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^ where's all the love gone Bob?

You seem a little mitchelled there

mitchelled
m3/led/
adjective
1.
so frightened that one is unable to move; terrified.
"the mitchelled pommy child clung to his mother"
2.
(of organic matter) changed into a stony smelly substance that looks like poo; ossified with fear.
"Mitchelled like a bunny in the headlights"

Something else for the poms to think about
Austin Waugh, Steve Waugh?s son, shines for NSW at Under 15s Cricket Carnival in Darwin | News.com.au

We really don't waste our time thinking about your lot as much as you waste time thinking... no, obsessing about us.......

It's the classic unnecessary Aussie inferiority complex so so many of you have.....

We acknowledge your successes, but still you seem to feel a need to strive so hard to be heard..... it's really rather pathetic.

Originally Posted by Bobcock

but still you seem to feel a need to strive so hard to be heard.....

It is because it is such a big country...quote opposite to England where a whisper is heard

^ they have mould and thick skulls to insulate the walls Bruce, so don't believe everything you hear. The poms are knee deep in it and can barely hear their own whines....


And then there are 'other' poms like Bob. After years of trying to affirm to themselves that that are not real poms because they were born a whole 10 miles from the official border , they truly believe they don't suffer from the side effects from simply being a Pom. Fascinating really ...

Pour yourself a cuppa and peruse....

http://www.scoopwhoop.com/sports/iconic-photos-cricket/

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Pour yourself a cuppa and peruse....

http://www.scoopwhoop.com/sports/iconic-photos-cricket/

Wally's Best II

7. Bees attack the Ferozshah Kotla ground during a Test match between India and Australia.



and..

9. A tea break at Headingley in 1938. If this doesn't prove that it's an English game, what will?

Originally Posted by Wally Dorian Raffles

And then there are 'other' poms like Bob.

Sorry Wally...having been confused for being Australian more than once...and accepting it with mild amusement...I can assure you that for a Scot, Welshman or Paddy there is nothing more insulting than being taken for a Pom...and I have seen that happen a few times

Originally Posted by Wally Dorian Raffles

A tea break at Headingley in 1938. If this doesn't prove that it's an English game, what will?

Great pic...but isn't the tea from...India?

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Pour yourself a cuppa and peruse....

http://www.scoopwhoop.com/sports/iconic-photos-cricket/

Great post

Originally Posted by Wally Dorian Raffles

And then there are 'other' poms like Bob. After years of trying to affirm to themselves that that are not real poms because they were born a whole 10 miles from the official border , they truly believe they don't suffer from the side effects from simply being a Pom. Fascinating really ...

Funny Wally, it's always Australians who tell me that I'm not a Pom, I don't really give a hoot either way about that term, I know I would rather be English than Australian....and I really don't want to be English.

Remember I could easily have lived in Australia and hold the passport now, but I refused.

Originally Posted by Bruce Bayliss

Great pic...but isn't the tea from...India?

Dear dear Bruce such a sad lack of knowledge, tea isn't native to India, it was brought there by the British from China after they identified areas that were perfect for it's cultivation.....

Originally Posted by Bobcock

Dear dear Bruce such a sad lack of knowledge

Originally Posted by Bobcock

tea isn't native to India, it was brought there by the British from China after they identified areas that were perfect for it's cultivation.....

My bet is that tea they are drinking is either from Sri Lanka or India...not China Bob

Originally Posted by Bruce Bayliss

Originally Posted by Bobcock

Dear dear Bruce such a sad lack of knowledge

Originally Posted by Bobcock

tea isn't native to India, it was brought there by the British from China after they identified areas that were perfect for it's cultivation.....

My bet is that tea they are drinking is either from Sri Lanka or India...not China Bob

He's half right.

Tea originated in China, possibly as a medicinal drink. It came to the West via Portuguese priests and merchants, who introduced it during the 16th century. Drinking tea became fashionable among Britons during the 17th century, who started large scale production and commercialization of the plant in India to bypass a Chinese monopoly at that time.

Probably the origin of the phrase "For all the tea in China".

Test cricket: gone with the Windies

Date June 16, 2015 Woeful Windies: A forlorn West Indies captain Denesh Ramdin emerges from the pavilion after his team was comprehensively beaten in the second Test in Jamaica. Photo: Getty Images

Not one ticket has yet been sold to a Test match in Australia this summer. In fact, no dates have been announced — except the two that need no announcement, Boxing Day in Melbourne and the New Year match in Sydney — and no one has really noticed.

