The Ashes - 2010/11

[rich p]

I think it's India at home this summer who are number 1 test team according to the rankings. They are having a ding dong battle, as we speak, with S Africa to decide their series.

Bring it on!

 

[darkstar]

I'd be a lot more optimistic. Look at our team. We've got Morgan coming in to replace (the wonderful) Collingwood, and Swann, Anderson, Tremlett, Trott, Bell and even Strauss have a few years left in them and Finn, Morgan and Cook could be with us for a decade. The unanswerable question is where do Australia go from here? Put another way - how many of the Australian XI would get in to the England XI?

Oh I think England will dominate in the years to come, but I can't see a series quite so utterly devistating. So many records were broken over the past couple of months, it's the first time any side has scored >500 runs in 4 seperate innings in a series!

 

[Aperitif]

A Pringle is not a potato chip off the old block.
A good day's cricket - I can only imagine the good vibe and intent that must be hovering in the changing room...Good on the umpires with technology too. Rugby League, Rugby Union, now Cricket. (I know it exists for those nancy sports like tennis etc )...when is the electonic eye going to pull Association Football into line with public expectation? It might do everyone some good.

 

[dellzeqq]

Indeed! I remember the patriarchal Duncan Fletcher ruling the roost with a weak Nasser Hussein as captain! Not a lot of fun in that team!

And how good is it to see a bowler the size of Tremlett being able to bowl quickly and well, and at the same time, unlike that bloody mincing Duncan Pringle!

Bring on the Saffers!

Derek Pringle. Unless you're referring to Duncan Pringle the Knitwear Guru.

 

[Aperitif]

Derek Pringle. Unless you're referring to Duncan Pringle the Knitwear Guru.

Shhh! I wanted to bring Dayvo down gently. I wrote Siddle when I meant Hilltophouse (sp? ) the other day, and received a gentle nudge as to the error of my ways! Poor boy - he's golfing mad!

 

[User482]

Indeed! I remember the patriarchal Duncan Fletcher ruling the roost with a weak Nasser Hussein as captain! Not a lot of fun in that team!

And how good is it to see a bowler the size of Tremlett being able to bowl quickly and well, and at the same time, unlike that bloody mincing Duncan Pringle!

Bring on the Saffers!

I think that's a bit unfair on Nas. He and Fletcher made England a much tougher outfit - laying the foundations for Vaughan and Strauss.

Getting back to the Ashes - I can scarcely believe how bad Australia have been, and how good England have been. It'll be fascinating to see how we get on against India...

 

[Dayvo]

Derek Pringle. Unless you're referring to Duncan Pringle the Knitwear Guru.

The shame! Of course, Derek!

Duncan Pringle is a mate of mine from back home.

I've met Derek a couple of times (he's a mate of some of my mates).

He's an arrogant snob! He once told me that he didn't enjoy playing cricket, but he was good at it and it was just a job!

Good at it! Not on bloody planet Earth, he wasn't!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Let's not let Australia's shitness (unbiased opinion) take anything away from how good England have played, they'd give anyone a game based on current performance.

 

[Lurpak]

I'd like to heap praise on the trumpeter who was doing the Countdown ditty during the DRS appeals. This would only have been outdone by an Aussie chant of "you'll never score 700".

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I'd like to heap praise on the trumpeter who was doing the Countdown ditty during the DRS appeals. This would only have been outdone by an Aussie chant of "you'll never score 700".

Mind you, he had a bit of a struggle with Rule Britannia this morning. He kicked it off but the barmy army ran away with a fast-forward version that he couldn't rein back and it ended up with two versions of it being sung at the same time. Or not quite at the same time, if you see what I mean.

Respect to him, though, if it's the same guy doing all the playing he must have one hell of a lip.

 

[Aperitif]

Nicely written article on the Australian travails here.

 

[darkstar]

Mind you, he had a bit of a struggle with Rule Britannia this morning. He kicked it off but the barmy army ran away with a fast-forward version that he couldn't rein back and it ended up with two versions of it being sung at the same time. Or not quite at the same time, if you see what I mean.

Respect to him, though, if it's the same guy doing all the playing he must have one hell of a lip.

It sure is the same bloke, called Billy Cooper. Travels with the Barmy Army everywhere.

 

[Aperitif]

Does he play the trumpet voluntary, or is it a paid job?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Nicely written article on the Australian travails here.

"The art of running between the wickets is critical in building large totals"

 

[rich p]

"The art of running between the wickets is critical in building large totals"

Some batsmen scored almost exclusively in boundaries! Inzamam and King Viv are two that spring to mind - albeit for vastly different reasons!