The Cricket Thread (part 6) - from July 2023 (Bartholemew Frinton-Smythe, Humphrey Wigbert-Porter, and Quinten Breckenridge)

I think they try and get after him a bit.

the test equivalent of the grade asthmatic short sighted trundler you get after the quicks bugger off.

Yep sounds crazy but the guy that hold this record has many drinking and eating. A pint every 2 minutes for three hours. He would be drinking and peeing at the same time.

His name is Peter Dowdeswell Born 29 July 1940 (age 82) and still alive. His occupation is Competitive eater

He is also known for drinking of a yard of ale in under 5 seconds and eating 60 sausages in 36 seconds.

Of course, he is a Pommy.

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So you can only stump someone on balls 1-5 of an over and #6 is the regular no stumping ball?

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I’m not a fan of sports betting ads but I have to say that the ā€œGrubsā€ Sportsbet Insta updates have been quite amusing. They are queued up to get tickets for Wimbledon. Looks like an absolute circus.

This keeps getting better and better :rofl:

This one needs to be put on high rotation in the next two days.

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Carey was as instinctive and accurate as his namesake at north. There was barely time for the umps to look at each other; the ball left the glove as soon as it went in.

The pommy players aren’t disputing it but the way Fleet Street are framing it it’s as though he was not out.

But ā– ā– ā– ā–  him and ā– ā– ā– ā–  England and ā– ā– ā– ā–  broad. In particular. If he hadn’t had gone out and carried on like a sanctimonious count in the first place I’d probably see their side but there’s enough of them in that team that have happily pulled shiftys over the years they should just keep quiet about it.

Bairstow knew he’d ā– ā– ā– ā– ā– ā–  up so is using the whole spirit side of it to cover his fuckwittery. Most of the English commentators agree heartily with their Australian, and significantly, their international counterparts.

Stokes is out of step with his team and coach here. He’s the one that would have withdrawn it but I don’t know if many, especially Broad, and bairstow, would have.

I’m sort of comfy with the decision. Not at all comfy with the hypocrisy.

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Not sure there’s much wrong with that. Classic case of being aware where the ball is.

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Who cares were 2 nil up fark the poms.

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To be fair, he keeps pretty much the same way.

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Those names scream ā€œmy parents were both first and second cousinsā€.

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need more england slander in this

A bunch of privileged, entitled old men directed their attention towards Usman? I’d say it was pretty obvious why. Much the same reasons why Brexit got up…

If you’ve ever met an old-school Brit, you’d know why. I’ve got them in my family… their views are ignorant and abhorrent.

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How did Cummins get his black eye :thinking:

Bad bounce on a ground ball on day 2

By the end of the game it looked like he was wearing heavy eyeliner, very Flinders station circa 2005 look.

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It has been mentioned a couple of times, an errant ball in a fielding mishap.

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I bet Warner wishes he’d hoed into the curried egg sangers at lunch. Let fly with a couple of room-clearers in the Long Room coming off the ground.

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I’ve had guys wander out from the bowler’s end on the last ball. I generally tell them to wait until i call Over…unless they’ve told me they follow one of the really ā– ā– ā– ā–  AFL clubs.

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Could’ve sworn he barely played a shot for the first hour yesterday.
Is it only the hired help who are expected to destroy their averages?

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You say it like it’s a bad thing.

And lit the bastards first.