Sorry Jim, I nearly forgot!!!

[Gob]

Here you go old son, fill your boots!

[Lord Jim]

Why is it that whenever I see my name in a subject line, 90% of the time what follows is either about cricket or The Late Leonard Cohen...

It must be some sort of conspiracy to try to put me into a persistent vegetative state....

[Gob]

You mean you're not already?

[kristina]

Why is it that whenever I see my name in a subject line, 90% of the time what follows is either about cricket or The Late Leonard Cohen...

It must be some sort of conspiracy to try to put me into a persistent vegetative state....

It's probably because you've been so subtle in expressing your feelings about cricket and Cohen...people think you might be interested.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Why is it that whenever I see my name in a subject line, 90% of the time what follows is either about cricket or The Late Leonard Cohen...

Or both.

I just downloaded this film from i-Tunes:



Bet you're jealous now!

Meade

[oldr_n_wsr]

Why is it that whenever I see my name in a subject line, 90% of the time what follows is either about cricket or The Late Leonard Cohen...

It must be some sort of conspiracy to try to put me into a persistent vegetative state....

Adam Sandler redid a Leonard Cohen song (halleighluia sp?) for the 12/12/12 concert. Didn't suck.

[Lord Jim]

Adam Sandler redid a Leonard Cohen song (halleighluia sp?) for the 12/12/12 concert. Didn't suck.

Says something when Adam Sandler can improve on your work....

[Gob]

Bummer!!

Light rain is falling in Hobart. The start of the second session is delayed for at least half an hour ... a somewhat frustrating day for all and sundry down in the Apple Isle. Is it compulsory for rain to fall in Tasmania? Even in summer.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Adam Sandler redid a Leonard Cohen song (halleighluia sp?) for the 12/12/12 concert. Didn't suck.

Says something when Adam Sandler can improve on your work....

It would. He didn't.

[Lord Jim]

It would. He didn't.

Well, in oldr's opinion he did:

Adam Sandler redid a Leonard Cohen song (halleighluia sp?) for the 12/12/12 concert. Didn't suck.

By not sucking, it was an improvement, by definition....

[Big RR]

Don't sugar coat it jim, show us what you really think.

Persoanlly, I disagree with oldr's assessment, although I will qualify it by saying it sucked, but not as much as it could have considering it was Adam Sandler singing.

[Joe Guy]

When is the last time Leonard Cohen wrote a new song?

Or is he just doing his greatest hits from last mid-century every concert?

[MajGenl.Meade]

On Monday, March 26, 2012 Cohen announced the first eighteen concerts of his 'Old Ideas World Tour' taking place in Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, France, Spain and Portugal.[2][3] On April 2, 2012 two further concerts were added in Ghent, Belgium due to public demand, on April 4, 2012 it was announced that Cohen would perform a third concert in Dublin due to high public demand.[4] It was revealed by The Telegraph Newspaper that Cohen would perform his only UK show in September at the Hop Farm Country Farm in Kent.[5] On May 17 a second concert at the Hop Farm Country Farm was announced for September 9, 2012.[6]. However, on August 23 it was announced that both concerts would be moved to Wembley Arena.

The North America leg of the tour was announced via Cohen's official website on May 3, 2012. The first concerts to be announced were 11 in the United States and 10 in Canada.[7] Cohen later announced second concerts in Montreal and Toronto due to increasing public demand. Soon after a second concert at Austin and a second concert at Boston were also added to the schedule.[7]

In December 2012 the first dates for 2013 were announced, with indoor concerts to take place in London and four cities in Germany. A few days later a concert in Paris was announced

[Econoline]

When is the last time Leonard Cohen wrote a new song?

Or is he just doing his greatest hits from last mid-century every concert?

Old Ideas (2012)

[Gob]

Back to the OP.

Peter Siddle's effort with the ball on day three, in claiming 5-54, was even more influential than Michael Hussey's unbeaten century had been a day earlier.

