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| Author: | myp [ Wed Jan 07, 2009 16:38 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
Curiosity wrote: Australia will remain top for a while though, won't they, due to their massive points lead? Five points isn't massive. Only eight points separate the top three now. |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Wed Jan 07, 2009 17:03 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
It's obviously been a while since I checked the standings. |
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| Author: | Malc [ Thu Jan 08, 2009 1:23 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
Quote: Kevin Pietersen resigns from his position as England captain and will be succeeded by Andrew Strauss, as coach Peter Moores is sacked From the beeb, so looks like it is Straus! Malc |
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| Author: | myp [ Wed Feb 04, 2009 16:21 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
And we're off! Two edges from Strauss already, but he's just smacked a boundary. |
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| Author: | myp [ Wed Feb 04, 2009 16:25 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
Oh you dick. He's gone now. |
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| Author: | Malc [ Wed Feb 04, 2009 16:26 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
I thought this started on Thursday bollocks! Malc |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Wed Feb 04, 2009 16:29 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
That's the danger of putting someone who sucks as your captain! Not that we had any other decent options, to be fair. |
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| Author: | myp [ Wed Feb 04, 2009 16:30 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
Nah, he's worthy of his Test place. The ODIs, on the other hand... |
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| Author: | Morte [ Wed Feb 04, 2009 16:46 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
TMS on your PC (sadly The Bearded Wonder-less), you lucky people. (UK Only, so no TMS for you foriegns) |
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| Author: | Morte [ Wed Feb 04, 2009 16:48 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
Cook gone for 4...the big arse. |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Wed Feb 04, 2009 16:49 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
Ian Bell will save us all! |
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| Author: | Rodafowa [ Wed Feb 04, 2009 17:45 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
Go go England batting slapstickery! |
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| Author: | JBR [ Wed Feb 04, 2009 18:03 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
They'll flirt with it, still get a decent score, bundle them out (Chanderpaul 112*) and it'll all prove nothing, nothing I tells you. |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Wed Feb 04, 2009 18:06 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
Ian Bell is a clwon of the highest order. Races to 19 at better than a run a ball, remembers he's in a Test match, slows down to score 10 runs off the next 80 balls, and then gets out. He does this every single effing time! Learn, man! |
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| Author: | Malc [ Thu Feb 05, 2009 16:11 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
ffs Malc |
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| Author: | Morte [ Thu Feb 05, 2009 16:14 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
10 minutes! 10 effing minutes and the carthorse is out. |
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| Author: | The Count of Six [ Thu Feb 05, 2009 16:27 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
I don't get England's obsession with persisting with Flintoff at six, as though the past four years never happened. |
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| Author: | Rodafowa [ Thu Feb 05, 2009 16:38 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
It's a tough one. Broad's probably the long-term answer but he's not quite up to scratch either with the bat or the ball yet. As, with exquisite timing, he gets out. Criminy. 320's looking an optimistic target now. |
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| Author: | The Count of Six [ Thu Feb 05, 2009 16:44 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
Broad's a good eight and he'll always be a good eight IMO. I think England need to get over their fixation on all-rounders (to which other teams are by no means immune.) |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Thu Feb 05, 2009 16:48 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
Prior gets his 50. He's a cracking #7, and perhaps indeed should be at #6, but I always wonder if the 20 runs extra he gets per innings over other keepers is squandered by the chances he invariably drops. |
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| Author: | ApplePieOfDestiny [ Thu Feb 05, 2009 21:07 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
Curiosity wrote: Ian Bell is a clwon of the highest order. Races to 19 at better than a run a ball, remembers he's in a Test match, slows down to score 10 runs off the next 80 balls, and then gets out. He does this every single effing time! Learn, man! Better than in an ODI when he races to 3 off fifty balls, runs out a teammate and then skies his one aggresive shot of the match straight down a fielders throat. How come I have only just learnt that his middle name is Ronald? |
