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So my Ashes hat signed by Strauss, Pietersen and Trott might be worth a few sovs on ebay then?

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

it was funny watching the Indians do their best to cheat again

They can't get a result any other way - what choice do they have?

Come on Lancs!!!!!

211 needed!

LANCASHIRE ARE 2011 COUNTY CHAMPS!!

The SCUM are relegated!!

Fuck YEAAH!!!!!!!!

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Lanky Lanky! Lanky Lanky Lanky LANCASHIRE!!!!!!!!!!

Took 2 Yorkshiremen to win it for them though .

Originally Posted by daveboy

Took 2 Yorkshiremen to win it for them though .

Maybe however there is a lot of young Lancastrians in the side. To think of all the internationals and if you like mercenaries they've had in the past and yet they failed to win it. Having said that the weather has often been Lancashire's worst opponent.

More than the weather has been the pitch at OT. It's been a cracking 5 day pitch for tests but a lousy 4 day wicket. The pitch at Aigburth has been far more competitive and challenging for producing results.

England set two miserable D/L targets and they've still pissed all over India, who can now officially go home with their tails firmly stuck between their legs.

England win by six wickets, and win the series 3-0.

Fuck me that Bairstow can hit the cricket ball....

My word!

Originally Posted by daveboy

Took 2 Yorkshiremen to win it for them though .

Just shows what a polite and tolerant nation we are! Not everyone would take a couple of Tykes and offer them refuge from persecution, poverty and worst of all having to live in Yorkshire.

77 years, god I'll be pushing 100 and a lot before we win again!

Another 100 for Michael Hussey to save Australia's first innings.

Originally Posted by Sailing into trouble

Originally Posted by daveboy

Took 2 Yorkshiremen to win it for them though .

Just shows what a polite and tolerant nation we are! Not everyone would take a couple of Tykes and offer them refuge from persecution, poverty and worst of all having to live in Yorkshire.

77 years, god I'll be pushing 100 and a lot before we win again!

Never thought I would say it but the Lancashire bottlers got out-bottled

Did them Warwickshire bowlers have a bet on Lancs

Phillip Hughes and Michael Clark score hundreds with the ever reliable Hussey backing up his first innings century with 80 not out.

Game saved with Australia winning the Sri Lanka Tour.

and their coach resigning....

Originally Posted by Bobcock

and their coach resigning....

"Nielsen quit last night after four years at the helm, that included back-to-back Ashes losses, losing all four Tests against India, and squaring two series against South Africa at three Tests apiece.Nielsen’s successes were only against the lower-ranked nations – Pakistan, New Zealand, and the Windies."

I wonder if Duncan Fletcher will apply for it?

Better the selectors resigning. They picked the side with cricketers playing out of position.

Yeah, phil Hughes opening the bowling was a strange one......

Personally I don"t think the Crims are in as bad a state as people would like to think.

The right selections and a bit of confidence will see them move in the right direction.

Originally Posted by Bobcock

Yeah, phil Hughes opening the bowling was a strange one

Smart~arse..................

I was referring to Watson and Haddin and continuing to play Ponting in particular.

In fact I reckon Haddin's batting has gone backwards ever since the selectors put him in as an opener.

Some new blood has seen an improvement although they are still way behind the Poms.

I can't believe my eyes. After cruising through the summer without problem, England are in their last T20 game against the WI, were set a miserly target of 114 and are currently 60/6 off 11.4 overs.

They could actually lose a game.

Correction, 60/7 off 11.5. They're collapsing like a clown's car. I was going to go to bed but I suppose a few minutes won't hurt.

85/9, 29 need off 24, I can hear the death rattle....

Windies won by 25 runs. Well done, considering they have such a depleted team, although England had a few youngsters and made a few errors.

WI bowling and fielding was superb.

Good for them.

That's a good old Aussie name ennit?

Australia have named ex-England bowling coach Troy Cooley as interim head coach for their forthcoming tour of South Africa - but he will not be applying to fill the role permanently.
Tim Nielsen resigned as head coach last week after four years in the role.
Cooley, 45, began working with England's pacemen in 2003 and helped them to win the Ashes in 2005 before returning to his homeland a year later.
He is currently head coach at Cricket Australia's centre of excellence.
Cooley said: "I feel excited and comfortable coming into this 'caretaker's role'.



