cricket series in england
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Cant wait for this to kick off, we will most likely get a beating but i love watching test cricket, i love watching cricket at lords and i love watching nz sport.
so this is a win win win for me.
cant wait!
CMON THE BOYS
so this is a win win win for me.
cant wait!
CMON THE BOYS
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Add on to that i love staying up all night and it's win win win win.
Three for me, and two for them.
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A regular Feverite and one of my teammates (in Futsal, Masters, Lunchtime footy and Sunday League) and his delightful Mrs. have sloped off to Europe for 4 weeks carefully timed to catch the Lords test.
Lucky, lucky, lucky bastards.
Lucky, lucky, lucky bastards.
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A regular Feverite and one of my teammates (in Futsal, Masters, Lunchtime footy and Sunday League) and his delightful Mrs. have sloped off to Europe for 4 weeks carefully timed to catch the Lords test.Lucky, lucky, lucky bastards.
touche hn.
watching nz play a test at lords would is definitely one of my goals in life. very special
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Bit scary though when the bottom half of the order has more test 100s than the top half.
GET YOUR SHIRTS OFF FOR THE BOYS
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Bit scary though when the bottom half of the order has more test 100s than the top half.
At least we've got the best number 11 in the world...
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we have?
Note the cheesy smiley. I was referring to Chris Martin...
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We do however have the best number 8 - in Dan Vettori!!!
Really looking forward to the start tonite!
Queenslander 3x a year.
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I have it on good authority that he's now scored a test run in front of square...so he's improving.
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I have it on good authority that he's now scored a test run in front of square...so he's improving.
If only he could do so without a leading edge lol
SurgeQld2008-05-15 09:47:52
E + R + O
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As long as he takes the wickets his batting is not a concern.
Queenslander 3x a year.
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I have it on good authority that he's now scored a test run in front of square...so he's improving.
If only he could do so without a keading edge lol
I think he's the only professional cricketer in the world who knocks in the edges rather then the middle when he gets a new bat.
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That 12 not out vs Bangladesh was pure class. Y dont we just reverse the batting order? Gotta love the 3 metre slope on the hallowed turf at Lord's.
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We do however have the best number 8 - in Dan Vettori!!!
Really looking forward to the start tonite!
whats the odds that fairly soon there will be calls for McCullum even further up the order and then he will be selected as a batsman only and another keeper will come in...
sound familiar?
ok enough snarky from me....
Redmond form seems hopeful...
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Can't see it, McCullum would still be the best keeper in the country at the moment.
Queenslander 3x a year.
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Tim Southee, who made his debut at Napier in March, scored more runs in a single innings (77) than his probable new-ball partner, Chris Martin, has managed in 40 Tests (74 runs at 2.55)
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Teams for tonight
England 1 Andrew Strauss, 2 Alastair Cook, 3 Michael Vaughan (capt), 4 Kevin Pietersen, 5 Ian Bell, 6 Paul Collingwood, 7 Tim Ambrose (wk), 8 Stuart Broad, 9 Ryan Sidebottom, 10 James Anderson, 11 Monty Panesar.
New Zealand (probable) 1 Jamie How, 2 Aaron Redmond, 3 James Marshall, 4 Ross Taylor, 5 Brendon McCullum, 6 Daniel Flynn, 7 Jacob Oram, 8 Daniel Vettori (capt), 9 Kyle Mills, 10 Tim Southee, 11 Chris Martin
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Apparently it's pissing down over there. Bryan Waddle hasn't even left his hotel room.
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I am unemployed, and ready to settle down for a good old fashioned day of test cricket on the couch, and it is f**king raining.
This would never happen if the game was being played oop north (it is blue skies and sunny in the Yorkshire Riveria).
All I do is make the stuff I would've liked
Reference things I wanna watch, reference girls I wanna bite
Now I'm firefly like a burning kite
And yousa fake fuck like a fleshlight
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we have lost the toss - bad one to lose.
We are batting first.
All I do is make the stuff I would've liked
Reference things I wanna watch, reference girls I wanna bite
Now I'm firefly like a burning kite
And yousa fake fuck like a fleshlight
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A regular Feverite and one of my teammates (in Futsal, Masters, Lunchtime footy and Sunday League) and his delightful Mrs. have sloped off to Europe for 4 weeks carefully timed to catch the Lords test.Lucky, lucky, lucky bastards.
touche hn.
watching nz play a test at lords would is definitely one of my goals in life. very special
I must have cultural cringe, because as an Englishman I put it second only to Morris Dancers as the most ghastly thing on the planet
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42-3
I am now hoping it will start raining again
All I do is make the stuff I would've liked
Reference things I wanna watch, reference girls I wanna bite
Now I'm firefly like a burning kite
And yousa fake fuck like a fleshlight
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McCullum to the rescue. Maybe he should be moved up the order.
Cricket not sighted in Sudbury.
