Following the success of various Ashes threads, here’s one for discussion of the current series which starts this arvo with a one dayer.
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One-day cricket. Bah! Piffle. Wake me when they put their pyjamas away.
Nah, call me a cricket trollop, I love it all.
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I am in agreement with CS again.
cricket is only played where there are two possible innings
looks like Martyn got out cheaply again. Australia were cracking along, but now it’s not looking so good.
worse than I thought, Martyn out for a duck. How much longer can this go on?
Sorry but as much as I love cricket, I want to give a shameless plug to anyone living in Sydney who loves football, not soccer,football. Sydney FC v Adelaide United this Sunday at 5pm. Estimated crowd of about 30,000. Not to forget it is a top of the table clash.
Go Aussies in the cricket though!
You are corect simon it is not soccr but football ,the world game and at times the beautiful game but there will never be another ashes series.
Theses are the two best exports from victorian England
255′s not enough (not under the roof, anyway), and Katich is too slow for a ODI opener. Keppler Wessels all over again.
Wrong again – about 255 being enough (more than enough as it turned out). But not about Katich.
Gilly (thump thump thump) Gilly (thump thump thump) Gilly (thump thump thump)…
It’s fun being a brainless yob sometimes…
55 off ain’t as bad. If they manage to keep all their limbs on the same trunk they might even be decent in the Test. I mean, the Johnny Walker Six Day Super Test
No, they did disturbingly well in reply. Brainless yob only lasts for a short while before cricket tragic kicks back in…
I wouldn’t say disturbingly well. They looked like a world class team for a momentt but then Gayle got out and they started doing flat out silly things to get a few measley runs. Sanggakkara had a brain explosion, Lara improved infinity percent on his previous score, Kallis never got out of second gear when he should have been diving… and it all went to bits.
Leinad, cricket newbie applying for tragic status.
Are they having a six day test? When did the Ashes tests stop being six days btw?
I don’t think they ever were, Mark – I have a recollection that there were a couple of “untimed tests” (ie no time timit at all) played in the 60′s I think (Australia v SA?), because of a perception that draws were dominating & stifling the game, but they finished inside 5 days anyway. Not enough time is rarely an issue these days, it seems, unless the weather intervenes – and as we rediscovered recently, a strategic draw and managing the weather factor are just part of the journey that a great test series is. After the Ashes, this “one off” six day “best in the world” test looks more and more like the gimmick it is – a marketting brainwave that sees Test Cricket as a series of one-day games strung together.
Test matches used to include a rest day making them six days long but only playing for five.
True, Zarquon – didn’t think of that. Very civilised it was, too.
there used to be timeless tests way before the 60′s.
One test between England and SA was stopped because the poms had to get the boat back home.
the famous last test of 38 was timeless and the groundkeeper not amused the poms declared!!
when sunday was the rest day the pitches gained spin even more however no warney around to do justice!!