Ashes - England to win 4th Test!!??

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Engerland at tea need 93 with 7 wickets left, currently 233 for 3 with Butcher on 100-odd.

Please God not a white wash. Come on Lads!!

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

Answers

Aussies finally Put down?

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

Er ... that should have been 222 for 3. But they do need 93 to win, honest!

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

Now it's 86 to win. Am I on my own getting excited about this?

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

... wouldn't be the first time I've got excited on my own mind..

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

NOW it's 233 for 3! Still 82 to win...

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001


great way to add to my total number of postings. Must have my own private thread more often.

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

Don't anybody go and spoil my thread by posting a comment.

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

135 for 3, 80 to win

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

ok

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

Geordie you bastard!! Now you've ruined it

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001


You know they won't win so why tortue yourself...of course i'm only joining in on this conversation to add to my number of postings...

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

76 to win....

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

Damn i could've gotten 2 postings out of that last one...screachers lessons just haven't been paying off...

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

I was just discussing this result with Shane Warne the other day...oops!:o>

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

Gav & Geordie - you are both now on my shit list. Now buggar off everyone so I can enjoy my thread

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001


Still 76 to win ( a crafty extra posting there..)

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

Yup we spotted that one sneaking in Nick...

Nice one ML3 ;)))

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001


if all the remaining batsmen got 11 then we'd win. Surely not too much for an international?

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

I agree Nick, should be a walk in the park

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

ooooooh - great Yorker there from Gillespie, reverse swing, nearly 239 for 4

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

11 was a bit much to ask of Atherton and Trescothick mind...

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

well that's what the commentator said. I couldn't spot a reverse swing from an upsidebown roundabout mesell...

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

or even an upsideDown one

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

the nerves have set in. It's been 76 to win for a while now..

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

'course as soon as I say that it's down to 75 with a quick single down to short cover..

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

No, it's 73. COME ON LADS!!!

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

Still 30 possible overs. 72 to win. Piece of Piss

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

You've gone a bit quiet now...fingers hurting or is nowt happening?

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

Now 66 needed Gav. I'm sweating big time.

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

Come off it Gav and co, don't go poking your oars in, let nick have a thread for himself.

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

250 now up!!! Now 253 for 3 - only 62 to get. Wey hey. All them Aussies talking about a whitewash - yers can stick it up yer arses boys!!!

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

I'm not playing anymore....you've not turned the e-mail notification off mate and you're off mail is sending loads of out of office mails out!! I got about 10 there :))

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

Softie - you have officially been added to Gav and Geordie on my shit list. Go on, sod off everyone I'm enjoying mesel here

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

57 to win, 7 wickets left. Start opening the beer

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

Does anyone know how England are getting on in the Cricket?

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

Apparently they are leaving it to the very last minute before f*cking it all up this time, DSS.

By the way, nick doesn't want anyone else posting on here so clear off. :-)

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001


Hahaha nice one DSS ;)) saw you at the match yesterday but didn't get a chance to say hello cos of the missus....

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

Get Orrff My Thread....(in a farming type accent)...

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

46 to win, 46 to win, ey ay addio 46 to win

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

Butcher 144 not out. Great knock.

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

42 and counting....

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

If we win, I bloody well hope England do a smug lap of honour and burn the bails, all the while saying "that's you that is".

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

40 - fat bastard Warne now on..

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

good 'un ML3

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

get down the wicket to the fat bletch Butchy.

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

Mind you, we should remember that they did declare at 176 for 4. Good sporting chaps. Made a good game of it.

Butcher now on 150!!! Supreme performance, as the commentator said.

32 to win.

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001


Yup fairplay to them for making a game of it...

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

Is Gary Sobers playing? Gav, did your brother get sorted with a ticket?

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

When was the last time we had to chase a game and were on 285 for 3?

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

Fat Bastard just knocked for 4. Ha! 26 to win

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

Bollocks! Fat BAstard just got Ramprakash out.

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

Usman Afsal in. (yer what?)

