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*Official* New Zealand in England 2015

Howe_zat

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Dropping the spinner at Headingley is a trope that always pops up but the last 2 tests there both had spinners taking heaps. It's not 1985
 

Bahnz

Hall of Fame Member
Yeah NZ played 4 seamers last team, the pitch turned square from day 2 and Swann took a hat full. Let's not make that mistake again.
 

Kippax

Cricketer Of The Year
i am promoting lord kippax to his eminence kippax after his admonishment of said pewsian one.
Nah well it's understandable how Cribb became a bit of a patchwork quilt of interesting grammatical and linguistic choices, for mine.

A half-English kid with a Mensa level IQ, a near-pedigree trying to tough it out with the alley cats in Sydney's western suburbs. An attentive and fretful English mother, a blithe and facetious Aussie father. Cribb is negotiating what psychologists would call a cruel double bind. Both he and I became cricket obsessives who refuse to let familiar hobbyhorses or minor irritations slide, which is interesting.
 

Hurricane

Hall of Fame Member
Nah well it's understandable how Cribb became a bit of a patchwork quilt of interesting grammatical and linguistic choices, for mine.

A half-English kid with a Mensa level IQ, a near-pedigree trying to tough it out with the alley cats in Sydney's western suburbs. An attentive and fretful English mother, a blithe and facetious Aussie father. Cribb is negotiating what psychologists would call a cruel double bind. Both he and I became cricket obsessives who refuse to let familiar hobbyhorses or minor irritations slide, which is interesting.
Haha - what in ****'s name is this. I like it.
 
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wellAlbidarned

International Coach
Nah well it's understandable how Cribb became a bit of a patchwork quilt of interesting grammatical and linguistic choices, for mine.

A half-English kid with a Mensa level IQ, a near-pedigree trying to tough it out with the alley cats in Sydney's western suburbs. An attentive and fretful English mother, a blithe and facetious Aussie father. Cribb is negotiating what psychologists would call a cruel double bind. Both he and I became cricket obsessives who refuse to let familiar hobbyhorses or minor irritations slide, which is interesting.
shouldn't you be off taking over the world or something
 

harsh.ag

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Nah well it's understandable how Cribb became a bit of a patchwork quilt of interesting grammatical and linguistic choices, for mine.

A half-English kid with a Mensa level IQ, a near-pedigree trying to tough it out with the alley cats in Sydney's western suburbs. An attentive and fretful English mother, a blithe and facetious Aussie father. Cribb is negotiating what psychologists would call a cruel double bind. Both he and I became cricket obsessives who refuse to let familiar hobbyhorses or minor irritations slide, which is interesting.
Biggest anticlimax ever.
 

Hurricane

Hall of Fame Member
If the Yorkshire weather is anything like the North West, then go to bed kiwis.
Gets that makes up my mind between studying and watching cricket this weekend. If we lose the first day and more to rain I don't fancy watching a game where we will struggle to get through 3 innings.
 

Zinzan

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Just received the following text from a mate of mine in Leeds, who's incidentally a rugby-league man who has little interest in cricket, but loves seeing NZ lose at anything purely so he can wind me up;

"Greetings old chap. Never been less miserable to see such a miserable day dawning here. Little chance of anything other than a 1-0 scoreline, 4 more years for you lads" (cheeky smiley not enclosed)
 

OverratedSanity

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Nah well it's understandable how Cribb became a bit of a patchwork quilt of interesting grammatical and linguistic choices, for mine.

A half-English kid with a Mensa level IQ, a near-pedigree trying to tough it out with the alley cats in Sydney's western suburbs. An attentive and fretful English mother, a blithe and facetious Aussie father. Cribb is negotiating what psychologists would call a cruel double bind. Both he and I became cricket obsessives who refuse to let familiar hobbyhorses or minor irritations slide, which is interesting.
Couldn't help but like this post even though I barely understood a word. I think it's the italic for mine that did it for me.
 

Bahnz

Hall of Fame Member
Just received the following text from a mate of mine in Leeds, who's incidentally a rugby-league man who has little interest in cricket, but loves seeing NZ lose at anything purely so he can wind me up;

"Greetings old chap. Never been less miserable to see such a miserable day dawning here. Little chance of anything other than a 1-0 scoreline, 4 more years for you lads" (cheeky smiley not enclosed)
Tell your mate to stop being so ****ing OTT.
 

YorksLanka

International Debutant
Typical , it's been sunny for the last two weeks here in Yorkshire and the heavens open the day of our test match..:@
 

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