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As its the Ashes summer, i thought I'd post this link.
To our Canadian/US/Spanish friends, us Poms and Aussies love to insult each other in the friendly game of cricket, and sledging itself has become as much a part of cricket as tea and drinks.
My personal favourite was when one unnamed erudite Aussie bowler approached the portly English Batsman Mike Gatting as he was coming into bat, and asked him "Mike, why are you so fat?". the Aussies laughed, and then Mike replied "Because every time I S@*G your wife, she gives me a biscuit"
Come on England!
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us Poms and Aussies love to insult each other in the friendly game of cricket, and sledging itself has become as much a part of cricket as tea and drinks.
I will start. The poms cheated in the first test with their delaying tactics. ...its all they could do to avoid loosing and forcing a draw.
And Ponting was deliberately feigning a catch, delaying a match is one thing, trying to get a man who clearly wasn't out is pure unsporting, and whilst we are on, how about Ponting and his girls claiming LBW everytime even when the ball was going 2 foot wide of the off stump. Shall we give Punter a copy of the rules, or does he set his own because he's Australian?
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I always remember a banner held up in one of the tests when Lilley and Thompson (2 Australian 'gentlemen') were bouncing and beaming (for those who don't know, a bouncer is a ball bounced from the ground but aimed at the batsman's head at around 90 miles an hour, and is not illegal - just outside the spirit of the game if used at every opportunity - the rules had to be revised to stop this happening - and a beamer is a full toss ie. does not bounce, also aimed at the batsman's head at 90 + miles an hour and is illegal) England out of the game. On this occasion the Aussies seemed to find that their blatant cheating was perfectly acceptable - in fact they always seem to find their cheating perfectly acceptable and only cry (Shane Warne) when others do something similar but much lesser to them. The Aussie crowd were holding up banners proclaiming 'kill 'im', brain 'im', 'die you bastard' and other such sporting slogans but 2 lonely Englishmen unfurled their banner which simply stated "Australians Can't Play Cricket".
The delightful thing is that the poor devils simply didn't, and still don't, understand it.
Bill Liggins
PS After the match, I really enjoyed Punter's whingeing creased up face, although in all fairness, he didn't cry like Warney
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I will start. The poms cheated in the first test with their delaying tactics. ...its all they could do to avoid loosing and forcing a draw.
cheeky sod!!! - thats great coming from a person whose national cricket team committed the ultimate act of cowardice bowling underarm - chicken**** cricket teams wear yellow for a reason!!
about time 70 odd years since you last beat Australia at the home of cricket..
bring on the next test
Michael Weber
Thank you - and as usual you didnt give it up - great fight your guys put up - im sure the next one will be just as thrilling - let's hope the umpires can be a bit more consistent eh?
not impressed with them this time
I'm currently doing a 6 month fellowship in the UK, so I'm very much enjoying following the Ashes from within the enemy gates.
Congratulations to England on the test win. However, it has to be said that England has an additional player on their team - the weather . I arrived just over two weeks ago and it has rained pretty much every day...
The newspaper coverage over here is very enjoyable - I'm sure no paper in Australia could have pulled off a story like the Guardian's front page picture of Ricky Ponting after losing his wicket with the smug headline "How does it feel, Ricky?". Brilliant.
Hi DaVinci, Hylton & Mike (+ any other demented Diggers)
Well, you really creamed us at Headingly with the help of the ump. - what goes around, comes around - and the assistance of the England selectors; if only Geoff Boycott was still playing, we would have bored you out of the game!
The process was designed to lull you into a false sense of security ready for Freddie Flintoff's return at the Oval. Unfortunately, I shall be away, so will not be there for what will, hopefully, be a really good crunch match.
The newspaper coverage over here is very enjoyable - I'm sure no paper in Australia could have pulled off a story like the Guardian's front page picture of Ricky Ponting after losing his wicket with the smug headline "How does it feel, Ricky?". Brilliant.
I know its Rugby and not Cricket but I was in Australia for the 2003 World Cup and the stuff the Aussie press was printing about England was far worse than anything I have seen in the UK, To be fair the Herald did print a full page apology after we beat them in the Final!
