Is there any point in England having cricket as a national game?

[p_p_man]

We're so bad at it, it's embarrasing...



ppman

 

[Starblayde]

We're so bad at, it it's embarrasing...



ppman

No, the Australians are so much better at it than us, its embarrasing.


Were you actually watching the International tests over the Summer? We were kicking arse left right and centre. Vaughn and Trescothick were breaking batting records and averages like there was no tomorrow.

Our opening batters are some of the best in the world. Most of our bowlers are injured, and the middle to late order cant withstand McGrath and Warne. But, then again, who the fuck can?

 

[p_p_man]

Re: Re: Is there any point in England having cricket as a national game?

No, the Australians are so much better at it than us, its embarrasing.


Were you actually watching the International tests over the Summer?

Sorry no. I don't actually follow the game but the present series is so prominent in its awfulness I haven't been able to avoid it...

But you're right, it's probably the Australians' genius that's making us look like idiots...



ppman

 

[Pechorin]

Don't forget what the Australians did to Pakistan earlier this year. Bowled them out twice for a 2 innings total of barely 100 runs.

The Aussies are awesome at present. With no decent bowling attack the pressure is on the England batsmen and it's proving too much.

Are you advocating that the land which produced Churchill merely gives up and leaves the field?

 

[bluespoke]

Are you advocating that the land which produced Churchill merely gives up and leaves the field?

Churchill's batting was poor and his bowling action suspect!

 

[Pechorin]

Churchill's batting was poor and his bowling action suspect!

Maybe, but Barnes-Wallis was definitely king of the bouncer.

 

[bluespoke]

Maybe, but Barnes-Wallis was definitely king of the bouncer.

And Elizabeth Taylor has been known to stroke one through the covers!

 

[Myrrdin]

We're so bad at it, it's embarrasing...



ppman

Well just imagine how the Windies feel about their team, these days.

 

[Guest]

Is there any point in having an England?

 

[Myrrdin]

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Is there any point in having an England?

Yes.
Otherwise we'd have the Scots as neighbours

 

[bluespoke]

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Yes.
Otherwise we'd have the Scots as neighbours

And we'd have the Welsh!

(Still at least we'd both win the occasional rugby match then!)

 

[Guest]

 

[Petercav]

Lol, im new here so i don't know all the 'charecters'. Is that Hanns being ironic or summin' or is he just a facist bigot moron?

 

[Guest]

 

[Pechorin]

churchill was a c*nt. He has views rivaling hitler, you dork.

And the evidence to back up this theory is what precisely?

 

[Guest]

I thought bowls was the national sport......Drake set the trend....Now the village greens are bowling greens like velvet and the air is full of the soft spattering of gentle applause as the players slip their teeth back in and tuck into cucumber sandwiches.

England lost it's supremecy at cricket when whites were discarded, dammit! Tennis went years ago,,,,same bloody reason! Look at bloody Wimbledon and those two tarty black girls!