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 Post subject: Re: Ashes Cricket 2009 - THE GAME
PostPosted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 23:14 
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Heavens to betsy, I was bloody awful earlier in my opening Ashes Test (on normal level).

The Aussies won the toss and batted first, and I got them all out for 240-something, which I was reasonably pleased with, and I know my general bowling was getting more accurate.

So then my turn to bat.

In about 15 ridiculous minutes, I soon found myself at an utterly pathetic 17-8. I then decided it was a little too early to have moved up a skill level. I mean I seriously cannot explain what happened because I didn't think even I was that bad. :nerd:

So I started over and went back down to easy. The Aussies again elected to bat first and I got them out for 170-something. I then went in and have just now saved the game at 25-0, so that's a lot better!

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 23:47 
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In about 15 ridiculous minutes, I soon found myself at an utterly pathetic 17-8. I then decided it was a little too early to have moved up a skill level. I mean I seriously cannot explain what happened because I didn't think even I was that bad. :nerd:


What were your wickets like? The ones you gave away?
Was it just badly timed shots resulting in catches? or were you going for shots you really shouldn't have?


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PostPosted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 23:56 
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I think, in hindsight, it was almost definitely bad timing on my part. I just need to learn that it isn't necessary to try and twat every ball as hard as possible, even in a 20/20 match!

Also, I suppose with upping the skill level, things the AI let you get away with before, now doesn't work.

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Yeah, I'm looking forward to moving up to Hard. I expect my patience and discipline to come to the fore. ;)

I'm like the tantric cricket man.

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I've found in my brief foray into test matches that the bowling is very different. In the limited over matches the bowlers are trying to get you out and therefore become a bit easier to predict. In tests, the bowlers are probably trying to restrict runs or destroy confidence, making it harder to predict. I got out a few times to noddy slower balls because it looked like a 'twattable' delivery.


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 Post subject: Re: Ashes Cricket 2009 - THE GAME
PostPosted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 10:07 
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Yeah, I'm looking forward to moving up to Hard. I expect my patience and discipline to come to the fore. ;)



Im not sure how I'll fare in hard... it'll force me to be more patient, but Ive got normal down to a T now, so might be worth upping it, but I want the achievements! D:


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Sitting here at work, desperate to get home and crack open the cricket.

Hurry up, 5pm!

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Agent Starling wrote:
Sitting here at work, desperate to get home and crack open the cricket.

Hurry up, 5pm!

If only you had Gold so you could beat me around the park. :(

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 Post subject: Re: Ashes Cricket 2009 - THE GAME
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myp wrote:
Agent Starling wrote:
Sitting here at work, desperate to get home and crack open the cricket.

Hurry up, 5pm!

If only you had Gold so you could beat me around the park. :(

I too have yet to do this. I can't believe you pretended dinner was ready just because you didn't think you had a defendable total.


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PostPosted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 16:07 
myp wrote:
Agent Starling wrote:
Sitting here at work, desperate to get home and crack open the cricket.

Hurry up, 5pm!

If only you had Gold so you could beat me around the park. :(


Been there,done that :D


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PostPosted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 16:24 
Also, this is how you bat myp :D

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Reading that reminds me that I wish someone would come up with a list of the correct names for the other teams, I've edited some of the obvious ones but I'd like to change all the teams.

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I've feel weirdly affectionate toward PES-style "Bryan Greggs" namealikes. I was actually a bit disappointed the first time I tried World Cup mode in BL07 and all the names became correct. I liked Freddy Flantiff and Minty Pansarian, dammit!

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 Post subject: Re: Ashes Cricket 2009 - THE GAME
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The name thing bothers me a bit, but it used to bother me loads more in the Pro Evo games since I know more about football than I do about cricket, so seeing an obvious wrong name would stick out a mile.

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 Post subject: Re: Ashes Cricket 2009 - THE GAME
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myp wrote:
Agent Starling wrote:
Sitting here at work, desperate to get home and crack open the cricket.

