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i'm still in shock that england managed to hit over 300
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Jan 23, 2015 10:45
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the gently caress happened i go away for two minutes and it goes from "australia are walking to this" to "ONE NEEDED OFF TWO!!!"
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Jan 23, 2015 12:20
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goatface posted:Beating Scotland in the final by 2 wickets, after chasing down the mammoth total of 214.
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Jan 23, 2015 14:15
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i'd rather have odis than t20s tbh; in the former you actually have a bit of a chance when you're a bowler although cutting back on long, boring odi series and replacing them with something more interesting would be a good idea
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Jan 23, 2015 22:19
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goatface posted:T20 with thinner bats, with a batsman limited to no more than two a match so they learn to look after them. a broken bat costs you penalty runs unless you prove that you knocked it in
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Jan 23, 2015 22:58
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A genuinely excellent test series can get people into the game by itself - look at the 2005 Ashes and the way that it seemed to get lots of younger people to actually care a bit about cricket. Although that series is most probably a once in a generation thing and normally T20s do have that sort of role. Getting some cricket back on terrestrial TV would help - its hard to get people to care about a game they can't really ever watch. I'm not actually sure whether there's even any free highlights of the World Cup this time - I can't remember there being any of the Ashes last year as well!
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Jan 23, 2015 23:19
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the government shouldn't have taken home test matches off of the list of sporting events that have to be live on terrestrial tv imo. i'm sure home tests and i think the world cup final (?) are on the b list, where you have to have terrestrial highlights apparently the last labour government were considering putting home ashes tests back on the a list but they couldn't change it before the last election and the coalition haven't touched it
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Jan 24, 2015 02:05
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probably put it on bbc parliament and rename it "BBC Ashes" if they weren't sitting - I'm sure they've used it as a special channel during the summer recess a few times before, they definitely did for the olympics. e: the people who produce the channel 5 highlights are the same people who did the channel 4 cricket coverage - most of the commentators are still the same, you get a slightly more bearable Mark Nicholas, Boycott and Simon Hughes... They also seem to share commentators with TMS: which is probably cheaper since the people they want to use are already there IceAgeComing fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Jan 24, 2015 |
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Jan 24, 2015 02:22
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aren't channel 9 showing the Ashes this year? If they decide to send their own crew rather than borrow the Sky coverage it wouldn't surprise me if they piggybacked on the Channel 5 stuff
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Jan 24, 2015 02:59
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I'm going for one player from each of the ten test teams plus one random associate I might replace the Zimbabwe player with someone from Afghanistan, idk
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Jan 26, 2015 19:15
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so it turns out that stuart broad is a bit of a cock
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Jan 27, 2015 22:29
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every indian person actually lives like sachin tendulkar and ms dhoni do
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Jan 28, 2015 03:44
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webmeister posted:Shane Watson can't be a Pakistani; he can't even fix his batting technique let alone a match
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Jan 28, 2015 09:55
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Is everyone excited for the England-India game, which will decide which team gets to play three more ODIs against Australia? Also when did they gently caress up the cricinfo website and make it ugly as poo poo?
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Jan 29, 2015 21:23
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Airstream Driver posted:The tri series final is a one off isn't it? I actually don't mind this format. Certainly better than playing 1 team 5 or 7 times in a row. these things are usually best of three If it is a one-off, then that's good. I agree that its better than a tri-series: although I could have done with it not being the two teams that England have played against the last two years and are going to play against next year...
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Jan 29, 2015 23:46
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two minutes
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Jan 30, 2015 05:31
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Binny is going to take five wickets and then not get picked in the final or any world cup matches
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Jan 30, 2015 10:10
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Jos Butler is going to lead England to a triumphant bonus point win before England win the world cup undefeated.
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Jan 30, 2015 10:15
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dusty posted:
Matt Machan is obviously a better player than Steve Smith.
