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Sunday, July 10, 2005

Australia beat England by 7 wickets

I spent most of the day sitting in Lord's cricket ground in the heat getting a slight tan and watching England perform rather poorly.
England got 223 for 8 which wasn't nearly enough and allowed australia to stroll to 224 with 7 odd overs to spare and 3 wickets lost.
Interesting parts were:
Flintoff getting 87 to take England to a reasonable score before getting caught out very easily.
Lee took 5 wickets
Ponting got a century before being dismissed for 111 with a catch from Pieterson.
Some Australians trying to get a mexican wave going (I think they had a little too much Fosters).
An Australian fielder stopped the ball but touched the boundry rope at the same time. In cricket, this coutns as a 4 but the Umpire took several minutes conferring with the third Umpire. Throughout this time the crowd had been shouting "Four" and every time that fielder stopped the ball, even if it was ten yards from the boundry, everyone shouted "Four".
We got a preview of the fly-past that happened today. All the planes flew near Lord's and a Lancaster and two Spitfires actually flew over the ground.

17 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I am very upset to hear this. I am a strong England cricket supporter and I missed this match due to a Christening.

10:23 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Californ - I - A lost against Oregon in the cricket on Friday.

11:29 AM  
Blogger CJM said...

Americans play cricket?

5:01 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wow! You should put it on ABC once in a while.

5:08 PM  
Blogger CJM said...

Living in London, I don't get ABC. Could you give me a website?

5:13 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I live in London too.
ABC is channel 161 on Sky Digital.
ABC is channel 283 on Telewest.
ABC is channel 487[or 478] on NTL.

If you don't have any of those, I believe that this webpage is quite informative:

http://cjm.youarelame.com/

3:08 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ha! Just kidding! Here's a good website - it has an article:

sport.guardian.co.uk/cricket/ comment/0,10070,1269611,00.html

3:11 PM  
Blogger CJM said...

Thanks, now tell me, who are you, and why don't you watch real cricket?

6:01 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

England is shit.
Australia is shit.
Pakistan is shit.
France is shit.
Germany is shit.
Uzbekistan is shit.
Bolivia is shit.
India is shit.
Poland is shit.
Denmark is shit.
But, USA is great. Don't knock it 'til you've tried it!
Rent a DVD or Video of some of the matches. Oregon is fantastic and so is Arizona!

10:06 PM  
Blogger CJM said...

I disagree with 5 of those statements.
England, Pakistan, Australia and India are great cricket playing nations.
The U.S. on the other hand, are not. Remind me, what was the score when they played Australia?
Where do you suggest I buy/rent these DVDs?
Once more: who are you?

10:30 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The USA don't play internationally. Only nationally.
E.g. California plays Oregon.
Not USA plays Australia.
You can't really compare them actually - sorry.
You can buy DVDs in the sports section in my local Library and Blockbuster.
Come to the Teddington Blockbuster/Library! WE're not technically in London, we're in Surrey but this is where you're supposed to come to!

1:40 PM  
Blogger CJM said...

I'm sure they played australia once and were all out for 68.
If you live in England, why do you support America?

5:55 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If you live in London, why do you support Pakistan, Australia and India?

1:20 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

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1:21 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

He doesn't, he supports England, hence the disappointment with the loss. However he is able to accept that other countries are also excellent at cricket. And seriously, Americans play cricket? Craziness

10:16 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

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9:09 AM  
Blogger CJM said...

Well said Helen.
Anon, I'm delting that comment, I will not tolerate people such as yourself, in the name of God, Go!

5:11 PM  

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