Why does Pakistan even bother to turn up?
We're talking cricket here. Bowled out for well under a hundred by England both this test and the last, surely Pakistan's team is so poor they shouldn't be playing at this level? This is the least exciting and most uninteresting cricket match I've ever listened to.
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Listening to cricket on the radio and you are not spoilt for least exciting comparisons? :D Sorry, that is one sport that I have never been able to raise an eyebrow for, its sort of like rolling a die and taking down the score isn't it.
After that huge upset i'm not surprised Pakistan turned up. England arent exactly the greatest are team are they.
Thank god the premiership starts soon
Don't write Bangladesh off so lightly. Yes they are the underdogs but every dog has its day and Bangladesh have beaten some good teams in the past. Not often though. :)
The Pakistani cricket team is an enigma, much like their country. Pakistan won the T20 World Championship last year. Their one day team is probably one of the best in business. Their Test team, however, is another story entirely with some of their best batsmen being kicked out of the team under the pretext of corruption, unpatriot-ism (!!!), or bad blood.
As for England, I have to say that the current One day and Test team are some of the best I have seen of late. Don't forget England won the T20 World Cup this year!
Amen! :)
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We're definitely of the right class to enter the World Cup though. Pakistan just aren't credible.
And we beat Bangladesh (which is a massive understatement). We also hold the Ashes, and considering Pakistan beat Australia, it looks like we'll be defending them too.
England football team won the world cup in 1966
Pakistan cricket team won the ICC world cup in 1992....(beating England)
Before winning it this year England had not won it for 35yrs...
Meh, I judge teams on how they currently play.
Back to the comment about England and the football world cup then! :D
They managed to reach the second round, so their being there was justified.
As for the cricket glad to see England finally doing well in something, saying that we always seem to manage to scrape through to the rugby world cup final.
England football team and Capello = Jokes, I can't stand any of them since the world cup
btw something tells me tyson gay doesn't get too many jibes about his name to his face, judging by the looks of him
It's weird, but I've never got into any sort of racing (cars, horses, running, etc) unless it's winter sports (and even then it's more because of the novelty of watching four skiers doing down the same piste at the same time). Unless you're actually doing it, or betting on it, then I can't see the point of watching it. The skill and strategy is ether so basic (when to take pit stops) or so subtle (finding the perfect racing line whilst overtaking - if there *is* overtaking) that it doesn't do much for me.
Now fetch me the carpet slippers, because I do like snooker (or at least I did before I discovered how rigged it is), bowls, golf, and even curling, because the level of skill and strategy is easily appreciable by the spectator.
Disagree...pudding wrestling would be the best sport.
The league around here even has a raffle at the event and the winner gets to hose down the participants after the fights.
I didn't realise there was such a scale, I thought all cricket matches were just marginally better than golf in the boredom stakes. ;)
On a more seruous note, if you were talking about Wales, Scotland, Australia, or any other predominantly white country, then I'd make a joke about them and cricket. But since Pakistan's population are largely black I daren't joke about them the way I'd joke about whites, as whites are fair game in English law, but not blacks.
Aparently, it's called "equality"...
:roll: Wish you'd let one or two go by every now and then.
i imagine the Queen has to say that a LOT.
other than that defeat to bangladesh england have been very good of late.
won the recent world cup beating the aussies in the final.
over the last 2 yrs england have beat nearly everyone they have played,be it odi's or test match series.
Sorry, but after the last two days (work finance, you don't want to know) on top of other, more personal, things, I'm ready to jump at the slightest provocation.
On the plus side, I've got both series of Joking Apart, a 1990's sit-com by Steven Moffat (the best current Doctor Who writer), and series six of the Office (American version), and the first few episodes of the new series of Futurama waiting to be watched, so hopefully they should cheer me up. Plus it's the weekend, so at least one problem area is away from me for a couple of days.
Bit torrents are brilliant, aren't they?
On topic, though, I've never saw the appeal of Cricket. I'm not knocking it for it's own sake, but it does seem boring to me. Then again I'm not sports minded, plus maybe you mostly have to have been brought up with a particular sport to like it, at school it was mainly Football and Rugby for us. But a sport where one match can last five days does seem strange.
And the TT is just mental because those guys are literally dicing with death - as in, if they make an error of judgement or a tiny mistake, they can and, with alarming frequency, do die in the pursuit of sporting perfection. There aren't a great many sports like that any more - certainly Formula 1 has lost the majority of it's element of danger. Also all bike racing is generally much more about the skill of an individual rider rather than the design/engineering/rule-bending ability of his team. :)
Championship footy starts today, huuuuuurahhhh!
They should keep the ICC Calendar, which ensures everyone plays everyone else. It's only fair and just to help the "lesser" teams develop.
19-1 at the close is now 57-3, bringing on Swann was a masterstroke by Strauss.
I doubt that England are taking Pakistan seriously - they've won already.
OK, so it should be wrapped up between lunch and tea but in my defence is we lost a lot of time yesterday :)