Ashes.

Get a big black dog up ya.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Salad Dodger

"We already have more wickets than World Cup votes!" :^)

 

I keep thinking that something bad is going to happen so expect
England all out for under 100.

 

Oh, I don't know. I think that Australia are the new England.

 

I'm not knocking your choice of sports, but I've never understood cricket or
how it's scored. It's more interesting than golf, mind.

 

There is that. Mind you I quite like watching bowls.

 

You're not alone.

As is watching paint dry

 

Nor am I alone, I'm sure, in not knowing, or caring, who the ****
'Rafa' is.

 

I had to get up early today, and what with Adelaide being a flat pitch
and it being *so* obvious whoever batted first would get a big score,
that I thought little of it and went to bed early.

When I woke up I heard 217-7 and my first thought was: "Oh shit,
another Engalnd collapse".

Imagine my surprise...

 

There are two teams - one that is in and one that is out. The team that
is out tries to get the team that is in, out. Then the team that was in
goes out and the team that was out goes in. The team that was in but is
now out now tries to get the team that was out but is no in, out. The
team that was out but is now in tries to stay in. When the team that
was in but is now out, gets the team that was out but is now in, out,
they go back in and the other team goes out. They then start again.

How difficult is that?

 

I wouldn't get too complacent. We're pretty much exactly where Australia
were at this point in the first test, and vice versa.

That said, we're going to fucking slaughter them. Victor Chandler
disagrees with me, but that's kinda the point.

 

Oh, don't get me wrong - we are certainly capable of snatching defeat
from the jaws of victory here, but at the moment it's nice to feel that
we have a good chance of winning this one.

A lot depends on how Harris & Bollinger improve the Aussie bowling
line-up.

 

We? I didn't realise you were even in the team.

 

It would've been nice if you'd included a credit to the person who wrote
that first time round.

 

I don't know who wrote it first.

 

A bit like baseball then?

 

No, nothing like it.

 

TBH I also had never heard of him until I saw that clip, I follow the
cricket quite keenly but not football.
It is, however, not really important who he is but what. He's a foreigner
and as such his view of cricket is fairly typical of the breed, ie surprise
at how long a game lasts and complete bafflement when it comes to the rules,
all expressed, I thought, in a typically humourous fashion. Tastes vary
though, sorry if it offended you.

 

CT wibbled forthrightly:

Oh come on. You could have bitten better than that.

 

Cricket is the best known cure for insomnia.
2 minutes is enough to get me yawning.