Old thread was large. Starting over now.
So this is the 2nd most popular sport in the world?
So this is the 2nd most popular sport in the world?
Yeah, this is bullshit. I guess that's what happens when you have it in England though. Can't wait to see what happens in the Ashes. :$This is the worst Champions Trophy ever. Half the games were affected by rain, including now the finals.
Was a toss up between him and Vettori for me but chose Vettori because he played longer and didn't have the injury problems.Australia - R.Ponting, S.Waugh, A.Gilchrist, Glenn McGrath
England - A.Cook, A.Flintoff, Matt Prior, J.Anderson
West Indies - B.Lara, C.Hooper, J.Murray, C Walsh
India - S.Tendulkar, K.Dev, M.S.Dhoni, A.Kumble
South Africa - J.Kallis, J.Kallis, M.Boucher, A.Donald
New Zealand - S.Fleming, C.Cairns, B.McCullum, Shane Bond
Pakistan. M.Yousuf. W.Akram. M.Khan. W.Younis
Sri Lanka. K.Sangakarra, Jayasuriya, R.Kaluwitharana, M.Muraliatharan
That one sums up everything perfectly. The English fans have been so arrogant the past few series, summed up by those wankers pissing on the pitch after winning the last series. Overconfident, arrogant and gutless, the Poms rocked up with the air of a team who just needed to show up to get the win and they copped an absolute belting. Its one thing to get whitewashed by Warne, McGrath, Ponting, Gilchrist et al like they did in 06/07, its another to be on course for it up against a team with Bailey, Rogers, Watson etc. Fact is that Australia turned up expecting a scrap, they expected a hard fight, and backed up their attitude on the field. The Poms had no answer to it at all. No matter how much Broad tries to play it off, getting booed by everyone everytime you did anything will wear you down. Anderson's altercation with Bailey/Clarke summed up his entire tour thus far. As a batter you generally cop what the fielders say on the chin and then dish it out when you're in the field. Anderson's ego couldn't stand getting a bit of lip from a debutant so he bit back. Just didn't expect that Clarke would stand up for his fielder so fiercely, get in his face and along with the crowd, and Johnson (and his mo) it left a little brown stain at the back of Anderson's pants.Apparently this is the sixth time in the last seven Ashes series down under that Aus has retained or won the Ashes before Christmas. Of course, this was the only series out of those that the Ashes were won, the other five times the Urn was merely retained, as Aus had defeated Eng in the previous series on foreign soil. A feat (winning/retaining on foreign soil) Eng has managed only once in over 25 years, which was then met by Eng and it's fans in 2011 with such arrogance and hubris that they truly seemed to believe that accomplishing this feat, a feat Aus teams did for fun in the 90s, made them the greatest sporting team ever in the history of this universe and any parallel universes as well. I hope facts such as this put into perspective for some English fans why their talk of 'regular service' is quite ridiculous when they use it to mean England winning, and highlights, even during their 'golden era', just far off they were from being anywhere near past Aus teams at their peak.
Yeah. The stubborn, selfish little cock end should've walked away from this role a while ago. His record's been dire in one day format for so long. Hopefully relinquishing this role will take some pressure off him and help him in the test cricket.He's only been removed as ODI captain, hasn't he? Hopefully he's still test captain for our sake.