Thalassemia Patients and Friends
Miscellaneous Forums => Older Chatter => Topic started by: SalD on August 21, 2006, 08:38:13 AM
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What is going on with England and Pakistan?!?!?!? :huh
Accusations of ball tampering?!?!? Decisions about forfeits?!?!?!?
That's just not cricket!
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I guess they just don't want to play anymore knowing that they have already lost the test series.
Bring Back Wasim and Waqar!
I bet these old chaps are still better than the young guns of today.
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They probably are!!
However, have just discovered there is an Australian umpire causing all the furore... GREEEEAT. :faint
And he isn't known for his wonderful umpiring... more for his controversial decisions - remember the Pakistani player who got pulled up for his bowling action? Same umpire! Oh dear....
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I've never liked this game "cricket" but suddenly I've taken some interest into the game.
Poirottttttttttttttttttttttttt whats happening with the gentleman sport its just not the same. :dunno
Miaki
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Poirottttttttttttttttttttttttt whats happening with the gentleman sport its just not the same. :dunno
Gentleman sport? That was just a canard spread by the English, so that they could curl their upper lips and say "That's scarcely cricket, old boy" (say with a suitable, plummy accent!) whenever they wanted to put anyone down!!!!!
And, it went rapidly downhill, since we admitted the aussies to the sport .....
Heh
:biggrin
NYARK!!!
Poirot
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Ha. Ha. (Slow clap) ... you're just jealous that some other colonial outpost threatens your cricketing glory!
I bet you didn't know that the first Australian cricket team to tour England consisted of Aborigines? They set the standard for the rest of the teams to follow!
http://www.atmitchell.com/journeys/social/cricket/first/firstTour.cfm
Sajid, what's going on in Pakistan? The media here seems to have turned the coverage from whether the ball was tampered with or not, to whether the team should have stayed in the dressing room or not! Seems quite unfair really... as Ricky Ponting said today - it didn't seem like it was entirely the captains choice... he continued play until the break.
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Heh heh ..... It looks like the aussies are not as hardened and thick skinned as they would have us believe ...... Did I tell you about the time that Stevie baby complained of being kept waiting by Ganguly for the toss? :biggrin
Mind you, Ganguly did have a knack for getting under the opposing captain's skin!
No, I did not know that the original team was composed entirely of aboriginals .... thank you for that factoid and increasing my knowledge of cricket trivia.
But, it HAS been all downhill since then, right?
:rotfl
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Sajid, what's going on in Pakistan? The media here seems to have turned the coverage from whether the ball was tampered with or not, to whether the team should have stayed in the dressing room or not! Seems quite unfair really... as Ricky Ponting said today - it didn't seem like it was entirely the captains choice... he continued play until the break.
Inzi shared his story in the news by saying that he was consulting with the coach and the rest of the boys when the Umpire re-entered the field. Knowing this the quickly told the boys to go out to play but when they reached the field the umpire had lost his cool and came back and issued a decision that Pakistan forfeited the game. The whole team got a big shock after this.
As far as the ball tampering issue goes, that ball had taken pretty much beating (55-56 overs) and how can one tell if it was tampered as it would have countless scratches.
The bottom line is that Inzi says that if he doesn't play the ODI series due ban, then the entire team will also not play as a protest.
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:yawn :yawn :yawn :yawn :yawn
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Miaki I agree with you there :yawn :yawn :yawn :yawn
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I'm inclined to agree with you Sajid, after 56 overs how could you tell? But the cricketing community seems to be sticking by Darrel Hair - I guess they have to ... he's an umpire!!! I hope Inzi doesn't get a ban.
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An interesting article today .... this is not the first time that Bob Woolmer (as coach) has been pulled up for ball tampering!
http://www.indianexpress.com/story/11371.html
http://www.indianexpress.com/story/11371.html
Past sins catching up with Woolmer, eh?
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Miaki, Smurfette, you make me wonder about the truth of the "Australian sports loving public" image in mainstream media ......
:rotfl
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The latest revelations don't exactly do Darell Hairs credibility any favour either do they? I remember commenting to my father that "Hair probably needed another bookdeal to tide him over" when the forfeit first occured. It now comes to light that he has asked for a cool $500,000 USD to go away quietly and not bully other nations teams. His treatment of Muralitheran {A tuly outstanding cricketer and all round gentleman} was a disgrace and made me all too ashamedly aware of my nations chequered cricketing history regarding issues of race and fair play.
When England won the Ashes last year with phenomenal late reverse swing bowling it was put down to "Great skill." when the Pakistanis do the same thing they are docked five runs and charged with ball tampering. Crickets great racial divide shows no sign of closing and my sympathy and understanding goes out to those countries that are seriously thinking of breaking away and forming their own league.....leaving the Australian and English teams along with a few other token nations to play with themselves...which some might suggest is pretty much what they do best anyway.
