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Days since the English cricket team last won a match:
126
UPDATE. Days since England beat anyone besides Pakistan:
232
Days since Australia lost a Test or one-day international cricket match:
309
UPDATE II. Further English cricket news from Norm Geras.
Oh good lord, another cricket post. I guess we Americans can wait over in the corner while the Aussies have a good time.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 01 13 at 03:55 AM • permalink#2 wronwright
Oh good lord, another cricket post. I guess we Americans can wait over in the corner while the Aussies have a good time.
Oh, I find it interesting enough. Cricket is enough like baseball, my favorite sport, that the conversation almost makes sense.
I don’t expect many posts about motor racing or, especially, ice hockey, so I take what I can get… ;^)
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 01 13 at 04:37 AM • permalinkActually, a thread about Ice Hockey would be good.
Australia beat the Poms in that, too.
I played Lake Hockey once. The locals insisted that the Aussie (me) should go and retieve the puck when it shot out to the centre of the lake. Apparently it was supposed to be ‘good experience’.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2007 01 13 at 04:53 AM • permalinkNever played Lake Hockey. Been skating on a frozen lake once. For someone who’s lived nearly all his life in Southern California, that’s a unique experience: Big Bear Lake froze pretty well in 1978-79. I don’t think it’s had enough ice on it to be safe since.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 01 13 at 05:20 AM • permalinkI found the Twenty/20 match lots of fun (at least whilst Australia was batting). Don’t think it should replace the 50-over or Test form of the game, but one or two per summer would be welcome. Gillie’s “commentary” was classic: “Australia on top, England in all sorts of trouble as they have been throughout this summer. Four for 60.” (Or something like that).
Probably a good place to start for anyone thinking of taking their first look-see at cricket, but it does lack a lot of the nerve-wracking tension that builds up, particularly in the 50-over matches.
Just remember - Australians love to be on top.
I don’t expect many posts about motor racing
Then you haven’t been reading this site much.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 01 13 at 08:22 AM • permalinkDays since a cricket match actually concluded:
127
Posted by mythusmage on 2007 01 13 at 09:15 AM • permalink#2 Oh good lord, another cricket post.
There called stumps, wronwright. Cricket stumps.A bit like baseball stakesbut pointier and not as sandy.
Then you haven’t been reading this site much.
But Andrea, I wrote “many”... and you should notice I posted on that thread. I was greatful for it.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 01 13 at 01:11 PM • permalink#16 owls001
What do you mean - Minority sport????
It’s THE sport
As for the comment “get over it” - why?
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2007 01 13 at 02:17 PM • permalinkThe difference between baseball and cricket is quite clear. In cricket there is a world series and the world attends.
Posted by curious george on 2007 01 13 at 05:20 PM • permalinkVery neat, Curious George
Off cricket, but in a cricketing, or at least a cricket marketing CONTEXT. (Love the word almost as much as does keyser turd).
There is some sort of contest in the TV ads during the between overs, called Tonk-a -pom.
Now, I note none of the nomenclature nazis seemed to care about this, and I daresay one could get away with, say, Spank-a-yank at the rugby without too much thought police attention.
But what about soccer? Could we have contests named Bop-a -wop, Rope-a-slope
Zap-a-Jap,Nip-a zip, Buzz-a-mus??. The list goes on. And better advertising men than me could do wonders - Phat Phil comes to mind.But how long before we would be looking at 50 years for vilification or some other invented crime?? A week? I guess its OK in todays world to sling shit at a Brit, but you had better desist from any other minority group.
Just a thought
RodCHow many Test playing nations are there? thats not counting the zimbys and the bangers!!
Lets get one thing staight…this great nation of ours invented cricket so the Oiks would have something to do in the arid tinderbox they live in….and another thing, Its called a TEST because its a Test of your manners, and 5-0 is bloody rude.
And Ponting maybe smug, he has a lot to be smug about…but remember what he will never live down?..the all time funny scoreboard
Ponting run out Pratt 48 ;0)
somethings in life are just priceless!
Ingerland strikes back! someday soon.
I think the owl is channelling our old mate Harry. Just remember that the last time der Engerlunders won a match was two-thirds through holding The Thrashes. Enjoy that memory, cos it is going to be a loooong time between victory drinks at this teams current rate.
