joethehibby
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Take a bow Travis Head, single handedly won the first test match 
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Controversial opinion, but Bazball has spoiled Test cricket. I miss the nuance, subtlety, skill and challenges of the five-day game. Now it's all fast bowlers hammering it down and batsmen slugging it away. It's no different to the white ball game now, which I think is a shame.
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I think Mitchell Starc's seven wickets in the first innings might also have had something to do with it.Take a bow Travis Head, single handedly won the first test match
joethehibby
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True he actually got mom, should’ve prob been head though surely
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Sorry Joe. Am I the only one on here who wouldnae watch cricket or NFL if ye paid me.Take a bow Travis Head, single handedly won the first test match
BIG G
joethehibby
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No probs G everyone has their own tastes
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I'm with you on this G.
Rugby with shoulder pads goes on for hours and is boring.
Cricket just doesn't appeal.
Might i add baseball.
When out mate took us to Chicago one time he took us to the Cubs v Brewers game at Wrigley Fields.
They keep stopping for adverts to be shown I think we lasted about 30 mins before going to the boozer
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Dont agree on NFL, but baseball, aye. Went to a Yankees-Mets game and froze my arse off for about 4 hours, and there was a handful of runs. Glorified rounders. Worse than rounders in fact!
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Love cricket, amazing spectacle if quickly over this first Test.
Also love Am Football as I used to practice routes and plays with other fans here in Haarlem back in the day and got a real feel for just how different it is from its original rugby format.
Now retired, I have managed to spend a bit of time learning baseball as I always wanted to know more about it but never found the time when working to look up the rules so you can enjoy it properly when watching.
Don't think I will manage the same with NHL or Basketball though... so be it!
Also love Am Football as I used to practice routes and plays with other fans here in Haarlem back in the day and got a real feel for just how different it is from its original rugby format.
Now retired, I have managed to spend a bit of time learning baseball as I always wanted to know more about it but never found the time when working to look up the rules so you can enjoy it properly when watching.
Don't think I will manage the same with NHL or Basketball though... so be it!
paigntonhibby
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Enjoy watching all forms of cricket, American sports no' sae much.
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I was one of those that moaned about cricket for years, but 20/20 changed my mind. IPL especially. Test is no as good, but it does seem to be changing. Interesting to see thats a bad thing for the purists right enough!
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My position and thoughts exactly
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Is 20/20 when it has to be played in one day?
Westside Green
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20 overs per side, lasts 2 or 3 hours.
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Aye Jim, batsmen in the IPL are/were a joy to watch. Chris Gayle, Kohli, de Villiers I distinctly remember.. Superb viewing.
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I have always wanted to go to the boxing day test between South Africa and Australia in Cape Town.
Stunning weather, barbeque and a brewery out the back.
joethehibby
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By gum were the brewers fayre ?
joethehibby
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Highlights on tnt 2 the now 
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Mitchel Starc 
Gabba,Gabba doo
Gabba,Gabba doo
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England fightback begins. Could be a good game this.
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They are effectively minus 100 for one.
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Two down now. They need to set the Aussies about 250.
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Shut up you idiot.
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Been out for a couple of hours.
Looks like the Barmy Army are gonna need the Samaritans on speed dial.
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Aussies on the verge of going 3-0 up with a whitewash a distinct possibility
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Weirdly enough, I am in Adelaide just now I had to be at the Adelaide convention center the same day the cricket was on yesterday. The convention center is practically next door to the oval. Great buzz about the place as the cricket is well attended by both Aussies and English. I’ve never watched cricket but have been keeping an eye on it and watching the highlights which is good. Bloody roasting yesterday and today.
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I've never had a problem cheering on Ingerlund in the cricket, because for all the exhausting media dickheads they are essentially an all-island team, and were de facto the UK & Ireland side until a few years ago. Dominated by private school dickheads but, like, so are the Ireland side, it's the nature of the professional pathway here unfortunately.
Anyway they've been fuckin rancid this ashes. Reflective of the fact that they're just a worse team, in unfamiliar conditions, with important gaps in the XI. But rancid all the same.
Anyway they've been fuckin rancid this ashes. Reflective of the fact that they're just a worse team, in unfamiliar conditions, with important gaps in the XI. But rancid all the same.