I see Afghanistan and Bangladesh are competing in the 'Backwards Third-World Dump'

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Originally Posted by PSRB

For losing to Pakistan and Sri Lanka? I think we'll beat both Australia and New Zealand

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No, for the hubris we’ve displayed. Fact is, our bowling just isn’t all that and our batting only has one gear.

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Originally Posted by Burney

No, for the hubris we’ve displayed. Fact is, our bowling just isn’t all that and our batting only has one gear.

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Was rather foolish not playing Plunkett, Root is the sole other gear.

Still think it will be an India vs England final

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Originally Posted by Burney

Yes, very. I enquired about the possibility of them letting you have it back, but nothing doing. :-(

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Thanks for trying

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Originally Posted by PSRB

No Roy for the Aussie game either, Vince just isn't anywhere his level.

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Vince is one of the biggest ****s to have ever played for England - no surprises about where he comes from. Massive drop down from Roy. Cricket equivalent of replacing Lehmann with Almunia

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Originally Posted by PSRB

Was rather foolish not playing Plunkett, Root is the sole other gear.

Still think it will be an India vs England final

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Yes, trouble is, if the chaps at the other end are all trying to cart it out of the ground and failing, Root's more measured approach counts for little.

I think Australia are looking very ominous.

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Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda

Vince is one of the biggest ****s to have ever played for England - no surprises about where he comes from. Massive drop down from Roy. Cricket equivalent of replacing Lehmann with Almunia

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For a second there, I thought you meant Darren Lehmann.

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Originally Posted by Ash

All of the underground rivers in London are associated with a divinity, in the Ben Aaronovitch novels.

Also:

"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea."

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Best. Poem. Ever. (Other than Owl and Pussycat and Walrus/Carpenter.)

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Originally Posted by Burney

Who's 'us'? No Romans in Ireland, pal.

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Good point. You had to wait another millennium until us Froggy-Brits came and taught you how to write Wop and count Vedic.

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Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult

Best. Poem. Ever.

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:nod: From Highgate's finest.

Have you read Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency?

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Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman

retribution was indeed taken .. oh yes!

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I know, Herbs. Pollocks' army was mostly made up of Bengal infantry and cavalry. Left behind the idiot white women and cigar camels and left the real fighting to the sepoys. No wonder we won.

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Originally Posted by Burney

sub-branch of the Cricket World Cup today.

Still, it gives Scotland a break, I suppose.

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Yet again Afghanistan don't quite seem to have grasped the whole 50 overs thing, it's not a sodding test match!!

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Originally Posted by Ash

:nod: From Highgate's finest.

Have you read Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency?

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Yup. Loved it. And the 2nd one was even better.

But many a Lit professor thinks the Person from Porlock is the most evil human in creation.