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Anyone else doing a rain dance, and hoping that the weather gets darker by the second ?

i'm hoping for some sort of flooding! that would be ideal!!! maybe a solar eclipse!

COME ON ENGLAND!!! anyone near the oval fancy going to kidnap warne?

Vidal

back on at 3.10    ..... RAIN FFS RAIN !!!!!!!!

Good afters Kev, dont know if u noticed our new Australin member Bendigo, I dont think you should be taking the mick - do you?

LOL im not taking the mick, im just worried that Shane Warne has the ability to rip us apart here ...  Rain saved them at old trafford, all i want is the same for England here :)

Saw a brilliant T-Shirt in the crowd , it said ... I SUPPORT 2 TEAMS... NEW ZEALAND , AND WHOEVER IS PLAYING THE AUSSIES ............ :)

We have a similar one in Wales can't remeber which the other country was though

RUNS!!!! Come on, ozzy ozzy what...

heya hiya heya hiya heya hiya  *stomping around living room with a feather duster on me head*

Tell you what though - bet you wish Warney was English....WHAT a bowler, eh?

Rain would be nice as I had a 'small' wager on the draw yesterday  :-\

YES!

And warne is fantastic... he is english really!

Tikay.
Shane Warnes skills with a ball are nothing compared to what you can achive
with a playing card  on the "river". He's got a whole arsenal of balls to hit the stumps you've normally got a 2 outer
and hit every time.  And by the way your far more consistant than he is.

Regards

M  :-*

  

I'm actually working on a light-dance at present.

Seems to be working too !

 ;D

Off the field for bad light ...  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

oh what a shame ;)

Off for bad light AGAIN! Think Boycott's gonna burst something . . .

I cant believe Geoffrey "wife beater" boycott is moaning about the umpires offering the light to the batsmen ... FFS shut it boycott !!!  the Aussies used every slowing down tactic known to man in the old trafford test ...  What goes around comes around ....  

wimps cant tbeat them on the field so have to try the my eye sights poor trick

IF YOU CANT SEE GET SOME GLASSES or play cricket for the visually impaired

KEEP OUT OF THIS Iron.

This is nothing to do with you. Cricket, at the highest level, is FAR too spohisticated for the Scots. Go curling, with your little brooms, & leave the English to do what they do best - which includes Cricket, Football & Rugby.

don't you just love it when our northern colonists talk about sport ;D :D ;D :D

Too right Ian. I think they forget that we own them.

 :-X  :-X  :-X  :-X  :-X

Ive still got to honour my bet :(

Umpires have just been out to the middle, and no improvement in light :) :)

Just for that, I hope Berti Vogts is the next England manager, and Matt Williams coaches your rugby team in the Six Nations.

the thing about the 2 folks you mention is they had nothing to work with in the first place.
Believe it or not you simply CAN'T make a silk purse out of a pigs ear ;D

Andrew Flintoff...did you see his bowling this morning? Fan-bloody-tastic...what a lion heart that guy is

back to the bad light dance....

bring me sunshine in the rain

Flintoff and warne in the same side would be amazing ... i think they are playing in a world 11  in a few months.

Its a good job gerraint jones can bat a bit, his keeping has been awful .... is Alan Rough the keeping coach ?? :)

Bless him .... they dont play in rain either :)

Ironside, I already warned you - KEEP OUT OF THIS.

This is the Mother Country, v The Convicts.

come on the convicts

btw do you not think its time to change the ENGLISH national anthem to jersulum, then we brits can get behing god save the queen for the british anthem

I agree with the Anthem comment 100%

you listen to the welsh or the scots anthems inspire a team before kick off, but god save the queen doesnt seem to have the same inspirational quailties, if it was rationed to just british teams (englands cricket test team is in fact britain) then it would have something too it

and i feel that 50k english men singing jeruslum has the same effect as 28k scots singing flower of scotland or 3 welshmen singing anything

Englands test team british?
are you mad?
Scotland have their own team too you know

scotland has its own one day team as do ireland and wales but all players of the home nations can play test cricket for england and then choose to play 1 day for there home nation or england most choose england though

My light-dance working a treat !

Getting gloomier, but not for England.

 ;D ;D

I win more on Betfair if aussies square the series. Heart says c'mon England pocket says not ::)

Absolute bunkum mr Ironside sir, you can play for England only if eligible, being scottish, welsh or irish does NOT qualify you to play for England, being ENGLISH does.
It is not a British team, it's an English one.
There are various residency criteria and also playing county cricket for so many days per year for 6 or 7 years is another.
I'm sure it can be looked up, i may do later if you wish.

Heart & pocket says come on rain, bad light or anything to make it a draw  ;D

Pretty sure there have been several welsh "England" players so I'm not sure you are 100% correct.

