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ENGLANDERS HOPEFUL

England requires just 206 runs to defeat New Zealand. Might a long national nightmare soon be over?

UPDATE. England 3/84 after 25 overs. They’re making hard work of this.

UPDATE II. England need 62 off 74. Five wickets in hand.

UPDATE III. Five runs needed from eight deliveries; only three wickets left. England freezing.

UPDATE IV. ENGLAND WINS! It’s a Bellerive miracle.

Posted by Tim B. on 01/15/2007 at 11:26 PM

  1. The Poms beat NZ, NZ beats the Poms.
    Wow. The excitement!

    Posted by Bonmot on 2007 01 15 at 11:36 PM • permalink

  2. Might a long national nightmare soon be over?

    Prince Charles is terminally ill?

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 01 15 at 11:38 PM • permalink

  3. They must be looking forward to the next tour of Bangladesh and Kenya…

    Posted by anthony_r on 2007 01 16 at 12:18 AM • permalink

  4. They’re just playing to determine which team is the bigger loser.

    Posted by Penguin on 2007 01 16 at 12:44 AM • permalink

  5. zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

    Cricket?  Rubbish game.

    Posted by pommygranate on 2007 01 16 at 01:10 AM • permalink

  6. pommygranite - cheer up! Just in case you haven’t read it try this

    Posted by Whale Spinor on 2007 01 16 at 01:23 AM • permalink

  7. #6

    i’ve taken up watching AFL.

    Posted by pommygranate on 2007 01 16 at 01:31 AM • permalink

  8. #3
    Why would they be looking forward to being defeated by Bangladesh and Kenya?

    Posted by ErnestBludger on 2007 01 16 at 02:20 AM • permalink

  9. 7 off 14. 4 wickets in hand for England. Close.

    Posted by CB on 2007 01 16 at 02:47 AM • permalink

  10. I’d prefer it if they both lost. With Kiwi luck and Pom stupidity, it’s entirely feasible. Clash of the mental midgets.

    Posted by CB on 2007 01 16 at 02:50 AM • permalink

  11. Well they’re doing their best to lose - who takes a single to put the non-batsman on strike for the final over when you need 5 to win?

    Seriously stupid, of course they just need that one lucky edge that falls safe and they’re home…

    Posted by sam on 2007 01 16 at 02:59 AM • permalink

  12. Fred Flintstone hit the winning run. Bar a rigged chook raffle, this will be the Poms only win this summer.

    Posted by CB on 2007 01 16 at 03:06 AM • permalink

  13. #11, spot on. England did their best to lose and maintain their record.

    OT, for Australians tonight on channel 9:

    10.45pm Penn & Teller: BS - Recycling  
    (30 mins, Rated: M) Genre: Comedy

    This episode exposes the reality behind recycling, a supposedly pro-environment activity that in actuality creates pollution and has to be subsidised by the government because it’s cost ineffective.

    Posted by Art Vandelay on 2007 01 16 at 03:07 AM • permalink

  14. #3 - Best thing is they don’t have to leave home for that tour.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 01 16 at 03:10 AM • permalink

  15. Pommygranate hold your head up high! You’re probably as surprised as the English team will be.

    Posted by Penguin on 2007 01 16 at 03:11 AM • permalink

  16. Wot?  The Poms won?  Bloody Kiwis - can’t trust ‘em with anything.

    The Poms won a match?  God, they’ll be insufferable now.

    Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2007 01 16 at 03:14 AM • permalink

  17. Tim, you aren’t showing signs of Sheilvoyance are you? After the thread mocking how many days it’s been since a win, they’ve won.

    As you’ve given vocal support to the Woodsmen, I think its an open and shut case.

    Posted by Nic on 2007 01 16 at 03:22 AM • permalink

  18. I will refrain from responding to some very unkind remarks herein regarding the state of NZ cricket and will instead bear them with the quiet nobility for which my countrymen are renowned. So there.

    I will, however, say, pommygranate (re #7), that even a hiding at the hands of the English would not motivate me to watch the AFL. Not while there’s some fascinating grass growing outside on the berm.

    Posted by RexW on 2007 01 16 at 04:34 AM • permalink

  19. England wins!  MBEs…no make it Peerages for all!  Last one to Trafalgar Square is Prince Charles’s toastrack!

    Posted by murph on 2007 01 16 at 06:13 AM • permalink

  20. >>>’d prefer it if they both lost. With Kiwi luck and Pom stupidity, it’s entirely feasible. Clash of the mental midgets.<<<

    FIGHT!FIGHT!FIGHT!

    COUNT THE NOBEL PRIZES JAFAS (ex Pinters!)

    Countries Ranked by Population to “Intellectual” Nobel Prize RatioTHE REAL WINNERS!

    Posted by owls001 on 2007 01 16 at 06:26 AM • permalink

  21. The Easybeats beat the Deadbeats - Yawn!

    Posted by AlphaMikeFoxtrot on 2007 01 16 at 06:30 AM • permalink

  22. RexW:
    I will refrain from responding to some very unkind remarks herein regarding the state of NZ cricket and will instead bear them with the quiet nobility for which my countrymen are renowned

    ummmm.. you mean like Kiwi rugby supporters show after a typical match at the House of Pain (win, lose or draw)?

    Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2007 01 16 at 06:59 AM • permalink

  23. What in the HELL are you talking about?  I need 6 overs in to get my wickets in order, if I hope to get 3 for 604 in the 3 over unders.  That is, of course, if we get the 9 deliveries.

    Did that make sense?  If not, then now you know what it sounds like to me when you talk cricket.  Still, it sounds like more fun than “kick the ball around but don’t touch it with your hands” (aka soccer/football).  Send this sport to the US please.  Cricket is a perfect sport for rhyming (a US passion), since it rhymes with kick it, stick it, and slant rhymes with many dirty words (ex. big t*ts).

    If you can’t talk sh*t about a sport, it’s not a sport.

    Posted by blogagog on 2007 01 16 at 07:09 AM • permalink

  24. I understand Israel fields a cricket team.  But since no one in the world will play them, they don’t get much practice.  Maybe the Brits can try them next.  Or the Yanomamo eleven.

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 01 16 at 11:33 AM • permalink

  25. #23 The USA already has a cricket team, it’s up their with the croquet team in popularity.

    The USA was actually one of the sides in the first ever international cricket match. The other side was Canada…

    Posted by sam on 2007 01 16 at 01:26 PM • permalink

  26. No joke, #25?  I was just trying to start a sports flamewar, but ended up learning something :)

    It would have been a better rub if I’d called soccer “Let’s kick a ball!” instead of “kick the ball around, but don’t touch it with your hands”.  Too little, too late.  Darnit.

    Posted by blogagog on 2007 01 16 at 02:38 PM • permalink

  27. Don’t y’all know?

    Cricket has been banned in the US on account of its strong resemblance to cockfighting.

    P.E.T.I. Bastards!

    It really takes alot of skill to strap razor blades to their tiny little thoraces.

    Get the alignment even slightly wrong and they’ll slice their own legs off ‘fore you can blink.

    Game.Set.Match.

    Posted by monkeyfan on 2007 01 16 at 03:44 PM • permalink

  28. Ok monkeyfan, I’d watch that :)

    Posted by blogagog on 2007 01 16 at 04:27 PM • permalink

  29. Standby for a new round of knighthoods.

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 01 16 at 06:10 PM • permalink

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