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Post by LeFromage Mon 17 Mar 2008, 21:15

Well?


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Post by Basil Mon 17 Mar 2008, 21:18

Expect a slow, low nothing pitch
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Post by JKLever Mon 17 Mar 2008, 21:20

Flattest of the flat.

Anderson will go for a ton.
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Post by LeFromage Mon 17 Mar 2008, 21:22

JKLever wrote:

Anderson will go for a ton.

And none of England's top six will score one.
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Post by JKLever Mon 17 Mar 2008, 21:25

Naturally...
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Post by Merlin Mon 17 Mar 2008, 22:08

Just a thought ... Swann for Anderson or Broad?
Would make it a bit more interesting having 2 spinners wheeling away ...
Now we know that our top six bats can each achieve the 40 run mark ... 350 first dig ought to be getable.
Then turn Monty and Swanney loose on the NZudders .... Twisted Evil

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Post by LeFromage Mon 17 Mar 2008, 22:09

Never going to happen.

They didn't even play two spinners on the Sri Lankan dust bowls.
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Post by Merlin Mon 17 Mar 2008, 22:14

Yeah .... sadly ....
Would've been a nice sight though.
Ah ... perhaps with Miller in charge now ... who knows !!!

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Post by JKLever Mon 17 Mar 2008, 22:20

Odds

Draw 2.1
Eng 2.96

NZ are 5.0 to beat us on their own turf!! Shocked Punters have forgotten all about Hamilton already...
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Post by Eric Air Emu Mon 17 Mar 2008, 22:34

Well they'd just be bloody daft if they prepared another pitch with things like pace and bounce in it. Whatever happens it's going to be interesting but essentially wrong and unsatisfying like a BBC2 documentary on the racist attitudes of old white working class people.

How cr*p was Matthew Bell btw? Makes you appreciate our own Bell no end.
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Post by beamer Mon 17 Mar 2008, 22:44

Eric Air Emu wrote:How cr*p was Matthew Bell btw? Makes you appreciate our own Bell no end.
Maybe the Bells are the new Lewises (see other thread...)

I'm not as anti-Ian Bell as a lot of people on here but am rapidly losing patience with him now - I'd still keep him over the Kiwi version any day though!

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Post by JKLever Mon 17 Mar 2008, 22:47

beamer wrote:
Eric Air Emu wrote:How cr*p was Matthew Bell btw? Makes you appreciate our own Bell no end.
Maybe the Bells are the new Lewises (see other thread...)

I'm not as anti-Ian Bell as a lot of people on here but am rapidly losing patience with him now - I'd still keep him over the Kiwi version any day though!

I agree with this. I think he's very talented but he needs to perform now. Interesting discussion in the studio after the match ended - saying he looks all dreamy but hits the fielders with his shots too often instead of piercing the field.
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Post by Merlin Mon 17 Mar 2008, 22:51


How cr*p was Matthew Bell btw? Makes you appreciate our own Bell no end.

No it doesn't.
Watching the resurrection of Bradman bagging six consequitive king pairs wouldn't.
Watching Anderson getting carted for 36 in an over wouldn't.
Watching Monty nutmegged a dozen times in one session causing 48 runs worth of damage wouldn't.
Nothing would.
Nothing.
Absolutely nothing.

The End.

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Post by Eric Air Emu Mon 17 Mar 2008, 22:59

Ramps was also a master at finding the fielders with his shots. You can be too technically correct.

If Ian Bell was killed in a tragic sex accident tomorrow we'd all suddenly appreciate him then.
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Post by Merlin Mon 17 Mar 2008, 23:08

A sex accident?
Ian Dinga Bell?

He can barely find the boundary in two hours out in the middle, doesn't know what to do with a bat in his hand and you expect him to find his todger, know what to do with it, create a 'sex accident' and then snuff it as a consequence?

Bloody hell - you really do give the lad shed loads of credit.

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Post by LeFromage Mon 17 Mar 2008, 23:26

Matthew Bell wouldn't even get a game for Derbyshire second XI.
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Post by taipan Tue 18 Mar 2008, 06:15

Dello wrote:Well?

OMG Dello is actually Robin
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Post by Merlin Tue 18 Mar 2008, 07:03

Dello wrote:Matthew Bell wouldn't even get a game for Derbyshire second XI.

You're absolutely right, he wouldn't.
He'd be a permanent fixture in their 1st XI.

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Post by LeFromage Tue 18 Mar 2008, 17:56

taipan wrote:
Dello wrote:Well?

OMG Dello is actually Robin

'twas an homage.
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Post by LeFromage Wed 19 Mar 2008, 23:50

Interest in this series has died quickly.

Not to worry, Paul Collingwood's got a spring in his step...

Of the top six, only Alastair Cook has managed three figures this winter, and that innings came in a dead rubber at Galle before Christmas. Collingwood himself hasn't made a Test hundred since June, while Kevin Pietersen - normally so dominant - has gone 10 consecutive innings without so much as a fifty. "We're just one big ton away from opening the floodgates again," said Collingwood...

[He] denied that the players were stuck in the comfort zone.

"With the records they have, they've proved they can play against different bowlers and in different conditions," said Collingwood. "We've come up against some good bowling, certainly in the India series [in July and August] when they were swinging it both ways, and in Sri Lanka, which is a difficult place to score hundreds. I wouldn't put it down to desire or concentration or anything like that. We believe we are better players than that."

http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/engvnz/content/current/story/343122.html

Always comes back to the records - if you can scrape together a 40 average for England, you're set for life. Good times.
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Post by JKLever Thu 20 Mar 2008, 00:04

I saw that earlier today and sniggered.

Hell, at least he isn't telling the Kiwis how crap they are.... did we ever hear from Chris Martin after the end of the test? Bloody fairweather sledger...
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Post by LeFromage Thu 20 Mar 2008, 00:14

In Chris Martin's defence, he doesn't get the chance to lord it over people much in his life - he's this terminally ill-looking, runty, bald, piece of crap bowler who doesn't look like he could beat a two-year-old girl in a fist fight, playing for a struggling side.

Got to cash in while you can.
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Post by G.Wood Thu 20 Mar 2008, 00:15

Dello wrote:In Chris Martin's defence, he doesn't get the chance to lord it over people much in his life - he's this terminally ill-looking, runty, bald, piece of crap bowler who doesn't look like he could beat a two-year-old girl in a fist fight, .

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Sort of describes the whole country
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Post by tac Thu 20 Mar 2008, 00:21

G.Wood wrote:
Dello wrote:In Chris Martin's defence, he doesn't get the chance to lord it over people much in his life - he's this terminally ill-looking, runty, bald, piece of crap bowler who doesn't look like he could beat a two-year-old girl in a fist fight, .

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Sort of describes the whole country

Except those what play rugby (when not involved in a world cup semi)
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Post by Basil Thu 20 Mar 2008, 01:25

tac wrote:
G.Wood wrote:
Dello wrote:In Chris Martin's defence, he doesn't get the chance to lord it over people much in his life - he's this terminally ill-looking, runty, bald, piece of crap bowler who doesn't look like he could beat a two-year-old girl in a fist fight, .

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Sort of describes the whole country

Except those what play rugby (when not involved in a world cup semi)

Some countries didn't make it as far as that IIRC
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