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Here we go then, "The Cricket World Cup"

The Aussies are favourites of course, but I have a feeling the dark horses might be Sri lanka.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cric...es/6410751.stm

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Don't say that too loudly, the CRE will get you.:D

Jim.

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Once again England flatter to decieve.
New Zealand beat England by 6 wickets.
I guess we are just not good enough.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/6453853.stm

Aggers view

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tms/2007/...w_trac_1.shtml

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I have to say I am loving watching the lesser nations play - like Bermuda - lol, a few of them look like 'when I'm not on the field I'll be running the refreshment stall' -bless em! So I'm cheering them on, cos they look like 'normal' people, and they are just having fun. :tu:

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Bangladesh bowl India out for 192,:shocked:

And on St Paddy's Day, Pakistan are bowled out for 132 by Ireland:Yikes: :D :cool:

Jim.

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And Ireland got the runs, Pakistan are out
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/6457689.stm

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:erm:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/6464187.stm

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And of course Ireland's best player elected to play for the empire team. Idiot.

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Link

Very sad news indeed, he will be missed :(

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Very sad news indeed, it's a shame he never got a look in, in the England camp.
His Website

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I think his Kerry Packer involvement and the rebel South Africa tour put paid to that at the time.

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Some one said in an interview that he was top of the list to replace Fletcher if he got sacked after the World Cup, it's a strange old World, the pressure of international cricket obviously played a huge part in his premature demise, however would he have wanted it any other way, what good is life without doing the things you love? Tragedy like this put's things in perspective, cricket is only a game and in the big scheme of things are Fred the Ped's antics really that bad?

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Placed against Woolmer's death no, but Fred the Ped should leave his boozy antics out until after the competition is over.
I get the feeling that some players treat this tournament as though they are on holiday.

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You know what if I had paid thousands to go over and watch the NZ game, I think I'd have been bloody annoyed, however to me his antics should have come second, today should of been about sporting epitaphs not about the England vice captain drunkenly failing to skipper a pedalo

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Woolmer's death 'is suspicious'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/6473645.stm

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It's been confirmed, he was murdered now.

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Yes - quite shocking - he was a great player and true gentleman ! Sympathies to his family, friends and colleagues. Rumours abound but claims he was about to lift the lid on match fixing have been denied by the co-author of his book. Another is that a disgruntled fan may have been responsible but let's just hope the authorities catch whoever was responsible.

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Difficult to drum up any enthusiasm after recent events but it looks as though India may be on their way home as well, Bangladesh only have to beat Bermuda to go through to the Super Eights.:shocked:

Jim.

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At least England lived up to their ranking today.....
I get the feeling it won't last though

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cric...nd/6491351.stm

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Here we go again, same ol' rubbish :(
WORLD CUP SUPER 8, ANTIGUA:
England 24-2 v Australia

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/6534555.stm

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Well they picked it up a bit, only to stumble to 247 AO. Still if England lose I am going to blame Barmy Billy Bowden, Hayden was plumb LBW in the first couple of overs before he had scored more than the odd run, Hawkeye showed the ball hitting middle stump two thirds of the way up. :mad:

Jim.

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Blimey, Ireland beat the bangles

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cric...rd/default.stm

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England going well against SA. 121 for 8 of 37 overs. Utter rubbish. :(
Jim.

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Ireland are not doing much better Jim.
It must be due to living in the northern hemisphere methinks. :)

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Well its good to see the team that beat England by nine wickets is at last giving the Aussies a game.:rolleyes:

SA were 27 for 5 :shocked: they have rallied a little since.

Jim.

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First time in 70 odd years four England players score centuries in the same innings

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cric...nd/6669445.stm

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At last we have a wicket keeper that can actually score runs since Stewart retired. Lets just hope he can actually keep wicket well now.

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Whilst you can't really judge him on just one game, the wagon wheel in my last link say's a lot about his ability

Personally I'd like to see Adil Rashid given a go at some point in this series, he is already being compared with Shane Warne

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Whilst four hundreds in one innings appears good on paper, Collinwood really had four innings in one, and I'll bet the bowling attack 72 years ago was a darned sight better than this one, If Rodney Marsh used to call Englands attack at the time 'Pie Chuckers' then this lot are grade 'A' Dibbly Dobblers.

Jim.

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The West Indies are a sorry side atm, the recent World Cup proved that.

Great maiden test century for Matt Prior, and at Lords too :tu:

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A great achievement and to do it on that pitch, makes me wonder how many he could have scored on a decent wicket, what a player :tu:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cric...es/6760899.stm

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A flat track bully, the Aussie and West Indies quickies soon sussed that he didn't have the bottle to face real, hostile fast bowling, an unfullfilled talent.

http://tinyurl.com/35br8k

Jim.

