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  1. Slow Love™

    Warmups

    Actually, I picked these two teams to have it out in the final. :laugh: Who do you pick as the most likely winners? I mean of the whole shebang.
  2. Slow Love™

    Warmups

    I don't think I'd take anything out of these warmup games, really, when it comes to being an indicator of how teams will fare. It's like when any visiting team turns up and plays a few domestics - it takes a while to acclimatise. Not that it takes anything away from its humor value should any...
  3. Slow Love™

    Warmups

    Smith, de Villiers, Kallis and Gibbs all back in the sheds for South Africa. One more quickly and this could get a bit interesting.
  4. Slow Love™

    Warmups

    Hmm... South Africa 39/2 after 9 against Ireland. I wouldn't bother with cricbuzz, atypically, they're behind cricinfo and not refreshing the info as often either. Cricinfo appear to be doing scoreboards of all three games.
  5. Slow Love™

    Which Part of your Body will you give up for the World Cup?

    Just reading through that thread - Richard's response when Camel makes an aspersion regarding his level of comfort with his ***uality has to go down as one of the greatest straight bats ever offered at CW. "Quite, thanks. Not, of course, that there is anything wrong with not being so." :laugh:
  6. Slow Love™

    Which Part of your Body will you give up for the World Cup?

    Haha, the bad old days of plodding and uphill gardening...
  7. Slow Love™

    Headlines You Want To See During The WC

    HAIR RE-INSTATED FOR SRI LANKA VS PAKISTAN FINAL Shabbir, Malik and Murali in Fifteen Degree Face-Off - Afridi Dares Umpire to Catch Pakistan Bowlers Tampering
  8. Slow Love™

    Which is the team you dont wanna see winning the World Cup?

    Haha, I ALWAYS forget that one. Happened right in front of me, too. :bag:
  9. Slow Love™

    World Cup TV guide for Australia

    Great work, saggers, I'm printing this out. I've managed to keep the Foxtel sports channels longer than anticipated, so I'll be catching a fair bit of this.
  10. Slow Love™

    Which is the team you dont wanna see winning the World Cup?

    I don't have a team I really dislike these days. Had my times where I really disliked the English, or the Sri Lankans, or the South Africans, but most of the teams seem fairly amenable recently. I'd like to see South Africa come really close but screw it up, but only because the pattern is so...
  11. Slow Love™

    Predict World Cup Finalists

    South Africa to get taken out by Sri Lanka in the final, hopefully in a "snatching defeat from the jaws of victory" scenario. I backed Sri Lanka in the CT, and got burned, so they owe me. Obviously it wouldn't surprise me if Australia took out the WC, but a) though I'm not convinced we're in...
  12. Slow Love™

    ICC name World Cup Umpires

    Surely an oxymoron. So is it really the case that Hair's still on the Elite panel, without being able to officiate matches between full member countries? I thought it was just an instance of the website being poorly maintained. Seems fairly bizarre if it's how it is - would he be drawing a...
  13. Slow Love™

    Greg Chappell - just how good do people think he was?

    It comes down to whether you are simply a stickler for orthodoxy or not. You paint the picture as though the cricketing establishment of the time was some sacred cow that couldn't do wrong, and then Packer came along and made a mockery of everything. The entire thing happened because the...
  14. Slow Love™

    Greg Chappell - just how good do people think he was?

    Completely agree. I don't know really why people assume that people can't be motivated by other things than playing for their country. Packer's cricket was marketed as the best vs the best, and as an added pull it allowed people to see players that were suspected to be among the best who were...
  15. Slow Love™

    ICC name World Cup Umpires

    :laugh: Can't keep a mediocre umpire down. He's obviously in the International Panel, rather than the Elite one. Looking at the ICC's site, I noticed that Hair is still listed as being on the Elite panel, in spite of his latest ODI appearance being updated (Kenya v Scotland last month)...
  16. Slow Love™

    Greg Chappell - just how good do people think he was?

    Yeah, I think that very often people don't understand the argument being made here. I think that if you transported an athlete from the 30's at the peak of their career to now and expected them to compete at a similar level to those of our time, you'd be dreaming. I've always interpreted the...
  17. Slow Love™

    Ashraf puts Malcom back in his place

    Yeah, Speed's reaction to that comment suggests it might have been a bit OTT.
  18. Slow Love™

    Why no Border in allstar team?

    Yeah, I've got no gripe with Border being passed over at number six by Waugh, though I would have thought Greg Chappell was a bit unlucky. Maybe it was the captaincy that sealed the deal, given they obviously were more willing to hand this to Waugh than Ponting, and Greg's captaincy has rarely...
  19. Slow Love™

    What is wrong with these people?

    If you keep predicting that Australia's demise is upon us, you've got to be right sometime. FTR, it would probably make test cricket in particular a whole lot more interesting if it were true, but this ODI freefall over the last five, six games is just so sudden and comes after being so...
  20. Slow Love™

    Should Zimbabwe cricket still recieve funds from ICC

    In answer to the thread's original question, no, they should give them nothing - zip, nada, zilch. And the OP mentioned ICC members potentially making money out of this, I have sometimes wondered about that in regards to the money the ICC pours into "hopeful" cricket nations in the expectation...

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