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And now the goals from Carrow Road, where the game finished 0-0.
I'm quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished overnight and the development of cricket were left in Australian hands, within a generation, the players would be wearing shorts and using the bats to hit each other, and the thing is, it'd be a much better game for it.
Those Aussie rugby fans are a bunch of sore losers. I hate 'em all.
Gareth Jellyman of Mansfield Town has been sent off, hope he doesn't throw a wobbly!
Harmy is a class bowler and I think he's one of the main reasons why England have improved over the last 18 months.
What cricket? Grasshopper?
What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts?
(after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
There are stains on their knees, stains on their arses. Dirty Leeds.
cunt on the blackboard.
Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.
Tony Fernandes is in that goldfish bowl and he's swimming against the tide.
Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour.
Dude, he's Australian...not a pirate.
You're all scum and you know it
Maurice hated cricket. It demanded a snickety neatness he could not supply.
I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.
Remember the look in the eyes of the Aussies and the Kiwis yesterday - I don't want to see that here.
A cricket tour in Australia would be a most delightful period in one's life if one was deaf
I will leave this shining life of cricket very soon. This bat and ball won't save Shahid Afridi in Grave
I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?
Cricket is basically baseball on valium.
I'm ridiculous, I'm ludicrous.
During my years of professional cricket in England, I realised that although the Australians were talented players, tactically they were a bit naive when compared to those who played full-time on the English circuit. You might find this arrogant, but that was the reality then.
The sooner that little so-and-so goes to rugby league, the better it will be for us.
thats a Zoey miracle
And always Melbourne, Melbourne, Melbourne, over and over the same photo in glaring greens and reds, of a tram, huffy, blunderous, manoeuvring itself with pole akimbo round the tight corner where Bourke Street enters Spring.
And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test?
This gentleman here, Michael Hussey, is just an absolute freak.
Is it just me, or did Tamou go to hug a Kiwi before realising he had just scored for Australia?
My memories of Australian cricket are it was an environment of good fun.
The traditional dress of the Australian cricketer is the baggy green cap on the head and the chip on the shoulder. Both are ritualistically assumed
Any time you're near a kangaroo, it's a close call.
Bowl better, Bat better, Catch better, communicate better ... Just bloody play better ... I am now available for Selection of Australia..!!!!!
He really is a cunt ay the first order. Nae doubt about that. The big problem is, he's a mate n aw. Whit kin ye dae?
We don't really watch basketball in Australia.
It occurs to me that cricket is not the true sport in London - gossip is.
Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.
It was a mistake of mine to tell the lads that this lot don't score too many goals - and statistically they don't - but then they go and score seven.
Finally, after more than a year of unprecedented anticipation, the talking stops and the cricket begins.
It is far more than a game, this cricket.
St George won 11 premierships with one Raper, imagine how Canterbury will go with 13.
Whatever be the complex situations, the Indian team under Ganguly has moved to great heights. The fact of the matter is that Ganguly is determined to stay focused.
This is not a book about Australia. No, it's about somewhere entirely different which happens to be, here and there, a bit ... Australian. Still ... no worries, right?
Cricket is my first love.
poxy shitweasel,
With Australians we're saying we're going to win before we start playing and pretty much keep on saying that.
Where the hell is Australia anyway?
He said at last, when Miss Gilchrist had twittered into silence:
He must be the most singlehanded devotee cricket has ever seen. Cricket has taken up so much of his life that at times you would wonder what is he going to do once he gives up the game.
As we weep for what we have lost, and as we grieve for family and friends and we confront the challenge that is before us, I want us to remember who we are. We are Queenslanders. We're the people that they breed tough, north of the border. We're the ones that they knock down, and we get up again.
I Wanted To Sign Scholes For Killie But Fergie Burst Out Laughing
Dear Life,
You SUCK!
I want out.
See you on the flipside.
Sincerely,
Cricket
Since childhood, I have been a cricket fanatic.
Well, all cricket invites attention.
Two kangaroos were talking to each other, and one said, 'I hope it doesn't rain today. I hate it when the children play inside.
