The Ashes thread

Bluetooth · **Joined:** Sun Apr 27, 2008 7:11 pm **Posts:** 614

Tax Paying Poolie wrote:

Bopara looks nervous which shows the difference between playing the Windies and playing these. You only have to look how Ian Bell struggled compared to when he was playing the likes of Pakistan. Having said all that, more importantly, Simon Jones' bird is fcking gorgeous.

better than mrs flinders? :shock:

Tax Paying Poolie · **Joined:** Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:18 am **Posts:** 9053

Warwick Hunt wrote:

So they went for 2 spinners in the end. Lets hope that doesn't backfire.

The pitch and win toss suggest that it could be a good decision. I'd certainly rather rather have two spinners of the calibre of Swann and Panesar in this test than one of Hauritz' quality. Bopara still not looking totally settled but it's a confident start.

Tax Paying Poolie · **Joined:** Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:18 am **Posts:** 9053

67-2. Strauss gone from a decent ball by Johnson. Johnson starting to show why he'll cause problems this Summer

Gibsons Beard · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2009 12:51 pm

Rubbish from Bopara!

Nobodys Hero · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2009 12:56 pm

There is nowt like watching the 12 monthly cycle of english cricketers bottling it. :roll:

Fetish_Bob · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2009 1:11 pm

I now want some sort of mini collapse by England with none of the batsmen to come scoring more than 34 please.

I did Bopara top scorer in 1st innings at 9/2

Nobodys Hero · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2009 1:16 pm

dont worry I fully expect Pieterson and Collingwood to put on a 100 partnership. :wink:

thetownendfaithful · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2009 1:17 pm

Looks like were really struggling with the short ball sadx

, i wonder how Australia fair to it with Broad and Flintoff bowling it :grin:

Fetish_Bob · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:52 pm

ADG wrote:

dont worry I fully expect Pieterson and Collingwood to put on a 100 partnership. :wink:

spot on ADG, we have better of the second session, no further wkts down and your predicted century partnership. 191-3

Warwick Hunt · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:54 pm

Good going this from KP & Colly.

Obafemi Obsession · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2009 4:55 pm

KP out for dinner for two! :evil:

PJ_Poolie · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2009 4:57 pm

Obafemi Obsession wrote:

KP out for dinner for two! :evil:

Disgraceful shot that.

FFS KP you are playing in an Ashes Test not a benefit match, gifting your wicket to that shite :evil:

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2009 4:59 pm

Has it finished yet????

Obafemi Obsession · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2009 5:00 pm

About 55 minutes left. :evil:

PJ_Poolie · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2009 5:02 pm

MutleyRules wrote:

Has it finished yet????

Nearly Mr Mutley, we will only be twatting on like this until August 28th :wink:

Then after that we have the one day series of course :coool:

Seriously I'm fooking fuming about that shot, what the fook was he doing banghead

Anyone else who lets Hauritz get them out should dropped.

Warwick Hunt · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2009 6:10 pm

MutleyRules wrote:

Has it finished yet????

Just a maximum of 24 days to go.

PJ_Poolie · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2009 6:20 pm

What an irritating Aussie 'lovely lovely person' this Peter Siddle is.

He is wearing a gay necklace, has one of those ridiculous Aussie bits of hair on his chin that's meant to be a beard, he has a fat annoying ginger head and he's just bowled a snorter to get rid of Prior.

By day three I reckon I could have my 'most hated Aussie' replacement for Justin Langer.

Warwick Hunt · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2009 7:21 pm

Not sure we'll get 400 now but it's difficult to tell if we have a good score until they bat.

This is what happens when you play at a neutral venue.

Poolie of Kent · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2009 8:10 pm

threepintwonder wrote:

Fetish_Bob wrote:

GroovyCrimes wrote:

Crickets shiit.

Bloke throws a ball & another bloke stops it with a stick
They all stand about for 5 minutes then do it again.
After a few hours they stop for a cup of tea,a prawn sandwich & a joint.
It then rains so they call it a draw.

Rules for you m8 so you understand it better

You have two sides, one out in the field and one in.

Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out.

When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side thats been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out.

Sometimes you get men still in and not out.

