Whispering_Jack

Anyone who watched the last hour's cricket today would vouch for the fact that cricket's a funny game. Windies coasting at 4/230 with Chanderpaul nudging towards a ton and the chances were that the home side would end up with a sizable first innings lead ... and then Nathan Lyon strikes, five wickets fall and it's game on ... we should get a result now.

There's also young P J Cummins who is on the comeback trail from a foot injury after making hist test debut in South Africa last year. He's currently taking part in an Under 19 Carnival with Australia making the semi finals which are being played today. He scored 50 not out in Australia's innings against NZ. Could make a handy number 9 one day?

If you have Foxtel, they're replaying it tonight on one of the sports channels. Of course, it's nowhere near the same when you know the result. The game will go down in history as one of the more inspired captaincy decisions because the last pair in the first dig looked as if they could bat on for hours.

Anyway, we finally got Chanderpaul out

Strange thing happened to me today. Had a visit from a Hawk supporter who told me he was frustrated with one aspect of the game in that he claimed his team was "crucified" by the umpires. Just checked the stats and they received 29 frees to Geelong's 24. If that's a crucifixion then what do you call 21-1 at half time and 32 - 12 at the end of the game?

Well here's my contribution to this thread which is all about amazing things like miracles happening in unusual circumstances - Crocodile Bites Off Part Of Elderly Man's Testicles In Zimbabwe; Jonah Maturure Survives Attack . Even in adversity of the worst kind, people can survive so why get upset about losing a football match or a pair of agates?

Sri Lanka takes the first test from the Poms by 75 runs. Who's the no 1 test country ATM?

I don't usually like it when Carlton wins but those Richmond supporters were really getting carried away during the week. I even heard a few on radio mentioning the P * word. * P = Premiership

That Richmond full forward line looks sensational with Miller and Maric in the two pockets.

In other words, nothing's changed since last year.

I thought the coach's name was "Kevin"?

Voldemort to miss historic Giant's opener Questionable source I know but the scans have revealed he suffered a slight depressed fracture of his cheekbone. Also unconfirmed reports that the scans revealed the cheekbone is made of 14 karat gold.

Demetriou will sack the MRP if it even thinks about suspending Izzy. As for the other bloke ... sh1t happens.

GWS won yesterday without Voldemort? How good would they be if he played?

What's the story with Will Sheridan who took five wickets for Victoria in four overs before lunch today?

Anyone watch the joke that passed for a game of AFL at Launceston yesterday?

How did Briefed go the other day, Redleg?

Clive Palmer, Is this drop kick doing a good job fcuking up the sport (if not the English language) in Australia?

I was being a bit liberal about the policies in that video so there's no need to labour the point or get green with envy or you might find yourself left in the lurch or even thrown right out of the country. Just keep the politics out of it.

I appreciate that some around here frown on political discussion on this thread but with the Gillard/Rudd battle coming up on Monday I think this becomes appropriate in the circumstances:-

I'm not sure which competition is more meaningless - the one day series or the NAB Cup? Could someone please tell me how the one dayers finish? Is there a grand final?

Call me paranoid if you like but I thought they showed bias against us throughout the entire intraclub game on Friday. Demetriou has to do something about this or the game'll go to the dogs!!!

I'm surprised that nobody here has seen fit to comment about the fact that yesterday will become known as the day the music died again - the day they released the GWS club song. Actually, they didn't release it - it just escaped. I heard it while driving to Casey Fields for yesterday's practice match and I nearly ran the car off the South Gippy Highway. For some reason, I was expecting the GWS song to resonate with the sounds normally associated with belly dancers and cheap felafel joints but a disco version of a Cossack dance from the steppes of Russia? Far out!!!! What's more is that it got even better when I saw vision of players lip synching their new song on video, Milli Vanilli style. How appropriate for a fake football club to evoke images of that group of frauds with the release of their club song? For all that, while this catastrophic piece has undoubtedly set the song writing for new franchises industry back some decades, I still reckon that, as bad as the song is, it's the best thing to ever emanate from the black hole we know as Greater Western Sydney. Those bastards deserve it - and more!!!

How long to the national draft?

This subject has probably had a run here in the past but I really can't abide some of the calisthenics that pass for allowable bowling actions these days, especially among the Sri Lankans. My old cricket coach would be rolling in his grave.