What a day (non-footie, CRICKET!)

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St.Patrick's Day in Colombo, Sri Lanka, I was there to witness the most amazing day's cricket - 22 wickets and a victory for England. I'm now a member of the "Barmy Army" (not quite as vociferous as the Toon Army, but great crack).

A bit of name dropping - I had lunch with Nasser ("Nasser Hussein everyone knows your name"), Alec Stewart and Graham Thorpe (man of the match)last Wednesday, also, I had a beer with Ian Botham, Graham Gooch and Tom Graveney, on Friday night.

Hong Kong Sevens next...

-- Anonymous, March 18, 2001

Answers

...in 2 weeks time, anyone else up for it (Val & Fifties)?

-- Anonymous, March 18, 2001

Obviously no cricket fans on here, admittedly Nasser Hussein doesn't look like, or talk like a Geordie like!

;7)

-- Anonymous, March 18, 2001


Sorry Bud. We don't follow winning teams on this BBS. That would be too easy.

-- Anonymous, March 18, 2001

From the torygraph (mildly amusing!) :

"Later, when the crowd swarmed round the pavilion, and the sun-touched spectators supped deep into a balmy night, Gough's was the name everybody chanted. Is there, one wonders, a more popular - as opposed to famous - sportsman in England? True, he doesn't wear his wife's clothes or give his children batty names, but one mustn't hold that against him."

;-)

-- Anonymous, March 18, 2001


Last Geordie to play for England Bud, then name 3 , ____ ____ ____

Little cricket story of many years ago, eight of us were flown by private plane to a bauxite mine 80 miles inland in the then British Guyana, wee bit o bother with the local workers, striking, odd bit of saboutage , and destroying property, As we landed up river we could see approx 80 of the worky tickets outside the wire but surrounding the admin hut. Here we go I thought, off the company plane ,rushed up to the hostiles who were all babbling away, wringing there hands, and shaking their heeds. Poor sods itwas 63/63 , they were grouped around the only radio availible listening to the Test Match , the one that Goughies hero Fiery Fred Trueman went down the line -up and took 7 for 34 in the WI 2nd innings. This knocked the stuffing out of the militants, we had no trouble

-- Anonymous, March 19, 2001



Nasser may not look lke a Geordie but he did go to University in Durham so he can't be all bad. Unvelievable game of cricket - would have loved to have seen it never mind been there.

But Bud, we all knew that you were barmy anyway, you didn't have to go all the way to Sri Lanka to prove it.

-- Anonymous, March 19, 2001


Thanks Kegsy, HK Sevens in 2 weeks time, get your @r$e down from Tokyo for THE party!?

Buff, I can only think of Peter Willey and Colin Milburn, I'll wait for the hangover to wear off and get back to you :-((

-- Anonymous, March 19, 2001


Would like to, but unfortunately I don't have the money. I'm hoping to have a trip back home in the summer (first one for three years) but that also looks in doubt.

-- Anonymous, March 19, 2001

Thing that struck me most is that, with the exception of perhaps Trescothick and Giles, these were exactly the same players who were deemed incompetent losers and took England to the bottom of the unofficial league table. Perhaps we can draw a crumb of hope from that - ability is a strange concept.

-- Anonymous, March 19, 2001

Just goes to show what a very good coach (Fletcher) and a good captain (Hussain) can do for a group of players.

We seem to have the coach so do it's the old chesnut about the captaincy of the team.

-- Anonymous, March 19, 2001



Bud, third one came from Burnopfield (s-pit), Lintz and Frank Clark ex-member myself, lived 200 yards from Big Jack Milburn and his wife Bertha (i/c teas) parents of Colin, I refer to Jim McConnon ex Glamorgan and England (2 caps?) off spinner.

Last meaningful game I played was for a Malaysian Planters X1 against a Eurasian Select at the Padang in Singapore, as usual with Buff that`s another story, just say our two opening bats arrived by Scout Helicopter fully ready to take guard. I must have been in the team for my ability as my politics and working class background did not lend itself at the time to very hoity toity Cricket Club, I rebelled as the waiters wore no`s and to hear a red faced, waxy moustachioed planter shout out when ordering drinks, No 5 Boy Service here, did my head in, I will never forget it as long as I live, We have a lot to answer for when you look back on life.

-- Anonymous, March 23, 2001


Sri Lanka 56-3, need 88 more runs to win the first One Day Match.

Surely England can't win this one!

-- Anonymous, March 23, 2001


58-4!

-- Anonymous, March 23, 2001

You jammy bugger Bud - I envy you. Must have been a great last day.

How did you find Sri Lanka, other than hot? What took you there - business or pleasure?

-- Anonymous, March 23, 2001


he looked on the map...how else would you find Sri Lanka

Okay, don't push, I'm going.

-- Anonymous, March 23, 2001



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