Edit: 30 seconds search on google found this:
http://archive.thisislancashire.co.uk/2004/03/25/500486.html

Yeah, soz about the welsh thingy, for some reason it's always been like that ???
Odd really but as that says it is the england and welsh cricket board, i'll have to look for the criteria regarding welsh, maybe they're automatic too but the scots ain't

Not really a sport i care too much for but I guess with Glamorgan being a County side prolly explains the welsh bit. (Football has anomalies too, Cardiff,Swansea etc in English leagues)

there was a player a couple of years back

Hamilton i believe was his name

he wanted into the english test team but was more likely to be played as a 1 day player

but he wanted to play his 1 day cricket for scotland 

never did make the test team as he was more of an all rounder

but sure he played for scotlnad in the world cup

England and wales cricket board might give us all a clue!

as soemone else onnthe thread said earlier, it comesd own to residency nad games played for your county etc. its not as clear cut as football (where you have to hold a claim to a Passport).

Its quite a tradition for the english to grab talent from other countries anyway.

Freddy mercury - Indian
George Michael - Greek
Cliff Richard - Somewhere in africa (anyone else see a pattern emerging?? lol)
Lennox Lewis - Canadia (although he was born here i guess)
Kevin Pietersen - South africa
Wayne Rooney - Actually qualifies for Northern Ireland (funny it seemed to show on weds)

a few years ago the England teams goalkeeper problems were almost solved by italian Carlo Cudicini, and the wonderful Owen Hargreaves has Quad nationality (England, wales,canada and germany)

In this day and ag its quite difficult to establish a pure link to anyones national heritage so therefore we are led down the path of multiple nationalities

With cricket Scotlan acyually do have a test side ( they played the Aussies not long ago in an ashes warm up) but as England are the Bigger sde they get selection rights apparently

I though they were one of the Minor Counties  8)

actuallly sayin that robert i'm sure scotland actually field a team in our english county championship or the totesport league

scotland DO NOT have a test side they were set to play the aussies in a 1 day match during the ashes series it was to be shown live on the bbc but was rained off

there are only 12 test playing nations in the world players from countries out side those 12 who are of a good enough quailty can play TEST match cricket for a nation regionally based

You like that word ..don't you .. ;)

scotland play in division 2 of the county championship this team isnt the scottish 1 day team as it selects players the same way as a county team does including overseas players

Im off to bed now ....  lets hope i wake up tomorrow to the sound of pouring rain lashing against my windows .... COME ON ENGLAND !!!!!

well ACTUALLY hehehe

sorry to be pedantic, but Scotland have a team in Division 2 of the Totesport league (was the Sunday league, except niow matches take place any time except Sunday it seems) not the County championship

An improving team,beat Surrey for example earlier this year

IT'S ALL GOING WRONG

:'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

Ian Bell has to be the worst batsmen ever!

what a fkin day to pick to give up smoking ..... Ive FAILED already :(   Flintoff out just before lunch ... come on boys DIG IN .... we are 132 ahead with 5 wickets in hand .... dont give up hope yet !!

O M G

This could be a nailbiter

the Scots will be along soon, prepare yourselves


Rain dance about to re-commence


aaarrrggggghhhhhhhh


Ian Bell's actually a very proficient batsman, but it's tough to have that teak hard temperament against Warne and McGrath unless you are brilliant with his inexperience

Well I'm glad Collingwood is playing or the Aussies would now be favourites.

Aussies are still almost 5/2 to win this match on Betfair which seems a bit big to me.

Fingernails ? I'm almost down to the knuckles !!

 ::)

Ian Bell's actually a very proficient batsman, but it's tough to have that teak hard temperament against Warne and McGrath unless you are brilliant with his inexperience
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Half the team is inexperienced  (Flintoff's 1st Ashes+ 3 others) but over the whole series Ian Bell has simply been out of his dept.

Ironside - KEEP OFF THIS THREAD, it's got NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU.

MYOFB.

This is a SERIOUS matter. GO AWAY.

PS - Must confess,that cracked me up. You don't mind popping your head above the parapet, eh? Stand by to be super-flamed.......

                       

Feeling a touch more relaxed anyway

uh-oh. War is about to break out........

199-7

cue finger nail biting again

Ironside please go and jump into the nearest billabong !

 :o

 

Pietersen just bowled by McGrath but he's played a blinder - probably won England the Ashes. From a neutral point of view, though, the Aussie openers have been utter mince. Top three batsmen in series: Pietersen, Trescothick and Flintoff. Wouldn't have bet that before the first test.

Fantastic knock from KP, and a great supporting role from The King of Spain (how many people wanted him dropped after lords)

Ashes coming home gents!! Im so happy :D

They only need to score at 19 an over.

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

ashes, if you guys wanted ashes so much i'll get some from my grans coal fire

Ironside, a lone voice on the bridge while his ship burns

You gotta admire his stubbornness!

Absolutely chuffed to bits ... brilliant !!!   


Did you hear the crowd singing    ARE YOU SCOTLAND IN DISGUISE .... to the aussies :)  classic     

The spirit the whole series has been played in was amazing - both players and fans.

Yesterday when the England supporters got their brollies out and did a kind of "rain dance" pretending it was raining and were countered by the Aussies taking their shirts off and pretending to sun bathe was a classic moment.

A refreshing change from most other things really.

COME ON THE AUSSIE



when does this game end must be in the next couple of weeks