Cricket Thread. Only Mad Dogs And Englishmen

[Cowboy Ronnie 78]

Actually I missed it completly as there was an even more absorbing programme about fly fishing on another channel. Damn..

Why would anyone fish for flies? Surely they don't taste very nice.

[Magere Hein 1,400]

Why would anyone fish for flies?  Surely they don't taste very nice.

As Kermit the Frog would put it: time's fun when you're having flies.

 

regards,

Hein

[VileBody 11]

We're going to cock it up, aren't we....Jones was just bowled by lee

 

Urgh......

[millwall32 114]

No. We are going to win the ashes.

[football_fan 42]

Actually England is doing ok so far. 341 for 8 in the first innings on day 2 of the final test when I last checked. They only need to draw this match to win the series.

 

By the way, there is already a related thread right here.

 

[Mods, please merge]

[Done -- MH]

[VileBody 11]

Well merged, chaps...I can't believe this series - they can't even play a first innings without turning it into another nail-chewing horror show...

 

Oh Hoggard's just gone c Martyn b McGrath. Should be all over before lunch then...

[Star Crossed 33]

they've gone. 373, all out.

 

sorry, feeling left out, thought i'd post.

[Cerberus 304]

I've been discussing this match on a couple of cricket forums (or fora if you insist). There are plenty of them around. One member of the cricketwebnet forum has more than 32,000 posts to his name which the likes of TF can only dream about.

 

I'm going on Monday, by the way - if it's still going then.

[I see dead people 0]

For those people who would rather watch grass grow than cricket, don't worry you could still be of use in this time of need.

 

If your grass is wet due to precipitation this could mean rain is heading to the Oval (thats South London for those not in the know).

 

I would suggest we set up a rain report.

 

I am next to St Pauls (thats central london - non Brits) and it is sunny with hardly a cloud in the sky. Damn.

 

 

 

If there is no rain on the horizon I will be suggesting a coordinated rain dance

(which would look something like this)

[Anubis the Jackal 77]

Nothing doing in North London, hot, dry and hazy skies I'm afraid.

[VileBody 11]

I am next to St Pauls (thats central london - non Brits) and it is sunny with hardly a cloud in the sky. Damn.

Nice weather here too, tho since I'm only about 1/2 a mile from St Pauls that's not too surprising.

 

Pity Jones is out really...watched the first hour after lunch and it looks like Hayden and Langer are starting to up the runrate big time. Need wickets, guys, need wickets.

 

Or rain....

[Death Watch Beatle 41]

Place: West London

Time: Tea on the 2nd Day

Weather: Really nasty black clouds in every direction, no rain yet, but here's hoping!

 

DWB

[DevonDeathTrip 2,360]

It's raining hard down here, our weather usually arrives in London the next day (if the winds blowing in the right direction)

[VileBody 11]

Place: West London

Time: Tea on the 2nd Day

Weather: Really nasty black clouds in every direction, no rain yet, but here's hoping!

 

DWB 

Well here's hoping - I reckon we need to lose a good 2 sessions tomorrow if we're going to get away with this.

 

I heard Richie Benaud saying that he saw Alec Bedser today and he is in his 80s - candidate for next year? Probably very healthy I'd guess - sportsmen tend to live a long time so long as they don't fall off the booze and drugs wagon after they retire.

[VileBody 11]

It's raining hard down here, our weather usually arrives in London the next day (if the winds blowing in the right direction)

Hmmm - not sure that helps much in Devon, does it? My folks used to live there and they said that if you could see the Isle of Lundy it was going to rain and if you couldn't, then it was raining already....

 

 

Oh hurrah - bad light stopped play - umpires offered the light after tea and the Aussies took it! What's that about? They have to win!

[I see dead people 0]

I'm a bit confused too. But hey you know how clever these aussies are

 

Richie Benaud retiring will surely leading to a 2006 nomination.

[DevonDeathTrip 2,360]

Hmmm - not sure that helps much in Devon, does it? My folks used to live there and they said that if you could see the Isle of Lundy it was going to rain and if you couldn't, then it was raining already....

Don't know where the nearest farm land is to The Oval, but if you see any cows lying down in fields, that's a sure sign of rain on the way (they don't like to get

their undersides wet)

[Death Watch Beatle 41]

I think he has retired because he has got the hump over the cricket coverage going to sky. Don't think he is ill in anyway. Similar consideration should be given to Murray Walker perhaps?

 

DWB

[VileBody 11]

I'm a bit confused too. But hey you know how clever these aussies are

 

Richie Benaud retiring will surely leading to a 2006 nomination.

Yeah but he's only 74 I think. And a fitness nut (he goes power walking at 5.30 every morning , for God's sake). I reckon he'll hang on for a good few years yet.

 

Re the cows, I'm afraid we're a bit short of them in EC2 - which is strange given the amount of bulls*it in the area...

[Magere Hein 1,400]

Don't know where the nearest farm land is to The Oval, but if you see any cows lying down in fields, that's a sure sign of rain on the way (they don't like to get

their undersides wet)

That's British cows then. When it rains Dutch cows turn their arse in the wind and go on with their business.

 

regards,

Hein

[Death Watch Beatle 41]

Rain in West London! Hurrah!

 

DWB

[VileBody 11]

Don't know where the nearest farm land is to The Oval, but if you see any cows lying down in fields, that's a sure sign of rain on the way (they don't like to get

their undersides wet)

That's British cows then. When it rains Dutch cows turn their arse in the wind and go on with their business.

 

regards,

Hein

From what I hear from a mate of mine who works for a Dutch bank, his management do that too...

[I see dead people 0]

Ok ok I was only trying to stay on the website topic, this could be the start of DL nominations from the world of cricket thread?

 

correct vile, lots of W**nkers...........i mean bankers around here.

 

Update from EC2 is umbrellas are shut and bowler hats are dry.

[football_fan 42]

Rain in West London! Hurrah!

 

DWB

Lets hope that it rains again tomorrow.

 

Regards,

 

ff

[Magere Hein 1,400]

That's British cows then. When it rains Dutch cows turn their arse in the wind and go on with their business.

From what I hear from a mate of mine who works for a Dutch bank, his management do that too...

That doesn't surprise me a bit. Of course, their business consists mostly of lunch and dinner.

 

regards,

Hein