Cricket is full of theorists who can ruin your game in no time.
And I can say that I'll pay to watch MS Dhoni bat.
As we at all times criticise the Premier for his management of home affairs, call Mr Butler a fool for his Budget, find fault with Beecham's conducting, or Gielgud's performance, can we not, sometimes, say that our cricketers are not quite so brilliant as usual?
Dear, lovely game of cricket that can stir us so profoundly, that can lift up our hearts and break them.
Those glories come too late That on our ashes wait.
I am thoroughly satisfied that smoking is detrimental to the intelligence of Australians who I notice now are beginning to look sickly, pale and intellectually destitute.
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My God, I wish we had [the] 9th Australian Division with us this morning.
I suppose I will go on selling newspapers until at last will come the late night final.
So this is how cunts that never shag fuckin well live. A life oy impotence, resentment, anger and frustration; nae fuckin exuberance in life, forced tae become an Internet troll or a miserable drunk in a boozer.
I did just make an arse out of myself though. I bumped into the hottest guy I've ever seen in the toilet and just stared at him like some kind of moron. Think David Gandy but younger.
I can't mate with you and hope to live.
Kicked wide of the goal with such precision
Bloody distracting man.
My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin.
Cricket is a most precarious profession; it is called a team game but, in fact, no one is so lonely as a batsman facing a bowler supported by ten fieldsmen and observed by two umpires to ensure that his error does not go unpunished.
Don Bradman will bat no more against England, and two contrary feelings dispute within us: relief, that our bowlers will no longer be oppressed by this phenomenon; regret, that a miracle has been removed from among us. So must ancient Italy have felt when she heard of the death of Hannibal.
Black Saturday reminded many Australians of what they know only too well: that of all the advanced economies, Australia is perhaps the one most vulnerable to climate change.
Spreading rumours is our national past time
John Cross is feeling very boyish about Arsenal's chances
Every ball that is kicked, Martin O'Neill will be literally kicking it
I think any time you lose an Ashes series, especially with the hype and build-up surrounding it and the pride we have as Australians playing against England, that's always hard to take.
We lost the crickets.
When we found out Blackburn's owners wanted us to do a chicken advert for Venky's, we didn't really know what to think. I had to pretend to love it, but the truth is, one bite and my stomach was in knots.
I'll pay to watch MS Dhoni Bat. Dhoni is not the next Gilchrist. He's the first MS Dhoni.
The cricket's gone, we only hear machines In erg and atom they exact their pay. And life is largely lived on silver screens.
Every single player on the pitch is now in the Birmingham box, apart from two of them.
And that's Aston Villa's first league goal since their last one.
O Jamesy let me up out of this pooh
Thinks the sun shines out yer clacker.
We're going to bollocks up our second chance at Eden, even before the paint has dried.
Our club captain Gary Neville's been out for a year now, but Giggsy has taken up the mantelpiece
I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity.
It was all I could do to stop my cunt from coming round to see you without me.'
'Who's Mike Hunt?
For its health, cricket needs to look outward to the sharpest minds, to people who sustain and nurture brands and often take hard but necessary decisions. Cricket cannot be bound by cricketing minds alone.
So remember it, lad. If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it. Brian Fraser to young Jamie
What more scoundrelly trick could you have played on us?
Zealand 1893 Australia
On Australia Day 2010, as we enter this second decade of the 21st century, Australians can be optimistic about our future, but we cannot afford to mistake optimism for complacency.
Arse. I find the thought very appealing.
There was no football on TV, which meant that I was reduced to watching cricket, which is about as interesting as watching grass grow. Thankfully they had introduced Twenty20 cricket, which was a lot faster paced and more interesting. It was more like watching grass get watered. I
Australia is filled with roundabouts and everyone drives on the wrong side of the road. In the end we decided to split up the work and I feverishly watched the GPS and yelled, Left! Right! ROUNDABOUT!
Bloody flaming ashes
Don't you stupid Aussies get it? Australia is doomed! Nothing, and nobody, can help you. You have sinned willfully after you have received knowledge of the truth.
If you go out to bat against Australia, they come at you hard.