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https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/may/23/ab-de-villiers-announces-shock-retirement-from-international-cricket-south-africa Good on him, rather he goes out on top than try to grind out some records and just get worse and worse and hate the game.
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May 23, 2018 12:57
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Focusing on his singing career?
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May 23, 2018 14:04
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You can't  choke a World Cup when your best senior players retire the year before
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May 23, 2018 14:22
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Ball Tampering Killed My Unborn Child
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May 23, 2018 23:36
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Rockchap bad batsman. Abbas looks good so far though.
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May 24, 2018 11:18
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Best on the opening signs I expect a Pakistan whitewash this series
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May 24, 2018 12:05
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What are you on about England are doing well. 40-3 instead of the usual 30-3.
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May 24, 2018 12:13
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lol England
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May 24, 2018 12:14
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Cook has hit more drives in two hours than the previous two decades.
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May 24, 2018 12:48
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Such a good top order.
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May 24, 2018 13:22
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It's not officially an English test summer until the first Englanding happens
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May 24, 2018 14:22
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Time for the IPL lads to play their natural games and patiently rebuild the innings.
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May 24, 2018 14:35
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Lots of tape on this lads hand - where's the sandpaper?
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May 24, 2018 14:41
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Stokes' bat sounds funny... almost like it's hollow. I keep thinking the ball's hit the stumps.
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May 24, 2018 14:52
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runoverbobby posted:Stokes' bat sounds funny... almost like it's hollow. I keep thinking the ball's hit the stumps. Oh my, I was gonna post something similar! Sounds like stumps every single time and I get excited he's out (Cricket is on in background).
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May 24, 2018 14:55
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Someone get me a sad Cook face. JoButts is gonna get a sparkling 15 in 12 balls.
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May 24, 2018 15:27
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gently caress off buttttler!
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May 24, 2018 16:15
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May 24, 2018 16:15
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Whoever could have predicted this
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May 24, 2018 16:16
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No one saw this coming
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May 24, 2018 16:21
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England aren't very good. But! Broady and Andersony are gonna take 50 wickets on this pitch.
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May 24, 2018 16:39
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Maybe we need a sad_root.png
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May 24, 2018 16:44
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80% of wickets were taken with full length deliveries - Jimmy and Broady to bowl short of a length all day then?
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May 24, 2018 16:45
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If Imam takes a broadesque bouncer through the grille his hipster glasses are going to shatter and blind him.
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May 24, 2018 16:57
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Dead Goon posted:80% of wickets were taken with full length deliveries - Jimmy and Broady to bowl short of a length all day then? Well of course. They're too old to get the ball as far as a full length these days. Just don't have the strength in their arms.
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May 24, 2018 18:04
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Even Ireland did better than England did, but again, why haven't England done any preparation for this? Pakistan are coming in off (I think) two warm-ups and a test, while England have done nothing. Couldn't they play a county as a warm-up?
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May 24, 2018 19:01
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:Even Ireland did better than England did, but again, why haven't England done any preparation for this? Pakistan are coming in off (I think) two warm-ups and a test, while England have done nothing. Couldn't they play a county as a warm-up? They did play four rounds of the county championship on pitches and in conditions nothing like the ones they are playing in now. Or the IPL on pitches and in conditions nothing like the ones they are playing in now. I really want to do a rant about the stupidity of the english season but this guy did it better http://www.cricketkit.org/2018/04/domestic-arguments-it-ishere.html?spref=tw (hope that worked). I think cricket has to look to rugby and split the different formats. A t20 basher is rarely going to be a defensive nerdler and mixing the 3 formats is loving everything up.
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May 24, 2018 20:12
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The second test against Pakistan finishes I think the first week of June, then white ball international cricket for two months and then the five tests against India
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May 24, 2018 20:30
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:The second test against Pakistan finishes I think the first week of June, then white ball international cricket for two months and then the five tests against India This year if cricket is a loving joke. The posh boy cunts of the ecb can loving do one. Cricket is dieing and their solution is yet another format. Get schools playing cricket again you twats. You have footie in the winter and cricket in the summer. Get Gary Neville involved, he loves the game for christ's sake! We need some proper working class grit. Some lads that have had to fight tooth and nail to make it to the top. It's how the game is meant to be setup, pro's and amateurs.
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May 24, 2018 21:22
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Remember, "The One Hundred" will be played alongside the current T20 Blast. It's an absolute loving nonsense
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May 25, 2018 00:00
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:Remember, "The One Hundred" will be played alongside the current T20 Blast. It's an absolute loving nonsense Does this mean that there will be different teams playing the different formats? That players will have to choose if they play for a T20 Blast team or a Hundred team? Or will players have to pull double duty?
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May 25, 2018 00:33
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Even more franchises for even more money, duh. Have players signed to four different county/region/franchise teams at the same time. Make the kids buy as many different shirts as possible if they want to emulate their hero.
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May 25, 2018 00:42
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the thing that confuses me is that cricket australia and the bcci have managed to launch reasonably successful (extremely successful in indias case) t20 leagues with appeal to mums and kids but the ecb feels that it just wont work in England so they need the one hundred
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May 25, 2018 02:51
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the ecb seems to wildly swing between hidebound traditionalists and insane radicals on a completely random basis
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May 25, 2018 04:28
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https://www.cricket.com.au/news/steve-smith-canada-t20-global-tournament-chris-lynn-sunil-narine-andre-russell-afridi-bravo/2018-05-25 It's cool that this canadian tournament only apparently forces teams to roster 4 canadian players. Oh well, hopefully it'll grow the game in Canada or something?
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May 25, 2018 04:42
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How is it that English test cricket is just so ridiculously consistent. Nick off to consistent line and length bowling, bang it in short and let the oppo batsmen settle. Its survived changing the coaches, the captain, the bowlers, everyone
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May 25, 2018 11:29
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Tradition is stronger than any of that. At least Azher Ali is here to show them how it's done.
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May 25, 2018 11:37
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Was about to write a terrible effortpost about how the bowling has gotten worse under Root's fields / captaincy, but then his silly legside bumper trap worked twice so I'll save it for later.
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May 25, 2018 16:00
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England might be properly poo poo now. Looking poo poo in England, in the most English of conditions. properly poo poo
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May 25, 2018 18:06
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I have a gut feeling that England might not win this test lads
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May 25, 2018 18:27
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