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Who will win the ashes? I hope england but it is not set in stone yet!
Give us your oppinion..

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Should the worlds armys get rid of nukes?
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Who will win the ashes? I hope england but it is not set in stone yet!
Give us your oppinion.
I know i'll be lambasted for it but... who cares..

Ummm, can someone fill me in?

I do hope england wins!! But I wouldent really care if they dident!

I hope england wins! It would be great!

What are the ashes and how do you win them?

Come On England!!

What are the ashes and how do you win them?
They are the Ashes of English Cricket. It died when the Australians won a series against them a long time ago, and now they play for the Ashes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ashes).

What are the ashes and how do you win them?

The ashes is a cricket tourtement between england and auss.

Australia!

The second test was one of the best games of cricket I have ever watched.

Well, it certainly was a nail-biting finish last night.(Aus Time)
I personally had written off Australia at the start of their second innings, but the tail-enders made quite a stand.
Go Australia! :D

Australia.

But well played to the poms in the second test.

argh dammit, you (thomish empire) asked in your first post 'who will win the ashes?', but in the poll you asked 'who do you want to win the ashes?', which lead to me inadvertantly voting for australia. i know theyll win, but i definitely dont want them to.

argh dammit, you (thomish empire) asked in your first post 'who will win the ashes?', but in the poll you asked 'who do you want to win the ashes?', which lead to me inadvertantly voting for australia. i know theyll win, but i definitely dont want them to.

Bwahahahaha...

You know you really want us to win. :D

England. I usually don't care too much for cricket, but it would be very satisfying for the infinitely arrogant Aussie fans who talk as if they are unbeatable and predicted 5-0 against England to be brought down a peg or two.

England 407 and 181 (Flintoff 73) beat Australia 308 and 279 (Warne 42, Lee 43*) by two runs


Holy shit, what a test match.


I was flicking between the end of it, and watching NZ do shit against Zimbabwe. I woke up to find that Vettori had smacked 127 off 98 balls and McCullum 111 off 112 to take NZ to 452/9 after day one. Not a bad score in one day..

FoW: 1-21 (Vincent, 7.2 ov), 2-24 (JAH Marshall, 7.4 ov),
3-63 (HJH Marshall, 15.4 ov), 4-104 (Astle, 28.6 ov),
5-113 (Styris, 32.1 ov), 6-233 (Fleming, 54.1 ov),
7-309 (McCullum, 66.3 ov), 8-369 (Franklin, 77.5 ov),
9-432 (Vettori, 86.4 ov).

Our top order sucks ass.


But back to the ashes...

I just said England, because well, I think England should win everything :D.

I don't really like Cricket, I don't know how to play and I feel that it's boring to watch.

I say Australia, because they have more Catholics and are a better ally. More conservative too.

And the Outback.

I missed it all i went to bed at 8:30 :eek:
GAh it was disgusting doing that it stuffed my body clock up and i woke up at 4:30 :( ....
What a match
Bowden stuffed up early on and Oz should have lost by at least 60.
Kasprowich you cock!

Kasprowich you cock!
He's a bloody batsman!
Who would you like to have seen? McGrath? :D

He's a bloody batsman!
Who would you like to have seen? McGrath? :D
True but lets play a game called Throw your Wicket away.
Warne!

True but lets play a game called Throw your Wicket away.
Warne!
Hehe, that was excellent.
What a bum.

Hehe, that was excellent.
What a bum.
Bit like how he got caught out on 99? vs us in 2001? at Perth?

Warne in the first innings?
"I dont care where it pitches, I'm getting down to the pitch regardless and its going out of the ground!"

Unfrotunatley Shane, your not as good as The Lord (The Great Freddie One), and missed. Idiot.
Mind you, Warne is the only player I know to wear flares on a cricket pitch...

Come on you Pomms :)

Warne in the first innings?
"I dont care where it pitches, I'm getting down to the pitch regardless and its going out of the ground!"

Unfrotunatley Shane, your not as good as The Lord (The Great Freddie One), and missed. Idiot.
Mind you, Warne is the only player I know to wear flares on a cricket pitch...

Come on you Pomms :)
True that Flares! AH HA

I never pad up especially like what that guy did.

They so need Thorpe Come on England!

We need Thorpe to get in and stop the famed Middle Order Collapse syndrome which all England players suffer from. He can chuck a ball too, so yeah, in the team instead of erm...we can just have an extra player right?

We need Thorpe to get in and stop the famed Middle Order Collapse syndrome which all England players suffer from. He can chuck a ball too, so yeah, in the team instead of erm...we can just have an extra player right?

i dont think thats too much to ask...

She's their Queen too, so if they beat us its Treason and we can send them to an island prison somewhere far far away...

AUSSIE! AUSSIE! AUSSIE! OI! OI! OI!

C'mon we have to win... :D

You have no idea how much I enjoyed reading that logical argument Bruce :P

I reccomend you all play the úber cool game "Bring it On" on the Channel 4 cricket website, featuring the legend W.G. Grace, playing as the convicts is a rib tickler.

That was an amazing match!! Even my mum who hates cricket was on the edge of her seat.

Its amazing that an LBW that was turned down was out, and the last catch off of the glove was not out but given. What goes around I suppose!!

3-2 to England!!

Bell should be dropped!! btw

I want Enland to win (being from England and all), but I don't think they will.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/4133096.stm

Looks like Lee may miss the 3rd Test. I'm going for a 3-2 win for England.

Looks like our fast bowling stocks are really in some trouble.

We need Thorpe to get in and stop the famed Middle Order Collapse syndrome which all England players suffer from. He can chuck a ball too, so yeah, in the team instead of erm...we can just have an extra player right?
I heard at about 1:00 on Day One of the first test he had officially retired from International Cricket after not being selected for the first test. :(

Petersen was great in that test(Except catching)
But the other young guy sucked.
They really should have had him in their.

Lee may be out for the 3rd test. :)

Well, that aint good at all. We need him, even if only as a reserve since the selectors dont seem to think we do. Can anyone tell me what the score was at the close of play today? I saw we got to about 270/2 or something...

341-5, not bad.

341-5, not bad.

Could have been 350+ for 3, if Peitersen had got himself in before pulling Lee.

She's their Queen too, so if they beat us its Treason and we can send them to an island prison somewhere far far away...

Somewhere like... Australia??

Somewhere like... Australia??

Would I suggest something like that? Huzzah, of course I would!

From what I saw of the scoreboard, it said Piterson was subbed, dunno if it was subbing on or subbing off. Anyone gonna fill me in?

Austarlia!
Australia!
Australia!

Austarlia!

I didn't know the Austar Union cricket team played in the Ashes! :O

444 All out not bad. I'm starting to think the we (england) may win the Ashes, judging by yesterdays Aussie batting

I think it's going to be 4-1 to England, the Ozzies look seriously shaken up and we will see when they finnaly get on the pitch today if they have recovered. If they havn't, they shouldn't win the series.