Thread: The Ashes

Quote: Originally Posted by Andrew of Ware I will be interested to read about Jay Tea'a analysis of 'dodgy umpiring decisions' and to see how many went our way and how many Australia's. England's last wicket to fall was a clearly grounded catch, but the fielder claimed it as if he'd pouched it, not that this will stop SH crying into his beer, the fact that the Aussies were claiming them in the same innings as...

Oh, there's nothing obnoxious about you SH. And if Australians are bad losers, then that's because you have not had much practice at losing. Whereas we English having losing inbred in us. I can't find a decent photograph, but to me what epitomises the good natured rivalry between Australia and England over the Ashes is the man in England kit, wearing a Dovid Gower wig crowd surfing over a group of Australian supporters in...

The difference between Australia and the rest of the cricketing world is that we expect to win. We don't get disappointed if we lose. It's more like confusion. What the hell happened? I don't understand. It seems we have a lot to learn from England, after all. And just how much power do people think Ponting has in selecting the side? We have selectors to mess up that job. Ponting can only control what happens on the ground. He...

Quote: Originally Posted by Jay Tea - I guess it just goes to show that cricket is about the right moments at the right time. That it basically the rule across most points based sports. Someone can win more games yet lose a tennis match and a team can score the most goals and concede the least yet not win the league in football. I'm just watching the highlights now having been sat on Clapham Common this afternoon with the least sporty...

Quote: Originally Posted by Jay Tea It's perfectly normal. A bit like the mass exodus from the clubs, for rugger's six nations, then? Quote: Originally Posted by Jay Tea the ECB are clueless, money-grabbing imbeciles who seem intent on making cricket's future utterly untenable. If you ensure the play is not on public access TV, that the players are never seen in the county grounds and choose a lurcative form of the game over...

Quote: Originally Posted by Andrew of Ware ESPN are providing the coverage of the World Twenty20 tournament in England at present so perhaps they might show some of them in the USA. Having seen a professional baseball match whilst on holiday in Toronto I can assure you that a Twenty20 cricket match has more action and excitement in two and a half hours than that baseball match. I was probably asking for that with my tone earlier. When I watch...

According to the Cricforum message board, it's the Basil D'Oliveira Trophy.

Quote: Originally Posted by damian Whoa, take a chill pill dude. This entire thread has been in good spirits with friendly ribbing between old rivals and you had to go and ruin it. Well done I obviously need to work on my "obnoxious sore loser" a bit then.

Quote: Originally Posted by Andrew of Ware A solid start by the Aussies in their second innings, 80 without loss. They couldn't could they? This series can't have another horrible twist can it? Please say it can't. It's us, and Australia. Of course they can. I've chewed all my fingernails down to the quick already.

Quote: Originally Posted by Jay Tea Germaline!? Er.. Germoline...