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The England Thread

burr

burr

State Vice-Captain
You know that reminds me of comments Aggers made when he was in Aus commentating on the Ashes. He was talking about how he wasn't sticking around to commentate the ODIs and he was basically saying, well of course I wouldn't stick around for this form of the game, he was polite about it, but he conveyed this snobbish attitude to ODI cricket I think still remains in England to some extent and which Aggers basically admitted to - this old school belief that the shortened form of the game just isn't worth worrying about.
 
GIMH

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
|'d rather be good at tests than ODIs - but so would Australia. Wouldn't it be nice to be good at both :)
 
Richard

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
My feelings exactly - too many people take the preference for Tests over ODIs as "love Tests, hate ODIs". Yes there are some (fools) who take that standpoint in this country, but as Manan's case clearly demonstrates, they're certainly not unique to this country.

There's too much of the "England don't like \ don't take seriously \ etc. ODIs" talk for mine. If someone else was as rubbish as we are it them it'd be the exact same thing being said about them.
 
SJS

SJS

Hall of Fame Member
Richard said:
My feelings exactly - too many people take the preference for Tests over ODIs as "love Tests, hate ODIs". Yes there are some (fools) who take that standpoint in this country, but as Manan's case clearly demonstrates, they're certainly not unique to this country.

There's too much of the "England don't like \ don't take seriously \ etc. ODIs" talk for mine. If someone else was as rubbish as we are it them it'd be the exact same thing being said about them.
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The taste of the out of reach grapes in a way.
 
SJS

SJS

Hall of Fame Member
Who decides the strategy for England by the way?

Its amazing how they bat in the first half of the match and then never make up in the second half because they lose wickets in a bunch. And they have been doing it match after match after match.

If India's (or Pakistan's for that matter) top order had batted like this for so long, there would have been a CBI inquiry into matchfixing - for sure !
 
Richard

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
It's just the way the batsmen play - they can't do anything else. The selectors, of course, decide who gets picked.

You're an invisible man, too, SJS? :-O
 
Richard

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
:wallbash:

Probably deserves a mention in a thread where it won't get lost in 50 instant replies, though, TBH.
 
SJS

SJS

Hall of Fame Member
Richard said:
:laugh: That couldn't have been funnier for making less sense than it might! :lol:
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Oh I am sorry. I thought the story was too well known everywhere.

A hungry fox noticed a juicy bunch of grapes growing high on a grapevine. He leaped. He snapped. Drooling, he jumped to reach them, but try as he might, he could not obtain the tasty prize.

Disappointed by the fruitless efforts he'd made to get the grapes that day, he said, with a shrug, to comfort himself, "Oh, they were probably sour anyway!"

- Source : Aesop's Tales
 
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Richard

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
Oh, right. :confused: Actually a totally different meaning to the one I'd intepreted from it...

Anyway... :)

(Was never much of an Aesop's Fables kid, personally)
 
GIMH

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
Richard said:
My feelings exactly - too many people take the preference for Tests over ODIs as "love Tests, hate ODIs". Yes there are some (fools) who take that standpoint in this country, but as Manan's case clearly demonstrates, they're certainly not unique to this country.

There's too much of the "England don't like \ don't take seriously \ etc. ODIs" talk for mine. If someone else was as rubbish as we are it them it'd be the exact same thing being said about them.
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What annoys me is that when a country is good at ODIs but crap in tests the opposite accusation isn't really made. Well, except for NZ, but there may be some justification there....
 
Sanz

Sanz

Hall of Fame Member
Swerves - If you just add 'In 20/20' in your siggy, it will not make me look like a fool or atleast less of a fool :)

"In 20/20, There really is no difference between say a Sachin Tendulkar and Ronnie Irani. There is no difference between a Shaun Pollock and a Ricki Clarke'
 
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