50 minute warning.
Over.

Peak Warming Man said:

50 minute warning.
Over.

10-4

party_pants said:

Peak Warming Man said:

50 minute warning.
Over.

10-4

Roger.

Peak Warming Man said:

party_pants said:

Peak Warming Man said:

50 minute warning.
Over.

10-4

Roger.

standing by

weather report?

party_pants said:

Peak Warming Man said:

party_pants said:

10-4

Roger.

standing by

weather report?

Fifty to sixty percent chance of rain between 1pm and 7 pm according to the drt throwers in the old dart.

party_pants said:

Peak Warming Man said:

50 minute warning.
Over.

10-4

Already? Shit

Aus has won the toss and put the poms into bat.

Stands up and yells give Murphy a bowl

Fifty up for England in pretty good time.

We need some wickets already…

Stands up an yells give Murphy a bowl

Bloke up the back pull ya head in

that’s more like it!

2/66

party_pants said:

that’s more like it!

2/66

He’s been playing and missing a lot, only a matter of time before he edged one.

England gorn for 283

Warner makes it to 24 and.. Oh dear

Stumps 1/61

Moeen Ali has a groin

Grapes of wrath.

Peak Warming Man said:

Grapes of wrath.

sour grapes?

stop losing wickets ya fuckers!

We need a partnership to bat all day

party_pants said:

stop losing wickets ya fuckers!

We need a partnership to bat all day

To be fair, Oz cricketers aren’t used to the English heat.

Bubblecar said:

party_pants said:

stop losing wickets ya fuckers!

We need a partnership to bat all day

To be fair, Oz cricketers aren’t used to the English heat.

the funniest and most insightful post you’ve ever made yet on a cricket thread Mr Car :)

FUCK AND PUSS :(

All out 295.. A lead of 12

Stumps

A lot of slow attritional cricket. No one other than Smudge able to put together a big innings.

Hazelwood was playing a some beautiful shots towards the death :)

Ian said:

All out 295.. A lead of 12

Stumps

A lot of slow attritional cricket. No one other than Smudge able to put together a big innings.

Hazelwood was playing a some beautiful shots towards the death :)

it’s a lead, but still a bit disappointing

needing a clatter of wickets… any time soon works for me.

party_pants said:

needing a clatter of wickets… any time soon works for me.

I’m nunfa. So they’d better get a wriggle on if they’re gunna beat me, hey what but.

Stokes is gone. Caught by Cummings

England busily knocking up a cricket score. Going to be tough going for Oz in the last dig..

dv said:

Sure looks like it now.

England all out for 395
Aus has two days to get the runs.i think they are in with a chance.

Stumps 0/135

Rain

Maybe I memed too soon. 248 to get on day 5, 10 wickets in the tank…

dv said:

Maybe I memed too soon. 248 to get on day 5, 10 wickets in the tank…

Ya. It’s a funny old game.

Not watching but checking the score, Woakes has removed the openers

3 for 173

Back to the cricket.

roughbarked said:

Back to the cricket.

3 for 222. 162 to get.

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

Back to the cricket.

3 for 222. 162 to get.

Still a long way to go yet… stay on target

Stokes loses control :)

Ian said:

Stokes loses control :)

He sure did. Then he wanted to get the review back.. but he lost that too.

raining…

:)

party_pants said:

raining…

:)

All up a good day for the Aussies.

roughbarked said:

party_pants said:

raining…

:)

All up a good day for the Aussies.

Hopefully.

I’m off to bed now I think, will look up the result first thing tomorrow. Can’t stay up to wait for a lengthy rain delay to be resolved, They might get bakon for an hour or two late in the day. But it might rain again too.

party_pants said:

roughbarked said:

party_pants said:

raining…

:)

All up a good day for the Aussies.

Hopefully.

I’m off to bed now I think, will look up the result first thing tomorrow. Can’t stay up to wait for a lengthy rain delay to be resolved, They might get bakon for an hour or two late in the day. But it might rain again too.

