sturginho Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 It's been weird here lately, seems warm enough during the day time but then buckets it down overnight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 1 hour ago, sturginho said: It's been weird here lately, seems warm enough during the day time but then buckets it down overnight It was raining with the sun out big and bright round here about an hour ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sturginho Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 Only the English could invent a game which relies on 5 days of consecutive good weather 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted April 14, 2016 Author Share Posted April 14, 2016 I'm watching two temporary IPL franchises play each other, temporary replacements for the suspended Rajhastan Royals and Chenai Super Kings. One of them is called - listen to this one - 'Rising Pune Supergiants'. Their strip is as tacky as their name. Why would anyone want to support this, yet, there they are, the rabid Indian crowd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted April 14, 2016 Author Share Posted April 14, 2016 A boundry for six is called a 'maximum' haha. The Australian commentator is completely annoying. He wets his pants everytime there is a boundry. It is not Slater but it sounds like him, with that same grating accent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sturginho Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 9 hours ago, DieselDaisy said: A boundry for six is called a 'maximum' haha. The Australian commentator is completely annoying. He wets his pants everytime there is a boundry. It is not Slater but it sounds like him, with that same grating accent. It's not just called a maximum, it normally has a sponsor's name attached to it too, like Amiral car insurance maximum or something... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted April 15, 2016 Author Share Posted April 15, 2016 (edited) 16 minutes ago, sturginho said: It's not just called a maximum, it normally has a sponsor's name attached to it too, like Amiral car insurance maximum or something... Everything in the entire tournament carries a sponsor. There is not an empty spot on their pyjamas that is not taken up with a sponsorship logo! Oh yes, you get a little coloured cap if you are the leading wicket taker/run scorer or some bollocks. There is a lot going for it really in the assembling of so many big glitzy names into just a few teams, but why does it have to be so bloody tacky? PS An article arguing the cheerleaders are skanks. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2128000/Old-unfit-tacky--IPL-cheerleaders-giving-blues.html The Deccan Charger's cheerleader is no stranger to a fish supper I bet. Edited April 15, 2016 by DieselDaisy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sturginho Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 So what cricket needs is better cheerleaders? Seems like an odd argument for you to be making? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted April 15, 2016 Author Share Posted April 15, 2016 5 hours ago, sturginho said: So what cricket needs is better cheerleaders? Seems like an odd argument for you to be making? I'm not making any argument - don't shoot the messenger. Just pointing out a funny article that I happened to be reading at the time. Although, if you are going to have cheerleaders you may as well do it right I suppose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted April 18, 2016 Author Share Posted April 18, 2016 Bloody Yorkies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted April 19, 2016 Author Share Posted April 19, 2016 Determined fight back from Hampshire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted April 20, 2016 Author Share Posted April 20, 2016 Attacking declaration by Hampshire and knocking off the top order - it is bloody great this!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted May 3, 2016 Author Share Posted May 3, 2016 They are actually showing a County game on Sky!! Yorkies v Notts, final day tomorrow, packed with all of the England stars. Astonishing Sky buy the county rights yet never put the games on; or more to the point, that the ECB insist on bundling all of the English cricket rights together and selling them like that, so that whoever buys them (sky) has more cricket than they can actually theoretically air! Anyhow, rant over. Yorkshire are in charge and should win tomorrow however Patel has launched a stand and you never know, if Notts have a lead of 200 they may be able to bowl Yorkshire out cheaply? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sturginho Posted May 4, 2016 Share Posted May 4, 2016 18 hours ago, DieselDaisy said: They are actually showing a County game on Sky!! Yorkies v Notts, final day tomorrow, packed with all of the England stars. Astonishing Sky buy the county rights yet never put the games on; or more to the point, that the ECB insist on bundling all of the English cricket rights together and selling them like that, so that whoever buys them (sky) has more cricket than they can actually theoretically air! Anyhow, rant over. Yorkshire are in charge and should win tomorrow however Patel has launched a stand and you never know, if Notts have a lead of 200 they may be able to bowl Yorkshire out cheaply? with 6 channels you'd think they would find room for some cricket somewhere? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted May 5, 2016 Author Share Posted May 5, 2016 The ECB are a bunch of cocksuckers, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2016/04/29/ecb-tells-counties-to-stop-twitter-broadcasts-to-avoid-sky-sport/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sturginho Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 so Sky are not showing it even though they have the rights for it, but the counties can't stream it to try and drum up some interest... sound logic from the ECB! I guess their worry is that if Sky were of a mind to sue over it they would sue the ECB rather than an individual county Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted May 5, 2016 Author Share Posted May 5, 2016 Do not try and look for any logic in how cricket is administrated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted May 5, 2016 Author Share Posted May 5, 2016 (edited) God this is a big innovation, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03t567d The Ashes is a glorious thing. You wouldn't want to jettison such a history, but at the same time these bilateral one dayers do seem pointless affairs. They can still be playing cricket, Aussies v Englishman, three months after the ashes have ended and nobody cares by that stage because we have all been innundated with the Ashes and The Ashes is everything. This would bring those one dayers into the Ashes and give them purpose. It is still a heady reform. I mean I wouldn't want The Ashes to be decided by a cacky T20!! Plus they field three teams so you might have an excellent test team but a shit Twenty20 side and the Twenty20 boys bugger it all up! PS Yes, I think I am with Vaughn (currently). It is an over-complication. There is a clarity about test series which would be smudged, a majority wins the series, equal draws the series, simple. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/36217532 Edited May 6, 2016 by DieselDaisy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted May 9, 2016 Author Share Posted May 9, 2016 Hampshire bowled out for 109! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted May 12, 2016 Author Share Posted May 12, 2016 Charlotte Edwards sacked for, get this, being by miles the best English bat and overshadowing her colleagues!! With thinking like this, you do not need opponents. Mark Robinson, a man averaging 4.01/30. 49, is a cock stain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted May 13, 2016 Author Share Posted May 13, 2016 (edited) Quote Alastair Cook (captain), Moeen Ali, James Anderson, Jonny Bairstow, Jake Ball, Stuart Broad, Nick Compton, Steven Finn, Alex Hales, Joe Root, Ben Stokes, James Vince. Compton is wank. I would have picked Rashid instead, partnering him with Ali and thinking ahead of India in the winter. It would also be a way to test whether or not this new ECB policy on the coin toss is producing wickets more prone to spin - an English May wicket is certainly not going to be a 'turning wickets' but if the policy works, you should see something for the spinners from the third-fourth day. Also, you do not lose anything batting as Rashid is handy with the bat, an all-rounder really. From that however I would go, Cook, Hales, Vince, Root, Stokes, Bairstow, Ali, Broad, Ball, Finn, Anderson But you know in your heart they will persevere with Compton at three and chuck Vince further up the order, probably between Root and Stokes, Ball as twelfth man. It might work but Hales and Compton are certainly on borrowed time. Edited May 13, 2016 by DieselDaisy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted May 21, 2016 Author Share Posted May 21, 2016 Well it is going to be a swift and one-sided series. The Sri Lankans do not have the slightest notion on how to play swing and seam bowling, and it is Durham next, a wicket that generally swings and has uneven bounce. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris1989 Posted May 23, 2016 Share Posted May 23, 2016 Masterclass in bowling from Anderson and Broad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted May 25, 2016 Author Share Posted May 25, 2016 Final day: Durham need 84; Warwickshire need 6 wickets. I have the flu so I'll be in bed listening to this all day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted May 29, 2016 Author Share Posted May 29, 2016 Carnage. They need to ring Kumar and Mahela up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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