Good on Inzimam for taking a stand and refusing to be bullied by an 18 stone umpire with a keen nose for controversy and a dubious track record on upholding "The spirit of the game"
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Definitions of cricket a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs.
And they call that a sport? :banghead
Miaki
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Hmm, Miaki thou doth mock mine sport! I must defend its honour!!! :rotfl
I used to jokingly call cricket "My religeon" but found that this had the very real potential to cause offense and thusly stopped.
Theres nothing quite like steaming in, as fast as you can run and bowling a very hard red ball with the intention of cuncussing the opposing batsman.........Ahh the joy of it :wink
I recall my wifes first Christmas spent with my family and her reaction to the "friendly" backyard game of cricket between my brother and myself. She ran out during the middle of one particularly heated over {Set of six deliveries Miaki :biggrin} and implored my brother and I not to fight. I hastily explained that it was all just bluff and bluster and part of the game while my wally of a brother literally rolled around on the ground laughing until had quite a bad coughing fit...served him right to!
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Sherbet - Howzat
You told me I was the one
The only one who got your head undone
And for a while I believed the line that you spun
But I've been looking at you
Looking closely at the things you do
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How how howzat
You messed about
I caught you out
Howzat
Now that I found where you're at
It's goodbye
Well howzat
It's goodbye
You only came for a smile
Even though you're really not my style
I didn't think that you'd run me 'round
Like you do
How how howzat
You messed about
I caught you out
Howzat
Now that I found where you're at
It's goodbye
Well howzat
It's goodbye
Aha
O yeah, oh yeah
Well I've been looking at you
(I'll tell you what I see)
Looking closely at the things you do
(No you can't fool me)
I didn't see it the way you wanted me to
How how howzat
You messed about
I caught you out
Howzat
Now that I found where you're at
It's goodbye
Howzat
You messed about
I caught you out
Howzat
Now that I found where you're at
It's goodbye
Well howzat
Goodbye
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Doo-wah doo-wah doo-wah doo-wah
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Well I have to tell you TrueBlue (and anybody else who reads this post :biggrin )
One summer's day, actually Australia Day weekend down at Mornington (seaside area) (the annual Greek picnic where all the Greeks of Melbourne congrigate and share stories, olives, and how many goats they all had back in the village OH and home made brew) I was playing this so called game of cricket. There was only one bat, so the person batting had to drop the bat and do the runs.
Well I slog the ball (I think you call that a six - anyway very very far) hung onto the bat and started running up and down this silly pitch. My cousin on the other end, pompos cow didn't run just stood on the side and watched me. Anyway when i stopped running i said to her come and get the bat because i am completely buggered. She uttered a very insulting comment and the words of "I don't want to use your bat" when I asked her why, she comes out with "You've got thal major and I don't want to catch it" I looked at her and thought what do I say to this stupid girl who has no understanding of the condition. I just starred at her and she was going on and on. By this stage I had enough of her so instead of dropping the bat and walking off the pitch, i decided to dong her one over the head with the cricket bat and then walk off the pitch.
But after I watched her fall like a bag of spuds to the ground. Happy with my end result I walked away and told her that she better go to the hospital to be tested incase she caught Thal Major off the bat.
:rotfl :rotfl :rotfl
Miaki
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WOW! You should really love the game after that Miaki! See.... all Australian's DO love playing sport... just some choose not to follow it regularly.
Miaki, Smurfette, you make me wonder about the truth of the "Australian sports loving public" image in mainstream media ......
Ok... actually I lied. MOST Australians love to watch sport and back a winner, but can't get off the armchair to do anything but get another beer.
I actually fell in love with cricket in primary school. I was in grade 5 (second last grade of primary school), and the best cricketer (boy) in the school was batting. All the best bowlers had failed to get him out, and I was put in as a last resort (the only girl in my grade, so they didn't think I would be any good). On the second ball I got him with a yorker!!! never to be repeated of course... but at least I had 5 minutes of cricketing fame. I bet you were famous too Miaki! :wink
Sal.
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i decided to dong her one over the head with the cricket bat and then walk off the pitch.
But after I watched her fall like a bag of spuds to the ground. Happy with my end result I walked away and told her that she better go to the hospital to be tested incase she caught Thal Major off the bat.
:rotfl :rotfl :rotfl
Miaki
Ouch! that's gotta hurt! Well, at least she wont suffer from Thal. but she could have suffered serious head injury.
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Miaki...Was she out for a 6?