Polite Paradise
Off Topic => Sports => Topic started by: AliciaLynette on May 24, 2018, 04:07:22 am
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Anyone else interested?
First International Test Match of the summer starts today, with England taking on Pakistan. I'm so excited, because several of my fave cricketers are playing, along with an exciting debutant.
And tomorrow the County Championship continues, so i shall have a minimum of three commentaries going on (which leaves me short by two matches possibly, depending if any of my 4 county teams are playing each other!) so I shall be glued to the radio all day!
For those confused about how to play cricket, see the 'official' guide below!
You have two sides, one out in the field and one in the Pavilion.
Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes out and is in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out.
Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in.
There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out.
When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game.
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Me! Me! I'm here!
How sad is it that the very first stipulation for my new car, way before engine type or fuel or marque or anything, was 'must have DAB radio, because Test Match Special'?
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Not at all, but for the purposes of maintaining citizenship, absolutely.
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Me! Me! I'm here!
How sad is it that the very first stipulation for my new car, way before engine type or fuel or marque or anything, was 'must have DAB radio, because Test Match Special'?
Perfect!! I have moved to having a DAB radio in every room in the house including the bathroom, for the purposes of being able to hear the cricket throughout the house. The only exception is in Child's room, but that radio has longwave so i think I can still get TMS!
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That's Stoneman gone already... It's not even coffee time!
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You have to ask me? ;)
And I'm another who organised their new car around the DAB (though I do have to confess I rather miss the shipping forecast!) - that said I don't listen to TMS as much as I used to. One or two of their current crop of commentators drive me round the twist - and I no longer do a long commute so I've got much less time in my car. (And my boss does rather frown at me listing to TMS at work...!)
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One or two of their current crop of commentators drive me round the twist - and I no longer do a long commute so I've got much less time in my car. (And my boss does rather frown at me listing to TMS at work...!)
I have been known to raise my voice at Geoffrey.
The advantage of being self employed is that my boss said that the radio while I do paperwork today is OK. 8)
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One or two of their current crop of commentators drive me round the twist - and I no longer do a long commute so I've got much less time in my car. (And my boss does rather frown at me listing to TMS at work...!)
I have been known to raise my voice at Geoffrey.
The advantage of being self employed is that my boss said that the radio while I do paperwork today is OK. 8)
*laughs*
To be fair, my boss is out of the office today so I could put the cricket on this afternoon and she wouldn't know...
Geoffrey I can just about put up with (particularly if he's on with Aggers, who's very good at keeping him in line). It's Michael Vaughan and one or two of the actual commentators that get my goat. I swear Vaughan is auditioning to be Geoffrey 2.0 sometimes, while the commentators are just inept and don't give out the score nearly often enough.
(I swear I'm not actually as old and grumpy as the above makes me sound!)
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Yeah, I'm not so keen on Vaughan, although I quite like playing Boycott Bingo!
Swanny can be good, or he can be very very irritating! Luckily I tend to find him amusing even when he's being irritating so I don't get as het up as some do about him.
James Taylor is brilliant, I think, very knowledgeable about the game and very good at talking about all aspects of it. I'm so glad he's found a space after everything went to hell for him playing.
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Well, that was a lousy day for England. Some good bowling/catching, but also some really stupid batting.
here hoping we can get some quick wickets this morning!
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It had a horrible feeling of being just like last year, didn't it?
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Well, if there's one thing England do well in tests, it's collapsing whilst batting! Same old, same old story, sadly.
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See, this is what happens when they insist on starting at Lords. If they started at Old Trafford, we'd be looking at a solid day of rain today.
Go on, ask me how I know this, she says grumpily, dripping on the keyboard.
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I did try listening to the Lancs v Warks Royal London match (via online comms, with the Test Match on the radio), but gave up and switched to Glam v Middsx very very quickly! Sounded absolutely beastly at OT!
Hope you've managed to dry off properly!
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I think it's fair to say today's been an improvement on yesterday. Not a big improvement, admittedly (you know it's bad when even Stokes is dropping catches), but at least we've stuck to it. I can think of England teams in days gone by where Pakistan would be utterly out of sight by this point.
Fingers crossed for the second innings.
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Pakistan really have come a log way, haven't they, from when they'd be a guaranteed series/tour win by whoever was playing them? Vaughan yesterday was saying that they were playing the way we were expecting England to play - calm, patient, collected.
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Have you seen the story in the Telegraph about Sri Lanka and the match fixing sting? I was rather hoping we were done with this sort of thing.
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Unfortunately, I don’t think that match fixing will ever go away - the amounts of money involved are enough that there will always be someone tempted/coerced into it.
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Gah, Buttler and Bess played so well yesterday evening, but Buttler was out LBW this morning, and Wood has just gone caught behind for 0!! Drat drat drat!!
Was certainly looking like the match wouldn't go all 5 days, but now, we may not even play all of today!
Bigger dammit! Broad has just been caught for 0, we have 1(!) wicket left!
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Shall we skip over the rest of the match? :o :o :o
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Me, I'm an Ulsterwoman by birth, so possibly I shall declare for Ireland instead of England?
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Me, I'm an Ulsterwoman by birth, so possibly I shall declare for Ireland instead of England?
Might be a good idea, although with Ed Joyce retiring there might not be much of an Ireland team for a few years!
Disclaimer: Ireland are my 4th* team, so I'm always happy when they do well!
*I'm greedy when it comes to cricket! I have 4 county teams (Lancs, Notts, Warks, & Middlesex) and 4 & 1/2 international teams - England, NZ, SA, Ireland, and whoever's currently playing Australia!
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OH just emailed me "Why do England look like a different team?", and I thought, we do, but wait till we bat, because that's where we're weakest!
Although Broady's just taken their 5th wicket, so fingers crossed!
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Ok, so England lost to Scotland last Sunday, bit not good (although Scotland played wonderfully, and well deserved the win).
Today, our middle order collapsed a bit (again!) but we did beat the Aussies! 1 - 0 up in the 5-match series! Roll on Friday at Trent Bridge!
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Woohoo!!
Five ODIs, and one T20 against Australia, and we hammered them in every match!! Yes there's a bit of schaudenfraude here, because of how badly we lost the Ashes, but still, our boys played amazingly, and Buttler was phenomenal throughout!