When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in.

There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out.

When both sides have been in and all the men have out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!

simples

I know that poem - you can get it on a tea towel at Kent CCC's shop in Canterbury. :laugh:

Poolie of Kent · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2009 8:16 pm

Fetish_Bob wrote:

Poolie of Kent wrote:

The fact is that until Wales get a national cricket team of their own, because cricket is still growing in Wales, they will just have to support England until then.

Do you know amything about cricket POK.

"English" cricket is run by the ENGLAND AND WALES CRICKET BOARD.Created in 1997

Yeah, but don't you think the Welsh would rather have their own single national cricket team, like England, like Scotland instead of the Welsh (or just Glamorgan representing Wales solely in the ECB) rather than have to attach themselves on to England?

Poolie of Kent · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2009 8:18 pm

Warwick Hunt wrote:

Not sure we'll get 400 now but it's difficult to tell if we have a good score until they bat.

This is what happens when you play at a neutral venue.

A neutral venue?

I never thought there were so many English exiles in Wales! :laugh:

Fetish_Bob · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:10 pm

Poolie of Kent wrote:

Fetish_Bob wrote:

Poolie of Kent wrote:

The fact is that until Wales get a national cricket team of their own, because cricket is still growing in Wales, they will just have to support England until then.

Do you know amything about cricket POK.

"English" cricket is run by the ENGLAND AND WALES CRICKET BOARD.Created in 1997

Yeah, but don't you think the Welsh would rather have their own single national cricket team, like England, like Scotland instead of the Welsh (or just Glamorgan representing Wales solely in the ECB) rather than have to attach themselves on to England?

Kevin Pieterson South African

Allan Lamb South African

Tony Grieg South African

Stephen Jones Welsh

Vikram Solanki Indian

I can go on but wont, England Cricket team is about as English as the Irish football team is Irish

Poolie of Kent · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:13 pm

That's what being English is all about - we're multi-cultural by nature.

Fetish_Bob · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:23 pm

Poolie of Kent wrote:

That's what being English is all about - we're multi-cultural by nature.

No ENGLISH is ENGLISH, BRITISH is Multi cultural, think before you post POK mate

PJ_Poolie · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:26 pm

Fetish_Bob wrote:

Poolie of Kent wrote:

That's what being English is all about - we're multi-cultural by nature.

No ENGLISH is ENGLISH, BRITISH is Multi cultural, think before you post POK mate

John Barnes?

Owen Hargreaves?

Countless rugby players and Athletes, we rule bend like the rest of them including the Irish.

Fetish_Bob · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:33 pm

PJ_Poolie wrote:

Fetish_Bob wrote:

Poolie of Kent wrote:

That's what being English is all about - we're multi-cultural by nature.

No ENGLISH is ENGLISH, BRITISH is Multi cultural, think before you post POK mate

John Barnes?

Owen Hargreaves?

Countless rugby players and Athletes, we rule bend like the rest of them including the Irish.

I agree POk was saying English is multi cultural, IMHO English isn't, but we bend rules

Obafemi Obsession · **Posted:** Thu Jul 09, 2009 11:33 am

Aussies look ragged. Latest is 382 for 8.

Obafemi Obsession · **Posted:** Thu Jul 09, 2009 11:39 am

MadJohn wrote:

Cracking stuff. 48 runs from 7 overs this morning for only the loss of Broad. I am already happy with this score and keen to get bowling, but I'll take a few more runs :grin:

What do you bowl like? :laugh:

WestParkPoolie · **Posted:** Thu Jul 09, 2009 11:43 am

Obafemi Obsession wrote:

MadJohn wrote:

Cracking stuff. 48 runs from 7 overs this morning for only the loss of Broad. I am already happy with this score and keen to get bowling, but I'll take a few more runs :grin:

What do you bowl like? :laugh:

I'd heard he'd like to bowl a maiden over...

Nobodys Hero · **Posted:** Thu Jul 09, 2009 11:50 am

and way too many full tosses. :grin:

Tax Paying Poolie · **Joined:** Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:18 am **Posts:** 9053

I don't think Ricky Ponting will be enjoying this as much as I am :coool:

Tax Paying Poolie · **Joined:** Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:18 am **Posts:** 9053

435 all out. I think most people would have taken that at the start of play yesterday.

