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17 May 2004, 22:57
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im going to post a cricket thread
I bet it gets flamed!
will England beat the kiwis does anyone care?
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17 May 2004, 22:59
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Re: im going to post a cricket thread
You're going to post a Cricket thread.
Then you're going to watch it die.
HA HA!
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17 May 2004, 23:03
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Re: im going to post a cricket thread
yesterday someone told me it's "wicket", not "widget".
at my hockeyclub they have a cricketclub aswell. when the hockeyseason is over the cricketers use the fields. kind of an impopular sport here and i don't understand it at all...(why is 50% of all players indian and why are they all in white??? you can never know who's in your team that way)
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17 May 2004, 23:10
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Re: im going to post a cricket thread
I wont evan try to explain I will just confuse myself and look stupid which I usually do anyway.
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17 May 2004, 23:29
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Re: im going to post a cricket thread
Lancs for the title .
Freddy <3
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17 May 2004, 23:37
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Re: im going to post a cricket thread
the english team is better than some of those in the past, however i think they will have just come out of the west indies tour with over-exaggerated confidence. They beat a team that is frankly crap and disorganized (compared to past WI teams).
Nevertheless NZ on paper is not as potent as the English team, so unless they do something stupid England should win.
I'd consider NZ to be training for the real match that England will face late summer against India. England needs to improve a lot more unless it wants to face a major whipping by a far superior team that is currently second only to Australia.
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18 May 2004, 01:08
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Re: im going to post a cricket thread
are you jewish by any chance bacon roll with ketchup
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18 May 2004, 19:06
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Re: im going to post a cricket thread
lol no!
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18 May 2004, 19:09
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Re: im going to post a cricket thread
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I can't help but think it's unlikley you will see much of him for lancashire this year, mind you he may get dropped from the test squad at some point. But then who do you replace him with.
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18 May 2004, 19:27
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Re: im going to post a cricket thread
Use the [Cricket] tag! :(
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18 May 2004, 19:33
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Re: im going to post a cricket thread
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Use the [Cricket] tag!
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I did write cricket in the title so I can fully understand how you ended up here by accident, I apologise.
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18 May 2004, 19:34
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Re: im going to post a cricket thread
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I can't help but think it's unlikley you will see much of him for lancashire this year, mind you he may get dropped from the test squad at some point. But then who do you replace him with.
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I'm not expecting to see much of him really, but we've got off to a good start without him and for now we have Jimmy Anderson as well.
If Freddy gets dropped from the test or 1 day team i'll streak at Old Trafford. There is no way we are going to drop our best bowler and our most explosive batter.
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18 May 2004, 20:48
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Re: im going to post a cricket thread
Take a look at his test bowling average, granted he is actually a better bowler than this would suggest. Jimmy should get back in the side I think he just needs to bowl on a regular basis and his pace and confidence will come back. Oh and 1 more thing you might not see much of Law or his British passport, but then knowing the ECB I doubt it.
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Re: im going to post a cricket thread
Jimmy's probalem isnt his pace imo its more his consistancy. He can bowl some superb bowls but then will let himself down with a few wide ones that get knocked all over the place. Freddy on the other hand is a lot more likely to put 6 bowls on the spot everytime giving the batter very few easy runs. He also tends to be a bit unlucky with dropped catches, LBWs not given etc.
If Law doesnt play we've always got Hooper . He was awesome last year and is great to watch because of his comedy bowling style and his 'slog it at any opportunity' attitude when it comes to batting.
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Re: im going to post a cricket thread
use the [fag] tag
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Re: im going to post a cricket thread
I don't follow cricket that much but from highlights of most series and one-days, I think England has a chance to win.
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Re: im going to post a cricket thread
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I did write cricket in the title so I can fully understand how you ended up here by accident, I apologise.
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Thanks. I was looking forward to a thread about the Gryllidae family.
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18 May 2004, 22:37
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Re: im going to post a cricket thread
Your are right freddie is possibly the most unlucky bowler I can remember watching, but he still takes his test wickets at 42 a piece which is a little on the high side considering he' won 33 caps. I don' t know about anderson he was bowling up around 90 a year ago and swinging it late. He was though bowiling much more consistantly but if you watch him bowl now his action has changed slightly, possilbly after he was pulled up for running on the wicket last year. Carl hooper not much to say quality player wil score a lot of runs again and take a good few wickets, never seemed to really play at his best for the windies though shame really!
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18 May 2004, 22:40
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Re: im going to post a cricket thread
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Thanks. I was looking forward to a thread about the Gryllidae family.
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19 May 2004, 12:03
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Re: im going to post a cricket thread
Glamorgan to go unbeaten in the one day league but fail miserably in the second division of the 4 day game, again.
As for England, I think they will win the test series but lose the oneday games. I would drop Hussain purely because of the fact he is too old and won't be around for the next world cup and find a way to bring in Collingwood and Strauss. They shouldalso give Simon Jones a bigger role, especially when the tailenders are in.
