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06-03-2010 , 09:56 AM

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lol india. second defeat in a row 2 zimbabwe and they were thrashed. gl wen tendulkar retires thats all i can say.

england bangladesh second test tom. such a boring english summer. bangladesh, pointless one dayers against aus, and pakistan who are equally terrible with their infighting and squabbling

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06-03-2010 , 10:09 AM

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last aus summer sucked, pakistan and wi...zzzzzzzzzzzz

this one should be awesome though, ashes always rule and sri lanka is a pretty good side

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06-03-2010 , 10:42 AM

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It is a dull Summer. More than made up for by an Ashes Winter though. Xmas Day night at the MCG. Can't beat it.

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06-03-2010 , 11:15 AM

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It is a dull Summer. More than made up for by an Ashes Winter though. Xmas Day night at the MCG. Can't beat it.

Totally. It's the best thing about Christmas day, when the cricket starts at midnight and all family stuff has long ended.

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06-03-2010 , 11:31 AM

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Anyone watching WI v SA? I have bet WI and they are in slightly better shape than start of match, but they always lose. Sadly it was all that was on TV.

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06-03-2010 , 11:37 AM

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you bet on wi v sth africa? wtf?

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06-04-2010 , 12:47 AM

kom

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My room mate is South African so I took WI at $3. This is the 2nd match they have lost in the last 1-2 balls. FML

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06-04-2010 , 06:57 AM

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good news for cricket fans everywhere- you don't have to watch trott bat all day

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06-04-2010 , 11:39 AM

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lol England

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06-04-2010 , 11:52 AM

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If Bangladesh get their act together fielding and bowling, they will be a dangerous out-fit in the future. They don't half give it some willow with the bat.

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06-04-2010 , 03:02 PM

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Mortaza always looked good for them when I watched them play, also they have a decent array of slow bowlers. Fielding and discipline is an issue, but they are a team on the rise IMO, even after Bashir moves on...

Looking forward to the next Australian summer, but this gap between the world 20/20 and the next matches is killing me.

Also, lol at Wright breaking his bat in the Pommy domestic 20/20 a few days ago. We have had a few games on Foxtel in Australia, and being the nightowl that I am, its better then the Home Shopping ads...

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06-06-2010 , 08:47 AM

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What a shambles they are?!

Bangladesh are going backwards, back in batting following-on again after being 100 odd for no-wicket, then all out for 216.

They are already 2 wickets down in their second innings edit: make that 3 down.

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06-06-2010 , 10:08 AM

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67xXbTaQlKI

best thing about cricket is that music.

lol cricket

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06-06-2010 , 12:50 PM

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lol, i flick onto cricinfo this morning and it's still raining, strauss wondering whether to enforce the follow-on. i flick back this afternoon and we've won

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06-07-2010 , 09:00 AM

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wtf is up with zimbabwe?

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06-18-2010 , 02:06 PM

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lots of cricket going on around the world obviously been overshadowed by football wc.
west indies they're normal terrible self against sa in current test match. shooting themselves in the foot by dropping a load of catches on a road like wicket.
asia cup going on currently - another pointless one day series.
domestic 20:20 in england for 2 straights months of pointless rubbish.
england play scotland tom, and then a number of odi v australia so more pointless cricket

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06-18-2010 , 05:54 PM

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All about the build up to the Ashes imo

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06-19-2010 , 10:31 PM

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Sick game today, India vs. Pakistan, if you have espn360 you can see a replay.

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06-22-2010 , 06:12 PM

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England win the opening fixture of one day series vs Aus.

Morgan (103 from 85, 16x4) with a great knock, really important to our one day side now. I remember on his debut, Nasser Hussain described him as a "nudger and nurdler" i thought ffs, get rid of him fast. Thankfully Nas was wrongly informed.

SA beat WI in their test series.

fwiw a few twitters.

Cricket info
Shane Warne
Michael Clarke
David Lloyd

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06-25-2010 , 06:57 AM

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australia getting desperate. 2-0 down and bringing tait out of retirement. like the last ashes, this is just two average teams quite evenly matched imo

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06-25-2010 , 08:00 AM

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australia getting desperate. 2-0 down and bringing tait out of retirement. like the last ashes, this is just two average teams quite evenly matched imo

level?

I agree Aus are a long way from their peak of the last 10 yrs, but England are far from average in the short form atm and will be one of the top seeds for the world cup next year if form over the last 6-12 months continues

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06-25-2010 , 09:08 AM

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ill agree that england have improved out of all recognition since flower took over but are still an average team and it is more the deterioation in quality of other teams rather than this been a very good english team. I will concede though that on current form we do currently have a decent outside chance of winning the wc but lets not forget that it was only last year we lost 6-1 to australia at home in one dayers. A couple of injuries to broad and morgan and we'll look very average again.

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06-25-2010 , 12:06 PM

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I take your point, and guess that any argument is more semantics than anything else. I think we're currently above average (top order well above imo) but nowhere near a great team

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06-25-2010 , 12:31 PM

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I think this series right now has two of the top three teams and maybe one and two...maybe not top favorites to win the WC in the subcontinent though.

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