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

Ramp was NOT out, ball touched the ground before the catch was made. Still, who cares, we're gonna win anyway

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

ooh you're far too generous chaps, the reason the devious sheep sh@ggers declared was to bowl at England for an hour in the witching hour last night. They want a whitewash to burn the bails a la 1920/21 and say up-yours MCC for not letting us take the ashes.

ml3

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001


293 for 4. 22 to win

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

...18 ...

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

300 up. 14 to win!!!!

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

Butcher - 6 scored!!! 8 to win

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

....that fat lesbian Pat Butcher's playing a blinder.

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

Butcher 170 n.o. Good chap

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

now only 3 to win

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

THAT'S IT!!!!! ENGLAND WIN!!!!! 315 for 4, 6 wicket win.

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

MARK BUTCHER 173 NOT OUT

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

No-one has invaded the pitch, excellent news. Nasser's first match back, made 46 and 55, shows how much we needed him.

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

wooo hooo.

good work Nick, I'm off to watch the higlights. Cue Mambo #5.

ml3

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001


Only three times have England scored over 300 in the last innings to win a match.

I'm knackered now, hope you all got as excited as I did, but I doubt it. Off for a lie down and an early G&T. Cheers y'all!

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001


England win! The greatest cricket team of all time. The Aussies are dead jammy that the Ashes isn't best of 7.

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

... aye Jonno - TCHBWY!! ;-{)

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

I think this is the first cricket match thread we have ever had on here. One has to ask - where were we when we were sh*te?! Bliddy glory hunters! :-)

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

You wait, they'll be back to bowling underarm again next time...

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

I spent the whole day watching this instead of compiling a set of revision notes on the League of Nations for a group of moronic 16 year olds. So if you read this time next year that GCSE standards have surprisingly fallen for once you'll know why!!!

I don't hold with this stuff about the Aussies deserving credit for setting a good target. Fact is, they were over-confident and attempting to take the p*ss - serves 'em right!

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001


All together now, "Nasser, Nasser Hussein, everyone knows his name", à la Philippe Albert...

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2001

Haha I see the Aussies are battering England now....they're a class above....

-- Anonymous, August 24, 2001

Come on they've only managed 520 for 3, nothing special yet, just need Gilchrist to start speeding things up, could reach 1000 by this time tomorrow

-- Anonymous, August 24, 2001

Oy Gav, where's your patriotism?

;7)

-- Anonymous, August 24, 2001


One TV commentator, can't recall which, said just before tea "I can't recall ever seeing such a one-sided Test Match".
Sums it all up actually.

-- Anonymous, August 24, 2001

Bollix.

The only game that matters in a series of 5 test matches is number 4. The first 3 are tedious warm-ups to the main event, the last one sees all players rushing through the action either to get off to home in foreign lands or get off to a football match.

(I reserve the right to alter the number 4 in future test series.)

-- Anonymous, August 24, 2001

80 for 1, or as Gus might say 1 for 80, no worries mate!

-- Anonymous, August 24, 2001

Fat Blerk ripped a leg break from 6 inches outside Atherton's leg stump to knock back his off stump. I suspect we're in deep dood, again but you can't help but admire the fat git.

-- Anonymous, August 24, 2001

He won't be able to bowl tomorrow after I get The Boys to stamp on his fingers tonight. He is bloody fat though for a cricketer isn't he?

-- Anonymous, August 24, 2001

So was Colin Milburn. Indeed, about twice as fat ;-) Great character - shame the accident cut short his career.

-- Anonymous, August 24, 2001

Yeh but that was then. This is now. If you know what I mean! Could you imagine Colin Milburn hurtling to the boundary and sliding on his left knee to save a four!

-- Anonymous, August 24, 2001

I can't imagine any England player doing that!

-- Anonymous, August 25, 2001

Chasing 442 just to avoid the follow on, England have stuttered along to 178-4 with Captain Hussein stupidly forfeiting his wicket for 52 to occasional off-spinner Mark Waugh.

Fat Blerk at one end, and Glen McGrath at the other, provided a bowling masterclass in the morning session - top class stuff.

-- Anonymous, August 25, 2001


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