As for Flintoff, he has a nack of getting crucial wickets. He seems to be a much better one day bowler though as he can be extremely economical even if he doesn't pick up a great deal of wickets.
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19 May 2004, 12:12
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Re: im going to post a cricket thread
http://www.mousebreaker.net/game15.shtml
Fun cricket game for everyone to play .
I get stuck against New Zealand, they have a bastard slow bowler who makes my batters edge it all the time .
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19 May 2004, 14:32
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Re: im going to post a cricket thread
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[url]I get stuck against New Zealand, they have a bastard slow bowler who makes my batters edge it all the time .
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They keep hitting my players on the head and they fall on their wicket
just managed 4 in one over heh.
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19 May 2004, 14:37
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Re: im going to post a cricket thread
They'll hit a sticky wicket at four hundred over twelve and a half, before breaking for the male menopause, or tea, whichever comes first.
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19 May 2004, 14:54
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Re: im going to post a cricket thread
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They keep hitting my players on the head and they fall on their wicket
just managed 4 in one over heh.
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Yeah thats annoying. The hook/pull shot is the only way to protect against it, but then i end up playing that and the ball stays low so i get bowled out instead of having my head knocked off .
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19 May 2004, 19:33
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Re: im going to post a cricket thread
Wow this threads not died. Yet!
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19 May 2004, 22:50
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Re: im going to post a cricket thread
it is fun to play (without those damn complex rules).
boring to watch tho
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19 May 2004, 22:51
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Re: im going to post a cricket thread
One day matches are more fun to watch and the 20/20 format is .
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Re: im going to post a cricket thread
but what do you understand with "one day"? 24 hours?!
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19 May 2004, 22:57
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Re: im going to post a cricket thread
A one day is 50 (or 40 sometimes) overs per team, after 50 over the teams switch round no matter whether all of the batting team were out or not. So the whole game is finished in 1 day rather than taking upto 5 days as in a test match were there isnt a limit on the number of overs.
20/20 is pretty much the same as a 1 day match but with the over limit reduced to 20, which makes for a much faster and more exciting game were batters play attackingly to get a high score as quickly as possible.
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19 May 2004, 23:02
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Re: im going to post a cricket thread
damn that game is addictive have you found out how to score runs of the spinners, who turn it square in both directions.
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19 May 2004, 23:03
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Re: im going to post a cricket thread
guess why i used the word hour instead of "overs"
but anyway, thanks for the information
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19 May 2004, 23:06
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Re: im going to post a cricket thread
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damn that game is addictive have you found out how to score runs of the spinners, who turn it square in both directions.
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19 May 2004, 23:29
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Re: im going to post a cricket thread
damn i thought it was just me
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Re: im going to post a cricket thread
Spinners are easy as long as you don't swing too soon. If it starts on the left then play right, if it turns or not timed righy you will get a 4 on the right hand side.
If it starts on the right then hit it on the left, if you mistime and it goes straight on you may hit it into your stumpts, generally you will be okay though.
If it starts in the middle it will never turn right so I will normally try hitting it to the left. However, if it is just a slow bowler not a spinner bowling down the middle then hit straight or you are likely to give a catch to the keeper.
For fast bowlers just hit left when it is in the centre(though vary it here with hitting straight and you can get quite a lot of 6s) or left and right all other times. Watch out for the inswinger though from the right hand side, bowled me quite a few times.
I just beat the Aussies with 216 after 9 overs, Vaughan scored 138 with a strike rate of over 500
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20 May 2004, 10:12
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20 May 2004, 18:36
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Phew at the start there I thought they were going to score about 600 hopefully we'll bowl them out for 350 ish.
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20 May 2004, 18:44
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Re: im going to post a cricket thread
it's ruining my revision
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20 May 2004, 19:40
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Re: im going to post a cricket thread
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Was a good days play though, one of Jones' best performances so far. If we can get rid of Oram early on tomorrow morning then we could bowl them out for around 360 which would be quite good. If they score more than 400 though which is easily possible I think we could be in a bit of trouble.
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Re: im going to post a cricket thread
Wow today was somewhat unexpectedly good. Strauss apperars to be the saviour of english cricket, or at least that will be the opinion of Ian bothaM when I watch the highlights in a minute.
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Re: im going to post a cricket thread
I hope you're all just pretending to be unknowledgable twats on cricket :\ [apart from JC ofc <3]
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22 May 2004, 09:57
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Re: im going to post a cricket thread
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awww I'm sorry that midge5 chappie your friend??? he's definitely excluded from the comment if that makes you feel any happier?
As for bacon roll, I hope you burn in hell for insinuating freddie should even be considered to be dropped. Good god man! He's averaging what? 26/27/28 with the bat now? compared to just 18 or whatever it was this time last year. Do the maths, infact I'll do it for you - it means he's averaging over 40 in the last year of international test cricket (against South Africa where he won player of the series? damn can't remember but think he did, averaged over 50 with the bat against a quality test nation). And you think he should be even considered to be dropped?!? Would be like dropping Butcher because he's only averaging 36 or whatever it is - neglecting the fact he's the most inform consistant english batsman of the past few years.