Hurry up, 5pm!

If only you had Gold so you could beat me around the park. :(


Of course, a more likely scenario is that I would be all out for 27 runs, after just three minutes of day one of a Test. :D

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 Post subject: Re: Ashes Cricket 2009 - THE GAME
PostPosted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 16:51 
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Also, this is how you bat myp :D

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How long did all that take, in actual real time?

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 16:54 
Erm... I dunno, it was end of day 2 by the time I bowled them out, but I declared with 15 or so overs to bowl in the evening of day 1. It was pretty quick in cricket terms. Myp will not be happy!


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 Post subject: Re: Ashes Cricket 2009 - THE GAME
PostPosted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 17:20 
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Erm... I dunno, it was end of day 2 by the time I bowled them out, but I declared with 15 or so overs to bowl in the evening of day 1. It was pretty quick in cricket terms. Myp will not be happy!


I assumed she meant in gaming hours as it says the match ended towards the end of day 2 in your photo.

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 Post subject: Re: Ashes Cricket 2009 - THE GAME
PostPosted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 17:24 
Yes, but Im not sure.... the in game time kinda is a bit of a reference.... a few hours.... I dont know.


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Riles wrote:
myp wrote:
Agent Starling wrote:
Sitting here at work, desperate to get home and crack open the cricket.

Hurry up, 5pm!

If only you had Gold so you could beat me around the park. :(

I too have yet to do this. I can't believe you pretended dinner was ready just because you didn't think you had a defendable total.

Did I get more than 100? If so, it was perfectly defensible. :P

nickachu: you're not going to get a rise out of me. If you want to play cricket wrongly, it's up to you. ;)

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Erm... I dunno, it was end of day 2 by the time I bowled them out, but I declared with 15 or so overs to bowl in the evening of day 1. It was pretty quick in cricket terms. Myp will not be happy!


I assumed she meant in gaming hours as it says the match ended towards the end of day 2 in your photo.


Yeah that's right.

It's not really a big deal, I was just curious how long, in real terms, a big score/big Test match would take to complete. I quite like the idea of playing it 'properly', and grinding out a big score over a whole week, playing an hour a night or something like that.

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Reading that reminds me that I wish someone would come up with a list of the correct names for the other teams, I've edited some of the obvious ones but I'd like to change all the teams.

Post a list/link to a list here and I'll do it cos I'm sad like that.

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 Post subject: Re: Ashes Cricket 2009 - THE GAME
PostPosted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 10:22 
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I've just tried the demo of the PC version. I even brought my wired 360 controller into work for the occassion.

Using the conrtroller, the game's IDENTICAL. Shame it doesn't offer cheevos, or I'd be doing epic test matches for weeks.


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PostPosted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 10:32 
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Second test, won by 200 runs. Impressive opening partnerships in both my innings were followed by horrificcollapses and then rearguard fightbacks (I stop playing properly when I am 7 wickets down and slash out - my reasoning being that unless I need to bat out, I may as well get 50 runs from the tail quickly rather than prodding it about for 40).

Australia cannot deal with an aggressive field, and so I bowled them out for 100ish in both innings. The only reason that I am going to play this series out properly before moving to hard is that I have Jimmy and Swanny on 13 wickets each in 2 matches so far, and Strauss has a decent score in all four innings so there are cheevos to be had. I can tell its going to get tedious though, opening the bowling with those to just to get the points - I can also see a Brawn GP scenario after the third test where I choose my bowler who is going for the achievement and have to bowl deliberate shit at the other end to make sure the wickets dont fall to the wrong person. However, run outs may be my downfall here.


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Strauss is approaching 200 in my Second Test. Bopara got a 50, but then got himself run out, the plank.

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 Post subject: Re: Ashes Cricket 2009 - THE GAME
PostPosted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 11:37 
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Second test, won by 200 runs. Impressive opening partnerships in both my innings were followed by horrificcollapses and then rearguard fightbacks (I stop playing properly when I am 7 wickets down and slash out - my reasoning being that unless I need to bat out, I may as well get 50 runs from the tail quickly rather than prodding it about for 40).

