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    Just seen the score card

    17 extras that's only one less than the combined total of Strauss, Bopara, Bell, Collingwood, Broad, Swann, Harmison, Anderson and Onions

    Australia 39-1
    The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.

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      Aussies creaming us all over the place, going at nearly 9 an over.

      What an absolute ****ing disgrace.
      Thanks very much for being ‘This Mornings’ Farmer’

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        1-1 then?

        This is awful. Game finished by tomoz or Sunday at the current rate.

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          Originally posted by 112 View Post
          1-1 then?

          This is awful. Game finished by tomoz or Sunday at the current rate.
          It'll go down to the last day of the last test and flintoff will score a ton to secure the victory.

          That I'm sure of but I'm hazarding a guess when I say that he may well celebrate this achievement with a pint of fresh breast milk.
          Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back. Oscar Wilde

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            After all the furore about how the traditions of the game are being spoilt by the Barmy Army it's good to see England getting back to what they're known for - traditionally dismal batting.
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            Suppose you have a physicist and a sociologist standing at the side of a field, observing a set of events unfolding on the field. The physicist does [describes] it using the terminology of mass and velocity and frequency of radiation and the rest. And the sociologist does it by describing it as a rugby match.



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              Originally posted by dww View Post
              Why do we need them both to be rain affected? We look the better team to me.

              Earlier in the thread Shaggy pointed to the Ashes as the pinnacle of test cricket, a level higher than any other series. I have to say now there is a case that a/ we haven't been in the top two sides in the world for any sustained period other than around 2005 in the last two decades and b/ now Australia are not the dominant world force - basically in the same class as India and South Africa and the Ashes is in most ways, except public interest, just another series.

              The atmosphere may well be better and important in the standing and significance of the series but viewed as a sporting contest I think it is hard to argue for its preeminence.
              You changed your mind yet?

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                Not yet - still another test after this one.
                "The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."
                -- William Blake

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                  What's a "brains tank?"
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                  Suppose you have a physicist and a sociologist standing at the side of a field, observing a set of events unfolding on the field. The physicist does [describes] it using the terminology of mass and velocity and frequency of radiation and the rest. And the sociologist does it by describing it as a rugby match.



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                    Suppose you have a physicist and a sociologist standing at the side of a field, observing a set of events unfolding on the field. The physicist does [describes] it using the terminology of mass and velocity and frequency of radiation and the rest. And the sociologist does it by describing it as a rugby match.



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                      From R4 sports news:

                      More bad news for the England cricket team: it's sunny at Headingley and there will be a full day's play.
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                      Suppose you have a physicist and a sociologist standing at the side of a field, observing a set of events unfolding on the field. The physicist does [describes] it using the terminology of mass and velocity and frequency of radiation and the rest. And the sociologist does it by describing it as a rugby match.



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                        This is painful viewing.

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                          Originally posted by Reece View Post
                          This is painful viewing.
                          It's only cricket. If there's no fun to be had watching Australia lose the Ashes then there's fun to be had watching England lose the Ashes.

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                          Suppose you have a physicist and a sociologist standing at the side of a field, observing a set of events unfolding on the field. The physicist does [describes] it using the terminology of mass and velocity and frequency of radiation and the rest. And the sociologist does it by describing it as a rugby match.



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                            Boring

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                              England getting their ashes whoooped

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                                Bell and Bopara - again - **** off.
                                Thanks very much for being ‘This Mornings’ Farmer’

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