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Aug 2013
2:03pm, 28 Aug 2013
726 posts
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ThorntonRunner
Did you see the catch she took in the last ODI - diving right to take a reverse sweep one handed? Exceptional.
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Aug 2013
2:39pm, 28 Aug 2013
5,109 posts
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rf_fozzy
Test Match was at Wormsley - which is Bucks - SE
1 game at Lord's - SE
2 games in Hove - SEx2
1 game at Chelmsford - SE
1 game at Southampton - SE
1 game at Durham - North
Bear in mind that most of the games in the SE are about an hour and half's drive apart at most
It would take me an hour and a half to drive to Durham from Leeds
Before that series, there was the Pakistan:
3x Loughborough - Midlands (and an hour and a half from Leeds)
1x Louth - Lincolnshire (Midlands, but really middle of nowhere - again nearly 2hrs from Leeds)
Just using Leeds as an example, but there are plenty of places in Yorkshire/Lancashire that could have staged Women's international games.
Not surprised, after all, London gets two test matches every summer, so the SE bias is firmly entrenched, just as it is in all politics in this country unfortunately. The SW and North just gets shafted! Time for an independent North! If Scotland can do it, so can we (and given how many Yorkshire and Lancashire players are in the England team, England Lions/U19s, we'd do ok as well ;-))
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Aug 2013
3:18pm, 28 Aug 2013
52,090 posts
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Gobi
Here ends the party political broadcast by the North of Watford party
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Aug 2013
4:25pm, 28 Aug 2013
5,111 posts
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rf_fozzy
Watford! That's in the bloody SE as well!
Bomb the lot of it. 
And the party political broadcast goes on a bit longer than that, Gobi!
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Aug 2013
4:35pm, 28 Aug 2013
9,757 posts
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The Teaboy
Last time I went up North I couldn't get the smell of whippets out of my clothes for months...
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Aug 2013
7:24pm, 28 Aug 2013
15,887 posts
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Night-owl
Damn I was born 20 years early really enjoyed playing at school.
Cheers everyone for the explanation on the whys about this winters Ashes
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Aug 2013
8:56pm, 28 Aug 2013
52,092 posts
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Gobi
Indeed !!
Regards
A. Southerner
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Aug 2013
6:27am, 29 Aug 2013
3,576 posts
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CornishEva
Ooh but weren't there 3 men's tests in the north?!
Saying that, I happily travel for cricket. Most of my viewing this summer has been at Lords and The Oval, both 90 ish minutes away....
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Aug 2013
6:44am, 29 Aug 2013
3,577 posts
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CornishEva
I blame my cornish upbringing where I had to travel to get *anywhere*.
Have 2015 locations been announced yet?
It must be frustrating fozzy!
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Aug 2013
7:37am, 29 Aug 2013
52,095 posts
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Gobi
Really inconsiderate making us go to Australia really, maybe cancel the winter series and just get all the tests in the north of the UK next summer. I like watching the weather forecast while waiting for a break in the rain :¬)
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