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Rajah's is broken and I want somewhere to talk about cricket. This will probably get no responses since you don't have a thread already but never mind.

Massive Summer ahead; the mickey mouse world 20/20 followed by the serious stuff, England v Australia.

Anyway right now England are about to lose to Holland. A team of amateurs. In our own tournament. Embarrassing really. I wouldn't care too much but now all the Indians will say 'YOU ONLY DONT LIKE 20/20 CAUSE YOU'RE RUBBISH AT IT'. No, we don't like it cause it's shit.

Shocking bit of umpiring there. If you've got big lines to show where the wides are you really can't be giving them for deliveries 3 inches inside.

Are you just going to talk to yourself then?

I would have. But now you're here to keep me company :y:

Miotch loves his cricket.

Hahahahahahaha

:(

Talk about folding under pressure. Missed 3 easy(ish) runouts in the last 2 overs, pathetic stuff.

Fucking amazing game, shocking performance by england but equally good by netherlands, thats 20/20 for you.

It'd be OK if one of their players hit a ridiculously good innings. But we just gave it away by collapsing utterly under a bit of pressure at the end.

Doesn't bode well at all.

Also what's the point in playing Key and then holding him down the order when you've left Mascarenhas out of the side?

That's what i've been thinking, Key is fucking shite. Never liked him. And nowlook, he's let us down again. Some batsmen.

Well to be fair I love Rob Key and his pudgey little face. But there's no point putting him in with 2 overs left. He's not that kind of batsman.

I can't see the point of him being in 20/20 at all tbh.

Also the bowling selection was questionable/the fielding positions.

Robert Croft will be fuming tonight.

I know that I'm not stupid. I support the team. I just found it hilarious and pitiful. :$

Don't be hard on yourself son. We truly believe the grapes are sour.

We'll try follow your lead and lose to Scotland tonight.

The ashes is where the action is :D

The Ashes is great. When England is competitive, which is once every 30 years.

Plus they get the first match in the ashes, bastards.

lol, 7 overs an innings for NZ v Scotland

would've been 5 if they started at 12:30

Fucken stupid by the organisers doing back to back matches.

And we're getting destroyed.

That Watson fellow went mental

Can't believe i actually want scotland to win....what the hells goin on? First netherlands..now scotland doing well.

Yeah, he was going nuts.
Heaps of bad luck going our way too, bloody balls going to fine leg or 3rd man.

Now you know how we felt.:D

Fucking hell, this is fucken ugly.

uh oh

Our bowlers are absolute shit, always have been. We really needed Vettori.
Ah well, hopefully Shane Bond will be back before long.

bizarre shot for six that!

89 may be enough already...depends how shit scots bowlers are.

New Zealand have a bit of fire power opening the batting. Scotland really need a couple of quick wickets and the Kiwis are in MASSIVE trouble.

Oh god, I sense another NZ implosion.

This game is fucking hilarious.

One of the Scots dropped a ball and kicked it for four :lol:

Game over now scotland. scots bowlers are shit, fielders to.

The big fat fellow with the beard and the kilt takes a nice catch.... in the crowd :lol:

Bad luck Scots but you provided many a laugh

Good win, over to spare.

I wasn't worried :shifty:

Suuurrre!

'Mon the Windies!

Your man Ponting is done Pete. Past it. This Summer will be his last Test series.

haahahahaha aussies you cunts

Why are the Windies always so terrible in the field?

I'm not really watching it(got something else on) but i really hope the windies win this.

yes! 15-3 what a time to switch over

Ponting has never been a good twenty20 batsman. I'd rather him retire from both Twenty20 and ODI to be honest.

excuses excuses excuses!!!

We are going along alright here atm all things considered. i mean its not the might of the netherlands but we are recovering at present.

oooh oooh THE NETHERLANDS fuck off

Netherlands gonna win the tournament imo

It's just nice to see Ponting falling over himself early in his innings. As usual. You'd think he might have ironed out that technical flaw a bit by now.

australians always bat with flaws in their techniques.

look at langer, hayden, hughes, katich, clarke, hussey all have massive technique flaws yet impressive records

yep,aussies are flawed,thanks for being honest pete.;)

I'm guessing aussies will get 140.

but we are also the most successful cricketing nation ever :)

our batsman grow up in harsher conditions and learn to tough it out. look at ian bell lovely technique but weak as jelly. people with pretty techniques just get gobbled up in australia because of the bouncier wickets traditionally.

I think the difference is we play too much cricket.

Dunno, we tried not playing any cricket and that didn't work either. It's the standard that's the problem.

The West Indies really are shocking in the field. If someone in my team made some of the mistakes they're making we'd get absolutely bollocked, and I play at a pretty low standard these days.

