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« Reply #465 on: Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 13:35:38 » |
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« Reply #466 on: Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 14:11:51 » |
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'Jump, Jump, Jump!'
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« Reply #467 on: Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 14:42:53 » |
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A lot to jump for
Having to go back to Cheltenham after watching England get royally shafted
Fair play to them both though why they need a security officer with them in Aus does make you wonder, hardly the subcontinent is it
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« Reply #468 on: Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 15:34:31 » |
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Fair play to them both though why they need a security officer with them in Aus does make you wonder, hardly the subcontinent is it
Obviously because the place is full of criminal! |
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You're my incurable malady. I miss the pleasure of your company.
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« Reply #469 on: Sunday, January 12, 2014, 20:43:55 » |
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Yet another thrashing by the Aussies, this time in the 1st ODI by 6 wickets! The comparison between Australia's top order (Finch, Warner & Watson) who give it a bit of a whack/get them off to a flyer (163 for 1st wicket), compared to England's (Cook, Bell & Root) who like the 'slow & steady' approach looks like it'll be a massive difference in this series. 260odd was never going to be enough and I feel another 5-0 hammering is on the cards.
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« Reply #470 on: Sunday, January 12, 2014, 20:46:00 » |
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Yet another thrashing by the Aussies, this time in the 1st ODI by 6 wickets! The comparison between Australia's top order (Finch, Warner & Watson) who give it a bit of a whack/get them off to a flyer (163 for 1st wicket), compared to England's (Cook, Bell & Root) who like the 'slow & steady' approach looks like it'll be a massive difference in this series. 260odd was never going to be enough and I feel another 5-0 hammering is on the cards.
Maybe so. But like many others, I suspect, I gave up caring some time ago. |
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« Reply #471 on: Sunday, January 12, 2014, 20:51:13 » |
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Cook just doesn't do it for me. He appears a real boring fuckwit
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« Reply #472 on: Friday, January 17, 2014, 11:26:03 » |
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That pretty much summed up the tour didn't it?
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« Reply #473 on: Friday, January 17, 2014, 11:34:21 » |
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That was shocking, how on earth did we manage to lose that?
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« Reply #474 on: Friday, January 17, 2014, 11:38:32 » |
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Unbelievable!
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Reg Smeeton
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« Reply #475 on: Friday, January 17, 2014, 11:42:03 » |
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That pretty much summed up the tour didn't it?
The best statement about this tour....which I've been harping on about since the summer  ...comes from Ken Schofield, the man who was charged to look at the reasons for the previous Ashes 5-0. He also believes that Cook's side did not have enough time to recover from the last home Ashes series, which only finished in August.
England normally visit Australia once every four years, but the England and Wales Cricket Board want to break a cycle that sees such a tour always take place in the winter immediately before a World Cup.
As a result, the current Ashes series was brought forward a year, meaning the first Test of the current series began less than three months after the last one ended.
"Australia found their best team in about four months," said Schofield, who was a long-serving executive director of golf's European Tour.
"I rather feel the 3-0 win that Alastair's team got this summer took a lot more out of them than we probably thought.
"Leave aside any issues with the structure of cricket, the one thing that's really acted against them - and I do feel for them here - is the schedule.
"This is the first, and I hope, the only time we will play the Ashes back-to-back in the same year. The blame for the debacle falls at the door of the ECB....asked too much of the players by trying to squeeze extra $, out of the Ashes brand and got a not entirely unpredictable meltdown. They may have succeeded in killing the goose that laid the golden egg |
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« Reply #476 on: Friday, January 17, 2014, 20:26:04 » |
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The Aussies seem to be doing ok, and the last time I checked they were involved in both of the Ashes series. I think SA would have spanked us as well.
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« Reply #477 on: Friday, January 17, 2014, 20:50:08 » |
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The Aussies seem to be doing ok, and the last time I checked they were involved in both of the Ashes series. I think SA would have spanked us as well.
Australia had their meltdown early in 2013 in India, used the summer to rebuild, and reaped the benefits in this series. Ideally England could have done with a trip to South Africa to rebuild, of course very difficult, but as playing the world number one who easily beat us in England last time, not really expected to win, so less pressure. |
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« Reply #478 on: Friday, January 24, 2014, 20:26:08 » |
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Surprised that nobody has mentioned the miracle this morning of England's men winning a cricket match against Australia
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« Reply #479 on: Friday, January 24, 2014, 20:31:17 » |
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Are they still playing?!
I think most people gave up caring a long time ago.
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