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    It's funny, last night I went out and got completely rat arsed. No real reason but I just felt like it and I haven't been out since New Years. Only now I realised it was Oz day.

    Similar thing a few years ago. I was on a yacht in the Galapagos and was telling the Captain how I felt like a couple of beers and it must be a day of celebration somewhere in the world so I looked in a book to see if there was something and low and behold it was Oz day. I put an Aussie flag up the left spreader and the Captain (who is seppo) told the owner who was on at the time that it was Australia day and we are having a few beers. "No worries" came the reply. Good boss that!
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    Heve yerselves e lemb, moites. Congretulations from ole' Skulldiggah.

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    Did I miss something?

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    just another flogging of the hapless english cricket team.

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    OK. Carry on...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog View Post
    Did I miss something?
    just to refresh your memory.....

    Pitiful, weary England hits its lowest point
    Andrew Ramsey
    January 27, 2007
    IN the era of reality television, the time has surely come for England's cricketers to be voted off this island.
    Yesterday's submission was so meek and disrespectful that even the most jingoistic Australians were left insulted at England's unwillingness to have a go on the national day.
    To be bowled out for 110 in less than two-and-a-half hours on one of the world's best batting pitches against an opposition team resting two of its best-credentialled bowlers was more than embarrassing. It stunk of a team that has as little pride as it does character, of a group of professional sportsmen as bereft of skill as they are drained of confidence, and of a unit that is counting the minutes until it can fly home.

    In the interests of spectators being tricked into handing over precious cash on the premise of being entertained and for the integrity of this tri-series competition, that flight should be Virgin Atlantic VS201 and it departs Sydney for London at 3.50pm today.

    That would mean Andrew Flintoff's men would have to forfeit their final preliminary matches of the tournament in Perth, Sydney and Brisbane.

    The only surprise of yesterday's appallingly lop-sided contest, that Australia eventually won by nine wickets with 25 overs to spare, was that England's players didn't file out on to the ground during the tea break to take part in the mass Australian citizenship ceremony.

    Certainly, the England players give the impression that they have simply abandoned any other way of trying to win here.

    The victors in absurdly one-sided contests often bemoan the fact that their brilliance is often overlooked in favour of highlighting the losers' inadequacies.

    But there was little to explain yesterday's result other than the disgracefully shoddy nature of England's batting. All 10 wickets fell to straightforward catches presented without thought or care to the slips cordon or infielders. There were no sublime screamers or acts of brilliance to intercept skied balls as they hurtled towards the boundary.

    And Australia's bowling was disciplined and tidy, but scarcely unplayable.

    With Glenn McGrath and Nathan Bracken (the tournament's equal leading wicket-takers) rested, England's top order began the innings staring at its best chance of the series to post a score in excess of 250.

    Instead, it managed its lowest one-day score against Australia since it scored 86 at Old Trafford in 2001, and the lowest one-day score at Adelaide Oval since Pakistan was humbled for 74 in the 1992 World Cup.

    It had appeared that it might, belatedly, be England's day when stand-in opener Mal Loye clubbed Mitchell Johnson out of the ground with a hefty blow over backward square leg that meant the ball was lost in the adjacent parklands.

    But soon enough the hapless tourists - and many of the 27,068 spectators - must have wished they had followed it.

    After Andrew Strauss (17 off 32 balls) and Ian Bell (an enterprising 35 from 31) surrendered their wickets in pathetically soft fashion, England simply gave up.

    It lost its last eight wickets for just 38 runs in less than 20 overs and threw the Adelaide Oval caterers into panic when the innings folded shortly after 4pm.

    Imagine catering for 27,000 visitors who phone shortly before meal time to inform they are no longer planning to stay for dinner? As it was, the match's anti-climax arrived at 6.45pm, almost three hours before the scheduled end of play.

    The main beneficiaries were Johnson, who hit back hard after some early punishment and collected 3-1 from his final 13 deliveries to finish with an impressive 4-45.

    And spinner Brad Hogg, playing his first match of the tournament after flying from Brisbane yesterday morning (where he played in a domestic one-day game for Western Australia on Thursday night), bamboozled England's lower order.

    Hogg's 2-16 will help shore up his position in Australia's World Cup squad, although it's unlikely Australia will meet many teams with less batting clues than England during that campaign in the Caribbean.

    The insipid dismissals of each England batsman summed up the technical and mental ineptitude of the worst touring team to visit Australia in recent memory.

    Previously, that honour belonged to the West Indies outfit that toured here under Jimmy Adams in 2000-01 and was flogged 5-0 in the Tests before being ritually humiliated in the limited-overs arena.
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