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New Zealand 1st innings
R
M
B
4s
6s
SR
JM How
c 
Ambrose b Anderson
7
34
18
0
0
38.88
AJ Redmond
c Cook b Anderson
0
7
5
0
0
0.00
JAH Marshall
c Strauss b Broad
24
104
71
4
0
33.80
LRPL Taylor
c Collingwood b Broad
19
24
20
3
0
95.00
BB McCullum
b Panesar
97
173
97
13
2
100.00
DR Flynn
b Anderson
9
36
32
2
0
28.12
JDP Oram
not out
23
62
3
0
37.09
DL Vettori
not out
5
11
1
0
45.45
Extras
(b 12, lb 8, w 1, nb 3)
24
Total
(6 wickets; 52.1 overs)
208
(3.98 runs per over)
Ambrose b Anderson
7
34
18
0
0
38.88
AJ Redmond
c Cook b Anderson
0
7
5
0
0
0.00
JAH Marshall
c Strauss b Broad
24
104
71
4
0
33.80
LRPL Taylor
c Collingwood b Broad
19
24
20
3
0
95.00
BB McCullum
b Panesar
97
173
97
13
2
100.00
DR Flynn
b Anderson
9
36
32
2
0
28.12
JDP Oram
not out
23
62
3
0
37.09
DL Vettori
not out
5
11
1
0
45.45
Extras
(b 12, lb 8, w 1, nb 3)
24
Total
(6 wickets; 52.1 overs)
208
(3.98 runs per over)
To bat CS Martin, TG Southee, KD Mills
Bowling
OM
R
W
Econ
RJ Sidebottom
18.1
5
50
0
2.75
JM Anderson
12
3
42
3
3.50
(1nb, 1w)
SCJ Broad
15
3
70
2
4.66
(2nb)
PD Collingwood
3
1
11
0
3.66
MS Panesar
4
1
15
1
3.75
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Super Mac's batting was great (mental)
All I do is make the stuff I would've liked
Reference things I wanna watch, reference girls I wanna bite
Now I'm firefly like a burning kite
And yousa fake fuck like a fleshlight
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McCullum immediately slumped in disappointment after that clipped the stumps, he has fallen in the 90s for the second time at Lord's - he made 96 in 2004 at the same venue
50.1
Panesar to McCullum, OUT, oh, he's missed the century! A well-flighted ball from Panesar, on middle stump and McCullum misjudges the drive, it goes off his pad onto the stumps
BB McCullum b Panesar 97 (173m 97b 13x4 2x6) SR: 100.00
Panesar around the wicket
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Looking at the positives... it seems they've worked out how to successfully negate Sidez!
E + R + O
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Yeah, all the focus on the big man, just forgot about Anderson who hurt us in Napier! Oh well on a day when bowling was the easiest going at 3+ isn't too bad plus our allrounders are pretty good.
Queenslander 3x a year.
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Anderson hurt us in Welly theprof. It was Sidders who destroyed us in Napier.
Three for me, and two for them.
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Good recovery from 100-5, hopefully get 350 minimum. I was surprised how much more those Duke balls swing. They swing like 2-piece balls! And they are pretty dark balls as well.
Batting conditions looked pretty tough, it was dark, ball swinging round heaps, moving off the deck. encouraging for our bowlers. Looking forward to seeing Southee bowl.
Oram needs to step up with his batting this tour, while his bowling was good back here in March, his batting form was crap.
Batting conditions looked pretty tough, it was dark, ball swinging round heaps, moving off the deck. encouraging for our bowlers. Looking forward to seeing Southee bowl.
Oram needs to step up with his batting this tour, while his bowling was good back here in March, his batting form was crap.
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yea not a bad performance in the end. real tough batting conditions and a poor start so a decent position we ended up in. get to 300 and we are well in the game.
listening on the radio last nite, what a combination, geoff boycott and henry blofeld "my dear old thing" they were hard to listen to
listening on the radio last nite, what a combination, geoff boycott and henry blofeld "my dear old thing" they were hard to listen to
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Anderson hurt us in Welly theprof. It was Sidders who destroyed us in Napier.
ooops knew it was one or the other, but still given the current situation, if it dawns fine today, Dan and Jake could well bat us through to 300 or so....that would be a goodish start!
Queenslander 3x a year.
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haha Boycott is a laugh. a lot of ppl hate him but I actually don't mind him as a commentator as he's pretty straight up and quite funny sometimes, not one to beat around the bush.
Looking forward to day 2, fingers crossed we get underway on time!
Looking forward to day 2, fingers crossed we get underway on time!
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Happy with that start all we need know is a 100 from 2 of our best batsman Oram and Vettori and we will be sorted.
GET YOUR SHIRTS OFF FOR THE BOYS
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agree Bopman, Blofeld has an accent and attitude that makes me want to throw up
- but Sir Geoffrey - well as a yorkshireman, i have to ignore his failings as a 'team player' and a human and just remember that he knew how to blunt an attack (and, to be fair, kill of a few hundred thousand spectators in the process)
)what the hell was Atherton up to with his snide attack on Vettori in the Times? He seems a littlew mifed that the 'colonial upstarts' aren't bowing and scraping like they used to - what a w**ker
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Empty your PM inbox, Ed...I just spent 5mins on a spewing rage only for it to be locked out!
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McCullum to the rescue. Maybe he should be moved up the order.
Cricket not sighted in Sudbury.
Oram is very due with the bat...hasn't put his hand up at all as his experience or reputation would suggest of late...and considering the lack of experience we have in the team that means double from the senior players...
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