It's just not cricket

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 08:56 Fri 22 Nov 2013

Nobody is the winner if Australia is the winner.

Post by **DRT** » 09:34 Fri 22 Nov 2013

Didn't see that coming!

When is the second test?

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 12:54 Fri 22 Nov 2013

How did it all go? I went off to bed at lunch.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 13:00 Fri 22 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:How did it all go? I went off to bed at lunch.

Then you need to listen to 5Live Sports Xtra from 1.40 this afternoon and relive it all blow-by-blow. I also went to bed at lunch. When I woke up, I saw the score.

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 16:17 Fri 22 Nov 2013

Are we there yet? Is it over?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 16:20 Fri 22 Nov 2013

Glenn E. wrote:Are we there yet? Is it over?

I see. Have you signed up for our intensive education course yet? It's mostly painless.

Post by **DRT** » 23:59 Fri 22 Nov 2013

It's time to turn off your tv and wireless.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 00:00 Sat 23 Nov 2013

DRT wrote:It's time to turn off your tv and wireless.

Yes, have some of this (strangely astringent) G70 with me as I celebrate no longer being 40.

benread · Post by **benread** » 00:01 Sat 23 Nov 2013

Watching RWC highlights more enjoyable!

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LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 00:02 Sat 23 Nov 2013

djewesbury wrote:
DRT wrote:It's time to turn off your tv and wireless.
Yes, have some of this (strangely astringent) G70 with me as I celebrate no longer being 40.

Happy bloody birthday.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 00:11 Sat 23 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:
djewesbury wrote:
DRT wrote:It's time to turn off your tv and wireless.
Yes, have some of this (strangely astringent) G70 with me as I celebrate no longer being 40.
Happy bloody birthday.

Post by **DRT** » 00:35 Sat 23 Nov 2013

Interesting things happening down under.

Post by **jdaw1** » 01:23 Sat 23 Nov 2013

DRT wrote:I am Scottish. Cricket is as mysterious to me as is the reason why whales commit mass suicide.

DRT wrote:Interesting things happening down under.

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 01:35 Sat 23 Nov 2013

djewesbury wrote:
DRT wrote:It's time to turn off your tv and wireless.
Yes, have some of this (strangely astringent) G70 with me as I celebrate no longer being 40.

Welcome to the age at which I began to drink Port!

Oh wait, no longer 40? So then a year late am I. /sigh

Post by **PhilW** » 11:28 Sat 23 Nov 2013

DRT wrote:Interesting things happening down under.

Does this mean that it Is worth turning the sports channel back on, or that you had a curry last night?

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 22:15 Sat 23 Nov 2013

I've just found that the highlights are on Pick TV

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:29 Sat 23 Nov 2013

AHB wrote:I've just found that the highlights are on Pick TV

Also discovered this last night. It's not the whole programme - no analysis with Banger..

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 00:05 Sun 24 Nov 2013

This will be interesting. Very interesting. Wasn't aware we were two down already; I admit I didn't check the score this morning (I was afraid to look).

benread · Post by **benread** » 06:39 Sun 24 Nov 2013

djewesbury wrote:This will be interesting. Very interesting. Wasn't aware we were two down already; I admit I didn't check the score this morning (I was afraid to look).

Wrong word. Embarrassing would have been better. Only hope is a rain dance - and a very long one!

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 00:20 Tue 26 Nov 2013

Is it too soon to ask who will replace Trott?

OK, it's too soon.

Post by **DRT** » 00:23 Tue 26 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:Is it too soon to ask who will replace Trott

Much earlier, DRT wrote:Why is Tim Bresnan not playing. He is one of the best ones at chucking it that I have seen.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 00:24 Tue 26 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:Is it too soon to ask who will replace Trott?

OK, it's too soon.

Not at all considering the next Test starts in three days' time. Bring in Bairstow? They're not flying anyone out. Push Root up to 3 again? Disastrous idea. Bell? Terrible idea. Pietersen? Maybe.

Post by **DRT** » 00:25 Tue 26 Nov 2013

I must say that all the fuss being made about Australian's saying nasty things about English players is very amusing. Get over it.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 00:27 Tue 26 Nov 2013

DRT wrote:I must say that all the fuss being made about Australian's saying nasty things about English players is very amusing. Get over it.

But now they're mocking the afflicted. Anyway they cried foul when we pointed out how rubbish they were for the last five years. Perhaps all's fair.

Post by **DRT** » 00:31 Tue 26 Nov 2013

djewesbury wrote:Perhaps all's fair.

Well said.

What we don't need in world class sport is a bunch of Jessies complaining that someone on the other team called them a nasty name. And we also don't need press with double standards, but there doesn't appear to be anything we can do about that one.

So, Team Engerlund, man up and get on with working out how to make the Aussies look like girls in the next test instead of looking like big girls yourselves.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 00:33 Tue 26 Nov 2013

DRT wrote:
LGTrotter wrote:Is it too soon to ask who will replace Trott
Much earlier, DRT wrote:Why is Tim Bresnan not playing. He is one of the best ones at chucking it that I have seen.

Because he is a lumbering Ox who can't quite bat or bowl. Trott is a batsman, get another one.

Post by **DRT** » 00:35 Tue 26 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:
DRT wrote:
LGTrotter wrote:Is it too soon to ask who will replace Trott
Much earlier, DRT wrote:Why is Tim Bresnan not playing. He is one of the best ones at chucking it that I have seen.
Because he is a lumbering Ox who can't quite bat or bowl. Trott is a batsman, get another one.

I concede to your superior knowledge.