Back to freddie though, he should be in the side as a batsman alone, nevermind his bloody bowling, for which its no surprise that you're always hearing commentators chirping away with "freddie's been the pick of the english bowlers today" and his unbelievably shite bad luck
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22 May 2004, 13:01
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Re: im going to post a cricket thread
Bacon's test side
Vaughan(nuf said)
Trescothick (goes in and out of form his feet are set in cement but somehow he still scores lots of runs)
Law (because he wil add quality to the side also think younger players will beniefit form his knowledge)
Strauss(they cant drop him now can they should have been give a go a long time ago)
Thorpe(exellent middle order player, will play a few years yet)
Butcher(he has had a good few years aside from freddie and maybe vaughan the best player to watch)
Flintoff(I WOULDN'T DROP HIM BUT I THINK OUR SHORT SIGHTED SELECTORS MIGHT rubbish would never play test cricket as a batsman on the few occasions he has not been able to bowl he has batted poorly)
G.Jones(have been saying all winter Read should be dropped finally the selectors caght up)
S.JOnes(simple I rate him)
Harmison(you can't really drop him at the moment scares batsmen)
Giles (no english spinner deserves a place in our test side but you need variety
Anderson(he is a better bowler than Hoggard just needs confidence)
Thats it tear me to pieces these are my views and I dont care!
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22 May 2004, 13:04
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Re: im going to post a cricket thread
We could do with 12 players against Australia .
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Freddie has batted poorly? tbh, one thing about freddie is you hardly EVER see him play and miss. Not a massive thing, but nicely reassuring to watch. He looks a very stable comfortable batsman ... I mean dear god, do you actually watch cricket??
Our short sighted selectors? I think you're still stuck in the 90s? there is less than 0 chance freddie will get dropped. He didn't (for any period of time) when he was under performing years back, so he certainly won't now! I mean dear me, he averaged over 50 against both the west indies and South africa with the bat (and prolly the ball too, harhar).
Correct me if I'm wrong, but his last 25 innings against top nations he's averaging 50? ... not many sides a batsman wouldn't get into with that average. You really don't know what you're talking about if you seriously think the short sighted selectors would ever drop him on current form :\
The rest of your side is good. Except butcher at #6, you're havign a laugh?!?! Hussain should definitely go though keeping him in the side is jsut pointless. And I would also play hoggard instead of Anderson for the time being. Anderson needs time to improve, but at the same time to be given a lot of support by the english management. Don't want him getting all upset about not playing and dithering away into the wilderness I also think thorpe MUST come in at #4 and flintoff at #5. No point having one of your best batsmen playing so low down unless theres a tailend to stick around like for gilchrist and australia. Its depressing the number of times flintoff has jsut run out of batting partners god, jsut think how high his average would have been against south africa ...
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22 May 2004, 13:57
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Well England have now got a 1st innings lead - which definately wasn't certain when Freddie came into bat!
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and more importantly, freddie's 50+ average is retained
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Re: im going to post a cricket thread
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Bacon's test side
Vaughan(nuf said)
Trescothick (goes in and out of form his feet are set in cement but somehow he still scores lots of runs)
Law (because he wil add quality to the side also think younger players will beniefit form his knowledge)
Strauss(they cant drop him now can they should have been give a go a long time ago)
Thorpe(exellent middle order player, will play a few years yet)
Butcher(he has had a good few years aside from freddie and maybe vaughan the best player to watch)
Flintoff(I WOULDN'T DROP HIM BUT I THINK OUR SHORT SIGHTED SELECTORS MIGHT rubbish would never play test cricket as a batsman on the few occasions he has not been able to bowl he has batted poorly)
G.Jones(have been saying all winter Read should be dropped finally the selectors caght up)
S.JOnes(simple I rate him)
Harmison(you can't really drop him at the moment scares batsmen)
Giles (no english spinner deserves a place in our test side but you need variety
Anderson(he is a better bowler than Hoggard just needs confidence)
Thats it tear me to pieces these are my views and I dont care!
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I wouldn't play Law as he's too old, he's what 36 now?
Also on most of the pitches in England you don't need a spinner, and if you do i'd pick Min Patel as he's come back from injury and has had an awesome season to date, including picking up a 5 for against the Kiwis last week, or Tredwell of Kent, or even Batty of Worcestershire ahead of Giles. Geraint Jones ahead of Reid, also i've played against him in the Kent League which always helps my viewpoint, same team as Tredwell and Ferley who's a young up and coming spinner too.
The call between Anderson and Hoggard is too hard to call, Anderson's been playing County Cricket whereas Hoggard hasn't, so for now i'd give Hoggard the call up as he did alright in the Caribbean which is far from swing friendly!!
You've also got 12 players in that side Law is a good player but he shouldn't play for England. Just think come September you've got Pietersen of Notts elegible to play for England.
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It was more of a sqaud of twelve as I couldn't decide between law and strauss and it wasn't my batting line up butcher would bat three.
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