BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns

Subject: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: alanabit
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 04:26 AM

Oh no! England re-assert their mastery of the batting collapse! Business as usual!

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 04:53 AM

I shall wear black

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 05:54 AM

Oh dear. Too complacent surely.

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 07:39 AM

As I've said on Mudcat before, one-day cricket is one of the best in the wide world of sports, but test-cricket, despite the ever-increasing media Ashes-hype, is one of the worst.

All sports have their weaknesses, but, in test cricket, there is a glaring one: if a batsman has an air-swing he is okay/if he is good enough to at least get an edge, he may well be out.

However, with limited-over cricket (how the World Cup is decided, of course), a bowler who beats the bat at least gets the reward of a Dot-Ball.

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 12:40 PM

Well I always like the test matches, and I thought it was a big pity when that bugger Murdoch got control of them instead of the BBC. Actually Channel 4 was a bit of disaster as you got adverts instead of the between overs badinage. I think also its better if its not too one sided.

Really the drawn matches are usually the best.

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 01:28 PM

About time you wrote a song about Shane Warne Al.

Especially with his latest date.

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: The Sandman
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 02:07 PM

now is a good time to have a small wager on England winning

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: alanabit
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 02:32 PM

With five wickets down, less than a hundred on the board and around three hundred more needed, you should get pretty good odds!

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 03:44 PM

true, but no chance.

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 05:34 PM

Get lost Aussies, get lost get lost

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 05:42 PM

Come on one-dayers, come on, come on...!

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: GUEST,Alan whittle
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 02:55 AM

I love Shane Warne. he's my favourite cricketer ever.

I love his dirty phone calls. I love the silence that descends on the ground as he takes his three foot run up. I love the look on the hapless batman's face that says so eloquently - where the f--k did that come from?

I haven't heard about his new girlfriend - but already I admire her taste

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 03:03 AM

Hmmm It looks like it could be over Al.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hollywood/news-interviews/Hurley-dumps-Warne-over-sex-text-scandal/articleshow/

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 03:06 AM

Oh and what a drubbing. Those Aussies played out of their skin. They must hate us a lot.

Who will be Captain, now that Ponting has bust his finger? Apart from winning the third test, he has had a dire time :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 05:03 AM

We have coverage here on Ch 9 in Australia. I used to like the ABC coverage on radio, and almost as good on ABC TV - the guys knew when to just shut up.

Now we have a bunch of past players, a bunch of non stop loud mouth has beens always saying "He's Out! He's Out! The ref got that wrong!"

I now regularly just switch it off, cause as Popeye used to say "I stands all I can, then I can't stands no more!"

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: Arnie
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 05:16 AM

That's the great thing about Test cricket - one game you can be heroic victors, the next a bunch of losers who've forgotten how to wield a bat. Still, at least we didn't lose by an innings like the Aussies did at Adelaide. I think this now makes for a more interesting Test than if we had won and so retained the Ashes. Just got to ensure that we win at Melbourne now where Swann may have a bit more of an effect. Ponting said today that he expects to be playing despite a fractured finger. I suspect that England may juggle the batting order a little but will keep the same team - Tremlett is a real find.

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: bubblyrat
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 05:29 AM

It's obvious,innit ?? Now that the WAGs have flown out there, the players are all shagged out .What with that and Swan Lager, they're doomed .

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: The Sandman
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 06:37 AM

what happened to monty panesar?why was he dropped, we might need two spinners in the next test

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: alanabit
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 06:39 AM

Cheer me up and tell me the jokes please! There must be plenty, because the situation is not altogether unfamiliar!

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 10:29 AM

Why was Monty dropped - becuase he kept dropping them. In some ways Monty is a bit of a passenger compared to Graeme Swann.

I bet the next match is one hell of a humdinger.

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: alanabit
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 11:43 AM

I am not sure Arthur. Now that England have revived their tradition of the batting collapse, it could be a very short game!

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 12:12 PM

I think the wags are to blame as mentioned earlier. Just plain and simply shagged out.

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: alanabit
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 01:36 PM

Ah! A case of over attention to corkers, short legs and middle stumps then Arthur?

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: The Sandman
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 01:56 PM

the wags should all go and sleep with the aussies, the the english might be able to bowl a few maidens over

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 02:07 PM

"the wags should all go and sleep with the aussies"

Hmmm not a good idea GSS, who knows what they might catch and worst of all what they may bring back to good old blighty.

