I know how you lot love cricket............

Discussion in 'The Lounge Bar' started by spidge, Jan 6, 2010.

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  1. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    That day at Headingley was like watching a man possessed.
     
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  2. ozzy16

    ozzy16 Well-Known Member

    Yes Steve,
    Watched every ball of that test match against Australia 1981, Bob took 8-43 to win the test match.

    Graham
     
  3. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    I was still at 6th Form and not at work, so I watched the series from Botham's second dismissal at Lord's until the glorious end and all on a small 14" tv.
     
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  4. ozzy16

    ozzy16 Well-Known Member

    I was very ill with man flu. :whistle::whistle::whistle::whistle:

    Graham.
     
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  5. KevinBattle

    KevinBattle Senior Member

    Just put "Headingly 1981" on his headstone...
    However, without Botham's 149, he wouldn't have had a target to bowl at.
    A mainstay of England cricket.... RIP for those memories of 1981
     
  6. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    I see Beefy’s foot massage thingy advert is back on. Seeing him on this makes me feel very old.

     
  7. Robert-w

    Robert-w Banned

    Ah "The Thug"* at rest

    *as once known by some of his supporters
     
  8. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    I can't believe he was on 9 years older than me when he was doing damage to the Aussies in 1981.
     
  9. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    My memory of the 1981 test is as a ten year old, and my normally quite sane parents going batshit mental watching the TV.
    Not terribly sporty people, but Botham was a god in our house for a while.
     
  10. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    Still one of my all time sporting heroes:

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  11. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

    I met this baseball player's son yesterday. He told me that while his dad was at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center the base commander got a call from the commander at Norfolk Navy yard saying that he needed a left handed pitcher for his team, so that is where he went next :)

    https://www.baseballinwartime.com/player_biographies/meers_russ.htm

    He was a casual acquittance (friend's brother) who I don't know very well. A bunch of us were standing around when somebody said something, "was as likely to happen as for Queen Elizabeth to drive a Bobcat (a skid steer loader)." This guy says, "Well, she probably could. She drove ambulances during WWII." So after that I knew I had found a conversation partner for the evening :)
     
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  12. Blutto

    Blutto Banned

    Bit of an early finish today......
     
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  13. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    And it's not like they can go shopping now either!! :surr:
     
  14. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    I dont understand on tv all over Christmas there have been whinging poms who live in Australia saying oh we cant get home for Christmas to see our family blah blah blah but the Aussies allow a bunch of amateur ball and bat people into Australia to show what a stupid game cricket is.
    3 to 5 days of drudge

    goodness me I dont know

    Memo to English cricket just do the 100 ball bat and ball stuff its much more fun and over very quickly
     
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  15. smdarby

    smdarby Well-Known Member

    I hope everyone gave a little hop and skip after post 333 came up.
     
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  16. Tom OBrien

    Tom OBrien Senior Member

    Thanks for causing me to smile today despite listening to the Ashes test last night - I had thought it unlikely that I would be able to think about cricket today without an involuntary shudder! :)

    Regards

    Tom
     
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  17. Wobbler

    Wobbler Well-Known Member

    I’m not sure it is over more quickly than the Tests these days mate :D
     
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  18. Wobbler

    Wobbler Well-Known Member

    Anyway, here’s my plan and I think it’s a winner (the latter not being a word we will be using much on the trip I now propose).

    I want to get together a squad to take to Oz. Do any of you fancy joining the team? We can decide on a name later, but I’m thinking Team Hopeless or something along those lines. We may as well do what it says on the tin, rather than dress it up.

    In the spirit of fairness, you do not even have to be any good at the game, nor have any tactical nous whatsoever.

    If we can find a sponsor or, even, an official authority to fund our sun drenched jolly, we could even offer to fly business class rather than first and take a 50% cut in the going pay rate for, say, a professional outfit. We don’t even have to stay in 5-star accommodation, four will do. After all, we can embarrass the nation as well as the next man I say, but at cut price! What a bargain for some mug backer.

    So, to summarise: we can travel there and back business class (hopefully paid for by someone else), slum it four-star, lose as quickly and as embarrassingly as we can, tell the media again and again that we will have jolly well learned from this for next time, what what, and be on the beach by tea lunch time!

    One final thing and I hate to be a party pooper - if any one of you shows any sign of fight, gumption or determination to win in any match we play, you’re on the first flight home (business class, but of course).

    Sign up here…

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  19. bofors

    bofors Senior Member

    I dont know what you are whinging about, I enjoyed the last 3 days!!

    regards
    Robert
     
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  20. Blutto

    Blutto Banned

    Oh dear, another early finish.
     

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