Cricket
**The Ashes 2013 5th Test 21-25 August Kia Oval**
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Not betting on everything that moves is a sign of discipline by the way.
The bet you don't put on is the bet you can't win....    |
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Thanks for posting that Martin Samuel article, maf.
Less talk about improvement and winning situations, too, if since February 10 the only games won in any form of cricket had been a four-day tour match against Somerset and an ICC Champions Trophy warm-up one-dayer against the West Indies.  After Dockrell clean-bowled Hughes and Clarke on the final afternoon with 60 still needed and 6 wickets in hand, I was disappointed we didn't go on to win that match. But I got it completely wrong and assumed that Lehmann had moulded a confident side who got the job done. Absolutely gutted now we've seen what a spineless shambles they really are when you apply any pressure. |
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screaming, and in other news some sort of mracle seems to be taking place at lords over the last 2 days - a virtual rereun of the lords test as it happens
had virtually accepted we were going down. seems there some life in the patient yet |
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I know it's after-timing, and we're nowhere near out of the woods, but I can't say I've ever expected us to get relegated from a division containing two teams as bad as Surrey and Derbyshire.
I've seen most of Zum's home games in the Ch'ship this year and they've never looked hopeless. I've argued right from the start that it's just been a case of all the bad passages of play a side inevitably suffers over a period of a few years all falling together at once. Sometimes the reverse happens and fundamentally limited teams get all their good results falling together and they end up flattered. Middx up until last month were a case in point. And it's how Lancs managed to fluke the title in 2011. Mind you, Lanky still wouldn't have won it if Gemaal Hussain hadn't lazily, stupidly and pointlessly run himself out on the last day of that season. And that was one big difference in the game just finished. Despite losing Kirby and Trego through injury, Zum finally at long last didn't turn to Gemaal Hussain. Instead they gave Gregory the chance his 2nd XI form deserved and reaped the reward. |
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Somerset: The Australia of the County Championship
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the batting bonus points are the tell tale sign. usually we'd have the most but before this game we had the least. so many times we've been shot out for a low score often in embarrassing fashion
still the remaining fixtures could hardly be more friendly. a win and a draw from the last 3 should be enough was wondering if tres might jack in it if we went down. seems his ankle is still not properly right and not sure he'd fancy 2nd division cricket at his age as much as he loves the club |