Re: ICC Champions Trophy 2013

by taipan Tue 04 Jun 2013, 18:08

skully wrote:Must admit, my first thoughts turned to a few players making some quick cash.

*snigger*

Too many Aussies playing in the IPL?

by taipan Tue 04 Jun 2013, 18:14

Henry wrote:Clarke's back has flared up again, I see. There now must be serious doubts as to how much cricket he has left in him. Guys like Athers and Thorpe retired around the age of 33-34 because of dodgy backs. Clarke's 32 already....

"hello, is that Mike Hussey?"

by Brass Monkey Tue 04 Jun 2013, 18:34

Quality effort in the end by Strine. As mentioned, the BCCIXI were 55/5 at one point. To lose by 243 runs is quite some effort Very Happy

by doremi Tue 04 Jun 2013, 18:47

If the Aussies can be bowled out for 65 against the Indian pacers...

by taipan Tue 04 Jun 2013, 18:49

Look on the bright side.

It is only the 20th anniversary of Warne's wonder ball.

by beamer Tue 04 Jun 2013, 18:57

Yeah, time for a celebration of the generation of Aussie spinners he inspired who are now taking the cricket world by storm... oh, hang on a minute... Laughing

by taipan Tue 04 Jun 2013, 19:03

beamer wrote:Yeah, time for a celebration of the generation of Aussie spinners he inspired who are now taking the cricket world by storm... oh, hang on a minute...

Be fair. McGrath did a great job in keeping the quickies fit and ready to fire.

by skully Tue 04 Jun 2013, 21:54

Wow, last I looked India were slowly recovering from 5-60-odd to around 140. Then they seemingly went apeshit!!

Aus 65??? How appallingly woeful. I note that dickhead bigmouth David "I'm above being slagged in the papers" Warner got another duck.

It's gonna be a very long winter.

by lardbucket Tue 04 Jun 2013, 21:57

I am booked in for day 1 of the Ashes. That may be enough. Unless it rains.

by PeterCS Tue 04 Jun 2013, 22:24

Australia always recover for the big ones.

And look at England.

(But not for too long.)

by beamer Tue 04 Jun 2013, 22:44

This is JAMODI cricket, nothing to judge the potential outcome of the Ashes by for either team.

by lardbucket Tue 04 Jun 2013, 22:46

Still, 65. FFS.

by Brass Monkey Tue 04 Jun 2013, 22:47

Has no baring on anything. They're both a school of ginchfishes, anyway.

This Ashes is like a clown lottery, whoever is less sensible will probably pull out the winning Whack-A-Rat.

by G.Wood Tue 04 Jun 2013, 22:49

lardbucket wrote:Still, 65. FFS.

It looked quite roady too.

Does this tournament have Plate and Trophy play-offs like Rugby 7s to give the fat kids of the world a chance to win something? Maybe we can play England there

by Brass Monkey Tue 04 Jun 2013, 22:53

G.Wood wrote:
Does this tournament have Plate and Trophy play-offs like Rugby 7s to give the fat kids of the world a chance to win something? Maybe we can play England there

We'll be busy doing our hair - Vidal Sassoon is bringing out a new product on the 11th of this month.

by G.Wood Tue 04 Jun 2013, 23:00

Midge wouldn't turn that down either. It would give him and Jade a chance to compare arms too. Wouldn't surprise to see them partake in a spot of mutual mastubation to see if looking the same makes it feel the same.

by Brass Monkey Tue 04 Jun 2013, 23:02

Jade hasn't earned the right to use any new hair products - he can't even put on his old hair products properly.

It's also back to little silver studs in his ears.

AND he has to wear long sleeves.

by PeterCS Tue 04 Jun 2013, 23:04

Jade is an old designation of a tired old nag of a horse.

Says it all, really.

by Brass Monkey Tue 04 Jun 2013, 23:08

Jade is also an old designation of metrosexual, Mockney-hairyback-wideboy qunt.

Says it all, really.

by JGK Tue 04 Jun 2013, 23:12

lardbucket wrote:Still, 65. FFS.

Aye. At the very least you'd think that they would have used the opportunity for some batting practice.

I think my Ashes watching is going to be limited to seeing if we can hold off a whitewash.

by PeterCS Tue 04 Jun 2013, 23:12

That's a new one on me. On tinternet, it only says.

1. A clapped-out or useless horse; a nag, a hack.
2. A woman considered to be ill-tempered, indiscreet or unduly promiscuous

I've omitted the precious green stone one.

by Brass Monkey Tue 04 Jun 2013, 23:15

He's a little of 1, a little of 2.

But he's also a little of 3) a brainless idiot who is wasting natural ability with his puffed-up Londontowie sensibilities.

by Henry Tue 04 Jun 2013, 23:24

He looks like an East London fashion student. Bowls like one as well. He also squirmed all over the place during the inquest into Tom Maynard's death, and was unconvincing his his assertion that he had no idea Maynard took drugs. Questionable character, really.

by beamer Tue 04 Jun 2013, 23:24

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/international/england/10094700/Dazzlingly-mediocre-Jade-Dernbach-will-never-get-the-seat-beside-J-Lo-like-Andrew-Flintoff.html

Dazzlingly mediocre? That's rather a generous description...

by Brass Monkey Tue 04 Jun 2013, 23:29

Which brings us to Jade Dernbach. Now, clearly England’s recent one-day mediocrity cannot be laid in the tattooed arms of one man. But Dernbach delivers a particularly irksome mediocrity, the sort that inspires in otherwise reasonable men and women a quite incandescent rage, that piques the parts other wayward death bowlers simply cannot pique.

What was most distressing about his spell of nought for 87 yesterday was that it was barely distressing at all. As has been widely pointed out, Dernbach’s 50-over economy rate of 6.35 is among the most expensive in history. In his 24 one-day internationals for England, only five times has he left the field without a wide to his name. At his best, he is a sort of cricketing novelty act, a bizarre sideshow, the sort you might expect to find at a Victorian fairground, in between the tightrope-walker and the singing Siamese twins

Yowzer.

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