Who else is in the reserves?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 00:37 Tue 26 Nov 2013

Hear hear. To everyone. And now I'm going to go to bed and fall asleep reading about the collapse of the Italian Air Force in World War II and the insignificant tonnages they dropped on irrelevant targets. Good night all. By the morning, JDAW will hopefully have solved the quiz.

Post by **DRT** » 00:39 Tue 26 Nov 2013

djewesbury wrote:And now I'm going to go to bed

I'm right behind you.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 00:39 Tue 26 Nov 2013

Get your own room.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 00:41 Tue 26 Nov 2013

DRT wrote:
LGTrotter wrote:
DRT wrote:
LGTrotter wrote:Is it too soon to ask who will replace Trott
Much earlier, DRT wrote:Why is Tim Bresnan not playing. He is one of the best ones at chucking it that I have seen.
Because he is a lumbering Ox who can't quite bat or bowl. Trott is a batsman, get another one.
I concede to your superior knowledge.

Who else is in the reserves?

Opinions are not the same as knowledge. Being a Somerset man I guess I would put Compton up front with Carberry at number 3 with Kieswetter or Joss Butler to replace Prior as well.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 00:46 Tue 26 Nov 2013

Who is Carberry anyway? Risen without trace as they say.

Post by **DRT** » 00:51 Tue 26 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:Who is Carberry anyway? Risen without trace as they say.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 00:58 Tue 26 Nov 2013

I wonder that you take such an interest in 'rounders', with its emotional instability and womanly attributes.

Carberry's main problem is that he is 34. Still he looked pretty comfortable against Mr Johnson and he was only one of 3.

Post by **DRT** » 01:09 Tue 26 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:I wonder that you take such an interest in 'rounders', with its emotional instability and womanly attributes.

I only claimed to not understand it, not to being disinterested in it.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 01:19 Tue 26 Nov 2013

DRT wrote:
LGTrotter wrote:I wonder that you take such an interest in 'rounders', with its emotional instability and womanly attributes.
I only claimed to not understand it, not to being disinterested in it.

They amount to the same thing, taken over time. So would you say it's made you more into exploring your feelings? Feminine side?

I'm not sure who else they have got out in Australia, I think there were a couple of batsmen and the performance squad is touring as well.

Post by **DRT** » 07:51 Tue 26 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:So would you say it's made you more into exploring your feelings? Feminine side?

No. But this thread has caused me to take more interest in the series than might otherwise have been the case.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 09:23 Tue 26 Nov 2013

Julian will be along shortly to point out the difference between being uninterested and being disinterested.

In the meantime, are you sure the whole performance squad are there? So that means all your little darlings are there too? I wouldn't have Compton, the Australians will break him. Kieswetter is potentially another 90s county star unable to excel in Tests (he's been variable in ODIs): perhaps a Ramprakash. Buttler is interesting but it's hardly the place for a debut. Shuffle them about and bring in Bairstow.

Post by **jdaw1** » 09:42 Tue 26 Nov 2013

djewesbury wrote:Julian will be along shortly to point out the difference between being uninterested and being disinterested.

There are people who claim to be disinterested, but who appear to be uninterested only when England are winning.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 11:42 Tue 26 Nov 2013

djewesbury wrote: perhaps a Ramprakash.

Or one of his contemporaries such as Hutton or Boycott.

djewesbury wrote:Shuffle them about and bring in Bairstow.

Of course, what we need is another medium pacer to shake the Aussies up a bit. Who is not that much of a bat either. I am unconvinced by Compton but I think he scored more centuries on the winter tour than anybody else. He was dropped because the selectors wanted to 'look to the future' and have now replaced him with a 34 year old.

Post by **DRT** » 12:42 Tue 26 Nov 2013

I made the mistake of googling the difference between disinterested and uninterested and very rapidly became dispassionate.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 12:47 Tue 26 Nov 2013

I don't care.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 12:47 Tue 26 Nov 2013

(Ha ha)

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 17:46 Tue 26 Nov 2013

djewesbury wrote:Julian will be along shortly to point out the difference between being uninterested and being disinterested.

That's easy.

Here at Microsoft we have a concept called a "non-goal." When completing an assignment, a non-goal is something that isn't specifically assigned and shouldn't be deliberately worked on, but if it happens as a side-effect then that's a good thing. Something that specifically should not happen is called an anti-goal.

Uninterested is a non-goal. If it happens to be on TV, you'll watch, but you wouldn't turn on the TV to watch if the TV happened to be off.

Disinterested is an anti-goal. If it were on TV, you'd turn the TV off.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 17:51 Tue 26 Nov 2013

I'd have reversed the analogy. The two words rely on fundamentally different uses of the word 'interest'.

Disinterested means I have no vested interest - as in, some way I benefit from something, that's to say, if I am disinterested I am neutral and impartial. A disinterested observer of a dispute is someone with no connection to either party.

Uninterested just means that I couldn't care less.

Post by **DRT** » 19:25 Tue 26 Nov 2013

Daniel and Glenn, please cease and desist. JDAW does not need this sort of encouragement.

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 19:54 Tue 26 Nov 2013

To get this thread back on track, I shall ask when the next Test starts?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 20:02 Tue 26 Nov 2013

AHB wrote:To get this thread back on track, I shall ask when the next Test starts?

You mean you don't have the Cricinfo app..?
Not till Thursday week, disappointingly. I thought the first two tests were back-to-back.

Post by **DRT** » 01:03 Tue 03 Dec 2013

DRT wrote:Question 2: Why is Tim Bresnan not playing. He is one of the best ones at chucking it that I have seen.

Does this make me a visionary?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 01:05 Tue 03 Dec 2013

DRT wrote:
DRT wrote:Question 2: Why is Tim Bresnan not playing. He is one of the best ones at chucking it that I have seen.
Does this make me a visionary?

What do you think?