Spiff · **Posted:** Thu Jul 09, 2009 12:42 pm

Fetish_Bob wrote:

Stephen Jones Welsh

I thought he was from Billingham?

I love the way people bang on about non_english people playing for England as if it is a new phenomenon.

Ranjitsinhji.

Nawab of Pataudi.

Nobodys Hero · **Posted:** Thu Jul 09, 2009 12:50 pm

Can someone elighten me?

Are we bowling underarm to the aussie openers?

Just seen their score on cricinfo.

thetownendfaithful · **Posted:** Thu Jul 09, 2009 12:51 pm

ADG wrote:

Can someone elighten me?

Are we bowling underarm to the aussie openers?

Just seen their score on cricinfo.

constantly bowling short and wide of off stump to Hughes , just where he loves it :roll:

Obafemi Obsession · **Posted:** Thu Jul 09, 2009 1:46 pm

Good start by Freddie. Short and fast to Hughes.

Gibsons Beard · **Posted:** Thu Jul 09, 2009 1:47 pm

Obafemi Obsession wrote:

Good start by Freddie. Short and fast to Hughes.

I hope he uses lube

Obafemi Obsession · **Posted:** Thu Jul 09, 2009 1:48 pm

Grave wrote:

Obafemi Obsession wrote:

Good start by Freddie. Short and fast to Hughes.

I hope he uses lube

Could be an AILF.

Obafemi Obsession · **Posted:** Thu Jul 09, 2009 2:01 pm

Fred just dropped Katich.

Obafemi Obsession · **Posted:** Thu Jul 09, 2009 2:11 pm

Fred strikes!

Frodraff · **Posted:** Thu Jul 09, 2009 2:29 pm

No one else on test match special then.

Obafemi Obsession · **Posted:** Thu Jul 09, 2009 2:59 pm

Match is a nailed-on draw.

Warwick Hunt · **Posted:** Thu Jul 09, 2009 3:29 pm

This would never have happened on a proper test match pitch.

Obafemi Obsession · **Posted:** Thu Jul 09, 2009 3:34 pm

Warwick Hunt wrote:

This would never have happened on a proper test match pitch.

What would never have happened?

PJ_Poolie · **Posted:** Thu Jul 09, 2009 4:59 pm

MadJohn wrote:

Oh yeah, before I forget...

The "Barmy Army Band" - just welcome to the board, the whole miserable dull-as-fook lot of you. You're about as entertaining as toothache :evil:

You know what most of them know next to fook all about the game as well, the Barmy Army is a money making machine. You you watch England away they have their own stand which they sell over priced tickets for in packages. They have merchandise they make enough for the leading ones to go all over the world for nothing, that bloke they call Jimmy who dresses in the St George Cross goes everywhere for free. What a 'lovely lovely person' he is as well.

When I was in Sri Lanka we were paying 22p (yes 22p, it was 45p for a pint!) to get in and watch a days cricket by buying them on the gate, those mugs were probably paying £40 all for the privilege of sitting in the 'Barmy Army Stand' with all songs and the shitty band. At Colombo it cost a fiver to sit in the pavilion, the most expensive ticket!! I took great pleasure in telling as many of these mugs who'd been sucked in by the barmy army exactly this!!

Obafemi Obsession · **Posted:** Thu Jul 09, 2009 5:08 pm

Most of the Barmy Army are coppers.

Obafemi Obsession · **Posted:** Thu Jul 09, 2009 5:14 pm

I am in full concurrence Chip.

Warwick Hunt · **Posted:** Thu Jul 09, 2009 6:55 pm

We are going to get hammered.

Tax Paying Poolie · **Joined:** Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:18 am **Posts:** 9053

Onions is 12th man isn't he?

Warwick Hunt · **Posted:** Thu Jul 09, 2009 7:03 pm

Tax Paying Poolie wrote:

Onions is 12th man isn't he?

I don't understand this. Ian Bell gets released to play for Warwickshire but Onions has to stay behind when Durham need him for the Yorkshire game starting tomorrow. Normally they would just have local cricketers doing the 12th man duties.

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