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Cricket Chat is not same ...............

pup11

International Coach
Matt has explained things very well but its just a matter of time before CC becomes lot more happening and active.
Such lulls can be expected when nothing much is happening in the cricket world but that doesn't mean that CC is losing its sheen.
 

Neil Pickup

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To look at it in another, slightly less sleep-deprived way - Cricket Chat is much like Test Cricket. Every so often, people have a whinge about missing the golden era, retirements lowering the standards, fast bowling being a dying art, and brain-dead sloggers proliferating.

There are still some links to the golden days - Richard Dickinson is like Sourav Ganguly: obnoxious, irritating, universally disliked but for a select few who call him "dada", and refusing to go away. I'm like Shaun Pollock, ginger and still just about here. Langeveldt has become Hansie Cronje, hung upon an edifice of his own creation. Marc, like Inzamam an iconic figure of respect and ridicule, has departed. Mr Mxyzptlk is the entire West Indian side, fading from glory but still able to stun you with the occasional moment of iridescence, and Scaly Piscine is Mark Ramprakash: disappearing into the sunset having been ignored once too often.

In their place, we have Jamee and PhoenixFire - Broad and Bopara, young, bold and confident. Silentstriker may very well be Sreesanth: sometimes sensational, sometimes dismal, but always controversial. Perm could only be the Angry Man of NZ Cricket, Jesse Ryder (now where's my crash helmet gone...?) Matt79 is Mike Hussey: it already feels like he's been around forever. Piper must be Graeme Smith's other half, Minki - particularly given that this sentence now neatly brings Richard's twin obsessions together. Pasag is Ricky Ponting - reformed troublemaker toeing the party line about the Spirit of Cricket Web, and Prince EWS is Michael Clarke, his lieutenant.

This is Shaun Pollock, retreating back to fine leg following an uncharacteristically long spell.
 

Neil Pickup

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Ooohhhh, do me, do me!
With youthful charm and flowing locks, Nathan Bracken emerged onto the International arena with hopes of spearheading the Australian attack, in much the same way as Nnanden burst onto the scene. Yet as Bracken sparkled briefly before being shunted remorselessly away from the Australian Test picture, the fall in Nnanden's credibility was of his own doing. Walking away from CWLand claiming a desire to devote his life to other places, only to return no more than weeks later, Nnanden's claim toward greatness was never taken seriously again. Now, both are left turning in the occasional sparky showing for his ever-diminishing band of devoted fans, and stalkers.
 

Jungle Jumbo

International Vice-Captain
I'm simply not around as much because of schoolwork - I can't keep up with the forums enough. Plus, I have to confess, I though that the standard of posting was plummetting here. I'll still be around, maybe post every now and then, but other things in my life are just way more important. I watched precisely two overs of Sri Lanka v England and have seen only a little more of Australia v India. Maybe I'll be more interested when Test cricket gets going again. Adios.
 

Perm

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
To look at it in another, slightly less sleep-deprived way - Cricket Chat is much like Test Cricket. Every so often, people have a whinge about missing the golden era, retirements lowering the standards, fast bowling being a dying art, and brain-dead sloggers proliferating.

There are still some links to the golden days - Richard Dickinson is like Sourav Ganguly: obnoxious, irritating, universally disliked but for a select few who call him "dada", and refusing to go away. I'm like Shaun Pollock, ginger and still just about here. Langeveldt has become Hansie Cronje, hung upon an edifice of his own creation. Marc, like Inzamam an iconic figure of respect and ridicule, has departed. Mr Mxyzptlk is the entire West Indian side, fading from glory but still able to stun you with the occasional moment of iridescence, and Scaly Piscine is Mark Ramprakash: disappearing into the sunset having been ignored once too often.

In their place, we have Jamee and PhoenixFire - Broad and Bopara, young, bold and confident. Silentstriker may very well be Sreesanth: sometimes sensational, sometimes dismal, but always controversial. Perm could only be the Angry Man of NZ Cricket, Jesse Ryder (now where's my crash helmet gone...?) Matt79 is Mike Hussey: it already feels like he's been around forever. Piper must be Graeme Smith's other half, Minki - particularly given that this sentence now neatly brings Richard's twin obsessions together. Pasag is Ricky Ponting - reformed troublemaker toeing the party line about the Spirit of Cricket Web, and Prince EWS is Michael Clarke, his lieutenant.

This is Shaun Pollock, retreating back to fine leg following an uncharacteristically long spell.
WAG. Didn't get the crash helmet reference though.
 

aussie

Hall of Fame Member
Don't post in CC as often as before due to hectic school work, 6th form at the Manchester Grammar School is pretty rough added to my extensive dealings with the ladies. Plus its so much threads you can't keep up since the WC i haven't watched much cricket also caught the final of the 20/20 WC Final & a few matches in between would wake up some mornings from school & catch the Aus/Ind series or Sri/Eng series. I just post in it whenever i can its 5 in the morning up doing HW just doing a quick run through since during the day no way could i go online.

But i'm always checking up on the site though, word out this place still rocks..
 

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