Cricket World Cup [Archive] - Sox and the City

SoxEd

03-15-2007, 11:29 AM

OK, I am fully aware that none of you give a rat's ass about this, but...

...even Sports Illustrated has a team covering it, so y'all should check it out. So there!

Official website. (http://cricketworldcup.indya.com/)

BBC coverage (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/default.stm).

Guide to Cricket Jargon.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/skills/6100344.stm)

Teams at the World Cup include Ireland, Scotland, Holland, Canada, and Zimbabwe.

If nothing else, it'd be a chance for you all to have a laugh at the piss-poor performance of the English.
:D

Yours in expectation of seeing nothing but

http://www.smileyhut.com/silly/tumbleweed.gif

in this thread,
Ed.

Myrtle

03-15-2007, 11:38 AM

I don't know much about Cricket, but I do like you Ed, so...

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a359/myrtle72/16407-lindsay-lohan-sex-e-screensav.jpg

Just trying to help your cause a little bit.

zmz

03-15-2007, 12:38 PM

Myrtle

03-15-2007, 12:58 PM

Thats the best you could do? :rolleyes:

Why dontcha look up some of your own images for a change? :rolleyes:

SoxEd

03-15-2007, 01:00 PM

Thats the best you could do? :rolleyes:

Speak for yourself - sure looks like my favourite kind of Cricket!

JohnBasedowYoda

03-15-2007, 01:04 PM

Way to objectify women.

:thumbsup:

Myrtle

03-15-2007, 02:31 PM

Way to objectify women.

:thumbsup:

I do what I can. :rock:

SoxEd

03-15-2007, 03:08 PM

Ireland are currently playing Zim, and have got themselves into a position from which they could win.

Commentary here (http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/sol/newsid_6160000/newsid_6162500?redirect=6162564.stm&news=1&nbram=1&bbram=1&nbwm=1&bbwm=1).

JohnBasedowYoda

03-15-2007, 03:13 PM

SoxEd

03-15-2007, 03:26 PM

I tried but it wouldn't load. :(

Buggeration!

Try this one (http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/sol/newsid_4810000/newsid_4818700?redirect=4818720.stm&news=1&nbram=1&bbram=1&nbwm=1&bbwm=1) instead.

Or this one (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/mainframe.shtml?http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/sportsextra.shtml).

If neither of those work, then it's probably a worldwide-licensing issue - but I'm fucked if I can work out who has the radio rights for the USA.

Stupid fucking ICC....

EDIT: I'm a fuckwit - the World Cup homepage lists the media rights owners:

See here (http://cricketworldcup.indya.com/event/broadcaster.htm).

For the USA it's Direc TV.

Failing that, you'd be restricted to the 5-minute updates every hour on the BBC World Service (http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/).

Bonzosa

03-15-2007, 03:27 PM

Cricket eh?
Get a life.
You might try watching paint dry, in a cableknit sweater and goalie pads of course. Don't forget your ralph lauren khakis!
http://www.movinghere.org.uk/gallery/sport/images/cricket.jpg

zmz

03-15-2007, 03:35 PM

Why dontcha look up some of your own images for a change? :rolleyes:

http://i.a.cnn.net/si/features/2007_swimsuit/images/photos/07_mmiller_27.jpg

happy? :rolleyes:

;)

SoxEd

03-15-2007, 03:37 PM

Cricket eh...

...Don't forget your ralph lauren khakis!

:omg:

Khakis?

Sacrilege!

One plays Cricket in whites, don't you know?

Honestly, anyone would think that you were foreign or something!
:D

SoxEd

03-15-2007, 03:39 PM

happy?

;)

Why do I feel a sudden urge to go out and buy an iPod..?
:D

JohnBasedowYoda

03-16-2007, 01:15 PM

Why do I feel a sudden urge to go out and buy an iPod..?
:D

Only if that broad would've bought the Nano or shuffle! Oy!

BURGH

03-16-2007, 10:36 PM

An Irishman I work with has taught me the ins and oots of Cricket in the past month or so to prepare me for this tournament.

Cricket rules.

fquaye14ten

03-16-2007, 10:40 PM

cricket?

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOO!

fquaye14ten

03-16-2007, 10:43 PM

I don't know much about Cricket, but I do like you Ed, so...

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a359/myrtle72/16407-lindsay-lohan-sex-e-screensav.jpg

Just trying to help your cause a little bit.

lindsay lohan has some smokey eyes.
i don't care about the tits (actually that's not true. i really really care about the tits) but the point is---those smokey eyes are fucking foxy

SoxEd

03-17-2007, 09:53 AM

Well, a coupla days ago Ireland managed to salvage a tie against a much better side (Zim), and then, yesterday, England bent over and grabbed their ankles for the Kiwis :mad: (actually, it should have come as no surprise, we flat-out suck at ODI's).

In more amusing news, South Africa's Herschel Gibbs made the Johnnie Walker company regret its drunken boast that it would donate $1m to charri-dee in the event of anyone performing the peerlessly-rare batting feat of pounding all six balls of one over for six runs each (cf hitting six straight HR's).

Right, I'm off to celebrate St. Paddy's Day in the way that is now mandatory in England - by getting arseholed on Guinness!
:thumbsup:

I'll actually be watching the climax of the Six Nations Rugby Union Championship- which Ireland appear to have already sewn up by thraping the Azzurri in Roma.

England play Wales - who have lost all their previous games - this afternoon, but it will be in the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

With the roof closed.

And a crowd of 75,000 Welshmen, all screaming for English blood.

It should be a fine spectacle (and sound).

So, I may be back later, with a shocking hangover!

Slainte,
Ed.

SoxEd

03-18-2007, 09:50 AM

Ha!

Listening to England playing Canada - who we should absolutely murder, but...

England's batsmen are playing like wankers, and have given away three wickets on really stupid shots.
:rolling:

It looks like Canada may be able to do to us what Ireland did to Pakistan yesterday!

If that happens, then I shall be joining the throngs of people around the world laughing their arses off at English complacency, arrogance, and ineptitude.