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I know its ODIs and a frankly pointless competition in an already overloaded international calender :roll:  but it starts Saturday morning in India with Bangladesh v Sri lanka.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/4950652.stm
Aside from the first game all the others are on normal Sky sports,great news...i think :(
http://home.skysports.com/list.aspx?hlid=388282&clid=&channel=cricket

I think the game is on SS2. Or SSX.

looking forward to a mini cricket fest .. then its the Ashes .. and the World Cup and then the summer season ... what a year of cricket ... lets hope it doesnt coincide with England hittin a slump

Tho the India and Australia games will probably be too much in ICC Trophy .. and the Ashes will be VERY VERY hard

Of course it's great that its on Sky Sports!  :beers:

Of course its great that its on Sky,what i meant was i'm not so sure its so great being able to watch us play  :(
I'm depressed about it already  :wink:

whens our first game?

15th October against India in Jaipur

little while yet then

what 9 days.

yeh, should be tomorrow.  :wink:

England fixtures for the champions trophy
15 Oct India v England, Jaipur
21 Oct Australia v England, Jaipur
28 Oct England v qualifier 2, Ahmedabad

Sri Lanka beat Bangladesh by 37 runs. Report below

http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/iccct2006/content/current/story/261706.html

only 2 weeks till we get a pre-ashes pasting then  :(

Sunday. England vs India at Jaipur. 10am start.

No real shocks .. looks like Sri Lanka and Windies will join the main tournament .

Gonna be hard for England .. but with it being one off matches .. u never know we might get lucky

I watched some highlights of the Sri Lanka v Bangladesh on a website and Sri Lanka played really well. Just about to watch the Zimbabwe v WI Highlights after my ordeal.

Zimbabwe's batting!  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

that was awful. Zimbabwe batting was a shocker.

Tomorrow match is Sri Lanka vs Zimbabwe.

 :boring:

The first interesting game isn't till Saturday when Sri lanka play West Indies :-))(

and that wont mean much if they are both through ..

Sri Lanka 183/2 of 35.2 overs. Tharanga 101* Sangakkara 57*

Zimbabwe have just lost their 3rd wicket for 23 runs.

We all know why Sri Lanka batted first.  :mrgreen:

Zimbabwe 135-9. I wish we could play them.

West Indies beat Bangladesh by 10 wickets Chasing 162. Chris Gayle smashed a century.

is there any point in Zimbabwe being in it?

Of course not, they're a complete farce to International Cricket.

We won today,nice little warm up match.Good to see Freddie in the runs and Jimmy in the wickets :)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/6041512.stm

Cricket. Played by twats, watched by cunts.

Oh please don't say such hurtful things!Your really upsetting me  :roll:

Wasn't meant to be hurtful. Just factual.

And frowned upon by Wankers!

As Woody Allen said, 'Don't knock masturbation, it's sex with someone you love.'

Its Sri lanka V West Indies tomorrow to decide who tops the qualifing group,hope its Sri Lanka because that'll mean we have to play the West Indies.I think we'll stand a bit more of a chance against them :D Unfortunately i doubt we'll stand much of a chance against India or Australia though :(

I think we can beat Australia and India. We have done it before. we can do it again.

Bangladesh bt Zimbabwe by 101 runs. There was a comical Run Out though in the game.

West Indies are 58-7.

West Indies are now in England group, after losing to sri lanka today.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

:wanker:

Yes I am. Doesn't stop Cricket being a shit, boring sport.

i don't see the point in what your doing. i bet over half this forum hate cricket, but you don't see them posting crap in here. just stupid.

anyway, england today, can we do it? my guess is no. haven't got enough decent players for this level!

3 outs .. 3 dodgy LBWs .. shouldnt Aussie umpires have been totally banned by now?

27-4. Strauss caught at slip. The flintoff LBW Was out. The other 2 never were out.

125 all out.

Does look like a shocking wicket though, lets hope our seamers can cause havoc because they're a good set of bowlers.

Unfortunately the Indian batting rather pales ours into insignificance.

India 37-1...... from 3 overs :o

I see were doing well then!  :soapy tit wank:

The Point? There wasn't a point you numpty, apart from the fact that it was a Saturday night, I was bored and all people were talking about was cricket.

If you had to make a point every time you posted, there would be a lot less posts!

