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PostPosted: Tue Sep 11, 2018 5:01 am    Post subject: Cricket Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Tue Sep 11, 2018 7:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Smile 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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PostPosted: Tue Sep 11, 2018 12:48 pm    Post subject: Re: Cricket Reply with quote

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. Cool Cool ....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***

Laughing Laughing Loved it and thousands of others did too!
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 11, 2018 2:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very Happy Very Happy 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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PostPosted: Sun Aug 25, 2019 6:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What a final day of a test match was that!!! Cool

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. Smile
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 26, 2019 1:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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 Very Happy Very Happy
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 27, 2019 11:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Tue Aug 27, 2019 9:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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 Very Happy Very Happy

I'm sure it did,Foggy. Razz Very Happy
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 19, 2020 12:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Sun Jul 19, 2020 4:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

looking like a nailbiter to the follow on
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 19, 2020 6:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A decent last day's play in store, by the looks of things. That's Monday sorted!
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 26, 2020 1:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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. Sad
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 04, 2020 8:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Some great Friday night cricket between England and Australia! Cool

Very tense at the end - didn't think we'd win it, but we did! Very Happy
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 02, 2021 1:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Fri Aug 06, 2021 11:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

In this ever changing world there are few constants.

'Rain stopped play' during a cricket test match series in England is one of them. Sad

Fingers crossed for 12.05.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 31, 2021 8:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

What a series this has turned out to be. Great to see Hameed back after all this time. Robinson is here to stay and all of a sudden, we look like a decent team.

There are no superlatives for Joe Root in this series, as a batsman. For those who have never heard the term 'batsman', now that it seems to have been ditched for the cringeworthy 'batter' - which is usually something that's wrapped around a sausage in a chip shop - to pacify politically correct.com, well that's what we called men wielding a cricket bat in the olden days.

Wait until grasshoppers start chirping about the term 'cricket'. Or milliners start complaining about 'bowlers' being sacrosanct!

It's enough to want to send Lord Beefy to Australia. Funniest thing since Ken Dodd.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 30, 2021 5:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A thumping (Mike Atherton's words) win for England over Australia in the ICC Men's T20 World Cup with England winning by 8 wickets.

A tremendous contribution from Jos Buttler - 71 runs from 32 balls. Cool

A great watch! Very Happy
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 27, 2022 11:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Without a doubt, this is the worst team we've ever put onto a cricket field. And there have been a few contenders over the years.

At least Broady and Jimmy Anderson can feel a little happiness at the dreadful bowling we've offered up. The batsmen haven't been much better. Although we did have chances at winning the last test but as per, Joe Root was criminally over careful with his declaration. I am old enough to remember the great Garry Sobers being the exact opposite and declaring far too generously. Yes, maybe they lost, but the game won, as such as that it was more entertaining for the paying public.

Sir Garfield Sobers achieved greatness in many ways.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2020/mar/17/garry-sobers-and-the-risky-declaration-that-enlivened-a-dour-series-the-spin-cricket
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 02, 2022 11:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well well well...seems like we've got ourselves a very good team at last!
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 02, 2022 5:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hmmmm...it seems I've been hacked! Laughing
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 05, 2022 1:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Really don't enjoy being put through the wringer but if the result is the same as this every time I suppose it's worth it.???

Well done Joe Root! Cool
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 05, 2022 4:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Three key de Grandhomme moments on Saturday swung the match, I bet he's never had such a bad day in his career, calamitous run out, potentially match winning wicket off a no ball then injured out of the game
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 05, 2022 6:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fog on the Tyne wrote:
Three key de Grandhomme moments on Saturday swung the match, I bet he's never had such a bad day in his career, calamitous run out, potentially match winning wicket off a no ball then injured out of the game


I was just going out to fill the bird bath when the wicket fell and thought disconsolately, that's it. I carried on and when I came back in from the garden I couldn't believe my ears. Smile

de Grandhomme - what a grand name.
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 12, 2022 4:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Really disappointed and a little annoyed at Ben Stokes after all the hard work of Root and Pope. Sad
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2022 11:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Stuart Broad. What a muppet. This should cost him his England career.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 03, 2022 10:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

becky sharp wrote:
Really disappointed and a little annoyed at Ben Stokes after all the hard work of Root and Pope. Sad


Totally irresponsible. Especially now he's captain of the ship. Will he ever learn?
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 05, 2022 11:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Amazing. Miraculous. Unbelievable. Wonderful. Superb. Fearless. No words could really explain what has happened to England over the last four tests.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 10, 2022 11:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

They don't like it up 'em!

Glorious from England.
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