Only reason you beat us 5-0 last time was because you STOLE OUR PLANS :shifty:

yeah the australian first class system has 5 sides. helps immensely in making sure that only the BEST players are slugging it out in the first class system. so lets say both nations produce the same amount of quality players... the australian batsman have gone through a tougher harsher system.

169 i will take that after the start.

Oh well, so much for my prediction.

God you are rubbish Lee. If the Windies are to win I hope they bash the SHIT out of Lee so he doesn't get picked for the ashes.

Crikey this Fletcher fellow can hit a ball... looks like a zombie though

Good one Hussey you dickhead. I think you should join the Windies like Brendan Nash

If Scotland had held their nerve we could have had 3 massive upsets in the first 3 games. Just shows you what a lottery this format really is.

The Windies are as good as Australia at this type of cricket IMHO. We just are shite. I mean Gayle just literally hit Lee onto the ROAD.

Now he just hit him down the street.

aussies are just flawed imo

:lol:

Lee why are you bowling no balls you fuckwit. 1pa remember that MSN chat we had when you were like LEE IS QUALITY WTF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT

71-0 off 5 overs!

I don't actually, which would imply I was a touch under the influence :)

He can be good. When he's swinging it at 93mph he's all but unplayable. But you see more of him than me, and that last over was shocking. Great to watch though.

He doesn't swing the ball.

I mean the white ball doesn't swing much anyway but even with the red ball he seldom gets swing any more. He is the worst bowler to take 300 wickets.

lmao@the pigeons

This ugly pie chucker will surely bowl Australia back into the game

James Hopes and Robert Key should be the public faces of this tournament.

Eye candy.

At least our embarassing defeat was close. I mean I know the Windies are better but this is a raping. Lest we forget England beat them by 9 wickets a couple of days ago.

We've battered the windies over the last few months yet aussies can't even dominate at all in this.

lol you batted them in your own country after they beat you in a test series.

and we beat them in the one day series over there to, they only beat us 1-0 in the test series.

We beat them in a test series and a one day series in the West Indies a few months before you played them.

This tournament is a warm up to the Ashes to get used to English conditions. Nothing more

Not to us. Ask an Indian how important it is.

What happened to TheRavi btw? I miss the crazy idiot.

hahahaahah sure,shutup.:)

You criticizing lee so badly shows this isnt just a warm up to you.

He I am sure is caring very deeply over this tournament.

If Australia wants to play in these things they should send specialist teams. These sorta ODI sides we send are retarded. Just pick a bunch of t20 specialists and have the others sneak into county teams

There is potential Lee might play for Australia in the Ashes when we just beat South Africa with no Lee in sight. I would criticise him walking down the road. Ask IPA my thoughts on Lee :lol:

So when aussies lose the ashes, they'll be like'oh we only care about the 50 over game, but we'll laugh at england whenever they lose in 20/20'

No, if Australia loses the Ashes we aren't going to pretend to not care about Test cricket. Can't you remember 2005 or something?

Losing 2005 was one of the darkest days in Australian cricket. If we lose the Ashes this time it won't be QUITE as bad but it would still be terrible.

Course i remember 2005,i was at the celebration party thing.:cool: I was taking the piss out of you guys losing.:)

How did the next Ashes series go again???

See we went down fighting, you guys capitulated like little girls :lol:

Different teams now though.:) where are warne and gilchrist?oh yeah...the IPL

Thats why it wouldn't be so bad to lose. I sorta don't know what to expect to be honest. I think there is good potential in the Australian line up but i am terrified the selectors are going to make poor decisions.

I could cop losing this series to be honest. It will be close anyway.

great catch

I am watching Australia's AFC qualifier in the Football now.

johnson bowls two wides,just thought i would inform you,and then gives a way a four, windies win!

I still had cricinfo going mate.

My updates are better and more accurate...

e.g: West indies completely batter the aussies.

The West Indies are a full ICC member aren't they :lol:

Haven't acted like it though.

But they still are a full member.

I cannot remember the last time Australia lost to an Associate member. In fact I cannot recall it ever happening... when did England last lose to an Associate Member :lol:

Thought you didn't care about 20/20?hmmmmm....

Good news is england winning 4-0 in the football...aussies lost...and other things goin well,good day this.:)

i care a lot about associate members getting good results. i like the associates doing well. especially if it comes from england losing ;)

i am a big fan of pushing cricket around the world. i could start a massive rant on the icc and south africas failure with kenya

I don't like 20/20 but it's always shit to lose to crap teams. Windies are pretty crap, Holland are worse. At least Australia lost through a brilliant Chris Gaylre performance, we basically defeated ourselves, which is the worst thing. Mentally weak.