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I loved the days of the west indies , Australia and India showing the colonial toffs led by Mike Brearley and his lot a good lathering
Kapil Dev , Dennis Lilley, Andy Roberts , all fantastic , ergonomic bowling actions
Collis King coming in at number 7 and smashing everyone around the ground
Pitch invasions by hundreds of rastas at Lords
Lovely stuff
Now it's all boring
I gave up on cricket years ago to be honest
Aah those halcyon days of watching Chris Tavare taking all day to score 50, or Sunil Gavasker scoring 36 not out over 60 overs in a ODI because he didn't understand the rules. It was brilliant back then.
The crowds watching the touring teams were great though.
Tavare was a boring washed up old ponceQuote:
Originally Posted by The Bloop
I was looking at the England fixtures earlier this evening for this summer. It is just match after match after match. There must be an England game in one format or another from basically the week after next until the end of September.
The uniqueness of a test match has been lost in the circus of 20/20 and what now seems another longer format the 50 overs game.
I think there’s a case of going to the well to often. Such a shame as to me it’s always been my number one sport.
...wide headed dwarf
Soapy sod.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
Did I tell you about Damian ?Quote:
Originally Posted by kendoddsdadsdogsdead
Christopher Martin Jenkins
What a ponce
Timothy Tremlett
Who walks round with a name like that ?
I understand.Being bored by cricket in the summer and the City in the winter is to much for anyone.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
Turned bollocks? It's never been a game for the working class same as golf, tennis and countless other sports.
you weren't at taunton 97 then
Any suggestions for rule changes would improve it?
I'd like to see them trial a working lunch (you can eat your sandwiches but you have to keep playing).
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Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
Don’t be ridiculous Sludge puppy
It's cobblersQuote:
Originally Posted by Pearcey3
Boring nonsense
The west indies knew how to play
Those days were good
Derek Underwood
Medium pace or left arm over spinner
Make your mind up sunshine
Out of curiosity, how many things from yesterday do you now find to be a load of cobblers?Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
SnookerQuote:
Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee
Gladiators
It's a Knockout
if you like cricket you are clearly a suppressed hetrosexual
Chris tremlett??Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
Oh okay thenQuote:
Originally Posted by Alfresco
That's me sussed thenQuote:
Originally Posted by ToTaL ITK
Test cricket is still the dogs bollocks
I took my wife to be to Swansea.Glamorgan just happened to be playing the West Indies.Clive Lloyd hit a six off Lawrence Williams.It missed my Mrs head by inches.Hit a wall behind us, rebounded and nearly hit her.She said that's it I'm off.
Timothy Tremlett doesQuote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
agree used to be nailed to the TV watching test cricket as a kid and the West Indies/Australia were box office stuff back thenQuote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
My favourite player who I regard as certainly the best fielder of his generation and wasn't a bad batsman either too !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzgrAiUt_DY
Great fielderQuote:
Originally Posted by MOZZER2
Anything other than 5 day cricket seems like football's equivalent of 5-a-side. It's funny how the short [and even shorter] game is perceived by most as being more 'interesting' and less boring. I remember when I started watching County cricket and then Test Cricket on TV and my dad saying 'there's always something going on'. A change of bowling, change of field positions, bowlers trying something different, all the myriad of different batting strokes and balls bowled. The match going one way, then the other. The short game[s] are just the same old boring, defensive bowing, with a slash at anything that is slightly off target. Lots of runs and hitting, but bores the life out of me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hot Shot Hamish.
Put the test in testosteroneQuote:
Originally Posted by Nobody's Rep
Very good 👍👍Quote:
Originally Posted by bigjoe
another great from the cricket world has passed today
https://www.news.com.au/sport/cricke...bb691a73718619
Did he pass or just try to and failed? :getscoat:Quote:
Originally Posted by MOZZER2
I still love cricket its a pity test match cricket isn't free on the BBC.
My dad lived in a council flat in London and used to go and watch at Lords and the oval ,my love of the game came from him.
He saw England win back the ashes after the war at the oval I think it was 1951.