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  1. 02-02-2007, 11:47 #1
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    Somethings badly amiss here, we won a game!

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cric...nd/6320205.stm

    Surely a mistake....
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    England has beaten the Aussies
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  3. 02-02-2007, 11:56 #3
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    YESSSS!!!

    Only lost 5 tests, the ashes first whitewash in 70 odd years and the last 6 or so one day games... including to NZ.

    Finally.

    I hope this reverses the trend and the next ashes is a nail biter... not a pillow biter for the Poms.
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    In other news, Satan orders ice skates...
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    [Insert Various Profanities Here]

    Wow....

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    How do you play cricket?




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    Quote Originally Posted by Caius Flaminius
    How do you play cricket?
    You get a really, really tiny bow, hold his legs, and bow 'crost his little antennae. Awful sounding.

    Explains Cricket, the game.
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    Here that is not a know sport.




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    This was just weird... How could we lose?

    Oh well, 'twas interesting...
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    So did the English catch more insects than ... some other people... or what?

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    You do realise that our captain wasn't playing in that match, don't you?

    Seriously, when you get excited after winning 1 game and losing 17 you know you've got serious problems
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    Quote Originally Posted by KukriKhan
    You get a really, really tiny bow, hold his legs, and bow 'crost his little antennae. Awful sounding.

    Explains Cricket, the game.
    Nah this is far better:
    Quote Originally Posted by Cricket as explained to Foreigners
    You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out.

    When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.

    When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out.

    When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!
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    There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.

    “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”

    To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.

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    Brilliant

    Are there professional Cricketeers? Guys who have that as their only job? Do women? (Just out of curiosity).
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    Quote Originally Posted by KukriKhan
    Are there professional Cricketers? Guys who have that as their only job? Do women? (Just out of curiosity).
    Of course there are

    There is women's cricket but like most men's sports it's not big business for them.
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    Yeah most female cricketers don't earn too much. Some do alright and have minor advertising agreements, but for the most part it doesn't pay too much for them.

    Male cricketers on the other hand earn a lot.
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