Sports: England wins at Cricket, against Australia. WTF?

Started by Viking, July 20, 2009, 07:39:22 AM

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Viking

July 20, 2009, 07:39:22 AM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/england/8159247.stm

Let the mocking of Australia commence.
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First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

Richard Hakluyt

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July 20, 2009, 07:44:59 AM
England stand a good chance in this series. Australia should have won the 1st Test, but England clinged on to a draw. There is no way we could have done that if the likes of Shane Warne were still in the Aussie team.

Viking

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July 20, 2009, 08:00:49 AM
In other sports news.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/8158547.stm

QuoteAfter that he turned to a section of fans who had been particularly vociferous and shrugged his shoulders, while he applauded those fans who had been supportive when he was withdrawn in the 75th minute.

I'm starting to respect Beckham a bit now.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

Valmy

#3
July 20, 2009, 08:05:47 AM
England winning at one of the sports it invented?  :huh:  WTF?
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Viking

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July 20, 2009, 10:41:18 AM
Quote from: Valmy on July 20, 2009, 08:05:47 AM
England winning at one of the sports it invented?  :huh:  WTF?

I know, I'm shocked!
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

Sheilbh

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July 20, 2009, 11:10:56 AM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on July 20, 2009, 07:44:59 AM
England stand a good chance in this series. Australia should have won the 1st Test, but England clinged on to a draw. There is no way we could have done that if the likes of Shane Warne were still in the Aussie team.
Alas it won't meet the punning glory of, I think India and England, when the commentator announced Graeme Onions out with the line 'that's shallot' :lol:
Let's bomb Russia!

Richard Hakluyt

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July 20, 2009, 11:37:20 AM
The best one ever was "the batsman's Holding the bowler's Willey"  :lol:

Josquius

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July 25, 2009, 05:19:19 PM
Its quite weird that this isn't too big a deal.
I recall England beating Australia a few years back and it was all over the place....
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Richard Hakluyt

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July 25, 2009, 05:36:01 PM
There are two reasons for that :

1. There are still three matches to go.

2. The English cricket board sold the television rights to Sky television, so only highlights are shown on terrestrial TV. Apparently the biggest cricket audience Sky has managed was only 1.5m, in contrast the audience for the 2005 Ashes (shown on terrestrial TV) was as high as 8m. Big mistake by the ECB, mortgaging the future of the game for easy money, typical of our times of course.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/international/england/5761035/The-Ashes-England-win-could-put-Test-cricket-back-among-TV-crown-jewels.html

IMO the summer test series held in England should be free-to-air.
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