Despite Sri Lanka's Tillakaratne Dilshan (147) and Angelo Mathews (75) combining for a partnership of 161, the second-best made against Australia at Blundstone Arena, the home team still emerged at the halfway point of the match with a 114-run lead.

In the 14 overs Australia had to face to end day three that lead was extended to 141. They will begin day four 0-27, with Ed Cowan on 16 and David Warner on eight.
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The difference in priorities between the teams was reflected in the boundary and maiden tallies.

When Australia declared at 4-450 on day two their score included 39 boundaries in 131 overs. In response, Sri Lanka matched that tally in just 96 overs. The visitors' advantage in that area was, however, negated by the ability of Australia's bowlers, particularly Siddle, Nathan Lyon and Shane Watson, to dry up the scoring around those boundaries and hinder the batsmen from rotating the strike.

Only 14 of the 131 overs bowled by Sri Lanka on days one and two were maidens, such was the discipline of the likes of Hussey, Phillip Hughes and Matthew Wade to score in most overs, even if it was just a single or two. Australia matched that tally of maidens in 70 overs, about half the time it took the Sri Lankans to do the same.

Siddle was the greatest exponent of the pressure that ensured the aggressive Dilshan's 416-minute stay at the crease did not have a significant effect on his team's run rate. At one stage in the second session he bowled 38 consecutive dot balls.

Siddle was so effective that the inability of Mitchell Starc to settle was negated. Three of the lanky left-armer's five spells for the day lasted only two overs, such was the regularity at which he was dispatched to the boundary.

Starc, chosen ahead of Mitchell Johnson, gave himself something to savour late in the innings with a fine yorker to dismiss Dilshan. After taking four wickets within 30 overs on day two, Australia had to wait 56 overs on day three to claim a fifth. The bowlers' workload was, for the second time in three Tests, increased by the absence of a seamer because of injury.

Ben Hilfenhaus, playing his first home Test, was not able to complete four overs on day three before he left the field with a suspected left-side strain. Siddle assumed greater responsibility when James Pattinson was injured in Adelaide against South Africa and did the same after Hilfenhaus's early exit. It was the 28-year-old who produced that initial breakthrough, when a review upheld his leg-before appeal against Mathews. Dilshan and Mathews batted aggressively without too often straying into recklessness. Mathews's innings continued his great record against Australia - he averages 87.25 after six innings - while Dilshan's punishing 147 was the second-highest against Australia in Hobart, trumped only by Kumar Sangakkara's 192 on Sri Lanka's previous visit in 2007-08.

After lunch, Siddle claimed the remarkable figures of 4-13 off 12.3 overs with nine maidens, for eventual figures of 5-54 from 25.3.

[Gob]

Heh!! Comment on the cricket live score board;

When John Howard was Prime Minister, Steve Waugh won 16 tests in a row, and Australia won two World Cups. It is yet another reflection on this incompetent Government that those days are now long gone, and we are in danger of being beaten by Sri Lanka. In Hobart. Hobart! A Royal Commission must be established immediately.



Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/liv ... z2FHMA46mS

[MajGenl.Meade]

I couldn't sleep last night (in fact, got not one hour).

So I watched a few overs live around 2:30 - 3:00 a.m. Contrary to LJ (and others') theories, the cricket failed to put me to sleep.

In fact it encouraged me to watch what I suppose was the recorded game between Corinthians and Chelsea (World Club Championship FInal) from Japan which I was thrilled to see end in humiliation for the Blues.

Then it was Sports Night on ESPN until the Patriots/49ers game began. I went to bed after the first quarter; failed to sleep at all so got up at 6 a.m. and watched the end of the 3rd quarter and all of the fourth. Good game.

Cricket highlights are on now but, sorry Gob, I'm tiling the kitchen and will have to listen to the ANC elective conference on the radio instead

Meade

[Lord Jim]

the cricket failed to put me to sleep.

Yes, but you're an unusual case Meade....

You can apparently stay awake while listening to hours of Lenny Cohen....

You could probably run wind sprints on propofol.....