Game Day Cricket, Ashes 1st Test chat: Bangers & Mash vs Lamb Cutlets on the Barbie

[the avoca drover]

Why so impatient?

Afterall, you have been waiting a lifetime for your shitty failure of a footy team to win something.

 

[Dinsdale]

Ok, this thread is about the cricket

Leave the footy trash talk to other threads, gods know there's enough of them.

Now, hoping Scotty Boland can get a few, then Trav-ball takes over and he and Ussie see us home.

 

[spudmaster]

Hey England, fix your weather!
Wanted a quick win with a reasonable bedtime tonight...

 

[Mesc]

Rain eh ? Lucky Pommy Bastards !!!

 

[gunbarrelstraight91]

It’s gonna be tough this chase. Unfortunately I don’t have a great feeling about it. Hope I’m wrong. Go Aussies!

 

[spudmaster]

They're predicting they'll take an early lunch (9:30 Vic time) with play unlikely to resume beforehand. Forecast looking better later in the day supposedly.

Adds another element of excitement if the draw becomes a genuine possibility I guess. Might put some pressure on us to score more aggressively, or if things to pear shaped, gives us the potential option to try for the draw.

 

[Plugger35]

They're predicting they'll take an early lunch (9:30 Vic time) with play unlikely to resume beforehand. Forecast looking better later in the day supposedly.

Adds another element of excitement if the draw becomes a genuine possibility I guess. Might put some pressure on us to score more aggressively, or if things to pear shaped, gives us the potential option to try for the draw.

The two sessions after lunch should be OK and be enough time to get a result, the first session is a write off though due to the shitty English weather.

 

[gunbarrelstraight91]

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They're predicting they'll take an early lunch (9:30 Vic time) with play unlikely to resume beforehand. Forecast looking better later in the day supposedly.

Adds another element of excitement if the draw becomes a genuine possibility I guess. Might put some pressure on us to score more aggressively, or if things to pear shaped, gives us the potential option to try for the draw.

Dont forget that the sun Sets very late in the English summer, (9:34pm for Birmingham tonight) so I can’t see the draw happening unless the rain sticks around well past lunch or comes back again.

Obviously overs will be lost but on the final day play can go well past the scheduled stumps time so we may not lose as much as you’d think.

 

[spudmaster]

D

Dont forget that the sun Sets very late in the English summer, (9:34pm for Birmingham tonight) so I can’t see the draw happening unless the rain sticks around well past lunch or comes back again.

Obviously overs will be lost but on the final day play can go well past the scheduled stumps time so we may not lose as much as you’d think.

Ah good point!

 

[Sam The Doc]

Hey England, fix your weather!
Wanted a quick win with a reasonable bedtime tonight...

Yep I’m really struggling tonight.

 

[Footy Is The Win]

 

[Plugger35]

Yep I’m really struggling tonight.

Me too, all these late nights staying up to watch the cricket start to catch up with you and I live in WA, it would be worse for people on the East Coast.

 

[Sam The Doc]

Me too, all these late nights staying up to watch the cricket start to catch up with you and I live in WA, it would be worse for people on the East Coast.

410am this morning ..
Wake up at 8am feeling like I’ve drunk a slab

 

[spudmaster]

Me too, all these late nights staying up to watch the cricket start to catch up with you and I live in WA, it would be worse for people on the East Coast.

If there's any productivity/performance reviews this week, I'll be on Seek looking for a new job!

Trying to sneak in some arvo naps, but with seemingly every third house in the street being knocked down and rebuilt, the noise makes that nigh on impossible.

Sunday night was a write-off with the Canadian GP on just after the cricket too

 

[Dinsdale]

Trying to sneak in some arvo naps, but with seemingly every third house in the street being knocked down and rebuilt, the noise makes that nigh on impossible

Have a nap in the 1st and 2nd houses, that's my advice

 

[Sam The Doc]

We on soon ?

 

[Dinsdale]

Supersopper will be working overtime

 

[Footy Is The Win]

Cheating rain

 

[STPer18]

Joke of a country.

 

[spudmaster]

 

[Footy Is The Win]

Boland 100 not

 

[spudmaster]

Boland 100 not

Hope he gets a fistful! Would be brilliant to see.

 

[Sam The Doc]

Boland 100 not

A few more through third man soaking in the water please.

 

[Dinsdale]

A few more through third man soaking in the water please.

Lots of splashes from the fielders, the ball will be soapy soon

 

[Sam The Doc]

Top fielding Robinson