Don

Heh heh!

bondipom

Spoken like an Aussie. Are you referring to the cricket?

Don

A bit late with the news here...what a way to lose, to a rubbish team too.

And that's no dambulla

bondipom

This one is interesting

Innings
South Africa
259 for 7 (50.0 overs)
New Zealand
230 for 3 (44.0 overs) In Progress

bondipom

Innings
South Africa
259 for 7 (50.0 overs)
New Zealand
264 for 4 (49.0 overs)

banjo

south african cricket is headed the same way as south african rugby. No news there.

bondipom

Are they sending the cricketers to naked boot camps as well?

OzTennis

You mean a team which has won the World Cup, beaten Australia in the last test series in SL and beaten England recently is a rubbish team? What does that make England - no World Cups, no Ashes since 1987 etc?

OzTennis

banjo

yeah...but it's ok. The cricketers enjoy it.

bondipom

Australia canter to victory

Third one-day international, Colombo
Australia 227-5 (48.3 overs) beat Sri Lanka 226-8 (50 overs) by five wickets

jezdavies

Is this post serious? Aren't Australia 2-1 up? If this is an England supporter he/she should stick to giving Aussies a hard time about rugby. English cricket is a joke and the fact they celebrate a test draw against Sri Lanka as if they had won the world cup shows what a negative mentality the English players have.

England were completely embarrassed by the Sri Lankans in the tests and it should have been 3-0. They haven't beaten Australia in a test series in 17 years and haven't one any of their last 14 one day encounters.

Like I said, stick to banter about rugby - even though the Australian team is quite as strong as they were, England is never going to come close.

OzTennis

Even the rugby can be rocky ground - don't Australia lead England 2-1 on RWC's?

BTW I was in Carlisle city centre on Saturday and what should roll up but a big lorry bearing the Webb Ellis trophy. It was good to see all the young kids looking at the trophy and getting information on how to join a club, having their photo taken with it etc.

OzTennis

Amazulu

SA cricket is fine (unlike the Rugby), so we have lost a few games in NZ. It happens. Let's see what happens in the tests.

Don

English cricket? Who gives a gnat's?

I guess we are 'waiting'. Might take a while.

A bit like the Welsh will have to keep on waiting with the rubgy: useless or what? at the weekend.

20 years and counting, so far, Ceri I guess you were only about 25 when Wales last were good.

OzTennis

Ah, I see your game. Start up a thread to point out a rare Aussie loss at one day cricket on the last ball or something (since rectified twice); make out the opposition are a poor team (which they aren't) and then when you get the obvious comeback about what does that make England you respond by who 'gives a gnat's' about English cricket!! Well I dare say you did give a gnat's prior to 1987 and you would do now if they were successful.

So then you move on to rugby and baiting the Welsh (and probably the Scots next). I could say who gives a gnat's about English rugby but I'm sure you do, justifiably, because it is one of the few things at which success has been achieved recently.

I guess you'll move on to telling children there's no such thing as Father Christmas next? But I've got it sussed now - pleasance family, it's the children who are posting, right?

OzTennis