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Lord Evan Elpuss
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So Alistair Cook bowed out of Cricket yesterday. Is there any truth in the rumour that he is now going to send us some Letters From America?!
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oldraver
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| Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2018 7:10 am Post subject: |
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 In all these years, I've never realised the same names, with or without the extra 'e'!
Fairytale ending, though. He'll be sorely missed. Don't know about lettuce from America...Jennings bats with a stick of rhubarb. If we don't have better openers than him, then we're in a really sorry state.
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becky sharp
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| Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2018 12:48 pm Post subject: Re: Cricket |
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| Lord Evan Elpuss wrote: | | So Alistair Cook bowed out of Cricket yesterday. Is there any truth in the rumour that he is now going to send us some Letters From America?! |
...with a flourish!
A wonderful career bookended with centuries....it couldn't have been written any better.  ....thoroughly deserved.
Aggers was the star on Twitter yesterday with a reply to a tweet from Piers Morgan...
Morgan wrote ...
Goodbye, Alastair Cook.
We've had our differences, but it would be churlish not to acknowledge your enormous contribution to English cricket.
You made the very best of your abilities, worked ferociously hard, scored a barrel-load of runs & ended on a high. Congratulations.
To which Aggers replied....
So funny knowing Cook couldn’t give a flying f***
 Loved it and thousands of others did too! |
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Schizoidman
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| Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2018 2:04 pm Post subject: |
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 A lovely put down for the appalling Piers Morgan.
I feel a bit sorry for Captain Joe Root though. He also scored a century, which was barely noticed! |
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becky sharp
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What a final day of a test match was that!!!
Still marvelling over what I saw/listened to. Didn't dare it to watch at times so spent a lot of the time with the TMS lads.And then the score got closer and closer and then!!!
Ben Stokes was just phenomenal with Jack Leach giving him terrific support
Michael Vaughan on Twitter
When GeoffreyBoycott says it’s the Greatest Test innings he has seen in 60 yrs watching the game you know it’s the GREATEST
https://twitter.com/MichaelVaughan/status/1165659923428065280
What a day, spoiled only by Spurs losing to Newcastle - sorry Helen. |
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Fog on the Tyne
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Great innings by Stokes (the Durham boy done good),pity the umpire missed the obvious lbw though.
Sorry Becky but the totally surprising win for Newcastle went down well here
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oldraver
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| Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2019 11:57 am Post subject: |
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I hardly missed a ball, in the four days. For me, TMS beats Sky hands down. Nobody to touch Aggers and co. Luckily for me, I had no family commitments - I was asked if I fancied going to the coast on Sunday, but politely (!?!) declined. Best decision I've ever made!
Though once Root got himself out and Stokesy got Buttler out, I did think that was it. Unbelievable Boy's Own stuff. I don't suppose that's very PC these days, but those of a certain vintage will understand.
Pleased for Steve Bruce, too. I don't think White Hart Lane is a very happy camp at the moment.
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becky sharp
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| Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2019 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Fog on the Tyne wrote: | Great innings by Stokes (the Durham boy done good),pity the umpire missed the obvious lbw though.
Sorry Becky but the totally surprising win for Newcastle went down well here |
I'm sure it did,Foggy.  |
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oldraver
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So, England batted on and on until they got nearly 500, to try and bowl the WI out twice in the three days remaining, providing they got them out for over 200 runs less than they scored. Except the next day's forecast was rain all day.
I may be wrong, but this has 'draw' written all over it. A missed chance.
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Fog on the Tyne
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looking like a nailbiter to the follow on
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A decent last day's play in store, by the looks of things. That's Monday sorted!
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becky sharp
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An Old Trafford crowd would have been buzzing at Stuart Broad's innings yesterday. Such a pity there wasn't one there to witness it.  |
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becky sharp
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Some great Friday night cricket between England and Australia!
Very tense at the end - didn't think we'd win it, but we did! |
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oldraver
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Channel Four are showing all of the India v England tests and one-dayers. A welcome distraction from all the serious doom and gloom of the past year and no doubt, the next 12 months at least.
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