What made me laugh was the ECB asking the crowd not to boo Ponting when he came out to bat, its all good natured and the Eng players were getting the same during the last Ashes tour in Australia. Again its all done in good nature and both side give as good as they get, long may it continue IMHO
I got back early and am looking at the live web updates. It peed down earlier on but it's nice and sunny now. Australia are 125 for 7 following England's 1st innings of 332 all out (Siddle bowled well and looked really aggressive). Broad, who didn't bat badly, is doing the damage for England. I'm predicting nothing, there's another innings yet, but why the Aussies didn't play a spinner on the Oval track is a bit of a mystery.
I disagree Yatesy; we should not boo the vile and repulsive Punter, we are not Australians (anyway, he's doing a very good job of humiliating himself!)
Oops, Johnsons just gone. 131 for 8! Can those beastly chaps from down under save the follow-on (2 runs)?
Well, I'm not going to gloat. Given the track at the Oval, had the Aussies won the toss, they would almost certainly have won. Even given an impossible target to chase they behaved with guts and determination and went for it, so the match was exciting to the end. Even the replusive Punter, having decided to field close in without a helmet and having been smacked in the mouth by a fast ball simply spat out the blood and carried on - and then batted for a creditable 66.
Thanks Freddo - may you go on to displace those old men from Middlesex and Surrey on the England selectors board and pick a team worthy to take on them Down Under next time.
Diggers, the one day series is to come, so don't stop sledging!
Nah, to the fair it was a good game and for a while I honestly thought Messirs ponting and Hussey were going to do the impossible and hang in there. And thats with Mr Ponting having taken a ball to the face (which looked REALLY nasty!)
The winners were the fans and the game. I can't remember a game when everyone was glued to the scorecard quite so avidly!
So, Aussies, do you see how much better it is all around when you DON'T win 5 - 0? Please think ont for next year!
Regards
Pommie bastard Robert.
PS And tottenham hotspur are 9 points from 3 games!!! This has been a great month sport wise!
I had 3 pints of Old Peculier and a couple of glasses of wine (Australian, of course).
I have to agree with Robert. Punter does have a really nasty face, which suits him. He is a great batsman but do you think that the selectors will remove his captaincy after making the very serious error of not playing his 'full time' spinner on the Oval pitch? I thought that North bowled really well.
By the way, Robert's reference to Tottenham Hostspur is to a game designed for gentlemen but played (and followed) by ruffians. Tottenham is a London club made up of foreigners, who are regularly beaten by other clubs made up of other foreigners.
Maybe see you Down Under in December 2010 if 'er indoors allows me.
I have to agree with Robert. Punter does have a really nasty face, which suits him. He is a great batsman but do you think that the selectors will remove his captaincy after making the very serious error of not playing his 'full time' spinner on the Oval pitch?
I dont think they will take away his captaincy there was quite the discussion in the aust papers that I read today.They dont encourage the captain to play on if they take the captain title away. So no captain no punter which means we would lose our best batsman. I also think clarke needs a little more time.
Mike Weber
ps maybe the 1st PA Confernce can be in oz 2010 so us in Europe can write the trip off against tax if you can see where I´m going with this.
Well, you creamed us again in the first two one day games; so a big well played on that. Hopefully, England will stop giving their wickets away in future though.
Brett Lee looks as though he's back to his best (consistent 92 mph), so we'll have to play some batsmen to join Strauss.
Were is the love 4 - 0 I know its another series and it´s not the ashes but a win is a win and a series win as well. Also a good warm up for the champions throphy but I guess most of you have moved on to the football.
Typical of you nasty rough Australians to get your revenge. (Well played you swines). From your spelling of 'trophy', I guess you've been on the tinnies all night.
Mind you, you cheated again, you played Lee and sent for Punter, which was unfair because our best batsmen (with the exception of Strauss, only batsmen!) were unable to play.
What's this 'football'? Is that something to do with rugby?
Yup on Saturday, after the gut wrenching news that Chelsea had beaten my team (yet again in injury time!), I thought I would tune into TMS, only to hear that Australia had narrowly avoided defeat, to scrape a win by half a dozen wickets!
needed a lie down after all that bad news!
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Ashes summer, get sledging!
. I arrived just over two weeks ago and it has rained pretty much every day... 
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