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Norwood's on Fire
Which run out?
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*Official* Australia in England T20s and ODIs
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four_or_six
Cricketer Of The Year
Flintoff on Ponting... were showing day 5 highlights.
four_or_six
Cricketer Of The Year
Monty and Jimmy are demons with the bat, Strauss is the man, our bowlers are much better than theirs, Stuart Broad rulez. The end.
TT Boy
Hall of Fame Member
And people still have the front to criticise England for playing too much in the capital.
What a complete shower and more personal justification for never entertaining the thought of going to an international game in this country. People paid 50 quid this evening to watch this farce and were treated with absolute contempt.
Cricket really does put a **** up its own ass sometimes.
What a complete shower and more personal justification for never entertaining the thought of going to an international game in this country. People paid 50 quid this evening to watch this farce and were treated with absolute contempt.
Cricket really does put a **** up its own ass sometimes.
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
I think sussie's persistent rants about the injustice of Old Trafford being treated as a "little country ground" are funnier at this point. They're not doing themselves many favours in reversing that line of thought, are they?
England have a huge whinge in the West Indies when the ground wasn't fit, but hopefully this gets nicely swept under the rug.
four_or_six
Cricketer Of The Year
Not sure the Aussie powers that be are taking this all that seriously either tbh.
Nielsen to return home - Cricket - Sportal Australia
And when is Ponting coming back? I heard Clarke talking about it but he seemed to be being deliberately vague.
Daryl Harper
School Boy/Girl Captain
Abosulte joke (again) But then again, this is cricket.
Thing is, it's gauranteed they'll be another diabolical farce in the game again by next week, so this will soon be forgotten about.
Thing is, it's gauranteed they'll be another diabolical farce in the game again by next week, so this will soon be forgotten about.
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While it's annoying that the match was rained off, the consequences reach further and wider than anyone could imagine. Every time any amount of cricket is lost to rain, the following things occur:
1/ It's the fault of the ground, even if it has just undergone a massive revamp and now has one of the best drainage systems in the country.
2/ It suddenly becomes the only place in the whole of England/New Zealand/wherever where rain ever falls. Therefore, having any brief thoughts of playing cricket there was a severe boob on the part of administrators, even if a test was successfully staged in Cardiff when it rains there considerably more than it does in Manchester.
3/ The day on which the match was scheduled suddenly becomes the only time of year in which there is any rain. Screw the fact that September is actually by far the dryest of the summer months in England. What kind of a ****ing bell-end would schedule cricket for September!!! Everyone knows that it always rains in September, even though that's not remotely true. Heads must roll for this horrendous piece of scheduling.
1/ It's the fault of the ground, even if it has just undergone a massive revamp and now has one of the best drainage systems in the country.
2/ It suddenly becomes the only place in the whole of England/New Zealand/wherever where rain ever falls. Therefore, having any brief thoughts of playing cricket there was a severe boob on the part of administrators, even if a test was successfully staged in Cardiff when it rains there considerably more than it does in Manchester.
3/ The day on which the match was scheduled suddenly becomes the only time of year in which there is any rain. Screw the fact that September is actually by far the dryest of the summer months in England. What kind of a ****ing bell-end would schedule cricket for September!!! Everyone knows that it always rains in September, even though that's not remotely true. Heads must roll for this horrendous piece of scheduling.
pup11
International Coach
Ponting would be back by the time Nielsen leaves, but still its a joke that Nielsen is showing such a lack of professionalism by leaving the tour like this, and I can't understand why CA should be backing him on this.
In a player' case you can understand the need of giving them a break every now and then, but as a coach you are expected to stick with your team during every game they play in, if Nielsen rues not spending enough time with his young family, then he shouldn't have never taken up the responsibility of being the coach of an international side.
four_or_six
Cricketer Of The Year
I think, in regards to point 1, that the area in question wasn't part of the new drainage system. Someone posted time-lapse pictures on Twitter that are on the Lancs CC website and that area didn't seem to be part of it. What I don't really understand (and this applies to a number of grounds) is why there aren't covers for the run-ups that are more like the ones you get for the strip, because the run-ups are often a cause for concern. But perhaps it's a cost thing, or a technical reason with regards the grass.
The most frustrating type of rain cancellation is where there's no rain at the time of the match, and it's sunny. People are understandably a lot more frustrated when that's the case.
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I know, but they still don't have to look for someone to blame all the time. You can't play cricket when torrential rain ruins the outfield. It's just bad luck. There's been plenty of good days for cricket in Manchester this year, their drainage is fantastic and September is the driest cricketing month there is. But still there's a rush to throw all kinds of **** at the administrators and ground staff for those exact reasons.
TT Boy
Hall of Fame Member
But that wasn't the case.
four_or_six
Cricketer Of The Year
I don't think people would have complained as much if there had been a general problem with the outfield. It was more the comment that 98% of the ground was fit, and one patch wasn't, that was the problem.
Lancs really doesn't want to put people off going again, and I know they give the ticket money back but you still spend quite a bit of money when you add in travel and then some beer or food. I know I choose to go to Lords as often as possible, out of the grounds I can get to, and one of the major reasons is the drainage.
And I would argue the September thing. The average weather looks like there's more rain in Sept than any summer month than August, and even then with the cooler conditions I would have thought it's harder to dry the ground then.
TT Boy
Hall of Fame Member
International cricket shouldn't be played in September because it is cold, even more miserable than summer, kids are back in school and the football season is in full flight.
England's summer should be fixed on the three summer months and they should cram every last drop of their international commitments into that. Test matches in May are farcical, as are ODI's being played in September with the floodlights on at 2pm in the afternoon.
England's summer should be fixed on the three summer months and they should cram every last drop of their international commitments into that. Test matches in May are farcical, as are ODI's being played in September with the floodlights on at 2pm in the afternoon.