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I thought people had given up on this thread, it's nice to see otherwise :)

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John Bracewell hasn't got a clue if he thinks New Road is a flat track

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Just check out Hick's test stats against the best, Australia and the Windies, very poor indeed.
The quality of the bowling as well as the wicket is an equal factor and against the best he just does not cut the mustard. :(

As an aside, that sponsors logo on his jumper in that Cricinfo link says it all, sponsored by cheap & nasty Chinese junk.

Jim.

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I used to be a big Hick fan but maybe the pressure of expectation got to him - I remember him being hyped up prior to his test debut in a similar manner to KP. Having said that not many players have scored 40K runs, have a top score of 405 and are still batting at 41! (Averaging 45 this season, with over 500 runs so far)

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Imo his problems at test level were mental mainly, that said his average is still 31, not that bad and none of this should detract from his recent achievement, he is one of only 16 to do it and will probably be the last

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Test average is not brilliant, particularly if you take out the gentle dobbers from India, New Zealand etc.

As for the game in general it is universally accepted that it has been a 'batsmans' game for some time now. You only need to look a the paucity of the England pace attack to see how standards have fallen and county batsmen don't even get to play against them.

Jim.

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And you only have to compare the state of their pitch compared to most other county pitches, he could have got there years ago if he played for Yorkshire or Surrey for instance

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Or even Lancashire :cool:, all the TV/Radio pundits agree Old Trafford has the best wicket in the country, what crass stupidity not to play a test match there against the Aussies on their next visit, going to that hotbed of cricket, Cardiff instead.:(

Jim.

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There's a shock

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cric...nd/6225334.stm

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Windies suffer Twenty20 setback

That is poor :disturbd:

Scorecard

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THIRD NPOWER TEST, The Oval (day two):
India 664 v England

Close stuff this :rolleyes:

Whats the odds of England only getting 250/300

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cric...rd/default.stm

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This is Vaughan's new plan to give India a false sense of secuirty. ;)

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Strauss is out already !!!!!!!!!

England 24 for 1

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WTF was Strauss doing pulling two overs before the end of play?
When Tendulkar was out, I tried to be positive and say 'if they can get them out for 450ish ...' :rolleyes:

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The last wicket stand is going to be a killer. Did they put on 80ish? As for Strauss, hjhas he thrown in the towel already?

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I notice that England were soundly beaten today against guess who? in the ICC World Twenty 20 :rolleyes:

http://www.skysports.com/cricket/mat..._14230,00.html

Typical...

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Well I never, England win a test match overseas for the first time in two years.:cool:

Jim.

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I think the victory margin was a bit flattering. All seemed to hinge on a combination of Ambrose's ton and Anderson's 'five for'.
Hope we can wrap up the series a bit more convincingly. Time for Shah to get his chance at the expense of Strauss?

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Im big on cricket and i cant w8 to watch bangladesh v pakistan :D ;)

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New domestic cricket season about to start :)

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Anybody hear CMJ's 'Johnners' moment on TMS yesterday?

Not quite as funny as the Botham 'leg over' original, but worth a listen IMO...

Link

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Certainly more entertaining than the game, the weather isn't helping but its a dreary match all the same.:(

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Knight riders have bn outtanding so far in IPL

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Really??? :erm:

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Whilst not quite in the same league as the classics " The batsmans HOLDING, the bowlers WILLY, or, "Lillie, caught Dilly, bowled Willy" a rather amusing outcome in a local match last weekend.

During a game in the local Central Lancashire League between Rochdale, my local club and Crompton, the Rochdale, West Indian overseas amateur called Dean Currency was trapped lbw by the Crompton spin bowler, Danny Cashin. :D

Jim.

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England fight fire with fire, to combat the much vaunted S African pace attack of Morkel, Steyn, Kallis and Ntini, Englands new ball bowling attack in the second innings was Monty & KP, the look on Graham Smiths face was priceless. :D

Jim.

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Well, as England batted themselves out of the game on the first day they got deservedly twomped by SA.

My first six for the next test in batting order are Broad, Anderson, Cook, Pieterson, Bell, & Fintoff. Now we just need a decent wicketkeeper/batsman and four bowlers.:rolleyes:

Jim.

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I went to watch glamogan vs surrey excellent match

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Vaughan resigns the captaincy...

Link

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After his recent performances i don't think he had any other option. It was either he resigned or was just dropped from the team meaning he lost the captaincy anyway. Collingwood also resigned as one-day captain, so it will be intresting to see who they pick as captain for both test and one dayers or one for each form of the game as they had been doing.

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Pietersen named England captain

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A century on his debut as England Captain not bad eh?

Ironically the third South African born player to do so for England too!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tms/2008/..._in_engl.shtml

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Sad news.....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cri...t-illness.html

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What a complete and utter shambles, the Windies should be made to forfeit the match, our best chance of winning after all.:rolleyes:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cric...nd/7886840.stm

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The weather is awful, must be the start of the cricket season again.:rolleyes:

Still, at least the Jocks are doing their bit to lighten things up.:LOL:

Scottish Cricket

Jim.

