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***Official*** Australia in England (The Ashes)

marc71178

marc71178

Eyes not spreadsheets
social said:
Huh? Whats Giles not being able to bat got to do with him averaging 50 with the ball for bugger-all wickets.
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He's had 2 crucial spells and has also kept it tight at other times, and you were the one who brought in the batting thing.


social said:
So, if Colly doesnt play you select Anderson 8-)
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Yes, and people were writing off Jones, Hoggard and Flintoff with the ball before the series...


social said:
Bell's average of 20 doesnt lie
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It doesn't tell the full truth.


social said:
Gilchrist hasnt scored any runs but at least he can catch
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At times he can, yes.
 
K

Knopfler

School Boy/Girl Captain
howardj said:
I don't get why you'd advocate playing five bowlers. It's not as though Australia have been spending two days out in the field, struggling to get English wickets. It's just that we have conceded too many runs - by bowling both sides of the wicket, and too short - between our wicket taking deliveries. We don't need more strike power, but more discipline.

Moreover, everyone talks about needing 20 wickets to win a Test, but overlook the fact that to win most Tests, you also need 600 runs. Dropping an Australian batsman for a bowler would make it very difficult - in an already underperforming batting lineup - for Australia to score the necessary 600 runs in this Test.
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Very good point. Ok, I will now be fine with Australia playing four bowlers (although I would still prefer 5 considering that McGrath is probably playing wounded). However, I think that getting a big score is on the shoulders of the top four, regardless of how many bowlers we have.
 
aussie

aussie

Hall of Fame Member
luckyeddie said:
I'm eating my breakfast at the moment - an O'Brien's chicken salad wrap.

Does that count?
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:laugh: unfortunaely not get a 50 cent album a listen to lyrics like:

'Shizzle mah nizzle..
Don't change the dizzle, turn it up a little
I gotta living room full a fine dime brizzles
Waiting on the Hizzle, the Dizzle and the Shizzle
G's to the bizzack, now ladies here we gizzack
 
marc71178

marc71178

Eyes not spreadsheets
Wrong move IMO, but the selectors have hardly done a bad job so far in the series.

Question is, should Collingwood be going in at 7 with Flintoff 6?
 
luckyeddie

luckyeddie

Cricket Web Staff Member
aussie said:
:laugh: unfortunaely not get a 50 cent album a listen to lyrics like:

'Shizzle mah nizzle..
Don't change the dizzle, turn it up a little
I gotta living room full a fine dime brizzles
Waiting on the Hizzle, the Dizzle and the Shizzle
G's to the bizzack, now ladies here we gizzack
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It's been done.....

Tenor: There's a song that I recall
My mother sang to me.
Sprigs (off): Oh! (a sigh)
Tenor: She sang it as she tucked me in
When I was ninety-three.

(harp plays a rising chord...)

Sprigs: I diddle, I. Who was that bum?

Bluebottle + Sprigs:
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po,
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong ying tong (bluebottle drops behind)
Ying tong iddle I po
Sprigs: Keep lad up. Keep.
Bluebottle: Keep up lad up.


Both: Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po
Sprigs: lad
Both: Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po (lad)
Iddle I po (lad)

Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong (Sprigs: iddle) (Bluebottle: ying tong)
Ying tong iddle I po
Ying tong ying tong iddle

Bluebottle (spoken):
Ying tong iddle I po!
(short raspberry, Secombe)

Both: Oh!
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po
Iddle I po!

(trumpet bit)

Bluebottle:
Ying. Ying tongy tongy.
Ying tong iddle I po.
Ying tong iddle I po.
(Secombe under this: What a lovely lovely boy!)
(or Secombe under this: What a lovely melody devine!)
Ying ying ying tongy tongy.
(Milligan: Get out the rifle, sir.)
(or Milligan: Get off the record.)
Yeeeng.
Ying tong ying tong d'gy-n'o.
Ying tong d'ga.
(Secombe: Get away.)
D'g d'g d'ga.
Ying tong iddle I po.

Seagoon:Hear that crazy rhythm
Driving me insane.
Strike your partner on the bonce (bonk?).
(thump)
Eccles: Ooh. I felt no pain.
(Seagoon screeches)

Seagoon, Bluebottle and Eccles:
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong ying tong
Ying...

(harp chord rises)

Soprano: Take me back to Vienna....

(Raspberry section, probably Milligan)

Bloodnok: Ohhhhh!
Eccles: Oh!

(harp chord)

Soprano: Take me back to Vienna, where the....

(crash!)

Seagoon, Sprigs and Bluebottle (far off):
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po

(mad dash to foreground)

Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po
(Sprigs: where's he going lad?)
(BB: I don't know)
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po

Seagoon: LOOK OUT!
(cry from Bluebottle)

(mad dash to distance)

(hastily)
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po

(dash to foreground)

Ying tong...

