Think you speak English? Check out these captions from England's cricket victory
Sep 12th, 2005 | 07:31 PM
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Think you speak English? Check out these captions from England's cricket victory
Two countries separated by a common language??
These 3 are all captions from Tuesdays on-line Telegraph . . . . .
>> Flintoff, only the second man in history after Ian Botham to score more than 300 runs and take 20 wickets in a Test series against Australia, took his latter tally to 21 when Damien Martyn was undone by a delivery of extra bounce which spooned off to square-leg <<
>> He was given solid support by captain Ponting, who was fortunate to be given a reprieve on 13 when he was caught at silly point by Ian Bell off Ashley Giles - only for Bowden to reject England's claims. Fortunately for England Flintoff returned for one last spell and claimed the breakthrough with his second ball, getting one to lift and inducing Ponting into edging to Strauss at gully for 35 <<
>> England suffered a further blow two overs later when Ian Bell's unhappy Ashes series continued with a duck when he was given leg before pushing forward to a slider. After lunch Warne bowled Kevin Pietersen to leave England struggling on 131-4 <<
What a game!
These 3 are all captions from Tuesdays on-line Telegraph . . . . .
>> Flintoff, only the second man in history after Ian Botham to score more than 300 runs and take 20 wickets in a Test series against Australia, took his latter tally to 21 when Damien Martyn was undone by a delivery of extra bounce which spooned off to square-leg <<
>> He was given solid support by captain Ponting, who was fortunate to be given a reprieve on 13 when he was caught at silly point by Ian Bell off Ashley Giles - only for Bowden to reject England's claims. Fortunately for England Flintoff returned for one last spell and claimed the breakthrough with his second ball, getting one to lift and inducing Ponting into edging to Strauss at gully for 35 <<
>> England suffered a further blow two overs later when Ian Bell's unhappy Ashes series continued with a duck when he was given leg before pushing forward to a slider. After lunch Warne bowled Kevin Pietersen to leave England struggling on 131-4 <<
What a game!
Sep 12th, 2005 | 07:45 PM
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Don't you just hate it when you are " caught at silly point " 
I could not really understand anything, but I remember vividly , watching a great cricket game in Bermuda years ago. The entire island stopped and everyone went to the matches. What fun!
I could not really understand anything, but I remember vividly , watching a great cricket game in Bermuda years ago. The entire island stopped and everyone went to the matches. What fun!
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Sep 12th, 2005 | 11:19 PM
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Its my normal everyday language Janis, lol. The only silly thing is the silly guy who stands at silly mid off or is it stupid mid off, not sure ..ask Katich..! did he smash a few ribs yesterday?? or what?
Well it's back to watching Glamorgan tomorrow..now that's silly.
;-)
Muck
Well it's back to watching Glamorgan tomorrow..now that's silly.
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Muck
Sep 12th, 2005 | 11:31 PM
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The cricket has been the main item on the TV news for the last few days & England's victory was described last night (by ITV News) as "one of the greatest ever achievements in British sport".
The Queen has sent a message of congratulations & there is to be an open topped bus parade to Trafalgar Square next Tuesday at which tens of thousand are expected to throng Lonson's streets.
Wondering what all the fuss is about? Well, the Ashes is a cricket match played every two years between England & Australia - and only England & Australia. No other countries are involved.
Still wondering what all the fuss is about? Me too - but then I am Scottish
The Queen has sent a message of congratulations & there is to be an open topped bus parade to Trafalgar Square next Tuesday at which tens of thousand are expected to throng Lonson's streets.
Wondering what all the fuss is about? Well, the Ashes is a cricket match played every two years between England & Australia - and only England & Australia. No other countries are involved.
Still wondering what all the fuss is about? Me too - but then I am Scottish
Sep 12th, 2005 | 11:32 PM
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Watching Glamorgan today is silly?
Surely not if Warne turns out for Hants, as he said yesteday he was going to.
He's probably nackered. But a nackered Warne still knocks spots off any other first class bowler at their best.
Except Flintoff, of course.
Surely not if Warne turns out for Hants, as he said yesteday he was going to.
He's probably nackered. But a nackered Warne still knocks spots off any other first class bowler at their best.
Except Flintoff, of course.
Sep 13th, 2005 | 12:25 AM
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Well at least the Ashes isn't advertised as a "World Series" even though it's played between teams from more than one country..
