A Farewell to Beige, Cream and Off-White Jackets: The Official Cape of Good Hope 2009/10 Cricket Season Thread

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Simply marvellous, but shall we lock until Louis comes back to our bright, sandy shores?

jeez you couldn't wait a few days?

Or until the Australian team is actually, you know, back in Australia after their commitments to Indian television.

But the Sheffield Shield has kicked off, you know. Tasmania has been simply dreadful!

no, i'm not actually going to contribute to a cricket thread, just wanted to berate your impatience on LJ's behalf.

This annual summer tradition is bigger than Louis!!

suuure it is.

posting 'jeez you couldn't wait a few days?' on louis' behalf seems a bit slapdash.

i'll suffer accusations of slapdashedness a thousand times for the sake of our fallen comrade

First time I've met a "comrade" from the Bullingdon Club.

heh me or him or you or all three?

Hey, what about the exciting news that Ireland is planning to become the next Test cricketing nation?

Instead of losing to county sides, they can grind out an exciting draw against Bangladesh!

Has any desperate sub-editor actually used "Craicket" yet or do we have that to look forward to?

'Tis the wearing o' the Baggy Green.

'Tis the wearing o' the Baggy Green.

Shaun Marsh did a tops job, but this Clint McKay bloke!!

aw i missed this.

all the irish cricketers i know are english. that's all i got.

WE THE BEST

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Massively excited by the prospect of South Australia topping the Sheffield Shield table for the first time since they got rid of 8-ball overs!!

I suppose Aaron O'Brien is what we would call a 'journeyman'!

I suppose you would have called Gary Sobers that during his Adelaide Oval stint!!

He could do a job, 'tis true, hold up an end, bash a quick few

^^poetry btw

<3 it's good to have you back, lj.

obv

i mean uh <3

Fuck you Richie Benaud for ruining the thread title.

Fuck you Chris Gayle's dying mum for ensuring this will be the most one-sided Frank Worrell Trophy series ever.

Fuck you Channel Nine for hyping up Sunday night's exhibition Twenty20 game as "THE RETURN OF SHANE WARNE" when the big man will just be there to plug his poker exploits and bowl a lazy over or two before sitting back with some Nandos for dinner.

^^sounds like an ideal lifestyle to me

he'll also do an advanced hair promo, no doubt.

Bollinger in teh test team btw

that man

was MINCE

for worcestershire

get alister mcdermott in there NOW srsly

srsly?

he has the genes, the hair, and the two WI wickets on FC debut

also he is not BURT COCKLEY now there was some NSFW bias if ever i've seen it

another uggers australian test player..
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we do have the ugliest crickers tho

lol peter 'keith miller' siddle

anyway how dya know he's in the team

http://www.smh.com.au/news/sport/cricket/2009/11/19/1258219914337.html

^^

yes i saw that but do you really think they're gonna drop HILFY when it comes to the TEAM

i mean he looks like he is always abt to burst into tears you cannot drop him it wd be too sad

hilfy is ugly too iirc?

xp lol he does

tbh some rubbish unknown queenslander with a saffer name has just smashed and i mean smashed his first ever fc ton off the WI 'attack' so i doubt you're going to be worrying abt the batting too much

tru. and no Gayle

yeah. also bollinger is being notably rubbish against LITTLE TASMANIA who dont have ponting or jamie cox now there was a batsman i remember fondly

a LEGEND of the SHEFFIELD SHIELD, forsooth

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truly a man bigger than the sport he played

bedtime

alas there were no fireworks or flames being shot in the air for that

lol @ NSFW this season btw

fireworks were a delight at the game in melbs, was like a night at the casino

btw ur 3 down before lunch against pakistan - don't fancy yr chances of winning by any more than innings + 50

fireball squirter things, that is (xp)

also here is a croosh name change

also I believe that jabba was most disappointed that he couldn't get any KFC at the stadium during a KFC BIG BASH

need to get the authorities onto that 'un

oh does Pakistan still have a Test side?

lol i made much merriment that while i was in the mood for the dirty bird after being bombarded with advertising for it, all i could get was the strips and chips combo from

wait for it

RED ROOSTER

omg

wtf

lol

still some RED ROOSTER would be quite the treat, jabba had to settle for a microwaved hot dog and chips

it was fairly tasty i must say

haven't had RED ROOSTER for aaaaaages, which is a shame

never had red rooster omgwtf

hot dog was very disappointing. chips unexpectedly satisfying.

here's how you can simulate the red rooster "experience" with simple household items (make sure to ask your parents' permission!):

a) fry some chicken
now boil it

b) fry some chips
now piss on them

c) whack those in the flimsiest cardboard box you can find, JOB DONE

cynical at best

not all of us are dining on fusion cooking in surry hills

WHITEWAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH

TEN EXCITING ONE-DAYERS COMIN' 'YA WAY (oh and three of those twenty20 deals)

Considering going to watch some of this shitt./

They might have finally found a way for me to stop watching cricket and that is the proposal of John Howard: ICC President.

I can take match fixing and Zimbabwe but this is a bridge too far!!

Tony Greig has just said "twittering" one too many times for my liking.

666 - the number of Cameron White.

I don't like how "Pup" fields without a cap - that kind of shit needs to be stamped out and banned from the game.

I don't think we'll see Peter Siddle at The Ivy tonight btw.

As an aside, I just saw that my subtle vandalism of the Wikipedia entry for Red Rooster is still up there!

The Karachi Globetrotters are down for 4/32 - this could be an early night!

well that was the least exciting ODI series so far this year

Ryan "The Joker" Harris - where did these mad bowling skillz come from?

swear to christ brayshaw is the worst cricket commentator i've ever heard. not everything's a fucken sportsman's night u tool!!

Come on, it's a dead rubber in Perth. It's slightly better than having to hear Tubbs and Heals yalk crap.

That said, Brayshaw was far too descriptive when discussing Cameron White's "soft" hands.

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loooool

Afridi somehow makes life interesting despite a 5-0 whitewash.

mate i just tackled a bloke at the cricket

its cool bro he wasn't aussie

A Special Commonwealth Bank Series Edition of Up-The-Arse Corner:

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Twenty20 at the 'G! With special guest commentator Shane Warne!

GO HUSS LOOK AT THAT ONE GO

he's gonna have a bit of a job here, mind you

tait going @ 160 here, jesus f'n christ

3/13, fucken love tait

hahahahaha! oh, poor pakistan, effigies will be burned back home tonight!!

Sorry, LJ - wherever you are!

It's raining and Nine have exhausted their emergency stockpile of Two and a Half Men episodes - so here's a Australia vs England T20 match from '07?

This is the worst summer of Cricket...ever!

Not even David Warner's 50 off 18 balls could save this summer.

And thus endeth the boredom.

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ya gotta lol @ the Clarke/Bingle situation

http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/people/ring-of-fear-frantic-call-to-plumbers-in-the-night-20100313-q532.html

kinda lol but mostly...LOOOOOOOLLLLLLLL