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[Montegriffo]

We have infinately more chance of winning than Italy. To win, first you have to qualify.
Won 8, drew 2, lost 0 in our successful qualification.

[Montegriffo]

30 minutes till the first ball is bowled in the Ashes. Just about time for the toss to see who bats first. I'll be going to bed with the radio set to Test Match Special. I'm so exited right now.

[StCapps]

What's a cricket?

[Montegriffo]

First blood to England, we've won the toss and chosen to bat first on a good wicket likely to deteriorate giving us the advantage.

[Montegriffo]

What's a cricket?

The best bat and ball game ever played.

edit, post 444 known in cricket as a quadruple Nelson...

Nelson is a piece of cricket slang terminology and superstition.

The name, applied to team or individual scores of 111 or multiples thereof (known as double nelson, triple nelson, etc.) is thought to refer to a wicket.[1] Longtime cricket historian and scorer, Bill "Bearders" Frindall once referred to it online as "one eye, one arm and one etcetera", implying that Nelson's alleged third lost body part was "something else", however this is equally mythical. In the 1939 film of Goodbye, Mr Chips a schoolboy refers to Nelson in these terms: "One arm, one eye, one destiny". Umpire David Shepherd during a radio interview to mark his retirement explained it as "One arm, one eye and one lump of sugar in his tea."[2]

It is thought by the superstitious that bad things happen on that score, although an investigation by the magazine The Cricketer in the 1990s found that wickets are no more likely to fall on Nelson and indeed, the score at which most wickets fall is 0 (a duck).[citation needed] It may be considered unlucky because the number resembles a wicket without bails[3] (a batsman is out if the bails are knocked off their wicket).

The New Zealand cricket team Nelson played first-class cricket from 1874 to 1891. In both their first[4] and last[5] first-class innings they were dismissed for 111.

[Montegriffo]

Nooo, Cook edged a ball to first slip. Out for 2 in the third over. Former captain and opening batsman gone after just 16 balls.

[StCapps]

Nooo, Cook edged a ball to first slip. Out for 2 in the third over. Former captain and opening batsman gone after just 16 balls.

Oh noes!

[Montegriffo]

Luckily you can't lose a 5 day test in the first 10 mins. 20 for 1 now in the 10th over. On a good wicket a score of around 300 is par.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Nobody knows what the fuck you’re talking about

[Montegriffo]

Nobody knows what the fuck you’re talking about

I'm here to help. What don't you understand?