And here's another story for the pot: A good 40 years ago, a similarly close series in Australia left the England captain with a similar tactical situation in the last innings of the final match. Should England set out to bat aggressively to win the match, the series and the Ashes (and risk letting down their defensive guard and thus risk losing wickets and the match), or should they play defensively and accept a draw (thus drawing the series, which would mean Australia retaining the Ashes, but England retaining some honour)? It was summer in Australia, but in England it was the depths of the worst winter for decades - transport and hence fuel supplies badly disrupted everywhere. As the debate about hte cricket raged, a TV voxpop interview stopped a man in the street to ask his opinion: "Ashes? Ashes?! Don't talk to me about ashes, I haven't had any bloody coal for seven ?!"?***! weeks!"
And here's another story for the pot: A good 40 years ago, a similarly close series in Australia left the England captain with a similar tactical situation in the last innings of the final match. Should England set out to bat aggressively to win the match, the series and the Ashes (and risk letting down their defensive guard and thus risk losing wickets and the match), or should they play defensively and accept a draw (thus drawing the series, which would mean Australia retaining the Ashes, but England retaining some honour)? It was summer in Australia, but in England it was the depths of the worst winter for decades - transport and hence fuel supplies badly disrupted everywhere. As the debate about hte cricket raged, a TV voxpop interview stopped a man in the street to ask his opinion: "Ashes? Ashes?! Don't talk to me about ashes, I haven't had any bloody coal for seven ?!"?***! weeks!"
Sep 13th, 2005 | 01:00 AM
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...just like to add one important fact to JJbhoys post... The Poms are a tad excited because they havent held the Ashes for past 18 years even though the trophy isnt allowed to leave the hollowed UK soil
... so theyve won it at last but theyd always "retained it" .. and as I commented on in an early post... good work by all the South Africans in the Pommy side..heehee.. sorry but its the one comment that has been helping us Aussies today...
... so theyve won it at last but theyd always "retained it" .. and as I commented on in an early post... good work by all the South Africans in the Pommy side..heehee.. sorry but its the one comment that has been helping us Aussies today...
Sep 13th, 2005 | 01:50 AM
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I don’t think Warne is allowed to play for Hants – he’s not a Hants player – we have our overseas player in Watson. I know he wasn’t eligible for the C+G final - which Pietersen was.
Given that it is reported that Flintoff stopped drinking at 6.45 this morning one wonders what sort of a state he’ll be in anyway.
But for the foreigners here (Aussies don’t count as foreigners – you are just English people who have to live in the geographical equivalent of he “naughty chair”, you pardons will come through eventually):
Warne’s stock ball is the leg-spinner, but it was good to see him using his googly (for the first time in years), although is I suspect he thinks of it as a Bosie. His flipper has improved and his slider is unreadable. He has bowled many a maiden over (just read the News of The World) and we will miss the big larrikin.
Personally I like Flintoff’s bouncer, as do many others. Lee’s yorker is a thing of beauty and Hoggies reverse swing is a beaut.
But is there a finer sight in cricket than Pietersens slog-sweep?
Given that it is reported that Flintoff stopped drinking at 6.45 this morning one wonders what sort of a state he’ll be in anyway.
But for the foreigners here (Aussies don’t count as foreigners – you are just English people who have to live in the geographical equivalent of he “naughty chair”, you pardons will come through eventually):
Warne’s stock ball is the leg-spinner, but it was good to see him using his googly (for the first time in years), although is I suspect he thinks of it as a Bosie. His flipper has improved and his slider is unreadable. He has bowled many a maiden over (just read the News of The World) and we will miss the big larrikin.
Personally I like Flintoff’s bouncer, as do many others. Lee’s yorker is a thing of beauty and Hoggies reverse swing is a beaut.
But is there a finer sight in cricket than Pietersens slog-sweep?
Sep 13th, 2005 | 02:11 AM
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What's all the fuss about?
The team that for nigh on twenty years has dominated the world's most watched sport (for no event on this planet gets an audience remotely matching an India-Pakistan game) has finally been knocked off its perch.
Not in one match, but in a continuous two-month, on and off pitch contest of gamesmanship, punctuated by 25 8-hour on-pitch days of simulated warfare.
And although England and Australia's every-two years' David and Jonathan squabble has been going on longer than any other international team event, Australia's latest period of domination has coincided with the sport's global, ball by ball, TV accessibilty. So most of the world's cricket fans have no memory of seeing anyone other than the convicts lording it over the rest of us. Now, finally, they've seen someone else hammering endless 6s into the stands. The fact he was South African is just another example of how origin-blind England is.
