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Yanks fed up with Pommie cricketers

"A club [St. George of New York] with so little of the
true spirit of cricketers in them, and so apathetic in
regard to promoting the interests of a club and a pastime
they profess to be devoted to, deserve to be whipped
every time they go the field."

(Brooklyn Daily Eagle, June 19, 1872, p.3)
 
Re: Yanks fed up with Pommie cricketers

Are you stupid?
Did you really forget about the thread called "Timmy and his wonderful thoughts"?
Were you unaware that that thread is the one for you to post all your crap in?
 
Re: Yanks fed up with Pommie cricketers

cleazer;149622 said:
Are you stupid?
Did you really forget about the thread called "Timmy and his wonderful thoughts"?
Were you unaware that that thread is the one for you to post all your crap in?
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RACK'EM!! Been here all of two days and I already knew the answer to that one.
 
Takes one to know one?

See Steve Waugh recently said only players, not ICC, can stop
match fixing. Hmmm...he seems to know an awful lot about the
goings on of match fixing.
 
Re: Takes one to know one?

timmyj51;150606 said:
See Steve Waugh recently said only players, not ICC, can stop
match fixing. Hmmm...he seems to know an awful lot about the
goings on of match fixing.
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Well, Smokey the Bear said 'Only You can prevent forrest fires, only YOU' but that doesn't mean HE was the one setting them.
 
Re: Takes one to know one?

"Well, Smokey the Bear said 'Only You can prevent forrest fires, only YOU' but that doesn't mean HE was the one setting them."




No, but he probably has a very good idea who, when, and how, they're being started.
 
Re: Takes one to know one?

Diamond Joe Quimby;150618 said:
Well, Smokey the Bear said 'Only You can prevent forrest fires, only YOU' but that doesn't mean HE was the one setting them.
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mate, you are becoming a legend! @|

repped.
 
Chicago bans cricket!

...in 1866, that is:


Chapter XXIX, Sec. 2: No person shall play at ball, cricket, or at any
game or play whatever, in any of the enclosed public parks or grounds
of this city, under penalty of five dollars for every offense.

[Laws and Ordinances Governing The City of Chicago, 1866]
 
Re: Chicago bans cricket!

oh snap, you can't play baseball either?

guess i've broken the law....
 
Yank cricket patents

From: Index of Patents Issued From US Patent Office, 1790 to 1873:



Cricket-bat, M. Doherty, Boston, 1859 (patent # 23,107)
Cricket-wicket, W. Hanlou, Philadelphia, 1861 (patent # 32,869)
Cricket-bat, P. Caminoni, New York, 1864, (patent # 42,834)
 
cricket preempts Field of Dreams

"In July, 1858, a cricket match was played between the cricket clubs of
Independence and Dyersville." (Harry Chappell, History of Buchanan County,
Iowa, and Its People, 1914) p. 588



[Dyersville, Iowa, was the location of the 1989 movie Field of Dreams with Kevin
Costner. The local baseball field used in that film has become a tourist mecca]
 
Final WC 2007 grade: D-

1) Quality of matches: C (a few good ones but a lot of lop-sided,
uninteresting, sinkers)

2) Mandate to promote cricket: F (non-cricket fan hears about WC.
Decides to check out. Turns on TV. Sees rows and rows of empty
seats. Says to self "Their own fans aren't even bothering to watch
this! Cricket must suck!" Switches to rerun of FINA championship)

3) Revitalizing Windies cricket: D (failed to energize locals. Islands up
to their eyeballs in debt. Will be paying out to the New York/London
banks for years)

4) Format: F (half teams out after three games; drawn-out; meaningless
matches)


Recommendations: Speedosgottago! Set him up selling BMWs to Dubai
camel herders-come-into-money and bring in management team from
MLB, NFL, or NBA who know how to give fans what they want and also
make some money. Adopt Timmyj format.
 
eerie similarities...

..between 2000 presidential election and WC 2007:


1. Court hands Dimebag W election. Indian bookies hand Kallis check.

2. Rows and rows of hanging chads. Rows and rows of empty seats.

3. Dimebag friends illegally quash minority vote. Gilligan illegally uses
squash ball.
 
Re: eerie similarities...

timmyj51;158501 said:
..between 2000 presidential election and WC 2007:


1. Court hands Dimebag W election. Indian bookies hand Kallis check.

2. Rows and rows of hanging chads. Rows and rows of empty seats.

3. Dimebag friends illegally quash minority vote. Gilligan illegally uses
squash ball.
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Nope. The ICC has said that the use of the squash ball was legal.
 
lesser is better

Boozehead Symo says "lesser teams" are beating Aussies at 20/20 cricket.
Got news for ya, buddy, if the other guy whips your arse YOU'RE the
lesser team. Aussies just not up to this rock-em-sock-em 20/20 cricket. They're
just champs of tomato soap cricket.
 
Fat chance, Speedo

Even with the fans going crazy for 20/20 Speedo's saying test countries won't play any more than seven
of these matches per year. Uh-huh, and Hugh Heffner's only gonna have sex
seven times a year. If ICC still gonna live in denial we're gonna have so many renegade
20/20 leagues springing up it'll will make the old World Series Cricket look like
a kindergarden tea party.
 
Take a hint from the ruggers, Speedo

Rugby has 20 teams in their world cup. Why shouldn't ICC have 20
in theirs? Too many "undeserving" teams? Too many "mismatches"? Plenty
of these in the Rugger WC and nobody seems to be complaining. Wanna
spread cricket? Gotta give more countries exposure. Simple as that.
 
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