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| Author: | myp [ Thu Feb 05, 2009 22:33 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
Hey dawgs don't hait da playa hait da game aight. |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Thu Feb 05, 2009 22:58 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
myp wrote: Hey dawgs don't hait da playa hait da game aight. I have a text from you saved, saying to drop Ian Bell.  Also, what's the point of a challenge system, if the umpire on the pitch gives someone out, the third umpire says "Yeah, probably out, might have been a little high though" and they reverse the on field decision, which can ONLY happen with absolute proof that a wrong decision was made? Could very probably cost England the game. Idiot umpires. |
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| Author: | ApplePieOfDestiny [ Fri Feb 06, 2009 13:20 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
myp wrote: Hey dawgs don't hait da playa hait da game aight. Have you been drinking Kia Ora again? |
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| Author: | myp [ Fri Feb 06, 2009 16:12 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
Nghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Mark Mitchener's just used the phrase 'pre-warn' on the BBC text commentary. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Fri Feb 06, 2009 16:29 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
Is he selling his cardigan? |
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| Author: | JBR [ Fri Feb 06, 2009 17:08 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
myp wrote: Nghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Mark Mitchener's just used the phrase 'pre-warn' on the BBC text commentary. Why would you do that to yourself? Get over to the Guardian OBO - took me a while to warm to the style, felt too much like a private club to start with, but it's much better written and without the naff 'awright lads' shite the beeb (and Times) go in for. |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Fri Feb 06, 2009 17:17 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
JBR wrote: myp wrote: Nghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Mark Mitchener's just used the phrase 'pre-warn' on the BBC text commentary. Why would you do that to yourself? Get over to the Guardian OBO - took me a while to warm to the style, felt too much like a private club to start with, but it's much better written and without the naff 'awright lads' shite the beeb (and Times) go in for. Plus the Guardian OBO regularly used my contributions when I used to write in, so it MUST be awesome! |
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| Author: | kalmar [ Fri Feb 06, 2009 17:23 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
I don't follow cricket but a friend does and told me to read the guardian text feed one day (this was a couple of years ago) where the reporter appeared to have gone mad with boredom during a particularly quiet game - with hilarious consequences. |
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| Author: | ApplePieOfDestiny [ Fri Feb 06, 2009 17:28 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
Curiosity wrote: JBR wrote: myp wrote: Nghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Mark Mitchener's just used the phrase 'pre-warn' on the BBC text commentary. Why would you do that to yourself? Get over to the Guardian OBO - took me a while to warm to the style, felt too much like a private club to start with, but it's much better written and without the naff 'awright lads' shite the beeb (and Times) go in for. Plus the Guardian OBO regularly used my contributions when I used to write in, so it MUST be awesome! I loved the Guardian MBM during the olympics for that exact reason. Mmmmh, comedy vanity |
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| Author: | JBR [ Fri Feb 06, 2009 18:19 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
Curiosity wrote: JBR wrote: myp wrote: Nghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Mark Mitchener's just used the phrase 'pre-warn' on the BBC text commentary. Why would you do that to yourself? Get over to the Guardian OBO - took me a while to warm to the style, felt too much like a private club to start with, but it's much better written and without the naff 'awright lads' shite the beeb (and Times) go in for. Plus the Guardian OBO regularly used my contributions when I used to write in, so it MUST be awesome! I have nothing but respect for a contributor to the OBO. Plus they don't seem to include yer average musings and occasionally go off on good riffs, so for quality you know where to go. |
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| Author: | The Count of Six [ Sat Feb 07, 2009 19:28 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
Heh. 23/6. Apparently Collingwood was running a quick two after his dismissal, not even realising he'd been bowled... |
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| Author: | myp [ Sat Feb 07, 2009 20:00 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
This is brilliant. |
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| Author: | Plissken [ Sat Feb 07, 2009 21:10 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
JBR wrote: I have nothing but respect for a contributor to the OBO. Plus they don't seem to include yer average musings and occasionally go off on good riffs, so for quality you know where to go. I've got the book of the collective OBOs for the 2005 Ashes "Is it cowardly to pray for rain?", complete with my own contribution on page 94. |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Sat Feb 07, 2009 21:21 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