Australia cannot deal with an aggressive field, and so I bowled them out for 100ish in both innings. The only reason that I am going to play this series out properly before moving to hard is that I have Jimmy and Swanny on 13 wickets each in 2 matches so far, and Strauss has a decent score in all four innings so there are cheevos to be had. I can tell its going to get tedious though, opening the bowling with those to just to get the points - I can also see a Brawn GP scenario after the third test where I choose my bowler who is going for the achievement and have to bowl deliberate shit at the other end to make sure the wickets dont fall to the wrong person. However, run outs may be my downfall here.


Just try and win the ashes, there's 100 glorious points for that :D


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PostPosted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 12:08 
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This is the best list I've found for the real names (they correspond to the order in the squad lists). It's a complete ball ache to change the names but I'd rather have the real ones. However there are some strange ommissions from the list, like no Dwayne Bravo in the West Indies squad.

Sri Lanka:

Code:
Ajantha Mendis
Chamara Kapugedera
Chamara Silva
Chaminda Vaas
Dilhara Fernando
Fervez Maharoof
Indika de Saram
Jehan Mubarak
Kaushalya Weeraratne
Kumar Sangakkara
Lasith Malinga
Mahela Jayawardene
Mahela Udawatte
Malinda Warnapura
Muttiah Muralitharan
Nuwan Kulasekera
Prasanna Jayawardene
Sanath Jayasuriya
Tharanga Paranavitana
Thilan Samaraweera
Thilan Thushara
Thilina Kandamby
Tillekaratne Dilshan
South Africa

Code:
AB DeVilliers
Albie Morkel
Ashwell Prince
Dale Steyn
Graeme Smith
Hashim Amla
Herschelle Gibbs
Jacques Kallis
JP Duminy
Johan Botha
Johann Louw
Justin Ontong
Lonwabo Tsotsobe
Makhaya Ntini
Mark Boucher
Monde Zondeki
Morne Morkel
Neil McKenzie
Paul Harris
Rory Kleinveldt
Vaughn van Jaarsveld
Vernon Philander
Wayne Parnell
West Indies:

Code:
Amit Jaggernauth
Andre Fletcher
Brendan Nash
Carlton Baugh
Chris Gayle
Daren Powell
Denesh Ramdin
Devon Smith
Fidel Edwards
Jermaine Taylor
Kemar Roach
Kieron Pollard
Lendl Simmons
Leon Johnson
Lionel Baker
Nikita Miller
Ramnaresh Sarwan
Ryan Hinds
Sewnarine Chattergoon
Shawn Findlay
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Sulieman Benn
Xavier Marshall
India:

Code:
Amit Mishra
Gautam Gambhir
Harbhajan Singh
Irfan Pathan
Ishant Sharma
Lakshmi Balaji
MS Dhoni
Manoj Tiwary
Manpreet Gony
Murali Vijay
Piyush Chawla
Pragyan Ojha
Rahul Dravid
Ravindra Jadeja
Rohit Sharma
Sachin Tendulkar
Suresh Raina
Virat Kohli
Virender Sehwag
VVS Laxman
Yusuf Pathan
Yuvraj Singh
Zaheer Khan
New Zealand:

Code:
Brendon Diamanti
Brendon McCullum
Daniel Flynn
Daniel Vettori
Ewan Thompson
Gareth Hopkins
Grant Elliott
Iain O'Brien
Ian Butler
Jacob Oram
James Franklin
Jamie How
Jeetan Patel
Jesse Ryder
Kyle Mills
Mark Gillespie
Martin Guptill
Nathan McCullum
Neil Broom
Peter Fulton
Ross Taylor
Tim McIntosh
Tim Southee

Pakistan:

Code:
Abdur Rauf
Anwar Ali
Danesh Kaneria
Faisal Iqbal
Fawad Alam
Iftikhar Anjum
Kamran Akmal
Khalid Latif
Khurram Manzoor
Misbah ul Haq
Saeed Ajmal
Salman Butt
Shahid Afridi
Shoaib Akhtar
Shoaib Khan
Shoaib Malik
Sohail Khan
Sohail Tanvir
Umar Gul
Yasir Arafat
Younis Khan
Zulquarnain Haider

Bangladesh:

Code:
Abdur Razzak
Dhiman Ghosh
Dolar Mahmud
Enamul Haque
Imrul Kayes
Junaid Siddique
Mahbulbul Alam
Aftab Ahmed
Mashrafe Mortaza
Mehrab Hossein
Mohammed Ashraful
Mohammed Mahmudullah
Mohammed Nazimuddin
Mushfiqur Rahim
Naeem Islam
Nazmul Hossain
Raqibul Hasan
Rubel Hossain
Sajidul Islam
Shahadat Hossein
Shakib Al Hasan
Syed Rasel
Tamim Iqbal

Ireland:

Code:
Alex Cusack
Andre Botha
Andrew Poynter
Andrew White
Boyd Rankin
Eoin Morgan
Gary Kidd
Gary Wilson
Greg Thompson
Kenny Carroll
Kevin O'Brien
Kyle McCallan
Niall O'Brien
Paul Stirling
Peter Connell
Phil Eaglestone
Regan West
Reinhardt Strydom
Roger Whelan
Ryan Haire
Thinus Fourie
Trent Johnston
William Porterfield
Kenya:

Code:
Alex Obanda
Ashish Karia
Collins Obuya
David Obuya
Elijah Otieno
Hiren Varaiya
Jadavji Jesani
Jimmy Kamande
Kalpesh Patel
Kennedy Otieno
Lameck Onyango
Malhar Patel
Maurice Ouma
Nehemiah Odhiambo
Peter Ongondo
Ragheb Aga
Rajesh Bhudia
Rakep Patel
Seren Waters
Steve Tikolo
Tanmay Mishra
Thomas Odoyo
Tony Suji

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nickachu wrote:
Riles wrote:
Second test, won by 200 runs. Impressive opening partnerships in both my innings were followed by horrificcollapses and then rearguard fightbacks (I stop playing properly when I am 7 wickets down and slash out - my reasoning being that unless I need to bat out, I may as well get 50 runs from the tail quickly rather than prodding it about for 40).

Australia cannot deal with an aggressive field, and so I bowled them out for 100ish in both innings. The only reason that I am going to play this series out properly before moving to hard is that I have Jimmy and Swanny on 13 wickets each in 2 matches so far, and Strauss has a decent score in all four innings so there are cheevos to be had. I can tell its going to get tedious though, opening the bowling with those to just to get the points - I can also see a Brawn GP scenario after the third test where I choose my bowler who is going for the achievement and have to bowl deliberate shit at the other end to make sure the wickets dont fall to the wrong person. However, run outs may be my downfall here.


Just try and win the ashes, there's 100 glorious points for that :D


Thats the plan in the third test, although there may be some strange captaincy going on


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PostPosted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 12:23 
You've got to play all 5 to get the achievement


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nickachu wrote:
You've got to play all 5 to get the achievement

Pwned!

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nickachu wrote:
You've got to play all 5 to get the achievement


Aye, I know. Thought I made it clear I was going to play all five (even though I'm going to get bored doing so).

Although if there is no chance of high run scorer/wicket takers after the fourth test, I may just do comedy declarations to end the game.


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PostPosted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 16:29 
Win toss.

Put them into bat

Bowl out for low total.

Pwn total by smashing around park.

Bowl them out again.

Win.


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Sounds like such a fun game 8)

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nickachu wrote:
Win toss.

Put them into bat

Bowl out for low total.

Pwn total by smashing around park.

Bowl them out again.

Win.


