How many of our team would make the Aussie squad?
Anyone offer reasons as to why we do so badly?
Too many distractions, perhaps?
What happened to English Cricket?
What happened to English Cricket?
Damn. It's disappointing when England do so poorly in international competitions, especially against the Aussies. The Ashes win was a surprise to me and shows that miracles are possible but in general we don't have any class batsmen, (maybe Strauss). Or bowlers.
How many of our team would make the Aussie squad?
Anyone offer reasons as to why we do so badly?
Too many distractions, perhaps?
How many of our team would make the Aussie squad?
Anyone offer reasons as to why we do so badly?
Too many distractions, perhaps?
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good question,
in english cricket you are a nobody until you win the ashes and then you are a god for a few months.
in australian cricket you are a god until you lose, and even then you get loads of chances.
ask any ozzie kid to name the cricket team and i bet they can get most of them, ask a brit kid and they prolly wouldnt have a clue.
australian cricket has so much strength and depth that im sure you could replace the whole 11 and they would still be able to beat england (maybe).
england on the otherhand seems to have a few good men. only. and if theyre not on form then there is no one to pick the side up.
in english cricket you are a nobody until you win the ashes and then you are a god for a few months.
in australian cricket you are a god until you lose, and even then you get loads of chances.
ask any ozzie kid to name the cricket team and i bet they can get most of them, ask a brit kid and they prolly wouldnt have a clue.
australian cricket has so much strength and depth that im sure you could replace the whole 11 and they would still be able to beat england (maybe).
england on the otherhand seems to have a few good men. only. and if theyre not on form then there is no one to pick the side up.
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When I think of cricket I think of this article written by a certain Mr Clarkson -
Let me put it this way – is there a sound more terrifying on a Sunday afternoon than a child saying ‘Daddy. Can we play Monopoly?’
Like cricket, Monopoly has no end. The rules explain how you can unmortgage a property and when you should build hotels on Bond Street but they don’t say, and they should, that the winner is the last player left alive. And what about Risk? You make a calculation, based on the law of averages, that you can take the world but you’re always stymied by the law of probability and end up out of steam, throwing an endless succession of twos and ones in Kamchatka. Still, this is preferable to the modern version in which George W. Bush invades Iraq and we all die of smallpox.
Happily, my children are now eight, six and four so they’re way past the age when board games hold any appeal. Given the choice of mortgaging Old Kent Road or shooting James Bond on PlayStation, they’ll take the electronic option every time.
Then there are jigsaws, which I once had to explain to a Greek. ‘Yes, you spend a couple of weeks putting all the pieces together so you end up with a picture.’
‘Then what happens?’ he asked.
‘Well, you break it up again and put it back in the box.’
It’s not often I’ve felt empathy with a Greek, but I did then. And it’s much the same story with crosswords. If scientists could harness the brainpower spent every day on trying to find the answer to ‘Russian banana goes backwards in France we hear perhaps’, then maybe mankind might have cured cancer by now.
Crosswords like jigsaws and cricket, are not really games in themselves. They are simply tools for wasting time. And that’s not something that sits well in the modern world.
We may dream of living the slow life, taking a couple of hours over lunch and eating cheese until dawn, but the reality is that we have a heart attack if the traffic lights stay red for too long or the lift doors fail to close the instant we’re ready to go.
Answering-machine messages are my particular bugbear. I want a name and a number, and that’s it. I don’t have time to sit and listen to where you’ll be at three and who you’ll be seeing and why you need to talk before then. And even if I do pick up the phone personally, I don’t want a chat. I’m a man. I don’t do chatting. Say what you have to say and go away.
British film-makers still haven’t got this. They spend hours with their sepia lighting and their long character developing speeches abd it’s all pointless because we’d much rather watch a muscly American saying ‘Die, m**********r.’
Slow cooked lamb shanks for supper? Oh for God’s sake, I’ll get a takeaway.
Cricket, then, is from a bygone age when people invested their money in time rather than in things. And now we have so many things to play with and do, it seems odd to waste it watching somebody else playing what is basicallyan elaborate game of catch.
Please stop watching – then it will go away
Jeremy Clarkson.
Let me put it this way – is there a sound more terrifying on a Sunday afternoon than a child saying ‘Daddy. Can we play Monopoly?’
Like cricket, Monopoly has no end. The rules explain how you can unmortgage a property and when you should build hotels on Bond Street but they don’t say, and they should, that the winner is the last player left alive. And what about Risk? You make a calculation, based on the law of averages, that you can take the world but you’re always stymied by the law of probability and end up out of steam, throwing an endless succession of twos and ones in Kamchatka. Still, this is preferable to the modern version in which George W. Bush invades Iraq and we all die of smallpox.
Happily, my children are now eight, six and four so they’re way past the age when board games hold any appeal. Given the choice of mortgaging Old Kent Road or shooting James Bond on PlayStation, they’ll take the electronic option every time.
Then there are jigsaws, which I once had to explain to a Greek. ‘Yes, you spend a couple of weeks putting all the pieces together so you end up with a picture.’
‘Then what happens?’ he asked.
‘Well, you break it up again and put it back in the box.’
It’s not often I’ve felt empathy with a Greek, but I did then. And it’s much the same story with crosswords. If scientists could harness the brainpower spent every day on trying to find the answer to ‘Russian banana goes backwards in France we hear perhaps’, then maybe mankind might have cured cancer by now.
Crosswords like jigsaws and cricket, are not really games in themselves. They are simply tools for wasting time. And that’s not something that sits well in the modern world.
We may dream of living the slow life, taking a couple of hours over lunch and eating cheese until dawn, but the reality is that we have a heart attack if the traffic lights stay red for too long or the lift doors fail to close the instant we’re ready to go.
Answering-machine messages are my particular bugbear. I want a name and a number, and that’s it. I don’t have time to sit and listen to where you’ll be at three and who you’ll be seeing and why you need to talk before then. And even if I do pick up the phone personally, I don’t want a chat. I’m a man. I don’t do chatting. Say what you have to say and go away.
British film-makers still haven’t got this. They spend hours with their sepia lighting and their long character developing speeches abd it’s all pointless because we’d much rather watch a muscly American saying ‘Die, m**********r.’
Slow cooked lamb shanks for supper? Oh for God’s sake, I’ll get a takeaway.
Cricket, then, is from a bygone age when people invested their money in time rather than in things. And now we have so many things to play with and do, it seems odd to waste it watching somebody else playing what is basicallyan elaborate game of catch.
Please stop watching – then it will go away
Jeremy Clarkson.
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I'll start by saying that I hate cricket, but I love to see England doing well at anything.
My only thoughts on this is, are England really doing that badly at the moment? I think they won the Ashes this year, and they've just come 3rd in some other competition. Sounds OK to me.
My only thoughts on this is, are England really doing that badly at the moment? I think they won the Ashes this year, and they've just come 3rd in some other competition. Sounds OK to me.
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