Ashes 2013

[jargan83]

The Test match is here in Perth for the women's Ashes

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Some of those Barmy Army guys can drink

Met heaps of them last night and they're all good blokes although I'm feeling a bit dusty this morning

[Happy]

obviously cannot confirm the validity, but i thought it was interesting enough to share .. if true

The True History of Cricket...

...the idea that cricket was invented in the Old Dart is actually a furphy, it originated over the channel in Brittany, just before the 1066 invasion...

...a group of children were on a hill watching a castle-siege take place...they could see arrayed in the valley below a trebuchet loaded up with a massive boulder poniting at the castle keep...it fired...the motte and bailey of the small defending castle was destroyed...the defending knights inside spilled out, declaring surrender...

...this gave the the children an idea...

...setting up a small wooden palisade on one side of a field (a simple representation of the motte and bailey) they began hurling rocks at it to knock it over...pretty soon this revealed itself to be boring...so they thought they'd spice it up a bit...they would take turns being the defending knights, with two teams opposed. Initially, they just used their hands to knock away the rocks...realising before too long that this hurt! they eventually used blocks of wood...

...soon, rules began evolving - hit the stone and run; the most runs win; LBW (etc); and after a while (and an invasion) the game was introduced to England; whence it became a national sport...

...to this day the origins of cricket are still remembered in the backyard game of French Cricket; and along with some convicts and red-coats, it eventually came to Australia.

We can still see in Cricket's origin the words used to describe castle-siege warfare - bails from bailey, bowling form boulder etc.

Heck, if you watch Lasith Malinga bowl, it's just like a trebuchet!

...viva la France!!!

[brokendown gunfighter]

think the article is drawing a long bow(excuse the pun)

[GAFFA]

[jargan83]

"If Stuart Broads nicks it to slip again he won't walk, he'll limp" - Kerry O'Keefe on ABC Grandstand on Tuesday

[shasta]

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[SNOB]

obviously cannot confirm the validity, but i thought it was interesting enough to share .. if true

I seem to remember something like this back in the '60's. Sorry 1960 not 1060's!

[jargan83]

Graeme Swann has retired with immediate effect

Press conference up shortly

[jono]

rats abandoning the sinking ship?

[PerthGirl]

My thought too Jono. I think it's pretty poor form to basically say to your team mates in the middle of a tour "I've had enough so I'm going home now and you lot will have to get on with it" The morale in the team must be at rock bottom

[Happy]

Graeme Swann's been a great player for England, but it's not 'courageous' to quit an Ashes series before it finishes. It's selfish.

ouch

[jono]

My thought too Jono. I think it's pretty poor form to basically say to your team mates in the middle of a tour "I've had enough so I'm going home now and you lot will have to get on with it" The morale in the team must be at rock bottom

No doubt.

Also. The players have to assume responsibility for the disaster of a series so far. It's upto them to turn it around. Swann obviously hasn't got the strength of character to put in the hard yards and get the job done. A 3/2 series would be respectable for the poms. But they need the effort and the drive to get that.
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[jargan83]

KP has a heart about the size of a pea

[Elf1]

At stumps day to we are boned absolutely boned

[jono]

See what the run chase is like in the 2nd dig. Still possible for at least a draw
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