You're thinking of rounders and American Football, where all the players feel the need to wear armour. Pansies.RicheyJames wrote:so that's baseball for girls and football for cheats. there may be no chance of saving this one.Give me a game of softball or rugby any day.
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I go with the Guardian OBO also. Couldn't you stream radio 5 sneakily?RicheyJames wrote:the grauniad's over-by-over reports are a reasonable stand-in. although i'm enjoying a streaming feed of tms in my own little office.markfiend wrote:Gutted I can't put the radio on in work. Following the score courtesy of Channel 4's desktop scorebox, but it's not the same without Blowers, The Bearded Wonder, CMJ et al.
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hmmm...Dark wrote:You're thinking of rounders and American Football, where all the players feel the need to wear armour. Pansies.RicheyJames wrote:so that's baseball for girls and football for cheats. there may be no chance of saving this one.Give me a game of softball or rugby any day.
sounds a bit girlie to me.the cambridge english dictionary wrote:softball: a game similar to baseball but played with a larger, softer ball.
and the only similarity between rugby and american football is the shape of the ball. why people persist in trying to compare the two fails me.
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I trained once, and once only, with one of the local American Football teams, believe you me it is not a game for wusses, those guys really have no fear
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2 for 11? here we go, then
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Wonderful innit. *sigh*emilystrange wrote:2 for 11? here we go, then
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and another one..
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And another. 19-4.
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You've always gotta worry when England skittle someone. It simply means we've got to back next. And so it's proving again.
Now if someone was to kneecap McGrath, we might be in with have a shout.
But probably not.
Now if someone was to kneecap McGrath, we might be in with have a shout.
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I prefer tennis.
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it was all a false alarm then
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well that all went a bit wrong in the time it took me to get home. still, looks like these two have at least got us back on an even keel...
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how long does cricket go on for?
So is that what they call "a bowler's wicket" then? I need to know these things. Cricket's very big where I work. My career could depend on knowing where silly-mid-off is if I ever get stuck in a lift with the Chairman.
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Not long enough.Brideoffrankenstein wrote:how long does cricket go on for?
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a Test is scheduled for 5 days, and there are 5 Tests in the Ashes, so this will finish..oo.. semptember sometime, i guess
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well that's an interesting question. because before the kick-off everybody thought it was a good batting track. which is why the aussies chose to bat first after winning the toss. seventeen wickets in a day would seem to suggest otherwise though. i suspect, however, that what we saw yesterday was bowlers at the top of their form (on both sides) and batsmen some way short of their best.Francis wrote:So is that what they call "a bowler's wicket" then?
thrilling start to the series though!
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hundred and fifty up for england! tenth wicket partnerships are a wonderful thing. except when it's your team who are bowling of course...
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anyway, the game goes on depsite all the nonsense elsewhere in london.
hayden bowled by flintoff to leave the convicts 54-2.
things seem to have settled down a little compared with yesterday. pietersen's fireworks and harmison/jones' last wicket partnership dragged england back into the match this morning. i think there's still a lot of cricket left in this one...
hayden bowled by flintoff to leave the convicts 54-2.
things seem to have settled down a little compared with yesterday. pietersen's fireworks and harmison/jones' last wicket partnership dragged england back into the match this morning. i think there's still a lot of cricket left in this one...
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