Cricket World Cup 2019


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I think Vaughan and Agnew managed to mention Ugly Mugs 20 times in five minutes the other day.:lol:
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Fred Trueman
Tight yorkies
Headingley version

Empty seats
Western terrace getting lively
Ugly mugs cafe
Pitch changes depending on cloud cover or not
Dickie
Yarkshire chants
Bowling up/down the hill
Fred Trueman
Tight yorkies
Fancy dress (also a staple of Edgbaston bingo)
 
Looking at everything, I would say that Bairstow and Vaughan are both right and wrong. Bairstow is being defensive, clearly, but he's right about the pitches and the need for the team to stay true to itself. In turn, Vaughan is right to point towards Bairstow's defensiveness, but the stuff about our 'worst ever' World Cup is clearly bollocks. In previous years, the top teams have mainly just had to turn up to qualify for the final rounds.
To be fair, the whole format this year was devised to ensure the "top four" (us, Aus, India and NZ) are guaranteed to qualify for the semis. It was said before the tournament that it'd take one hell of an effort for one of the favourites to cock up qualifying - and we're managing that in impressive fashion.
Of course it's not the worst WC we've ever had, it'd take some going to beat 2015, and Vaughan has made a habit of talking hyperbolic nonsense - but this whole "even our media are against us!" bullshit from Bairstow is embarrassing. The entire country is desperate to see England win the WC. I've not known the English cricketing public so United, optimistic and together since the 05 Ashes.

They haven't been good enough, played some utterly abhorrent cricket against Sri Lanka and totally failed against Aus. What's Vaughan supposed to do, pretend they've been dead unlucky and were cheated out of a deserved four points?

Bairstow has a habit of showing off this chip he has on his shoulder. He'd be better placed in the nets trying to actually sort out his wretched form, rather than shouting off in the media, trying to pretend the whole world is against him

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Bowling up/down the hill
Fred Trueman
Tight yorkies

Bowling up/down the hill
Fred Trueman
Tight yorkies
Fancy dress (also a staple of Edgbaston bingo)
I dated a Yorkie lass once, and she was anything but "tight" :eek:
 
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Don't like Vaughan - just says things that if he had been laying he would go mad about.

Btw are all these commentators bloody awful?
 
'Of course it's not the worst WC we've ever had, it'd take some going to beat 2015, and Vaughan has made a habit of talking hyperbolic nonsense - but this whole "even our media are against us!" bullshit from Bairstow is embarrassing. The entire country is desperate to see England win the WC. I've not known the English cricketing public so United, optimistic and together since the 05 Ashes.

They haven't been good enough, played some utterly abhorrent cricket against Sri Lanka and totally failed against Aus. What's Vaughan supposed to do, pretend they've been dead unlucky and were cheated out of a deserved four points?'

Hear, hear. In turn, my problem with Vaughan is that he's always so reactive, postulating after the event as if he's delivering some great revelation.
 
Just saw the bee thing - was playing at CLS as a 6 or 7 year old when the wicket keeper copped a wasp sting. Poor kid lost his mind. Vivid memory that has stuck with me ever since. Is the place infested or something?
 
I’ve been out, a bee swarm :lol: In the arctic circle of CLS, bee swarms
 
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