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*Official* CW English Meet-Up
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Craig
World Traveller
Alright didn't say I haven't warned you, my time in France ends on the 30th of July and in which point I will make my way to the French coast where the English channel is and from there I will be taking a ferry from there to Portsmouth, and then go from there to Exeter and then make way north, I will be there from either the 31st of July or the 1st of August to about the 13th or 14th of August.
So for anybody who wants to meet up/do for a pint/watch a cricket or football game (would be friendlies I know, but hey)/got a spare room hey just let me know.
So for anybody who wants to meet up/do for a pint/watch a cricket or football game (would be friendlies I know, but hey)/got a spare room hey just let me know.
Matteh
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Right, i suppose i'll write this given that i have nothing better to do.
Saturday 2nd June 2007 - Birmingham
CW-ers in attendance - Matteh, Anna, Nnanden, The Baconator
I woke up 7:45, thinking i'd cycle in, only to realise that i was still drunk from last night so thought better of it. I got the 11:27 train to Birmingham instead and got to Edgbaston for about 1pm and sat watching Pothas and Crawley restore some pride to a Hampshire score of 85/4.
The plan was that Nath would arrive in Brum at 1:50 and then drop a bag off and basically arrive at the cricket about 2:30 or thereabouts with Anna. Turns out there was a delay because of something or other and they ended up not arriving until about half 4 or so.
In the meantime whilst i was casually staring into space at around 4 getting annoyed at Pothas for scoring a century, Crampton somehow finds me with no help from mobile phones etc. we went down outside the Eric Hollies and did some throwdowns because i'd been sat down far too long.
We heard a wicket go afterawhile, meaning a certain Shane Warne was coming out to bat. Me and Crampton figured we'd have time to have a couple more throwdowns, when another rawr goes up as Warne has got himself out for 0 off 2 balls. We'd managed to miss the whole thing. In the meantime the latecomers were on the opposite side of the ground and had seen the length innings in its entirety. I've been reliably informed by Nath that he blocked the first and tried to slap the second only to give an easy catch at either mid on or off.
Then the 4 of us sat and watched Pothas smack a few, see Tremlett take a fancy to Trott's bowling and have a few laughs at Nath's insistence that Tahir was no-balling ever ball, only for him to then clearly not bowl a no-ball the ball when we all looked (the next ball though, he was about 2 inches over). The teams gave up with 18 overs remaining because it was basically definitely a drawn match.
So, we went to 'the' park where a previous meetup saw some action. The square though that we used for that was fenced off with red plastic, so we made do with some DIY backyard cricket type inguinuity by using a big tree as the stumps. There was a lot of wickets and fair amount of runs, but it soon became pretty apparent that noone, especially Nath the left hander could cope with the huuge amounts of outswing i was getting with a white windball type thing. Everyone was getting decent amounts of swing in their bowling, Crampton/Anna with inwing mostly and with Nath getting it to move in, bounce, then move away. Noone really stayed batting that long, Nath generally looked solid against Anna/Crampton before usually getting out almost straight off when i came on to bowl. Anna in the meantime had perfected a special bowl which went high, disappeared into the branches and then reappeared forcing the batsman to just do anything to block it (including maybe one plumb lbw...). I easily took the most wickets, followed by Crampton i think maybe. Crampton however certainly took a wicket with the last ball of the day, bowling me after i tried to finish with a massive slog shot.
Crampton had to go due to family commitments, and the 3 of us remaining went off to the University type area (i reckon it was Selly Oak, but i can't be sure), went to Liquor Locker, a fine upstanding off license, 6 Coronas were bought and we moved on to a nearby curry house. Interesting topics of conversation arose, including throwing half a chicken at someone because Nath couldn't finish it and then following up with the massive garlic nan that got ordered, Borcich/Burke and even the dire Rodgie effort in phoning up 2UE and Ralph Lauren polo shirts. I had to leave in order to get the last train back, got a taxi, said goodbyes and the like and left them two to a fun night of Somerset CC DVDs.
Saturday 2nd June 2007 - Birmingham
CW-ers in attendance - Matteh, Anna, Nnanden, The Baconator
I woke up 7:45, thinking i'd cycle in, only to realise that i was still drunk from last night so thought better of it. I got the 11:27 train to Birmingham instead and got to Edgbaston for about 1pm and sat watching Pothas and Crawley restore some pride to a Hampshire score of 85/4.
