Embee's Tower of BaBeL

... but I’ll play along.

‘Roy’ is Jason Roy, an object of affection or perhaps homoerotic lust for the MIA Trevor Mudge and our esteemed former warden, Jay Dello, the Creator in (apparently) 6 days of this alleged Provisional Paradise.

The scene is set for another monumental Final fark up by Reeks on behalf of the 6ers.

Bradman wrote:

PeterCS wrote:

Bradman wrote:Pommiy media screaming like stuck pigs.

Bizarrely channelling Horace: Where why?

I didn't see it. The only ones I see getting "exercised" at all in Pomgolia about the Big Bishop Bash are those with a professional (or rather, unprofessional) dog in the fight and skin in the game. Like the very worst of the commentators and gutter press hacks.

True, some Brexity types will fly off the handle about anything at all - even about a fly flying off a handle. But that's essentially to get away from thinking honestly about themselves.

Two newspapers in Manchester, reported on News website and seeing as Murdock's owns most of the newspapers in the Western world, unless Vince is from up that way?

The plot thickens.

Vince is very "South Coast" (born Sussex, plays Hampshire), Manc is NW England.

A quick Google News search brought up (I checked three pages of hits - enough) screeches of outrage from the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph. -> See my note on "Brexity types" above:

The Diarrhoerly Mule - in any area remotely political - serves up a daily diet of rabies for the most self-righteously narrow-minded of the nation's middle classes. (Note: enjoying still very substantial circulation, despite the slump across the board, which is a sort of comment on the state of the country. True, they hand out tons of free copies at airports etc, which must be a ruse in jeopardy at the mo.)

The tax-skipping Barclay Bros' organ is a formerly august Conservative newspaper that they've dragged down - again, its Sport section is fine, quizzes etc too, and they have a fine, astute and witty political sketchwriter, but I mean anything else that is remotely political - to the muckspreading dogwhistling hue-and-cry-calling gutter, disguised as a quality. (Examples available on request.)

Both dogs bayed for Brexit. And its hacks will immediately bay (supposedly) for Britain, on any sort of a signal from their editor, editor-in-chief or owner.

So, in both cases, it appears no Murdoch puppetry involved. Maybe Rupe would go easier on the wide and whirling Tye/Aussies in general. If only for sentimental reasons.

So embee, if the Final is rained out do the Sickos win?

horace wrote:So embee, if the Final is rained out do the Sickos win?

there's a reserve day this time

Just heard on the news the Sickos had a comfortable win over the Scrunchies. The top scorers from each team are English.

Mitch Marsh failed. For some reason his brother was not selected.

horace wrote:Just heard on the news the Sickos had a comfortable win over the Scrunchies. The top scorers from each team are English.

Mitch Marsh failed. For some reason his brother was not selected.

because he plays for the Renegades

Nath wrote:

horace wrote:Just heard on the news the Sickos had a comfortable win over the Scrunchies. The top scorers from each team are English.

Mitch Marsh failed. For some reason his brother was not selected.

because he plays for the Renegades

ta. That's a bit weird.

Well done to the Spiv Stinkers.

skully wrote:Well done to the Spiv Stinkers.

Well yes, I guess. Would have been nice embee had his Scrunchies won. He is the keenest of all of us on T20. He may have found a mate in Coverpoint.

Scorchers lost it at the bat flip ...which they won

Vince obviously loves our bowlers

All Scorchers wickets were from trying to force shots and scoreboard pressure

Disappointing result ...but it means we are back to the real cricket ....which will again lead to more disappointing results

Sledge of the night was the crowd member who told Livingstone 'if you were any good you'd be in India'

Babel 12 Draft

That will get the post count ticking

what a fizzer of a draft

The latest version starts tomorrow

Feb 5 the date to look forward to ...



BBL|12 squads (as at December

Adelaide Strikers: Wes Agar, Cameron Boyce, Alex Carey, Harry Conway, Ryan Gibson, Colin de Grandhomme (New Zealand), Travis Head, Adam Hose (England), Henry Hunt, Thomas Kelly, Rashid Khan (Afghanistan), Chris Lynn, Ben Manenti, Harry Nielsen, Matt Short, Peter Siddle, Henry Thorton, Jake Weatherald

QUICK SINGLE
BBL draftee de Grandhomme calls time on NZ career
Brisbane Heat: Xavier Bartlett, James Bazley, Sam Billings (England), Max Bryant, Sam Heazlett, Spencer Johnson, Usman Khawaja (c), Matthew Kuhnemann, Marnus Labuschagne, Colin Munro (New Zealand), Michael Neser, Jimmy Peirson, Will Prestwidge, Matthew Renshaw, Mark Steketee, Mitchell Swepson, Ross Whiteley (England), Jack Wildermuth. Replacement players: Josh Brown, Sam Hain (England)

