?"
"No", she replied. "I worked it out because he wasn't in for very long".
Agreed. Good job you knocked that one out of the park.Quote:
Originally Posted by miotas
My work is full of cricket analogies, it's always "close of play" this, a "tight field" on that etc etc
My best cricketing memory was when I was a young lad, playing it. I was out fielding with another guy, talking as the bowler did whatever. We got ready as he ran down the pitch, as we bent, the guys pants ripped. All the way.
Hilarious. :laugh4:
I love playing cricket - but only when I bowl. I am a natural number 12 in bat, and a total liability in the field. I bowl a reasonable off-spin, and used to be able to bowl leg breaks and googlies too.