“Look at the scoreboard…clap clap clap…Look at the scoreboard…clap clap clap…” etc etc
I watched a couple of Australian Baseball League games a few years ago. I sat with the owner and he commentated the game to me – it made me realise just how much I wasn’t seeing.
Anyway – they played a double-header, but they were both seven-innings games.
How about a five/five format for baseball:
- five innings each
- maximum 2 innings per pitcher
- pitcher back to 66 feet
- a walk is two bases
- reduce the hitting zone
- no tag required on second, third and home
- open the home run radius on the fence from 90 to 100 degreesDays since the English cricket team last won a match:
126
To be fair, only two games have been completed in that short a time.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 01 13 at 08:23 PM • permalink11. Twenty20 is an attempt at making a baseball style game with cricket rules. Baseball games for a bit over 2 1/2 hours. Twenty20 games go for 3 hours or so I think. It’s designed to be an evening’s entertainment.
Those one day matches, the “short form of the game” really do go for an entire day. And of course the real matches go for 5 (well if England is playing they’re over a couple of days early I guess)...
Rod C: Today, tonk-a-pom morphed seamlessly into “tonk-a-kiwi”, on both the hordings and the Big Screen at Bellerive Oval, where the Aussies - need I say it? - accounted for the Kiwis with ease.
And a lot of tonking.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2007 01 14 at 04:01 AM • permalinkDont get me wrong, I adore cricket BUT it is a game with many shortcomings (englands current plight being one) The fact is all forms of the game are by enlarge too predictable. (although I lost out with my 4-1 ashes bet, but i was nearly there)
The Test cricket formula goes a bit like this…the top test playing nations should win their home series, the dominant team of the times (now Australia was West Indies) will have a very good chance of winning home and away.
The reason for this is simple,
1, its a minority sport played by only a few nations to a high level.
2, conditions matter in cricket more than any other sport, and they vary alot between country to country, giving home teams what should be a major advantage.In baseball the wicket or pitch does not matter as the ball stays pretty much in its original condition.
And just to add, in Ingerland the pitches are very varible ( though not as much as they were ) thus a batsman with a poor technique is less likley to be found out as quickly as say an aussie playing of more truer/consistant aussie wickets, thus australia have a natural advantage.
Cricket is a VERY fickle game, and i think the real beauty of it is its very quirkyness.
in the UK football (sadly) is the NO 1,2,3,4,5 Game everything else is just a passtime, except when we are on top.
sorry to burst your bubble, but I think you should be more celebrating just how good the current (not for much longer) aussie test team is, and NOT kidding yourself about how bad every one else is..cause it is just not true.
How many Test playing nations are there? thats not counting the zimbys and the bangers!! - Owls, #23
Well, Theres #1, Australia, #2 the Kiwis, #3 the WIndies, #4 the Indians, #5 the Pakis, #6 the Yaapies, #7 the Sri Lankans and last, and probably least as well if they keep going the way they are, #8 the unwashed, warm beer drinking POME B@stards (thats you).
As for a test of manners, dear God man, have you never encountered a member of the Barmy Army after a half day in the sun drinking beer? (Forget a full day, half of ‘em cant even speak the queens english by then).
I lost out with my 4-1 ashes bet, but i was nearly there
Pull the other one son, its got bells on…
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2007 01 14 at 12:45 PM • permalink4-1, was a prety safe bet, afterall if i was pulling the other one i would have said oz to win 5-0 (im Half Irish by the way and money always comes before loyalty :0)
England have had a very indiffent year from the last ashes series, injuries, loss of form and the transition of a newer younger bunch of players….going to OZ to make a game of it was never on, only if you are starved of good box office at the ends of the earth would you believe Ingerland would be a worthy opponents.
Ive got the Safas down for the WC btw :0) looking for some good odds on them before parting with the cash..sorry I dont believe in fairy tales, the AUssies are due to lose.
Is the beer still good down at little creatures at Freo btw? I bet the Barmy Army racked a big bar bill there, never mind its what cricket is really about…. a bloody good hiss up :0)
SA take my word for it!
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