I think he was going along the lines of:

Go 3-0 up

Lose the following two matches as quickly as possible.

Get cheevo.

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Win toss.

Put them into bat

Bowl out for low total.

Pwn total by smashing around park.

Bowl them out again.

Win.


I think he was going along the lines of:

Go 3-0 up

Lose the following two matches as quickly as possible.

Get cheevo.

He needs to get his individual run scorers/wicket takers achievements though, that will need all 5 tests probably.

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 16:40 
Ive started another ashes on normal, mainly for the 2 achievements the wickets and the runs.

11 overs in, aus are 54/5. 3 from sideshow and 2 from anderson, shames there's no catching achievement as colly has got all 5! :D

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nickachu wrote:
Ive started another ashes on normal, mainly for the 2 achievements the wickets and the runs.

11 overs in, aus are 54/5. 3 from sideshow and 2 from anderson, shames there's no catching achievement as colly has got all 5! :D

Edit:
Nooooooooooooooooooooo xbox frozen D:


In my first bowling performance, Colly took the first seven catches in a row. The computer really does love hitting it to cover.

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Edit:
Nooooooooooooooooooooo xbox frozen D:


Now, this happened to me last night. I was just about to make a catch and the game froze. I'm confident it was the game and not the console. I was pissed off as it was a right early wicket I could have taken.

Anyway, started again (Ashes first Test, on easy), and got the Aussies out for a comical 60-something. There were a few silly run outs, but also my bowling has improved and I know this helped. I then went into bat and got a very respectable 250-something, and saved the game last night with Australia coming in for their second innings.

Also! I appear to have learned a bit of restraint and patience, as during my innings, I had two blokes (Strauss & Bell) forming a solid and fairly long partnership and getting to 50+ runs each (Strauss eventually getting out for about 76).

One final comment - I'm glad I swooped on this game when I did, as I noticed in Asda that the price is now back up to about 35 quid.

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 14:38 
Been rinsing the achievements on this now. Only need hat-trick and top hat trick for 100%


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Been rinsing the achievements on this now. Only need hat-trick and top hat trick for 100%

I've already got both of those. :P

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I can get 2 in a row, but never the 3rd :(


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I got them both against that guy who left in the middle of our ranked game.

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with the amount of lag I get, I could probably bowl someone out in 10 balls on an online game :D


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with the amount of lag I get, I could probably bowl someone out in 10 balls on an online game :D

Yes, you seem to be tremendously laggy. I haven't had that problem with anyone else.

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 Post subject: Re: Ashes Cricket 2009 - THE GAME
PostPosted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 15:13 
it's my internet here... Im stuck at home and the internet is poo.

It'll be good again soon I hope when I move to Brum, then we can have a real game.


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 Post subject: Re: Ashes Cricket 2009 - THE GAME
PostPosted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 15:48 
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nickachu wrote:
it's my internet here... Im stuck at home and the internet is poo.

It'll be good again soon I hope when I move to Brum, then we can have a real game.

We're all playing Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge next month.


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 Post subject: Re: Ashes Cricket 2009 - THE GAME
PostPosted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 15:53 
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damn you all and your seemingly endless xbox time!

Balls to it , I'm going home early to finish off this twatting guitar career then I'm gonna play me some cricket


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 Post subject: Re: Ashes Cricket 2009 - THE GAME
PostPosted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 16:00 
Riles wrote:
nickachu wrote:
it's my internet here... Im stuck at home and the internet is poo.

It'll be good again soon I hope when I move to Brum, then we can have a real game.

We're all playing Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge next month.


I'll have 100% it by then so no need to play it anymore :P


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 Post subject: Re: Ashes Cricket 2009 - THE GAME
PostPosted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 16:42 
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I bet you can't win the Ashes on Hard.

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 Post subject: Re: Ashes Cricket 2009 - THE GAME
PostPosted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 16:46 
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myp wrote:
I bet you can't win the Ashes on Hard.

A challenge emerges!


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