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Jan 30, 2015 12:04
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serious gaylord posted:At some point you just tell the bowlers to throw beamers nah the twats would probably have complained and gotten the kids banned or something
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Feb 1, 2015 14:42
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o.m. 94 posted:Hi has anyone played Don Bradman Cricket 14. Is it any good (please respond relative to the trace amounts of quality you find in cricket games). Can I take Bangladesh to Test supremacy Its better than any other past cricket game; although that isn't saying a great deal. Its a fun game that has its problems (bowling could be fun but it feels like you can bowl well and get nothing and suddenly got a hat trick off of three poo poo deliveries, and I think the batting difficulty curve is a little too steep) but its still a very fun game that doesn't turn into a piece of piss after five minutes. I mod a forum that some of the devs post on (including the CEO of the producing company) and they seem to actually give a poo poo which is quite novel for cricket games. Also I played online against an ISIS team (???) and won with Scotland, which isn't something that you can say about any other sports game!
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Feb 1, 2015 21:48
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So Scotland smashed Ireland by 180 runs last night our very very poo poo bowling attack somehow managed to bowl them out for 117
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Feb 10, 2015 15:00
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The Australian ones are allegedly being broadcast, but the New Zealand ones aren't. Cricvid will probably have the ones that they are broadcasting on, and I'd imagine that Sky will have them on in the UK. Although quite why they aren't able to broadcast these warmups when they were able to broadcast all of the warm up games for the World T20 (which were held during the first round of the competition!) I'll never know... Whoever designed the graphics package for this needs to be shot, or at least reminded that we are in 2015 and that widescreen is a thing
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Feb 11, 2015 00:43
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The 89 kit looks like some minor league baseball team kit and that's pretty funny
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Feb 11, 2015 21:29
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Scotland lost to the West Indies... by three runs. I know the West Indies are shite and all, but that is still pretty impressive. Its the closest we've come to actually beating a full member, and it wasn't like the West Indies had a second rate team that collapsed in a head: they scored 313
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Feb 12, 2015 15:39
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Brad McNamara is a cock that knows as much about cricket as my gran does
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Feb 13, 2015 03:29
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Nystral posted:My in laws are from Guyana and so we'll be watching the Windies. I'm far more of a T20 watcher, but it seems like the Windies are little improved from the 2011 CWC - middling team with some strong bats and lacking in overall depth on offense and everywhere on defense. they almost lost to scotland
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Feb 13, 2015 04:15
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he's the sort of guy who buys an sa account to shout at people laughing at him, isn't he?
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Feb 13, 2015 06:26
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My impression also is that cricket is kinda dying off in the West Indies. People are going into other forms of sport, partially because professional cricket really doesn't pay in the West Indies unless you get an IPL/BBL contract - that's why you always near stories of Narine or Gayle saying that they are "injured" and can't be available for selection for West Indies international tours while they continue to play franchise cricket.MaoistBanker posted:someone tell Gayle this isn't a test. tbh 29 of the first 6 isn't that bad: that's still five an over and this isn't a T20 so you can afford to not go into slogging mode from the start and play your way in a bit.
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Feb 15, 2015 23:26
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we've shared streaming sites in the thread before and never had an issue, dunno why the world cup would be any different the canadian streaming service apparently costs CDN$179 to get all the matches, which is frankly ridiculous and you shouldn't pay that for a month long competition
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Feb 15, 2015 23:33
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runoverbobby posted:The snicko they've been using for this tournament seems blurry and unhelpful. the graphics for this tournament are all poo poo
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Feb 15, 2015 23:50
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the irish fan is here
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Feb 16, 2015 00:00
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He's actually being foxed by George Dockrell's amazing spin bowling haha 1.83 run rate over the last six overs, that's england level poo poo e: why did that irish fan have a bible verse on a sign
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Feb 16, 2015 00:03
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that's the most irish thing
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Feb 16, 2015 00:12
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webmeister posted:The Gospel of Watson, 0:1 "And lo, he didst but smash it in the nets"
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Feb 16, 2015 00:18
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hahahaha
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Feb 16, 2015 00:32
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I must admit, I wasn't expecting George Dockrell to be the best of Ireland's bowlersBharatrocity posted:An Ireland win would be absolutely amazing Wouldn't be that surprising, they've beaten the west indies four times before and this isn't a great West Indies team.
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Feb 16, 2015 00:36
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They let Scotland score 300 in the last warmup
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Feb 16, 2015 00:45
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the old rule used to be double after 30; and that would only be 212 which seems a little high tbh mcbrine's bowling has been pretty good: its quite remarkable to have an economy of less than 3 in an odi
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Feb 16, 2015 00:57
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they usually fade it down when something like that happens although its not the worst thing we've had this winter
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Feb 16, 2015 01:19
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