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England humiliated by the Dutch. :rolleyes:
I wonder if the Aussies have stopped laughing yet.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cri...est-night.html

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Chris Gayle, what a player when he gets in. Against Australia->

Score 88 : Balls 50 : 4s=6 : 6s=6 :

Phenomanominal :nworthy:

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Australia out of the world twenty20...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/8089479.stm

:D

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I bet they have now :D :D :D

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I liked him :(

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/8329770.stm

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indeed - one of the real characters of the game - sadly too few of them left now

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Looks like England could win the Twenty/20 match against South Africa by the duckworth lewis method.

England made 202-6
South Africa are on 127-3 when it started chucking it down and rain stoped play, they needed to be on 128-3 :p:

Get them rain dances going :D

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rain dance worked then!!

England got absolutely stuffed in teh second game though

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Great performance from England :tu:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cric...nd/8434398.stm

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Yes and another application of some real grit to deprive SA of what should have been their first win of the series! So it's one up with one to play - far better than I'd expected.... :)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cric...nd/8445230.stm

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I agree with Graeme Swann when he said England are single handedly keeping test cricket alive :D

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What he actually said was:

"We're disappointed with that final 50 run partnership but the way Straussy went out and played, keeping Test cricket alive at 100-1 we're over the moon."

I do think that some of the terrifically exciting matches there've been over the last year or two (including this one, some of the recent Ashes tests and Australia's recent win against all the odds) have done a great deal to prove that test cricket has a future.

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Sad fact is England are the only draw in test cricket, we are the only nation that packs out stadiums when we visit, Kiwi's don't bother going in vast numbers to see them play the West Indies or South Africa for instance, the only other place where you can guarantee a crowd in on the Indian sub continent. That said Test cricket still has a future, it's the purest and hardest form of the game and long may it continue.

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Another sad day for cricket with the bookmakers forcing a bright talent to hide in the UK rather than compromise his integrity :(
http://www.cricinfo.com/pakistan/con...ry/486162.html

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Agree. I think it's the tip of a very big iceberg to be honest. Due to the movement of influence eastwards, the sums involved in this are so huge and the networks behind it so powerful that I think our beautiful game faces a desperate future. The ICC needs to act decisively but I won't be holding my breath.

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There is more to this story than meets the eye.

He has now applied for asylum and wants to play league cricket and coach children over here.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cric...an/9181836.stm

If the Pakistan government can protect his family, they for sure can protect him.

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So the ashes start tonight/tomorrow morning, any predictions?

I'm going for a drawn series 2-2 so England will retain the ashes.

Anyone have any tips for staying up all night? :)

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I've heard Viagra's quite good for that sort of thing... :erm: :D

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I'm told the trick is have a cup of coffee immediately followed by a 15m nap at about 2am & 4am.
I'm on a course this week, so I'll settle for the last few overs in the morning.

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Lol :D

I think i'm going to go with the red bull and coffee option rather than that...

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I stayed up long enough for Strauss to lose his wicket.
Not a great day for England :(
Hope they can pull something out of the bag today.

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I managed to stay up until tea, so missed the collapse in the final session. Apparently its cloudy and windy in Brisbane today so should be good bowling conditions, fingers crossed.

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England going well this morning :rolleyes: Aussies with a 215 lead on day three so far.Hussey and haddin sure did a better job then our batsmen.

Come on KP your time has come in the 2nd innings,and a huge contribution will be needed by Englands batsmen just to get on an even score let alone take a lead.:(

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England fight back....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/9235444.stm

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I watched till about 3am then wen`t bo-bo`s, well chuffed for the guys when i clocked the score this morning, they can bat on Aussie pitches :)
England should go out on day 5 and try and smash as many runs as possible as quickly as possible then shove the Aussies in for an awkward afternoon session. A couple of quick wickets and you never know!

Congrat to Strauss for equaling Len Hutton on 19 test hundreds :tu:

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I'm really happy for Cook, hes had so much stick over the past year or so with people calling for him to be dropped and hes put in a great performance in two high pressure innings. Hopefully he'll get better throughout the series with the confidence hes gained from this game.

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Yes congrats to cook the england team are doing well to fight back,i must admit i thought they may have done what england did in the past aussies with over a 200 lead heads down and go on a kamikaze mission its to their credit this has not happened and a draw looks on the cards.

As an aside its funny how when most players have a bad patch the press/public call for their heads the only person whose head was not called for by the "experts" as he went/is going through a terrible patch was "teflon" pietersen who seems impervious to any critiscism.

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Good stuff !!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/default.stm

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I do hope they don't drop Mitchell Johnson. :p:

Apparently they designated the last day as a fancy dress day, all of the Aussie supporters turned up as plastic seats. :D

Jim.

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Aussies 0-2 on a batsmans pitch...

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Make that 2-3! :D

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Let's hope we can rack up a decent lead now :)