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Jun 2020
12:37pm, 10 Jun 2020
1,635 posts
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Oscar the Grouch
Jason Holder is an impressive leader, isn't he? I thought his remarks about the tour yesterday were just right.
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Jun 2020
4:57pm, 11 Jun 2020
1,642 posts
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Oscar the Grouch
I just had a thought - hold on to your hats - but...
In the live feed of previous cricket matches (Currently Cardiff 2009), do they make you sit through the commentary on rain breaks as well??
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Jun 2020
6:46pm, 13 Jun 2020
27,124 posts
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Wriggling Snake
Gooch was quite good wasn't he....apart from being a wet fish, tactically staid AND GETTING RID OF GOWER 2 YEARS TOO SOON....
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Jun 2020
12:44pm, 16 Jun 2020
20,762 posts
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Nicholls595
Just done the "Name England's T20 Players" quiz on BBC website
86/91
Couldn't spell Mascarenhas properly
The 4 I missed were Danny Briggs, Lewis Gregory, Chris Schoefield and Jamie Dalrymple
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Jun 2020
2:32pm, 16 Jun 2020
1,648 posts
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Oscar the Grouch
Good effort! I was in the 50s I think. But then, caps like confetti in T20!
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Jun 2020
2:39pm, 16 Jun 2020
20,774 posts
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Nicholls595
I have been known to play the odd Sporcle cricket quiz Groucho 
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Jun 2020
11:33am, 19 Jun 2020
3,438 posts
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ThorntonRunner
European T10 live cricket from Stockholm on FreeSports channel.
Very village
Especially now they've lost pictures!
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Jun 2020
6:32pm, 19 Jun 2020
3,159 posts
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Goofee
This three-team, eight-a-side, two halves, 36 overs format from South Africa looks straightforward...
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Jun 2020
6:25pm, 22 Jun 2020
1,656 posts
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Oscar the Grouch
...cricket is obviously a game that lends itself to that sort of straight forward thinking Goofee. It got me onto thinking about the strange vernacular that goes with the game and I thought we could try an occasional series of de-bunking odd terms...
Good hands - I am praising your ability to catch a ball.
Ferret - very limited ability to bat since they 'go in after the rabbits'
Rabbit - a batsman with almost no ability to bat, presumably from rabbit in headlights
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Jun 2020
7:15pm, 22 Jun 2020
120,517 posts
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GregP
Nelson. 111. Because Nelson had one eye, one arm and two legs...
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