India 72-3.

not what i mean at all...you could of started a topic about something else insrtead of coming here saying how crap cricket is. don't mind people saying oh i hate cricket, but to keep going on about it.

England are crap, i thought we would lose but with abit more dignity.

Johno,

Point noted.............

South Africa V New Zealand today at Mumbai,looking like a Kiwi win  :D South Africa are currently 72-6 chasing New Zealands 195 all out.

Stephen Fleming batted really well for is 89.

Pakistan won yesterday,they beat Sri Lanka by four wickets,sounded like the best game of the competition so far.
Its the convicts against the West Indies in Mumbai today.

Taxi for Pointing for one of most hilarious dropped catches.  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Aussies just lost  (well they needed 12 from 1 ball when i last looked).  Put a £10 on betfair at odds of 9-1 for West Indies to win with 5 overs to go.  Well happy   :D

Jerome Taylor for the WI Got a Hat-trick.

well that means 3 defeats for us in this group then. can't see us beating the Windies after their performance today and we won't beat the Aussies

We will beat the Aussies on Saturday!

I will 2nd that. The Indian Pitches are very Unpredictable.

Superb result and performance from the West Indies,i know it doesn't help our cause, but fuck it, seeing the convicts lose is always a massive pleasure :D
One small point,what the hell has happened to Rudi Koertzen,he looks like a discount Santa with that beard !
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He does indeed.

New Zealand 135-9 of 45 overs against Sri Lanka. On a pitch which has been glued together.

West Indies beat India by 3 wickets to qualify for the semi final. England are now out of the champions trophy.

We were out of it anyway (more or less) as we'll get spanked by the W.I on Saturday.

Bring back Stuart Broad! And drop these supposed all rounders who cant do either! Our 1 day team is a shambles!!! Could we even beat Kenya or Holland?

No we couldn't  :cry:

South Africa are 60-5 off 16 overs  Against Pakistan. Whoever loses goes home.

very bad start!

South Africa recovered to make 213-8 off their 50 overs.

Pakistan 21-5  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :shock:

Ntini 4-7 off 3.4 overs.

Fantastic!!!

Win when they're cheating, they only win when they're cheating, win when they're cheating, they only win when they're cheating!!

Now 42-6.

43-7

89 all out  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

West Indies vs England

Indies decided to bat

253-2 (47 overs)

West Indies 272-4 (50 overs) v England 122-1 (20 overs)

We need 20 runs from 21 balls to win!!!!

KP at the crease with Saj

13 to win off 17

11 of 14

7 off 13

1 off 12.

Another foreigner wins it for England

England win by 3 wickets. What a knock by KP of 90. Once again Mike Yardy gets a rotten decision.

Five live sport's Extra are doing radio coverage of tomorrow's game of Australia vs New Zealand and the final on sunday. Games now start at 9am.

Australia 88-3 (23 overs)

Looks as if the convicts are going to be in the final,BASTARDS!They made 240-9,they were 4-2 at one point though,the Kiwis are 131-6,not looking good.
I don't care really,can't watch the final anyway,i'll be on my way to Rome :D

Aussie are in the final after beating New Zealand by 34 runs. Jammy Bastards.

South Africa made 258-8 off 50 overs.

I don't care as long as whoever wins this beats the Convicts in the Final.

It looks like it could be the WI. Who are on 154-0 off 27 overs.

I echo those sentiments Spuddy!

Hope i don 't jinx them but i hope the WI win,if nothing else it'll be good having a strong Wi side for the World cup next year.
Besides is there really an awful lot of difference between the convicts and the South Africans?Both teams strike me as being full of insufferable arrogant cunts  :wink:

U did not Jinx WI, because they won by 6 wickets. So it is an Aussie vs WI Final on Sunday 9am start.

they're the commonwealth bank one-day-international team now didnt you know?

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

talk about selling your soul

Australia beat W Indies by 8 wickets (D/L method)

Fair play to those Aussies, they are rather good aren't they?

errrrr .. no! they get more umpiring decisions than any other country ive noticed that

Yes they are but i still think they're a bunch of Cunts.

you make your own luck

we had the rub of the green in the ashes, because we were creating more chances. pretty obvious logic really - you create 1 borderline lbw decision it may get turned down, the other side creates 3 and they may get 1 or 2 of them