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  • pjfan31
    pjfan31 Posts: 7,335
    Well England are doing well....

    Is Warnie commentating for Sky? he is doing channel 9 out here, but I hear he may be doing Sky also.
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  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    Batsmans paradise I tell ya what....
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  • pjfan31
    pjfan31 Posts: 7,335
    Thoughts_Arrive wrote:
    Batsmans paradise I tell ya what....


    Shhh, lets just stay quiet in the corner, and hopefully theserialthrilla won't see us....
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  • theserialthrilla
    theserialthrilla Posts: 15,760
    :shock: openers both get 100 woow ..hmmmm dont know what to think now play safe and bat the day out or try to get another 230 fastish..and then put you in..swann might have a field day with those cracks .

    good game now..great 4 days..

    see how day 5 starts if cook and trott can stay together for another 15-20 overs then unlease KPwe might have a sniff. :shock:



    yeah yeah i know its a draw
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  • theserialthrilla
    theserialthrilla Posts: 15,760
    pjfan31 wrote:
    Thoughts_Arrive wrote:
    Batsmans paradise I tell ya what....


    Shhh, lets just stay quiet in the corner, and hopefully theserialthrilla won't see us....




    errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr wrong
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  • pjfan31
    pjfan31 Posts: 7,335
    fuck, he found us
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  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    quick hit him over the canister with a cricket bat like in football factory :lol:
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  • theserialthrilla
    theserialthrilla Posts: 15,760
    so who is in the driving seat...im :?

    you boys take early wickets say 100-4 we might be all out with only 200 plus..then you get that

    we bat well and put you in swan take 6-33 :D

    or we bat score 250more you bat score 100pus no wickets draw


    what you think
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  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    draw likely
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  • Zoso
    Zoso Posts: 6,425
    when i left australia and moved to the USA Australia were the best team in the world but now they are a rabble. England will retain the ashes. very depressing.
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Zoso wrote:
    when i left australia and moved to the USA Australia were the best team in the world but now they are a rabble. England will retain the ashes. very depressing.

    so its your fault. :P :lol:

    you know it goes in cycles... australia cant be the best all the time. its unrealistic. sometimes we need to throw in a subpar team or play below our talent just to keep the other countries thinking theyve got a chance. otherwise they just might think theyre losers all the time. ;) 8-)
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  • theserialthrilla
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    day 5 .....this might be the best day yet for england :D
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    theserialthrilla wrote:
    day 5 .....this might be the best day yet for england :D


    hope not. 8-)
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  • pjfan31
    pjfan31 Posts: 7,335
    Surely a draw.

    Australia may try for wickets which will prob lead to England scoring more runs.

    Who knows where the match would go. You would have to say Australia are in the drivers seat, unless Australia fire in the morning session (unlikely, they can't buy a wicket atm)

    I tell ya what though I'm swaying toward England to win the series now. Australia need to change their team, everyone for England (except for Swann and Collingwood) have done well

    Johnson (something anything)
    North (bring in Kawaja for the hundredth time)
    Clarke isn't fit so... Dunno maybe Kawaja for him and North one more chance, who knows.

    Bollinger needs to be in there, but I don't think they will ever drop Johnson.
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  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,599
    the official...what?
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    The Jeagler wrote:
    the official...what?

    difficult to believe everything doesnt revolve around the US isnt it jeags??? .... dont worry one youll figure it out. :P 8-)
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  • The Juggler
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    catefrances wrote:
    The Jeagler wrote:
    the official...what?

    difficult to believe everything doesnt revolve around the US isnt it jeags??? .... dont worry one youll figure it out. :P 8-)

    the team is called the ashes?
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  • pjfan31
    pjfan31 Posts: 7,335
    The Jeagler wrote:
    the official...what?


    It is a traditional cricket rivalry for over 100 years (124 I think). Australia vs England. It is decided over a 5 match series (which is nearing the end of the first test)

    I think personally, it is one of the greatest rivalries in sport.

    The Ashes is a Test cricket series played between England and Australia. It is international cricket's most celebrated rivalry and dates back to 1882. It is currently played biennially, alternately in the United Kingdom and Australia. Cricket being a summer sport, and the venues being in opposite hemispheres, the break between series alternates between 18 and 30 months. A series of "The Ashes" comprises five Test matches, two innings per match, under the regular rules for Test match cricket. If a series is drawn then the country already holding the Ashes retains them.

    The series is named after a satirical obituary published in a British newspaper, The Sporting Times, in 1882 after a match at The Oval in which Australia beat England on an English ground for the first time. The obituary stated that English cricket had died, and the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia. The English media dubbed the next English tour to Australia (1882–83) as the quest to regain The Ashes.

    During that tour a small terracotta urn was presented to England captain Ivo Bligh by a group of Melbourne women. The contents of the urn are reputed to be the ashes of an item of cricket equipment, possibly a bail, ball or stump. The Dowager Countess of Darnley claimed recently[when?] that her mother-in-law, Bligh's wife Florence Morphy, said that they were the remains of a lady's veil.

    The urn is erroneously believed by some to be the trophy of the Ashes series, but it has never been formally adopted as such and Bligh always considered it to be a personal gift.[1] Replicas of the urn are often held aloft by victorious teams as a symbol of their victory in an Ashes series, but the actual urn has never been presented or displayed as a trophy in this way. Whichever side holds the Ashes, the urn normally remains in the Marylebone Cricket Club Museum at Lord's since being presented to the MCC by Bligh's widow upon his death.[2]

    Since the 1998–99 Ashes series, a Waterford Crystal representation of the Ashes urn has been presented to the winners of an Ashes series as the official trophy of that series.

    England currently holds The Ashes, after defeating Australia 2–1 to regain them in the 2009 Ashes series which took place in England and, for the first time, Wales.
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  • catefrances
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    The Jeagler wrote:
    catefrances wrote:
    The Jeagler wrote:
    the official...what?

    difficult to believe everything doesnt revolve around the US isnt it jeags??? .... dont worry one youll figure it out. :P 8-)

    the team is called the ashes?


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  • pjfan31
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    catefrances wrote:

    thought a smart man like you wouldve googled by now.


    I did the leg work for him...

    No wonder Borat chose America :D
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