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UKRuss · Post by **UKRuss** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:31 am

England play Monty and Swann, Aus drop Clarke and play Hauritz and Hilfenhaus. Strauss wins the toss, England will bat.

here we go boys.

Damn, I love cricket.

nuperspective · Post by **nuperspective** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:50 am

you want to try living down here with these bastards.

Salty P · Post by **Salty P** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:59 am

On hold with sky trying to get my sky player access sorted out so I can watch it at work!

nuperspective · Post by **nuperspective** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 10:20 am

where are the aussies - there hardly any there!! you cant throw a cricket ball in london without hitting an aussie barman.

Salty P · Post by **Salty P** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 10:33 am

Yeah sky player success!

Come on England

UKRuss · Post by **UKRuss** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:14 am

Dodgy commerce to have the first test down in Wales, but ground looks good.

Cook down, Straussy looking settled. Bopara...well, we'll see.

Thrifty350 · Post by **Thrifty350** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:34 am

Straussy now settling back into the change rooms. Well done Mitchell.

Sibanger · Post by **Sibanger** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:36 am

Go you little Aussie battlers!

UKRuss · Post by **UKRuss** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 12:16 pm

Right in the balance now.

England need tons from one, preferably both, Colly and KP.

UKRuss · Post by **UKRuss** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 12:17 pm

Inn other new I found a tasy little pub up the Clerkenwell road that shows the match and does a nice Thai.

Just had a Gang Massaman and noodles with a chilly pint or two.

I think they can epect me to frequent their establishment regularly during the series.

Although i do have pavilion balcony tickets for the first day at The Oval.

Thrifty350 · Post by **Thrifty350** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 12:50 pm

3 down, 7 to go!

pedx1ng · Post by **pedx1ng** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 1:28 pm

Well, I'm a Yank and I have to confess I will never understand cricket. I remember watching an episode of Dr. Who when I was younger when Peter Davison was the Doctor. They showed some playing and I just couldn't figure it out. Curling is another one that baffles me, the Canadians seem to like it though!

Sage · Post by **Sage** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 2:33 pm

pedx1ng wrote:Well, I'm a Yank and I have to confess I will never understand cricket. I remember watching an episode of Dr. Who when I was younger when Peter Davison was the Doctor. They showed some playing and I just couldn't figure it out. Curling is another one that baffles me, the Canadians seem to like it though!

tbf, I don't understand American Football, what is actually good about it?

alex.the.forge · Post by **alex.the.forge** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 2:37 pm

nuperspective wrote:you want to try living down here with these bastards.

I went to lords a couple of months ago for the first time, and I took my 7 year old son who now very much sees himself as an Aussie, and I pointed to the poster that said "England v Australia, July" and he started shouting "YEAH GO AUSTRALIA! AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE OI OI OI"

then I grabbed a pint of Marstons and a lemonade for the boy and we made our way to the stand

My son was psyched about going to see the cricket, he'd always wanted to check it out (bearing in mind we live about 5 minutes from the 'Gabba and drive past it every day). So we sit down in a really strange environment where there are old men sitting at intervals of every ten or fifteen seats, occasionally clapping and letting out the odd "come on middlesex", all of them utterly failing in every respect to provide the necessary entertainment to make it possible to endure several days of cricket.

We sat for a while talking in hushed voices while I explained to my son the bizarre rules of cricket, littered with all kinds of names for things that required an explanation, and after about 5 minutes my son shouts in his best Aussie obnoxious bastard brogue: "WOW DAD I HAD NO IDEA CRICKET WAS SO BORING!"

So after meeting his cousin, who worked there, and was our reason for being there at all, she gave us some kind of food stamps that would allow us to buy things from the canteen, something like 8 pounds worth.

I asked for "two pies, a beer and another lemonade" and he said "that will be 13 pounds 50". I nearly threw the fucking pie at the cunt's head.

Anyway, I figured that as she gave us 8 quids worth of vouchers then it's just a fiver for our dinner and another pint, and was presented with these two "boutique" chicken gourmet tikka mabollicks pies in lovingly recycled corrugated cardboard boxes that cost 4 pounds 95 EACH!!!, which we took up to the stand to watch the last 10 minutes and my son then after telling me "THIS PIE TASTES WEIRD" stuck it on the seat next to him that automatically retracted up and sent the pie rolling down the stand past the old codgers.

I was tempted to make the little fucker eat it at 4 pound 95 each.

Anway, my response to his comment about cricket being boring was something along the lines of "there's no way you'd get a crowd like this at the cricket in Australia"

slatepipe · Post by **slatepipe** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:16 pm

^^^
nice one

i guess i should like cricket, being english and from yorkshire and having played it at school etc etc. but i dont like it though, i find it neither exciting or boring, im just completely uninterested in it. people are watching as much as they can of it at work at the moment, its on the tv in the office behind my head as i type this....

im off out with a friend in dalston tonight to do some of my favourite sport - drinking. day off tomorrow, yay

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