No doubt that doesn't matter much to the insular inhabitants of the failed state in the northern half of Britain (whose rescue by us from bankruptcy in 1707 we'll be too polite to mention in two years' time).
But, as a few seconds reading the messages on the BBC's bulletin board will show, England's win has cheered up the people of South Asia, Southern Africa and the West Indies just as effectively as an English defeat in anything cheers up the Scotch.
Added to which, it's come at the end of an amazing sporting summer. Starting with Liverpool's amazing comeback against AC Milan in the European Chamionship, followed by London's knockout blow against Paris in the "get the Olympics" battle and now this.
For a country that really doesn't put that much store on winning international contests, English teams beating the Italians at their national sport of football and the Ozzies at their national sport of cricket is almost as amazing as beating the French at their national sport of toadying to world sports officials.
And the fact that all these teams contained a heavy sprinkling of members born abroad is something most of us take even more pride in.
The team that for nigh on twenty years has dominated the world's most watched sport (for no event on this planet gets an audience remotely matching an India-Pakistan game) has finally been knocked off its perch.
Not in one match, but in a continuous two-month, on and off pitch contest of gamesmanship, punctuated by 25 8-hour on-pitch days of simulated warfare.
And although England and Australia's every-two years' David and Jonathan squabble has been going on longer than any other international team event, Australia's latest period of domination has coincided with the sport's global, ball by ball, TV accessibilty. So most of the world's cricket fans have no memory of seeing anyone other than the convicts lording it over the rest of us. Now, finally, they've seen someone else hammering endless 6s into the stands. The fact he was South African is just another example of how origin-blind England is.
No doubt that doesn't matter much to the insular inhabitants of the failed state in the northern half of Britain (whose rescue by us from bankruptcy in 1707 we'll be too polite to mention in two years' time).
But, as a few seconds reading the messages on the BBC's bulletin board will show, England's win has cheered up the people of South Asia, Southern Africa and the West Indies just as effectively as an English defeat in anything cheers up the Scotch.
Added to which, it's come at the end of an amazing sporting summer. Starting with Liverpool's amazing comeback against AC Milan in the European Chamionship, followed by London's knockout blow against Paris in the "get the Olympics" battle and now this.
For a country that really doesn't put that much store on winning international contests, English teams beating the Italians at their national sport of football and the Ozzies at their national sport of cricket is almost as amazing as beating the French at their national sport of toadying to world sports officials.
And the fact that all these teams contained a heavy sprinkling of members born abroad is something most of us take even more pride in.
Sep 13th, 2005 | 02:21 AM
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The only sport? that I know of where the players must stop for Tea! Perhaps it is needed after being " Undone by a delivery of extra bounce spooned off to square leg" and " continued with a duck when he was given leg befroe pushing forward for a slider. "
Sep 13th, 2005 | 02:31 AM
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Flanneur is right on the money, but if anything here is understating it.
As he says we are now the best cricket team on the planet. You don’t think cricket counts for anything? The most famous sportsman on the planet isn’t Beckham, or Michael Jordan, it’s Sachin Tendulkar. Now Andy Flintoff is getting there as well.
Also, England hold the Rugby World cup (and by God did the Aussies whine about that), we are a hairs-breadth from qualifying for the World Cup, where there’s every chance we’ll win it (yes really, even with the Swede).
Those of us who are old enough to remember winning the Ashes on a regular basis simply wouldn’t recognise this England team. We were used to Tavare, Boycott, Close etc. One of the great things about this series has been the sheer joy of Geoff Boycott revelling in the performance of Test cricket at five runs an over. Boycott v Warne. That would be something to watch. So would Pietersen v Lillee.
As he says we are now the best cricket team on the planet. You don’t think cricket counts for anything? The most famous sportsman on the planet isn’t Beckham, or Michael Jordan, it’s Sachin Tendulkar. Now Andy Flintoff is getting there as well.
Also, England hold the Rugby World cup (and by God did the Aussies whine about that), we are a hairs-breadth from qualifying for the World Cup, where there’s every chance we’ll win it (yes really, even with the Swede).
Those of us who are old enough to remember winning the Ashes on a regular basis simply wouldn’t recognise this England team. We were used to Tavare, Boycott, Close etc. One of the great things about this series has been the sheer joy of Geoff Boycott revelling in the performance of Test cricket at five runs an over. Boycott v Warne. That would be something to watch. So would Pietersen v Lillee.