All that is known is that New Zealand will be here for three Tests in November, the shoulder season, and the West Indies for three in December and January, prime time. A month ago, that felt like the wrong way around. Now, it feels like a snub to the Kiwis and the incorporation of a month-long bye at the height of the cricket season.

Whether Australia was exceptionally good or the Windies lamentably poor in their two just completed Tests doesn't matter. It is impossible to think that their contests will be any closer here. It would be nice to believe that the West Indies could guarantee the presence of, for instance, the ever reluctant Chris Gayle and Dwayne Bravo, but they cannot. The Windies can't even necessarily guarantee to stay for the duration. Eight months ago, they walked out of a tour of India.

There is no point mourning what has become of the West Indies. Australian captain Michael Clarke was at least diplomatic and probably sincere when he said he would like to see the Windies rise again, because he would like to see the game grow everywhere it is played. But his core business as captain, unsentimentally considered, is to reduce it to an Australian fiefdom. He is well on the way again.

Test cricket is a dinosaur, not as a game — still its most elegant form — but in its apparatus. Here it is again, creaking and clanking down the road to its own oblivion. The fixture to which everyone is working was drawn up five years ago, and is set in stone for another eight years, locking in the West Indies and locking out New Zealand for another couple of cycles.

The West Indies have fallen on such hard times that for this Australia series, according to cricinfo, they used stumps from a previous series, with the name of England crossed out with a marker pen. It is depressing to imagine what state the Windies might be in eight years. They are not coming back any time soon.

Of course, drawing up a program is frightfully complex, allowing for three forms of the game, for hemispheres, for delicate politics and for financial viability. Apparently it took 72 drafts to arrive at a schedule for Australia alone last summer, and the death of Phillip Hughes made it 73.

Australia's summer program cannot be reworked because it would have implications not only for New Zealand and the West Indies, but for Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India, too. That is the official line.

But in terms of Test cricket, authorities simply have to find a way to be more nimble. Right now, staging the Windies on Boxing Day would do neither country any good. If that reads as patronising of the West Indies, it is surely better than putting them in stocks at the MCG and SCG.

For now, Australia will be left to make the most of a rum set of circumstances. A run of Australian victories probably will create an appetite and a market for more. The Melbourne and Sydney Tests will be insulated to an extent by the big-event mentality: people will come anyway. Then a new year and the T20 World Cup will make a distant memory of it all.

But forgetting is not fixing. Test cricket becomes a more pinched and impoverished game every year, and since the attitude of the ruling cabal is to take what they can get while they can, it is impossible not to be pessimistic about its future. The run of non-stop Ashes series that has acted as rouge this decade is coming to an end, and may be too late anyway. In the past two months, England have lost Test matches to New Zealand AND the West Indies.

Test cricket: gone with the Windies

Great series between England and NZ. The next one should be a cracker.

Yeah the whole tour has been brilliant stuff so far, and played in an exemplary spirit.

^ Yes, NZ are a lovely bunch of fellas. Let's hope big bullies like Jimmy and Barbie learn a thing or 2 about playing in the spirit of the game..

Meanwhile, a billion Indians choked on their chappattis and are now busy burning effigies :

Bangladesh 307 (Tamim 60, Sarkar 54, Shakib 52) beat India 228 (Rohit 60, Mustafizur 5-50) by 79 runs


Mustafizur's five-for leads thumping win | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo

Originally Posted by Wally Dorian Raffles

Meanwhile, a billion Indians choked on their chappattis and are now busy burning effigies :

Bangladesh 307 (Tamim 60, Sarkar 54, Shakib 52) beat India 228 (Rohit 60, Mustafizur 5-50) by 79 runs

Brilliant!!! Petrol station attendants around the country will be very happy

Originally Posted by panama hat

Originally Posted by Wally Dorian Raffles

Meanwhile, a billion Indians choked on their chappattis and are now busy burning effigies :

Bangladesh 307 (Tamim 60, Sarkar 54, Shakib 52) beat India 228 (Rohit 60, Mustafizur 5-50) by 79 runs

Brilliant!!! Petrol station attendants around the country will be very happy

I wouldn't flag down a cab in Sydney today, they'll all be pissed.

Originally Posted by Wally Dorian Raffles

Test cricket: gone with the Windies

Apparently Windes decline coincides with the rise in big money in North American Basketball. Many West Indians saw more money there than cricket.

Looking good so far in this deciding game - very evenly balanced.

We've witnessed cricket at its best in this kiwi tour.

Originally Posted by Slip

Lillee & Thomson

The best time for cricket . . .

Originally Posted by kingwilly

North American Basketball

Baseball I believe, ape-boy

^ Softball maybe better for Poms and Taff hangers on?