I wonder if there will be any radical changes by the selectors over the next three games?
Clarke may be "rested"
It's going to be a great Ashes series!
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“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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You think maybe this thread should be "rested"?Gob wrote:I wonder if there will be any radical changes by the selectors over the next three games?
Clarke may be "rested"
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What? Going into the fifth day of the second game, with Aus desperately trying to hang on for a draw, England set to win, and the weather closing in??????
It's a cliff hanger!!!
It's a cliff hanger!!!
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Fuck me! I've just had a look for the first time this morning... 291-8.
All over Red Rover!
All over Red Rover!
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
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England take the second test!!
Win by an innings and 71 runs!!
Oh me oh my!!!!!
Win by an innings and 71 runs!!
Oh me oh my!!!!!
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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And they got a free boxing match thrown in
Beefy vs Chappellli...
Beefy vs Chappellli...
England's thumping of Australia in the second Ashes Test nearly sparked a different type of thumping between veteran cricket rivals Ian Botham and Ian Chappell in Adelaide.
The English knight and the Aussie had to be dragged apart after reportedly clashing in the Adelaide Oval car park.
The two men, who are said not to have spoken to each other since 1980 despite being regular cricket commentators at the same events, squared up as Botham waited to be picked to go to the airport, Britain's Daily Mail reported.
Chappell, from Channel Nine, "muttered something highly provocative as he went past", reported the paper, and Botham, from Sky, snapped: "What did you say?"
They dropped their bags and "went for each other" before being separated by their colleagues from Channel Nine and Sky.
"It could have got very nasty if there hadn't been people on hand to keep them apart," a Channel Nine source was reported as telling the Mail.
"They reacted quickly because we all know the history between these two. They might be aged 55 and 67, but neither of them are the type of people to give an inch in the face of conflict."
The animosity between the pair started in 1977, when, during the Centenary Test in Melbourne, Botham said Chappell uttered comments attacking the English, so he punched him and chased him out of a pub.
Chappell's version of events was that Botham had teased him about not touring in England because "too many blokes are looking to knock your block off".
http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/cri ... 18o28.html
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Apparently Chappell said on Test Match Special earlier that he'd rather lose to England than NZ because the Kiwis gloated more than the English.
He may live to regret those words...
He may live to regret those words...
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
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Well, yes, I understand your concern, and sense of excitement....What? Going into the fifth day of the second game, with Aus desperately trying to hang on for a draw, England set to win, and the weather closing in??????
It's a cliff hanger!!!
But there is one other consideration....
Not to put too fine a point on it...
Who gives a fuck?
(not meaning to be rude or anything....just pointing out the bleeding obvious...)
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Sean wrote:Apparently Chappell said on Test Match Special earlier that he'd rather lose to England than NZ because the Kiwis gloated more than the English.
He may live to regret those words...
Oh, talk about asking for it!
Out here in the civilised world, everybody does. A few amongst the barbarians do too I believe....Lord Jim wrote:
Well, yes, I understand your concern, and sense of excitement....
But there is one other consideration....
Not to put too fine a point on it...
Who gives a fuck?
(not meaning to be rude or anything....just pointing out the bleeding obvious...)
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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And this bore fest is supposed to stretch out until February 2011?
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
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Then we have the ICC Cricket World Cup, 2011, Feb 19 - Apr 02
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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You know, I think I could undergo major surgery, (something like a heart transplant) with no more anesthesia than a couple of video clips from this "Cinders series".....
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It's called hibernation. It's how mammals survive the cold winter months without substance or stimulation.
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That would seem to summarize "Cricket" fairly comprehensively.....without substance or stimulation.
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And yet you keep coming back to this thread LJ... 
Face it matey, you're hooked!
Face it matey, you're hooked!
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
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Just for you Jim, some hot action...
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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But Strop, don't real men have to wear gloves the size of frying pans in order to catch a ball?
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
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Rather like a multi car collision on an Interstate....And yet you keep coming back to this thread LJ...
Face it matey, you're hooked!
You know you shouldn't look....
But you just can't turn away....
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I'm also fascinated, (from a sociological stand point) as to how two otherwise seemingly intelligent men, can go completely "gaga" over a "sport" that is the answer to the trivia question, "If Leonard Cohen was a sport, what sport would he be?"
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Desperate!! Desperate!! DESPERATE!!!!
Young left-arm spinner Michael Beer is a shock selection for the third Test in Perth, beating Nathan Hauritz and Xavier Doherty to a place in Australia's 12-man squad.
Doherty, Marcus North and Doug Bollinger have been dropped from the side that lost by an innings and 71 runs.
Beer, the 26-year-old West Australian has played just five first-class games with 16 wickets at an average of 39.93.
Hauritz, who had been tipped to come in for Doherty, will now struggle to revive his Test career in light of this latest selection.
Beer will be expected to make his debut on home soil, although he originally hails from Victoria.
Hauritz has just claimed 3-106 from 33.1 overs over two innings in the latest Sheffield Shield match for NSW against South Australia.
Phillip Hughes, who replaces the injured Simon Katich, was dismissed for a duck in NSW's second innings after discovering he was in the Test squad.
Steve Smith has come in for North, who has struggled to make a big score in pressure situations.
Mitchell Johnson also returns after a week of remedial work on his action, with Bollinger making way.
http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/sho ... 18sf9.html
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”