(whine of bomb dropping, explosion)

Double speed, but same tempo, Goons:

Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po
Iddle I po.

Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po
Iddle I po.

One: Ying! Tongy tongy tongy.
Yiddy diddy diddy da daaa. Ying diddy.
Ying tong diddle. Yiddada boo.
(rhythmic thigh slapping, raspberry)

All Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle
Ying tong iddle I po
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po
Iddle I po.

Bluebottle?: Whoooooh!
 
andyc

andyc

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
marc71178 said:
Wrong move IMO, but the selectors have hardly done a bad job so far in the series.

Question is, should Collingwood be going in at 7 with Flintoff 6?
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Flintoff should stay where he has batted for the series, I think. So Flintoff at six, Collingwood 7 and Jones 8.
 
nick-o

nick-o

State 12th Man
luckyeddie said:
It's been done.....

Tenor: There's a song that I recall
My mother sang to me.
Sprigs (off): Oh! (a sigh)
Tenor: She sang it as she tucked me in
When I was ninety-three.
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Oh my God!!

Lucky Ed-o is really Prince Charles.


Re Collingwood

I think this is the wrong decision; I can't see the positive merit in that selection, only a defensive mindset, which is not characteristic.

Still, we'll see.
 
aussie

aussie

Hall of Fame Member
luckyeddie said:
It's been done.....

Tenor: There's a song that I recall
My mother sang to me.
Sprigs (off): Oh! (a sigh)
Tenor: She sang it as she tucked me in
When I was ninety-three.

(harp plays a rising chord...)

Sprigs: I diddle, I. Who was that bum?

Bluebottle + Sprigs:
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po,
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong ying tong (bluebottle drops behind)
Ying tong iddle I po
Sprigs: Keep lad up. Keep.
Bluebottle: Keep up lad up.


Both: Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po
Sprigs: lad
Both: Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po (lad)
Iddle I po (lad)

Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong (Sprigs: iddle) (Bluebottle: ying tong)
Ying tong iddle I po
Ying tong ying tong iddle

Bluebottle (spoken):
Ying tong iddle I po!
(short raspberry, Secombe)

Both: Oh!
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po
Iddle I po!

(trumpet bit)

Bluebottle:
Ying. Ying tongy tongy.
Ying tong iddle I po.
Ying tong iddle I po.
(Secombe under this: What a lovely lovely boy!)
(or Secombe under this: What a lovely melody devine!)
Ying ying ying tongy tongy.
(Milligan: Get out the rifle, sir.)
(or Milligan: Get off the record.)
Yeeeng.
Ying tong ying tong d'gy-n'o.
Ying tong d'ga.
(Secombe: Get away.)
D'g d'g d'ga.
Ying tong iddle I po.

Seagoon:Hear that crazy rhythm
Driving me insane.
Strike your partner on the bonce (bonk?).
(thump)
Eccles: Ooh. I felt no pain.
(Seagoon screeches)

Seagoon, Bluebottle and Eccles:
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong ying tong
Ying...

(harp chord rises)

Soprano: Take me back to Vienna....

(Raspberry section, probably Milligan)

Bloodnok: Ohhhhh!
Eccles: Oh!

(harp chord)

Soprano: Take me back to Vienna, where the....

(crash!)

Seagoon, Sprigs and Bluebottle (far off):
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po

(mad dash to foreground)

Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po
(Sprigs: where's he going lad?)
(BB: I don't know)
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po

Seagoon: LOOK OUT!
(cry from Bluebottle)

(mad dash to distance)

(hastily)
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po

(dash to foreground)

Ying tong...

(whine of bomb dropping, explosion)

Double speed, but same tempo, Goons:

Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po
Iddle I po.

Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po
Iddle I po.

One: Ying! Tongy tongy tongy.
Yiddy diddy diddy da daaa. Ying diddy.
Ying tong diddle. Yiddada boo.
(rhythmic thigh slapping, raspberry)

All Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle
Ying tong iddle I po
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po
Iddle I po.

Bluebottle?: Whoooooh!
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:-O my goodness now that cant be music, jesus that looks crazy :lol:
 
social

social

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
marc71178 said:
Wrong move IMO, but the selectors have hardly done a bad job so far in the series.

Question is, should Collingwood be going in at 7 with Flintoff 6?
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Advantage Australia.

Unproven batsman and an extremely ordinary bowler at this level.
 
Nate

Nate

You'll Never Walk Alone
marc71178 said:
Why do you say that?
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AndyC said:
Wow, so they did pick Collingwood. Looks like they're going for the draw.
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:)

It`s obvious England would love a draw. I don`t see how picking Anderson would really help. Even going for a win - Hoggard, Harmison, Flintoff, Giles and Collingwood is good enough really.

Well, hopefully not.
 
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