Sleep well. I’m going to watch a re run of Ghosts and probably fall asleep in the chair.

Only 92 to get.. but.. only 3 wickets..

Hmm

Ian said:

Only 92 to get.. but.. only 3 wickets..

Hmm

Hey, The Matildas got up, these fellas are just joining the dots.

Hmmm.. yaarasmm.. 2 wickets…

Ian said:

Hmmm.. yaarasmm.. 2 wickets…

Surely the bowlers have strong arms?

roughbarked said:

Ian said:

Only 92 to get.. but.. only 3 wickets..

Hmm

Hey, The Matildas got up, these fellas are just joining the dots.

Nah, not this time.

Still, 2-2 is probably a deserved bottom line

Ian said:

roughbarked said:

Ian said:

Only 92 to get.. but.. only 3 wickets..

Hmm

Hey, The Matildas got up, these fellas are just joining the dots.

Nah, not this time.

Still, 2-2 is probably a deserved bottom line

As long as we get to retain the urn, who gives a rat’s?

roughbarked said:

Ian said:

roughbarked said:

Hey, The Matildas got up, these fellas are just joining the dots.

Nah, not this time.

Still, 2-2 is probably a deserved bottom line

As long as we get to retain the urn, who gives a rat’s?

Yep.

OTOH I wouldn’t mind seeing these cheating Blighty blighters (nice ball for shitty one, football crowd) go down..

All out

England got two narrow wins, Australia got two narrow wins and there was one draw in which Australia was saved from a huge defeat only by the rain, so all up you’d say England was the better side.

Poms win with 48 to spare.

I might take some drugs and go to sleep.. for a week

dv said:

All out

England got two narrow wins, Australia got two narrow wins and there was one draw in which Australia was saved from a huge defeat only by the rain, so all up you’d say England was the better side.

Still 22 years since Australia won the Ashes in England

dv said:

All out

England got two narrow wins, Australia got two narrow wins and there was one draw in which Australia was saved from a huge defeat only by the rain, so all up you’d say England was the better side.

Naahh

dv said:

All out

England got two narrow wins, Australia got two narrow wins and there was one draw in which Australia was saved from a huge defeat only by the rain, so all up you’d say England was the better side.

No probs with that.

Ian said:

dv said:

All out

England got two narrow wins, Australia got two narrow wins and there was one draw in which Australia was saved from a huge defeat only by the rain, so all up you’d say England was the better side.

Naahh

Yeah we know. the old ye patriot act.

roughbarked said:

party_pants said:

raining…

:)

All up a good day for the Aussies.

We beat the Canuks 4-0

In every test this series the winner of the toss sent the other team into bat
This resulted in the team winning the toss losing three games and drawing one with just one win.
I don’t know who said this, “if you win the toss bat or think about it for a while and then bat”.
Possibly Ian Chappel.

Peak Warming Man said:

In every test this series the winner of the toss sent the other team into bat
This resulted in the team winning the toss losing three games and drawing one with just one win.
I don’t know who said this, “if you win the toss bat or think about it for a while and then bat”.
Possibly Ian Chappel.

I think he was saying that about Australia.

But anyways, I’m pretty sure the Poms won the toss and batted in the first test. The fifth test was the first winning toss for Aus.

I think the teams were evenly matched for the first two tests. But after that the inclusion of Wood and Woakes for England and the injury to Lyon for Aus shifted the balance to favour England being the stronger team. Realistically they made some mistakes in the first two tests that cost them the series, the over aggressive batting and declaration.

I rather missed the news that West Indies missed out on qualifying for this year’s Cricket World Cup.

In the qualifier they lost to Zimbabwe, the Netherlands, and Scotland. It’s a sad state of affairs but yeah they don’t deserve to be at the CWC.

The ten teams at the cup will be Australia, England, New Zealand, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Netherlands, Afghanistan.