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Old Trafford Test
Posted: 11 Aug 2005, 15:58
by Planet Dave
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.
Which is great for England, of course.
Posted: 11 Aug 2005, 17:25
by culprit
Another work day flies over, TMS on the speakers. Bliss.
Posted: 11 Aug 2005, 17:33
by aims
Why was I expecting a test in the sense of "Which Bowie are you?"
Elderly Bastard Groovy moment...except I'm not elderly
Posted: 12 Aug 2005, 09:18
by markfiend
Roll up Bell and Flintoff and let's start farming the Aussies!
Posted: 12 Aug 2005, 09:25
by ruffers
The Aussies had a bit of an English day didn't they?
Posted: 12 Aug 2005, 10:10
by emilystrange
not one of either team could make it to the lusting thread...
Posted: 12 Aug 2005, 16:01
by ruffers
What's the follow on?
Posted: 12 Aug 2005, 16:03
by markfiend
200 behind IIRC? So 245 needed to avoid?
Posted: 12 Aug 2005, 16:05
by ruffers
94-3. With no Clarke (hopefully). Get in there!
Posted: 12 Aug 2005, 16:23
by markfiend
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.
Posted: 12 Aug 2005, 16:25
by ruffers
I just read that myself
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That's because you ordered terrorist soup sir
Posted: 12 Aug 2005, 16:29
by emilystrange
116-4! bowled by freddie!
Posted: 12 Aug 2005, 16:51
by markfiend
ruffers wrote:That's because you ordered terrorist soup sir
Which came first, Max Headroom or Gerald Ford?
Posted: 12 Aug 2005, 16:58
by ruffers
erm, nope. Lost me completely there.
I own that record though.
132-5
Posted: 12 Aug 2005, 17:21
by Debaser
*wonders if Sam Donut got tix*
Posted: 15 Aug 2005, 11:01
by ruffers
Get in there!
Posted: 15 Aug 2005, 11:03
by MrChris
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!
Posted: 15 Aug 2005, 11:08
by markfiend
*Ahem* yes, meanwhile back at the cricket...
What happened to Matthew Hoggard? When did he suddenly become a good bowler?
Also, when are the selectors going to wake up and realise that we need a decent wicket-keeper?
Posted: 15 Aug 2005, 15:58
by markfiend
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...
Posted: 15 Aug 2005, 16:01
by ruffers
No it's not just you.
I was sitting here this morning criticising Vaughan for making the target too high...
I have achieved almost exactly precisely nothing at work this afternoon and it's not getting any better.
Posted: 15 Aug 2005, 16:12
by emilystrange
aaghhh got him! got him!
clarke i mean..
Posted: 15 Aug 2005, 16:13
by ruffers
Quicker than Guardian coverage! You're not winding me up?
(she's not!)
Posted: 15 Aug 2005, 16:14
by emilystrange
no, am listening to TMS. 263-6
Posted: 15 Aug 2005, 16:16
by emilystrange
oops. warned for yorking.
Posted: 15 Aug 2005, 16:18
by markfiend
emilystrange wrote:oops. warned for yorking.
WTF? Warned for yorking? I didn't know you could be...