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This here Oz performance at the marvellous Old Trafford...looks like it's been touched by the hand of Hanse Cronje.

Three dropped catches, misfields, overthrows. WTF?

Looks like Allerton Bywater of a Saturday afternoon. :roll: :lol:

Which is great for England, of course.
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Why was I expecting a test in the sense of "Which Bowie are you?" :|

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Roll up Bell and Flintoff and let's start farming the Aussies! :twisted:
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The Aussies had a bit of an English day didn't they? :lol: :lol:
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not one of either team could make it to the lusting thread...
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What's the follow on?
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200 behind IIRC? So 245 needed to avoid? :innocent:
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94-3. With no Clarke (hopefully). Get in there!
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I was right:
Guardian over-by-over wrote:For those who are asking, the follow-on target in Test cricket is worked out by subtracting 200 from the total, and adding one. Therefore Australia need to score 245.
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I just read that myself 8)


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116-4! bowled by freddie!
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ruffers wrote:That's because you ordered terrorist soup sir
Which came first, Max Headroom or Gerald Ford?
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erm, nope. Lost me completely there. :oops:

I own that record though.


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*wonders if Sam Donut got tix*
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Get in there!
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Well, it's built into a neat one-day tester: 399 to score, with 10 wickets to do it with. Something tells me, the Ozzies will just hide behind their bats a bit. Thus far, they've scored twenty-odd of those 400, but lost an early wicket... OOOOOooooh!
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*Ahem* yes, meanwhile back at the cricket...

What happened to Matthew Hoggard? When did he suddenly become a good bowler? :innocent:

Also, when are the selectors going to wake up and realise that we need a decent wicket-keeper?
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Is it just me getting nervous?

Oz only need another 174 to win and Billy Hill online have cut the odds on an Australian victory to thirteens...
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No it's not just you.

I was sitting here this morning criticising Vaughan for making the target too high... :oops: I have achieved almost exactly precisely nothing at work this afternoon and it's not getting any better.
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aaghhh got him! got him!
clarke i mean..
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Quicker than Guardian coverage! You're not winding me up?

(she's not!)
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no, am listening to TMS. 263-6
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oops. warned for yorking.
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emilystrange wrote:oops. warned for yorking.
WTF? Warned for yorking? I didn't know you could be...
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