Well I suppose I don't care if it's the ashes!

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 04:33 PM

...sticky wicket, chaps.

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 04:40 PM

hey d'you remember when David gower chartered a light aircaft and flew over the cricket ground waving at everybody.

the BBC was very sniffy, but I thought, Go David!

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 04:44 PM

Yes, and his great timing.

Also, apparently, Doug Walters, of Dungog, N.S.W., used to play cards right up to his turn to bat, when he's say: "Hold your hand, I'll be back in a minute."

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 04:54 PM

Theres a place called Dungog...?

I was looking for a rhyme for dog. I ended up using Van Gogh, and rhyming it with dog.

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 05:07 PM

Yes, Alan - no kidology.

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 05:14 PM

he he :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 05:42 PM

Wow! What a place to be a songwriter!

I was just looking at the map of NSW. Couldn't find Dundog, but but there a place called Boggabella, which is almost a song in itself.

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 06:00 PM

Agog.

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 06:15 PM

Tie me Kangaroo down sport :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 07:38 PM

yes I thought of agog. But its a bit too cerebral and literate.

I detest that sort of songwriting - you know when MacColl quotes bloody Shakespeare - the wide and wasteful ocean and the trembling heart of a captive dove - all that bollocks.

I always feel in songwriting the language shouldn't draw attention to itself. Not unless you're Cole Porter with an imagined salon full of sophisticates pissing themselves every time you do an affected stutter or puff on your cigarette holder.

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: The Sandman
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 03:22 PM

the dog shat in the tuckerbox five miles from gundegai

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 06:23 AM

During a test match, after an air-swing, a voice from the slips: "Well left"...then, from the commentary box, "I believe that luck always evens out."

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: bubblyrat
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 01:18 PM

By WAGS, I do mean,of course, Western Australian Goolie Squeezers.

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 26 Dec 10 - 03:56 AM

There are alternative realities and normalities.....

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 26 Dec 10 - 07:39 AM

Well the Aussies had a very good first innings today. 98 all out. Well bowled England.

England 157 for 0

Stumps drawn

Now lets hope that England get their heads down and build on that score.

A very very positive first day for the poms.

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 26 Dec 10 - 08:09 AM

Sourpuss Sore-Loser Ponting's mug was a real treat as he walked off when he was out. Made my Christmas.

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 26 Dec 10 - 09:41 AM

Yeh wasn't that great :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 27 Dec 10 - 03:11 AM

I see that, overnight, that so-called 'sportsman', Whingeing Sore-Loser Ponting, has been finger-pointing and f***ing & blinding at Aleem Dar, even though Dar's decision was supported by the 3rd umpire and Hot-Spot.

The behaviour of an arsehole, and a desperate arsehole at that.

Time the umpires were provided with yellow and red cards to thrust in the faces of wrong-doers, methinks. A red card might really give Ponting something to whinge about.

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: Sooz
Date: 27 Dec 10 - 03:43 AM

He must be a very unhappy man this morning - will he still be captain in Sydney?

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 27 Dec 10 - 04:39 AM

Well, we will have to work really hard to lose this one :)

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: alanabit
Date: 27 Dec 10 - 06:04 AM

Never underestimate England's prowess at the batting collapse John! Still, the news so far looks good!

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 27 Dec 10 - 06:10 AM

I hear Ponting has been fined a large percentage of his match fee.

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: Brian May
Date: 27 Dec 10 - 06:12 AM

I reckon the odds are unfair.

England have obviously got 12 players because Ponting isn't helping Australia.

However, England are pretty wonderful at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, so we need to wait until the fat lady sings (perhaps even at Faldingworth).

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 27 Dec 10 - 06:28 AM

Yep another good performance from England.

Sheer desperation from Ponting. Lovely to watch. Lovely to see hi get fined and lovely if England wins the match.

However, we mustn't sit back thinking that it is in the bag. Australia have shown that they can bat in the previous match.

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Dec 10 - 07:14 AM

It's time these pansies were put on win/loss payments instead of their over-inflated salaries.

Ponting has never been a good captain in my book - mind you, I've had doubts about all the Auatralian captains since Allan Border.

Trouble is, Ponting's touted replacement is Clarke, and he is scratching to hold his spot. We need a few palyers who are worrying more about batting for a while than thieir hairstuyles or whether they've had a bust-up from their bimbos.