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white on white on searing red [ASHES]

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  • bsjezzbsjezz Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    the more wickets you take, the closer you get to bringing in haddin

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  • Sunday_AssassinSunday_Assassin Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    lbw

    huzzah!

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  • bsjezzbsjezz Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    seven runs off that delivery

    not too bad

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  • RocketScienceRocketScience Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    The_Scarab wrote: »
    KrunkMcGrunk wrote: »
    The more I hear, the more it sounds like Blurnball, or whatever it was from Futurama.

    Cricket is actually awesome to watch. Test Cricket that is. I mean yeah, it lasts a week and goes on for hours and hours. But back when I last saw the ashes which was I dunno 5 years ago or something when it was up at Lords, the tickets for the last few days cost nothing, they just let people in from the street, and you could drink anything in the stands and there were jazz bands and shit. Heck we were sitting next to a group of a dozen aussie blokes who were all in gold clothing and there was no hostility, it was just one big party.

    That's because the Australians were comfortably winning that game and the English were well conditioned to losing.

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  • bsjezzbsjezz Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    looks like clarke's about to ramp up

    (oh god i hope they start hitting them)

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  • Sunday_AssassinSunday_Assassin Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    fuck this series

    :(

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  • Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I think when three players reach a century in one innings, there's a problem.

    463-4 is not something we can get back from.

    Playing for the draw!

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  • AshcroftAshcroft LOL The PayloadRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Come on English weather, fucking piss down for the next 2 days.

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  • Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Ashcroft wrote: »
    Come on Welsh weather, fucking piss down for the next 2 days.

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  • AshcroftAshcroft LOL The PayloadRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Pfft, Wales isn't a country.

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  • RocketScienceRocketScience Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    It's a bit disappointing that so many Australians have made a start in this innings but none of them have really gone on with it.

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  • The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    RocketScience wrote: »
    The_Scarab wrote: »
    KrunkMcGrunk wrote: »
    The more I hear, the more it sounds like Blurnball, or whatever it was from Futurama.

    Cricket is actually awesome to watch. Test Cricket that is. I mean yeah, it lasts a week and goes on for hours and hours. But back when I last saw the ashes which was I dunno 5 years ago or something when it was up at Lords, the tickets for the last few days cost nothing, they just let people in from the street, and you could drink anything in the stands and there were jazz bands and shit. Heck we were sitting next to a group of a dozen aussie blokes who were all in gold clothing and there was no hostility, it was just one big party.

    That's because the Australians were comfortably winning that game and the English were well conditioned to losing.

    That was actually the year we won it.

    In my mind.

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  • AshcroftAshcroft LOL The PayloadRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    RocketScience wrote: »
    It's a bit disappointing that so many Australians have made a start in this innings but none of them have really gone on with it.

    Yeah, 670 runs. Nightmare.

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  • SkankPlayaSkankPlaya Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Back in May, my family and I went to Scotland, Ireland, and England. I got sick about the time I was in Ireland, and ended up watching a bit of TV, and tried to watch some cricket. I gave it maybe a solid hour, and even got out a laptop to figure out the rules and game play. I still have no idea what is going on. It didn't even look that fun (especially for the guy who got hit in the balls with the ball).

    Do I have it right in saying that the pitching team is trying to hit the sticks in a very specific manner, and that the batting team is trying to defend those sticks while at the same time hit the ball away from the other players, and if they do there's some ring-around-the-rosey played and mandatory ball crushing?

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  • stimtokolosstimtokolos Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Close enough, except you just have to take out the stumps, no specific manner. Don't even really need to take them out, just have the bails fall off the top (the tiny sticks in between each stump, and only one of them needs to fall off).
    Then there are run outs, LBW (you're not meant to block the stumps with your legs) and a bunch of other things.

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  • Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    The bails have to come off the stumps. The batter can knock them off himself, he'd still be out. If the bowler hits the stumps but the bails somehow stay on, then the batter is still in.

    The batting team works in the same way as baseball, just with two bases. There is a boundary around the pitch. If the ball goes straight out of the boundary, just like a home run, without hitting the ground 6 points are awarded. If the ball bounces before it reaches the boundary it is 4 points.

    If you hit the ball the batters have to run between the creases, the creases are basically the safe lines when running, the amount of times you reach a crease, that's a point.

    There is no obligation to run if you hit the ball. That's why cricket can be such a long sport.

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  • Viscount IslandsViscount Islands [INSERT SoKo HERE] ...it was the summer of my lifeRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I'm obligated to support the West Indies.

    Are they even in this?

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  • Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    No.

    The ashes are contested between England and Australia.

    Always. Every time.

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  • Viscount IslandsViscount Islands [INSERT SoKo HERE] ...it was the summer of my lifeRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Oh.

    Racist.

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  • AshcroftAshcroft LOL The PayloadRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    The West Indies used to be a terrifying team. Young cricketers were made to behave with stories of Courtney Walsh coming in the night to bowl them to death. But, they didn't train any new players, and now they're not as good.

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  • ÆthelredÆthelred Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    14 nominal overs to survive. 12 actual overs to survive, once they pass Australia's total. Tension.

    Monty to flawlessly bat back the final over.

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  • AshcroftAshcroft LOL The PayloadRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Monty is terrible. Horrible Ferret of a batsman, and can't field to save his life. His bowling used to jusitfy his place, but even that's awful now. Gets the odd wicket, but it's buffet quality stuff. Hopefully he'll be dropped for the next test.

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  • JansonJanson Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Viscount Islands wrote: »
    Cricket is the most boring sport.

    Having watched the Superbowl finale this year

    I respectfully disagree

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  • AshcroftAshcroft LOL The PayloadRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    The Aussies are making the mistake of bowling at Monty like he's a batter. Just put it on the stumps, as if he isn't there.

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  • RocketScienceRocketScience Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    There's an English cricketer named Graham Onions.

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  • EchildaEchilda Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    425. Not a terrible 1st innings score, but then again Australia got 600 past us last test. I'm hoping for either a lot of quick wickets, or rain.

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  • DraevenDraeven Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    so how long does this ashes match last ?

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  • The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Echilda wrote: »
    425. Not a terrible 1st innings score, but then again Australia got 600 past us last test. I'm hoping for either a lot of quick wickets, or rain.

    425 considering our team was damn good I felt. Also, rain is pretty much guaranteed right?

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Draeven wrote: »
    so how long does this ashes match last ?
    5 days maximum.

    They used to last longer.

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  • Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Whatever score Australia get, Ponting out for 2 will be a decent consolation.

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  • TonyTony Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    It was looking pretty good for England when we took those early wickets, but now Australia seem to be batting just as well as the first test, despite all the rain breaks.

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  • Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    So far this series, England have great morning sessions but have terrible afternoon sessions.

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  • Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    oh, Katich and hussey out within ten minutes. That'll do nicely.

    oh and Clarke out an over later. NIIIIIICE.

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  • TonyTony Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    SO maybe I misjudged their batsmen, 150-7 now!

    Its looking like they won't be avoiding the follow on.

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  • bsjezzbsjezz Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    so australia can choke

    but there's only one team who can really choke

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  • Sunday_AssassinSunday_Assassin Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    good old england!

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  • Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    YAHOOOOOOOOOOO

    Ashes coming home!!

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  • bongibongi regular
    edited August 2009
    Yay, we won

    The first time in like eight billion years

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  • Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    four years

    twice in 22 years.

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  • bongibongi regular
    edited August 2009
    shit yeah

    go england

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