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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2010 23:08:50 GMT
I will never understand this stuff.
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 27, 2010 9:35:27 GMT
Day 3. Australia have scored 480 to our 260 so now they are well in front. 2 days and 2 innings (one for each side) to go. England will be happy to accept a draw.
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 28, 2010 9:37:22 GMT
Day 4 - England fighting back. 309-1 so we are 88 ahead. Tomorrow is the last day.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2010 15:27:48 GMT
How is it possible to score a pitiful 1 point?
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 28, 2010 18:21:39 GMT
What 1 point? Nobody scores points. That is one wicket. Australia only took one wicket 'cos they're rubbish.........
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 29, 2010 11:29:57 GMT
Day 5. England 517-1, Australia 107-1. Match drawn.
Secind test at Adelaide starts next Thursday.
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Post by myrt on Nov 29, 2010 14:36:14 GMT
Cricket is one of the most opaque sports there has ever been! But I do know enough to realise that England did very well to get a draw, given the way things started.......
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 2, 2010 13:18:54 GMT
Second test starts at midnight tonight our time. Australia have dropped Mitchell Johnson who was their cricketer of the year last year.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 2, 2010 15:34:16 GMT
Midnight? Do you all adjust for what time it is in the opposing team's home country?
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 2, 2010 15:50:18 GMT
Midnight? Do you all adjust for what time it is in the opposing team's home country? But of course.............
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2010 18:22:47 GMT
Bixa, at least it is keeping them off the streets and preventing them from making mischief.
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 5, 2010 9:49:55 GMT
England well on top in the second Test. Oz all out 245, England 551-4, Kevin Pietersen 213 not out.
2 days to go.
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 26, 2010 9:30:44 GMT
I need to update you all. After the third test we are 1-1 with Australia with 1 match drawn.
But... first day of the fourth test just finished at Melbourne with Oz all out for just 98 and England 153 without loss of wicket.
That's Australia's lowest score ever against England at Melbourne and their lowest score against England anywhere in Australia for 74 years.
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Post by bjd on Dec 26, 2010 13:42:22 GMT
What does "loss of wicket" (or not) mean? Anything to do with who is up to bat?
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 27, 2010 9:17:27 GMT
Loss of wicket means that a batsman has been dismissed.
Thus at the end of todays play England were 453 for the loss of 5 wickets. Another 5 wickets need to fall before England are all out. That means they have a very good lead over Oz who probably won't be able to come back from this.
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 30, 2010 10:24:44 GMT
And they couldn't and were soundly beaten so we are 2-1 up in the series and retain the Ashes as Autralia can only draw the series now..
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Post by tod2 on Dec 30, 2010 12:32:30 GMT
So Mick, our boys (the South Africans in the England team) really came through like the stars they are! Kevin Pietersen is from my city and went to the same school as my late brother - namely Maritzburg College. I loved watching every minute of 'The Ashes' and now want to see England(South Africa) win the final game!
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Post by questa on Jan 12, 2014 12:31:04 GMT
I just found this thread...hello to tod2 and any other cricket tragics.
It would be unkind of me to remind any English followers of Oz winning the Ashes 5 to nil, so I won't.
Now the one day matches begin today... If anyone needs explanations of the jargon or how it is played, maybe I can help. Mickthecactus tried, but the finer points of strategy and cunning are hard to define.
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Post by questa on Jan 12, 2014 22:10:56 GMT
Hi tetsyd, You have to remember that cricket, with all its pageantry and history is like a pantomime. People don't just watch a sport...they need a hero to cheer and a villain to hiss. KP has been a villain so long we are tired of him and hissing Broad, the new villain (and with good reason) Our hero this season is Mitch Johnson who is booed by the England followers. I just go to see clever, cunning bowling, skilful precise batting and miraculous fielding...I don't mind who wins. HOWZAT?
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Post by questa on Jan 13, 2014 0:56:42 GMT
Shane Warne is a freak...way over any others according to those who commentate. I was told by a flight attendant that travelling from Melbourne to Sydney for a match, he spent the whole flight with a ball in his hands practising various spinning actions, catching the ball a foot or so above his hand. He didn't miss it once.
Fielding has many magic moments, but I'll never forget an Oz player called Dyson in a one day match out on the boundary, under lights, leaping high into the air like a football goalie and plucking the ball from the sky in a stretched out single hand. It would have been a 6 to the back of the stand...I forget the batsman, even the match, but the catch was perfection.
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Post by questa on Jan 13, 2014 1:01:22 GMT
I just Googled "cricket dyson catch" and the whole youtube and info is there.
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Post by questa on Jan 18, 2014 11:51:14 GMT
Faulkner's knock was totally unbelievable. The figures just seem impossible, what a champion!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2014 12:32:36 GMT
I presume that Bangladesh and Pakistan are excluded from these particular matches or they would be winning, no?
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Post by questa on Jan 26, 2014 12:06:28 GMT
Another last over cliff hanger. Again the England team just lucked out with 3 balls to spare. Clarke showing expertise in field placings and choice of bowlers. Glad to see he is maturing. Gotta feel sorry for the Poms with the last stumping...more fluke than skill.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2014 7:10:26 GMT
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Post by questa on Feb 6, 2015 12:44:07 GMT
The 2015 Cricket World Cup will be the 11th Cricket World Cup, scheduled to be jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand from 14 February to 29 March 2015. 49 matches will be played in 14 venues with Australia staging 26 games at grounds in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney while New Zealand hosts 23 games in Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Hamilton, Napier, Nelson and Wellington.[ The final match of the tournament will take place at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. It will be one of the world's largest international sports tournaments, with 14 competing teams and more than 400 accredited players and officials taking part in it.
The matches are One Day Cricket format, which is fast and exciting (usually)In a match, each team bowls 50 overs [ over = a set of 6 consecutive balls bowled by the one bowler] at the batting team who has to amass as many runs as possible without getting Out.
Here is where you see the mighty or subtle batting, the tricky and skilful bowling and the devious and forward thinking of the captains as to where to place their fielders, and which bowler to use etc.
I also may be able to explain the game in simple terms for those who may want to know what is going on. I would also like other cricket fans to join in here and chat about it all.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 6, 2015 14:56:03 GMT
Woohoo! I'd forgotten this thread.
Eldest grandson (15) is giving a demonstration against a bowling machine at Lords Cricket Ground tomorrow.
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Post by questa on Feb 6, 2015 21:21:08 GMT
So Grandfather Mick will be there with his video camera. Good luck.
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Post by questa on Feb 6, 2015 21:56:54 GMT
Tod, Mick...a name to watch. My friend's grandson is 15, name Blake Gutsche. Bats like a demi-god. Toured Sri Lanka with Oz under 16s last May...highest run getter. Plays grade cricket with the older men, one step under State grade. Halfway through this season's under 16 competition his batting average is 190.5 !
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 9, 2015 10:07:57 GMT
Wow, he sounds fantastic!
In which case watch out for my grandson George Duke. Aged 15 plays for County under 17's, off break bowler. Started grade (club) cricket with men at 13 in second XI and took 5 wickets in first match. Moved up to first XI last season and took 4 wickets in first match.
Maybe they will play against each other!
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