Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

[ajdude]

Norwy 149 (40.3 ov, Shahzad Umran 8*, Asad Mohammad 2/22) - Match over | Live Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo

so many ex-pats aside, that's surely not the same Junaid Siddique?

 

[Howe_zat]

Interesting if true.

You'd think a bloke with a test ton would bat higher than 9 for Norway.

 

[AndrewB]

Maybe he was pining for the fjords...

I guess they had the wrong name earlier - now say "Junaid Sheikh".

 

[Starfighter]

The Netherlands off to a good start. 0/132 in 21 overs.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Even the traffic police are salty over this

 

[Magrat Garlick]

The Netherlands off to a good start. 0/132 in 21 overs.

Sorry about the thunderstorm. The soil needed it though.

 

[mr_mister]

I'm actually pretty excited for the 2019 wc format. A system that takes a month to not even eliminate half the field(96, 15) is a broken system. We'll actually have a meaningful group stage again

 

[honestbharani]

Yeah... plus I believe the last two slots will be through a qualifying tournament.. So its not that preposterous.

 

[Bijed]

Cricinfo comments have just taught me that Ilikena Lasarusa Talebulamainavaleniveivakabulaimainakulalakebalau exists

 

[Burgey]

This time next week Burgeinho will be winging his way to the UK for his academy tour. So jealous. Eight matches in two weeks across London, Bath and Cardiff, watching a Women's WC game between aus and India, a T20 game at The Oval and a net session at Lord's. Fmd when I grew up our away trips were to Gosford.

So excited for the lads. Such a great experience for them. Pissed off im not going tbh.

 

[Daemon]

Hopefully it doesn't rain

 

[Adders]

Should be OK up till the 30th June......into July though and the weather will be ****ed.

 

[Burgey]

Coming out of what passes for our winter into what passes for their summer should make acclimatising easy.

 

[Pratters]

Even the traffic police are salty over this

Bumrah repsonded to this on twitter.

 

[Adders]

I ****ing told you all....but would you listen?? Nah just mocked me you did.......

UK weather latest: Today is hottest day in June for more than 40 years | The Independent

[FONT=&quot]Wednesday was the hottest June day in more than 40 years, the Met Office announced.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]A temperature of 33.9C was recorded at Heathrow airport, the authority said, making it the hottest June day since 1976.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Temperatures are at their highest for a June day since the 35.6C (96F) recorded in Southampton on 28 June 1976, and it is the warmest summer solstice on record.

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[FONT=&quot]Roads have melted and officials have issued a heatwave warning as Britain basks in its longest period of very hot weather for two decades.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The mercury has been above 30C for five days in a row for the first time since 1995.[/FONT]

 

[Starfighter]

Would have loved some days as cool as 33.9 last summer.

Here BoM describes the weather as 'very hot' when it's over 42.

 

[Burgey]

Yeah fmd last summer here was brutal. Hottest in decades.

 

[Daemon]

It's horrible but I can take the 35ish heat when it's dry without too much complaint. Once there's humidity though it's absolutely ****ed. Can't walk 100m without being soaked in sweat.

 

[Jarquis]

Don't come to Brisbane...

inb4 *solid advice regardless*

 

[Howe_zat]

Cricinfo comments have just taught me that Ilikena Lasarusa Talebulamainavaleniveivakabulaimainakulalakebalau exists

Interesting thing about this is that apparently Fiji played a bunch of first-class matches in the 1940s and 50s. Wikipedia says they actually played against the West Indies, although the details are sadly lost behind the cricket archive paywall.