The plan was that Nath would arrive in Brum at 1:50 and then drop a bag off and basically arrive at the cricket about 2:30 or thereabouts with Anna. Turns out there was a delay because of something or other and they ended up not arriving until about half 4 or so.
In the meantime whilst i was casually staring into space at around 4 getting annoyed at Pothas for scoring a century, Crampton somehow finds me with no help from mobile phones etc. we went down outside the Eric Hollies and did some throwdowns because i'd been sat down far too long.
We heard a wicket go afterawhile, meaning a certain Shane Warne was coming out to bat. Me and Crampton figured we'd have time to have a couple more throwdowns, when another rawr goes up as Warne has got himself out for 0 off 2 balls. We'd managed to miss the whole thing. In the meantime the latecomers were on the opposite side of the ground and had seen the length innings in its entirety. I've been reliably informed by Nath that he blocked the first and tried to slap the second only to give an easy catch at either mid on or off.
Then the 4 of us sat and watched Pothas smack a few, see Tremlett take a fancy to Trott's bowling and have a few laughs at Nath's insistence that Tahir was no-balling ever ball, only for him to then clearly not bowl a no-ball the ball when we all looked (the next ball though, he was about 2 inches over). The teams gave up with 18 overs remaining because it was basically definitely a drawn match.
So, we went to 'the' park where a previous meetup saw some action. The square though that we used for that was fenced off with red plastic, so we made do with some DIY backyard cricket type inguinuity by using a big tree as the stumps. There was a lot of wickets and fair amount of runs, but it soon became pretty apparent that noone, especially Nath the left hander could cope with the huuge amounts of outswing i was getting with a white windball type thing. Everyone was getting decent amounts of swing in their bowling, Crampton/Anna with inwing mostly and with Nath getting it to move in, bounce, then move away. Noone really stayed batting that long, Nath generally looked solid against Anna/Crampton before usually getting out almost straight off when i came on to bowl. Anna in the meantime had perfected a special bowl which went high, disappeared into the branches and then reappeared forcing the batsman to just do anything to block it (including maybe one plumb lbw...). I easily took the most wickets, followed by Crampton i think maybe. Crampton however certainly took a wicket with the last ball of the day, bowling me after i tried to finish with a massive slog shot.
Crampton had to go due to family commitments, and the 3 of us remaining went off to the University type area (i reckon it was Selly Oak, but i can't be sure), went to Liquor Locker, a fine upstanding off license, 6 Coronas were bought and we moved on to a nearby curry house. Interesting topics of conversation arose, including throwing half a chicken at someone because Nath couldn't finish it and then following up with the massive garlic nan that got ordered, Borcich/Burke and even the dire Rodgie effort in phoning up 2UE and Ralph Lauren polo shirts. I had to leave in order to get the last train back, got a taxi, said goodbyes and the like and left them two to a fun night of Somerset CC DVDs.
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Perm
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
It's a Murphy-ism I beleive, stands for "interesting to say the least".
Fiery
Banned
"Interesting to say the least". I had to look it up too. I don't know why people use these acronyms that about 2 people in the world understand tbh? They are supposed to save time but I end up spending more time trying to work them out
Perm
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Well TBF that particular one is becoming more common on these forums and has been explained several times."Interesting to say the least". I had to look it up too. I don't know why people use these acronyms that about 2 people in the world understand tbh? They are supposed to save time but I end up spending more time trying to work them out
Craig
World Traveller
I have never seen either cases happen, if not very rarely
Perm
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Pay a bit more attention then buddyI have never seen either cases happen, if not very rarely
Craig
World Traveller
Personally I don't see the need for some many acronyms, when it only takes a few extra seconds to type out the words.Pay a bit more attention then buddy
Otherwise why not just do this: PIDSTNFSMAWIOTAFESTTOTWs?
Fiery
Banned
agreed
Perm
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
I'm not a big fan of acronyms and rarely use them, certainly TBH and IMO are the ones I use the most often when I really can't be bothered to type out full phrases.
Langeveldt
Soutie
hahaha
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Could do with a serious Acronym\Abbreviations Key, really. Closed and topped in SD, or something. What thinks thee, Mr McNamara?
Fiery
Banned
That could be a project for you Richard