51. Bravo, lads! |
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| Author: | Morte [ Sat Feb 07, 2009 21:28 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
 / Who do I call to get my money back? 1.5 Million? |
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| Author: | Malc [ Sat Feb 07, 2009 21:32 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
Curiosity wrote: Bravo I don't think he was playing Malc |
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| Author: | Plissken [ Sat Feb 07, 2009 22:44 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
Malc wrote: Curiosity wrote: Bravo I don't think he was playing An innings and 23 bananas. |
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| Author: | The Count of Six [ Fri Feb 13, 2009 15:47 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
Settled down in my sickbed to watch the 2nd Test. After seven balls they were off for rain, then when they resumed Fidel Edwards aborted several deliveries due to the sandy run-up. Now everyone's standing around discussing whether to call it off. The cut and thrust of Test cricket! |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Fri Feb 13, 2009 16:35 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
The Count of Six wrote: Settled down in my sickbed to watch the 2nd Test. After seven balls they were off for rain, then when they resumed Fidel Edwards aborted several deliveries due to the sandy run-up. Now everyone's standing around discussing whether to call it off. The cut and thrust of Test cricket! A bit of a joke, really, that they didn't check to see if the pitch was playable. |
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| Author: | Rodafowa [ Fri Feb 13, 2009 16:55 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
MORE IMPORTANTLY - I loaded up Brian Lara's International Cricket 2007 last night, only to find that all the players now have their correct names. What the hell happened there? Did Codemasters suddenly get the license three years after the game had been released? I miss Andrew Stross and Monty Pansarian already.
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Fri Feb 13, 2009 17:01 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
Rodafowa wrote: MORE IMPORTANTLY - I loaded up Brian Lara's International Cricket 2007 last night, only to find that all the players now have their correct names. What the hell happened there? Did Codemasters suddenly get the license three years after the game had been released? I miss Andrew Stross and Monty Pansarian already. Were you playing in the World Cup? Didn't the game have a license to use the correct names, but only if you were playing in the officially licensed correct tournaments? |
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| Author: | Rodafowa [ Fri Feb 13, 2009 17:05 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
AAAAAAAAAAH. That might be it. Hang on, that's bonkers. |
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| Author: | The Count of Six [ Fri Feb 13, 2009 17:17 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
Yeah, that's it. BLIC always had the World Cup and ICC Trophy rights. Don't know why you're playing 07 though, it's crap. The 05 version is the definitive one, even if you can't ever run out batsmen. |
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| Author: | Rodafowa [ Fri Feb 13, 2009 17:18 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
Because it was a fiver. |
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| Author: | The Count of Six [ Fri Feb 13, 2009 17:29 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
You were robbed. |
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| Author: | myp [ Fri Feb 13, 2009 17:43 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
Yeah, it's a massive shame. 07 had some good ideas (360 degree shot selection, throw to bowler), but was a step back in a lot of ways (fielding, AI). And why no leave button? When I'm playing a test match I don't want my opening batsmens' confidence to wilt to zero because they've left six balls outside of the off-stump! EA 2005 got that bit right. Shame you could never pierce the inside field unless you hit it over the top, though... |
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| Author: | Rodafowa [ Fri Feb 13, 2009 18:10 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
Oh, I don't know, I've had at least a fiver's worth of chuckles out of it. The batting is excellent fun and seems pretty well-realised in terms of what shots you can get away with depending on where the ball pitches. Bowling's less good, fielding's worse and the presentation's a bit of a mess, but hey. |
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| Author: | myp [ Fri Feb 13, 2009 18:13 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
It's much more fun in multiplayer, as it throws the AI out of the window, of course. I believe that Curio has it, also. Perhaps a 2v2 game sometime? |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Fri Feb 13, 2009 21:54 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cricket |
myp wrote: It's much more fun in multiplayer, as it throws the AI out of the window, of course. I believe that Curio has it, also. Perhaps a 2v2 game sometime? I would be very much up for this. |
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