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    Quote Originally Posted by Macha View Post
    ODI's what I call real cricket. Latest ODI rankings:

    1. Australia with rating of 131.
    2. South Africa with 123.
    3. Pakistan with 115.
    4. India with 113.
    5. Newzealand with 111.
    6. Sri Lanka with 107.
    7. West Indies with 99.
    8. England with 96.
    9. Zimbabwe with 35.
    10. Bangladesh with 32.
    I think the rest of us will stick to real cricket; test cricket.

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    Yes, ODI's are mere frivolity. It is the test matches that count.
    Last edited by Fast Eddie; 15-08-2006 at 10:57 PM.

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    Well actually your not, we're still No.1 and you guys are only No.2 because you have just beat a Pakistan B side[/quote]

    I,m not talking rankings, remind me what was the score in the last series. We are already 2-0 up against pakistan which clinches the series we a game to play its results that count not rankings.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Macha View Post
    I might be wrong but you won't get to number 2 even if England beats us Pakis.
    You might, yes.

    England win confirms Ashes battle will be a top-of-the-table clash
    Brian Murgatroyd
    August 8, 2006
    The forthcoming Ashes series between Australia and England will be a battle between the top two sides in the LG ICC Test Championship table, it was confirmed today.


    That confirmation came when England beat Pakistan by 167 runs at Headingley, a result that ensures it will win the series and so move back into second spot in the table, ahead of Inzamam-ul-Haq's side.


    The gap between England and Australia ahead of their series beginning in Brisbane in November is still to be decided but it could be as few as 11 rating points if England beat Pakistan again at The Oval in the fourth Test, starting on 17 August, and so claim a 3-0 victory.


    If England wins that Test, the top of the LG ICC Test Championship table will look like this:


    Rank Team Rating
    1. Australia 130
    2. England 119
    3. Pakistan 112
    4. India 111


    If the Test at The Oval is drawn, it will look like this:
    1. Australia 130
    2. England 117
    3. Pakistan 114
    4. India 111


    And if Pakistan wins the fourth Test to reduce its margin of defeat in the series to 2-1, the top four places will be:
    1. Australia 130
    2. England 116
    3. Pakistan 115
    4. India 111


    England's series win is its first since it beat Australia 2-1 last year to reclaim The Ashes while, for Pakistan, it is its first loss in a series since it lost all three Tests against Ricky Ponting's side in 2004/05.


    Tuesday also saw Sri Lanka consolidate its position in fifth spot in the LG ICC Test Championship table with a nerve-jangling one-wicket win over South Africa that secured a 2-0 series win over the Proteas.


    Sri Lanka is now eight points behind fourth-placed India while South Africa, in sixth spot, has lost four rating points and is now just two points ahead of New Zealand.
    © ICC

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fast Eddie
    Yes, ODI's are mere frivolity. It is the test matches that count. Last edited by Fast Eddie : Yesterday at 10:57 PM.
    Ah yes, there is nothing like sitting in front of a tv for a week watching a test match listening to the commentators talk about seagulls.

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    Australia 4-1...

    Bring it on baby..I have tickets to days 3,4 and 5 of the Perth Test...

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    I reckon 1-1

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    Come on guys ..... test cricket? Sitting in front of TV for five days just for a draw (mostly)?

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    Most of the matches are not draws, and yes it does require a certain degree of patience and appreciation of the finer points of the game. There cannot really be any argument. It is cricket at it's highest and most demanding level.
    Last edited by Fast Eddie; 17-08-2006 at 12:18 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Macha View Post
    Come on guys ..... test cricket? Sitting in front of TV for five days just for a draw (mostly)?
    Only one draw against your lot, and two wins. A third isn't 'mostly'.

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    how many results in the last Ashes series macha?

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    The bookies here have us as favorites to get the ashes back and rightly so, I think your boys will be shitting themselves whern they get out here on real wickets instead of the rolled mud that they served up in Pommie land

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    And those cheap balls that do the reverse swing...I don't think a proper Kookaburra cricket ball will do it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Butch View Post
    And those cheap balls that do the reverse swing...I don't think a proper Kookaburra cricket ball will do it.
    I think it's your unskilled bowlers mate. Don't blame it on the tools.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Butch View Post
    And those cheap balls that do the reverse swing...I don't think a proper Kookaburra cricket ball will do it.
    Yes, and they can't buy those fucking lollies here that they suck on to load the ball up with.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog View Post
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    And those cheap balls that do the reverse swing...I don't think a proper Kookaburra cricket ball will do it.
    I think it's your unskilled bowlers mate. Don't blame it on the tools.
    Its actually a proven fact. The Kooka ball is harder and stays that way.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog View Post
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    Come on guys ..... test cricket? Sitting in front of TV for five days just for a draw (mostly)?
    Only one draw against your lot, and two wins. A third isn't 'mostly'.
    Poms must be playing good cricket. I think any team that plays good deservesto win like Pakis beat Poms a few months ago back in Pakland.

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    Latest score England v Pakistan

    England all out 17311 bunnies & an angry 12th man.

    Pakistan 1 for 94

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    Hello...hello

    Hello.. hello

    Nope. Nobody here.

    A bit like the outer at The Oval for this weekends cricket


    Pakistan 3 for 336. England? Hopeless!

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    it will be a close series but I don't think the 'soapdodgers' will slip under the radar like the last series. just what the ozzies needed was a wake up call and they got it..........now they'll just continue their dominance of world cricket, why? DEPTH in the ranks

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    soapdodgers...
    fuck that made me laugh.

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    Magpie, the series is won, it is a dead rubber.

    Hope this helps.

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    i just wish Mohammed Yousouf was welsh.

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    ^^^^
    the series is already won just like it will be in aus after 3 tests.

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    Dead rubber. That's the difference mate. Australia play to win every game of every series. The Poms can cave in at any time and will use any excuse to justify it.

    You are a nation of sporting almosts.

    Almost had a champion tennis player
    Almost had a continuing success in rugby.
    Almost made it to the FIFA World Cup semis.
    Almost won a cricket World Cup (twice)
    Almost won more gold than France at the last Olympics.

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