COOLEY'S FIRST-CLASS CAREER

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• Team: Tasmania
• Role: Right-arm fast-medium bowler
• Matches: 33
• Wickets: 54 (average 61.35)
• Runs: 291 (average 9.38)

"My immediate task will be to come up to speed with their plans and work with the players and support team to ensure the preparation is spot on for a successful tour."
As well as coaching, he will also be an acting national selector for the South Africa tour, which begins on 13 October with the first of two Twenty20 internationals, followed by three one-day internationals and two Test matches.
Cooley began his coaching career with Tasmania, but was widely credited with helping England's fast bowlers such as Andrew Flintoff and Simon Jones master reverse swing in the lead-up to the 2005 Ashes.
He has since filled a number of roles for the Australia national side, starting as bowling coach but also serving as assistant coach, standing in for Nielsen for part of the one-day series in England in 2009, and coach of Australia A in Zimbabwe earlier this year.

England Bowler Dilley Dies Aged 52

News > National Sport
6:04pm 5th October 2011.
The former England fast bowler Graham Dilley has died after a short illness.
Dilley was part of the famous Ashes winning team of 1981 and played a total of 41 tests in his ten year international career taking 138 wickets.
After retiring he worked with England under Duncan Fletcher, and more recently was Head of Cricket Coaching at Loughborough University.
Sky News presenter Chris Skudder pays tribute:
You can still picture his run up. The long arcing approach, then the odd pause before the lightning fast slingy release that had some of the world's top batsmen hopping around as if on hot coals.
Graham Dilley had been called up for England's tour of Australia at the age of 20 in 1979. He was to be England's answer to Lillee and Thompson the fearsome Aussie pace duo who had been terrorising England's batsmen for years. Dilley was raw but he was fast.
He played 41 Tests for his country taking 138 wickets but oddly, given what he's remembered for he only finished on the winning side in two of those Tests. But one of those victories will never be forgotten and will stand as the cornerstone of his career. Equally oddly, his heroics in the 1981 Headingley Ashes Test came not with the ball but with the bat.
Like many English cricket fans, I can still remember it all so vividly.
England were in desperate trouble against Allan Border's Australians. 174 all out first time round then in dire straits 135 for 7 following on, still nearly a hundred runs adrift of Australia's towering first innings total of 401 for 9 declared. Game over. Just a matter of time before the Aussies rubbed England's noses in it. But in stepped Dilley for an eighth wicket stand with the man after whom this Ashes series would come to be known, Ian Botham. By the time Dilley was out for 56, one of the most valuable Test half-centuries ever played, Botham was rampaging to an unbeaten century and the match was turning on its head. Although Dilley only took one wicket in Australia's second innings, England, or rather, Bob Willis, then skittled Australia for 111, the deathly 'Nelson' as England would call it, and the team won a barely believable match by 18 runs.
Dilley was also part of the last England team to win the Ashes on Australian soil in 1986-7, before Andrew Strauss's tourists repeated the feat earlier this year.
His breakthrough came while playing for his native Kent as a teenager. Later he joined his fellow England hero Ian Botham at Worcestershire where the pair enjoyed domestic success.
"He had a good sense of humour and always wanted to be a part of the party.' said Botham. ' He was quiet and reserved until you got to know him. It's a very sad day. We both joined Worcestershire at the same time together, almost within minutes. We had a great run of about six trophies in five years."
His name was memorable. Who could forget the catchy stat we all loved to repeat . 'Lillee: caught Willey bowled Dilley'. Still giggled at all these years later.
Dead at the age of 52. Far too young. But Graham Dilley will be forever remembered as the young cricketer who helped save his country in one of the most heroic and dramatic Tests of all time.

Yes very sad, didnt know the lad was ill.
I remember that test series very well.

Lillee caught Willey bowled Dilley did finally happen, and topped the previous best one " The batsmans Holding the bowlers Willey" .

Brian Johnson used to piss hiself.