QUICK SINGLE
Renshaw returns to Heat, trades places with Lynn
Hobart Hurricanes: Asif Ali (Pakistan), Faheem Ashraf (Pakistan), Iain Carlisle, Tim David, Paddy Dooley, Nathan Ellis, Caleb Jewell, Shadab Khan (Pakistan), Ben McDermott, Riley Meredith, Mitch Owen, Joel Paris, Wil Parker, D'Arcy Short, Billy Stanlake, Chris Tremain, Matthew Wade, Mac Wright. Replacement players: Zak Crawley (England), Jimmy Neesham (New Zealand)

QUICK SINGLE
Stanlake joins Hurricanes to go all-in on Tassie rebirth
Melbourne Renegades: Zak Evans, Aaron Finch, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Peter Handscomb, Sam Harper, Marcus Harris, Mackenzie Harvey, Akeal Hosein (West Indies), Nic Maddinson (c), Shaun Marsh, Jack Prestwidge, Kane Richardson, Corey Rocchiccioli, Tom Rogers, Will Sutherland, Mujeeb ur Rahman, Jon Wells. Replacement players: Ruwantha Kellapotha (Sri Lanka), Andre Russell (West Indies), Martin Guptill (New Zealand), David Moody

QUICK SINGLE
Guptill targeting more internationals after BBL stint
Melbourne Stars: Trent Boult (New Zealand), Joe Burns, Hilton Cartwright, Joe Clarke (England), Brody Couch, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Sam Elliott, Liam Hatcher, Clint Hinchliffe, Campbell Kellaway, Nick Larkin, Glenn Maxwell (c), Cameron McClure, Tom O'Connell, Marcus Stoinis, Beau Webster, Luke Wood (England), Adam Zampa. Replacement player: Tom Rogers

QUICK SINGLE
'It just snapped': Maxwell details harrowing injury tale
Perth Scorchers: Ashton Agar, Cameron Bancroft, Jason Behrendorff, Cooper Connolly, Cameron Green, Aaron Hardie, Peter Hatzoglou, Nick Hobson, Josh Inglis, Matthew Kelly, Tymal Mills (England), Lance Morris, Jhye Richardson, Ashton Turner (c), Andrew Tye. Replacement player: Faf du Plessis (South Africa), Adam Lyth (England), Stephen Eskinazi (England), Hamish McKenzie

QUICK SINGLE
Perth terminate Evans deal after positive dope test
Sydney Sixers: Sean Abbott, Jackson Bird, Dan Christian, Ben Dwarshuis, Jack Edwards, Mickey Edwards, Moises Henriques (c), Daniel Hughes, Chris Jordan (England), Hayden Kerr, Nathan Lyon, Todd Murphy, Izharrulhaq Naveed (Afghanistan), Steve O'Keefe, Kurtis Patterson, Josh Philippe, Jordan Silk, James Vince (England). Replacement player: Steve Smith

QUICK SINGLE
Thunder bolster fast bowling stocks with Afghan quick
Sydney Thunder: Ben Cutting, Oliver Davies, Brendan Doggett, Matthew Gilkes, Chris Green, Alex Hales (England), Baxter Holt, Nathan McAndrew, Blake Nikitaras, Alex Ross, Rilee Rossouw (South Africa), Daniel Sams, Gurinder Sandhu, Jason Sangha, Tanveer Sangha, David Warner, Sam Whiteman. Replacement players: Fazalhaq Farooqi (Afghanistan), Usman Qadir (Pakistan)

I like how Thunder have not named a skipper!

horace wrote:I like how Thunder have not named a skipper!

I thought Green was the skipper?

EDIT: nope, Sangha captaining tonight

so many terrible cricketing moments. bodes well for this BBL season

Equivalent of the AFL starting the season with Bulldogs and Port at Ballarat ( two mediocre teams in a neutral location)

and they forgot to mow the oval (slow pitch)

most of the scoring coming from opposition turnovers ( poor shot selection)

the main highlight coming from the sub taking a great juggled mark and then a screamer

and the winning point coming from the full back missing a back kick and conceding a point

Stoinis -- twice out Zero runs Three balls faced ...good launch pad to become Player of the Tournament

Chunder rolled for 15. That's funny.

Talk about cheaping a cheap game.

15 what?

Oh, it's 15 runs.

Surely not. No-one could be that bad.

BWAHAHAHAHA !!!

Record low score for all senior men’s T20 cricket

Most of the other sub-50 totals registered were by “minnow” national teams in T20Is, very few domestic/franchise examples. Eight lower totals in women’s T20Is, four of them by Mali!

The last time a lower total was registered in any senior level men’s format was Essex’s 14 all out v Surrey in the County Championship in 1983. A full 20 years before T20 was even born!