South Africa v NZ, T20 WC, Durban, 19th Sept

bliksem wrote:That reminds me of a sign I saw at one of the cricket grounds recently - "I support two teams - South Africa, and whoever the Aussies are playing."

The way it should be between two combative nations like Aus and SAf, bliks.

Batfink Begins wrote:Aus are bottom by miles(cnuts), but I do admire their cricket.

You're a generous, generous man LP.

Batfink Begins wrote:For me, the Japies are my third favourite team behind the Windies and England.

Aus are bottom by miles(cnuts), but I do admire their cricket.

Disagree, typically such a set of humourless mean buggers. Either pound you into submission if they're better than you or try and bore you to death if they're worse than you. Jonty Rhodes is one of their few players that I liked.

I'd go Windies, then NZ, Sri Lanka,

At the bottom its Pakistan, India, SA and worst of all the Aussies (of course). I think everyone wants to see them lose. But at least you can still admire their cricket and players like Gilchrist, Warne and (through gritted teeth) McGrath, Waugh & Ponting.

skully wrote:
You're a generous, generous man LP.

I get on well with Aussies in general though, as a consolation - as I'm sure you were really gutted

Demelza wrote:I've been watching the wrong programme!

Cornish person in "being a bit behind the 8-ball and generally slow" shock.

doctorspin wrote:

Demelza wrote:I've been watching the wrong programme!

Cornish person in "being a bit behind the 8-ball and generally slow" shock.

Dems about as Cornish as a Yorkshire pud

doctorspin wrote:

Demelza wrote:I've been watching the wrong programme!

Cornish person in "being a bit behind the 8-ball and generally slow" shock.

I had the Surrey/Lancs game on and forgot the time.

JKLever wrote:

doctorspin wrote:

Demelza wrote:I've been watching the wrong programme!

Cornish person in "being a bit behind the 8-ball and generally slow" shock.

Dems about as Cornish as a Yorkshire pud

He's right!
Thank God.
They're all ugly.

Nah, I don't like NZ too much because it's like taking LSD and listening to a warped dictaphone. That and the fact they're boring. I did like Pak but the last couple of years have worn my goodwill thin. With SL, I don't like their minnow-romping and chucking match-winner. Apart from that I admire them. India I didn't like under Ganguly but do now like, bar those tw@ts Zaheer and Sree.

My rankings:

England
WI
SA
Ind
NZ
SL
Pak
Aus

Bangladesh don't count as a 'Test nation' IMO.

Apparently there's a world cup match going on... McCullum hopefully going to get quite a few runs.

He's already got 38 off 23.

Ah McCullum's rubbish. I reckon he's got no chance of making 39.

Batfink Begins wrote:Nah, I don't like NZ too much because it's like taking LSD and listening to a warped dictaphone. That and the fact they're boring. I did like Pak but the last couple of years have worn my goodwill thin. With SL, I don't like their minnow-romping and chucking match-winner. Apart from that I admire them. India I didn't like under Ganguly but do now like, bar those tw@ts Zaheer and Sree.

Aye. Would like Sri Lanka a lot more expect for the cheating one - for a (relatively) small and poor country they've produced some cracking players - Aravinda best of all, but also Jayasuriya, Vaas, Sanga and Jayawardena.

India take themselves far too seriously for a country that's produced one half decent pace bowlers in 80 years.

FFS McCullum. Moron.

It's only India for me. All of the others are a bunch of ****** as far as I'm concerned, special mention to the Aussies and the English.

Nice to hear a woman commentator.

So where did this Morkel bloke crawl out from?

Not heard of him before, but he as good as stuffed our campaign and he's deconstructing NZzzzz's tournament ATM....which would definitely round off the stuffing of our good selves.

doremi wrote:It's only India for me. All of the others are a bunch of ****** as far as I'm concerned, special mention to the Aussies and the English.

Is that the same India which has Agarkar playing?

doctorspin wrote:So where did this Morkel bloke crawl out from?

Not heard of him before, but he as good as stuffed our campaign and he's deconstructing NZzzzz's tournament ATM

He was instrumental in stopping us from winning the test series last year in SA. Great find for SAf.

And his elder brother Albie should probably take credit for stuffing England's campaign.

doremi wrote:

doctorspin wrote:So where did this Morkel bloke crawl out from?

Not heard of him before, but he as good as stuffed our campaign and he's deconstructing NZzzzz's tournament ATM

He was instrumental in stopping us from winning the test series last year in SA. Great find for SAf.

And his elder brother Albie should probably take credit for stuffing England's campaign.

FFS! There's two of them!!!!????

doctorspin wrote:So where did this Morkel bloke crawl out from?

He's been Moonlighting from Chelsea under the pretense that he's 'injured'.

doremi wrote:It's only India for me. All of the others are a bunch of ****** as far as I'm concerned, special mention to the Aussies and the English.

My favs

1. Pakistan
2. England

then

3. India, New Zealand and Sri Lanka

Saw YouTube clip of SL wicketkeeper's Sanga sledging SA's Pollock, not necessary (but was funny).

Pfft... haven't heard of the Morkel's? Deary me, get with the programme. Or just get Sky Sports.

doctorspin wrote:

doremi wrote:

doctorspin wrote:So where did this Morkel bloke crawl out from?

Not heard of him before, but he as good as stuffed our campaign and he's deconstructing NZzzzz's tournament ATM

He was instrumental in stopping us from winning the test series last year in SA. Great find for SAf.

And his elder brother Albie should probably take credit for stuffing England's campaign.

FFS! There's two of them!!!!????

Albie takes Styris' wicket now.

Cricinfo: 90 for 3 in 12