[Cricket] The Ashes - England v Australia - 4th Test, Old Trafford, July 19-23, 2023

[maltaseagull]

AHA! My old trick of nipping outside for a fag worked

Can you repeat every 10 or 15 minutes please?

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

AHA! My old trick of nipping outside for a fag worked

Bugger off again then

 

[ManOfSussex]

AHA! My old trick of nipping outside for a fag worked

Please go and chain smoke another 5.

 

[KZNSeagull]

Review for caught at slip.........

He missed it. Bugger
214-5. Lead of 61. Tiffin time.

 

[nwgull]

How's it a losing bet ? It was a 500/1 bet that's now 50/1, unless you've got a Time Machine you're keeping quiet about

Fair enough. If you were able lay off and close the bet it’d be for a nice profit. I just meant if it was and insurance bet, it’s insurance against something that can’t credibly happen if the weather forecast plays out.

 

[zefarelly]

Green timewasting like a pro twunt

just got to hope the rain holds off

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

What's the weather looking like?

 

[KZNSeagull]

What's the weather looking like?

It's raining again. Although it is not raining at the golf

 

[pasty]

Bugger. Raining again

 

[Bodian]

Bugger. Raining again

That's probably it for the day then. And a yellow warning of rain for tomorrow. Looks like the chance (and the ashes) has gone.

 

[HangletonGull]

Ffs done by the weather had hope today as well

 

[zefarelly]

What's the weather looking like?

Bad

Although there is a window over Manchester . . . . Still 2 hours potentially. . . . Unlikely but never say never.

 

[nwgull]

Bad

Although there is a window over Manchester . . . . Still 2 hours potentially. . . . Unlikely but never say never.

I can confirm it’s not raining right now.

 

[Eeyore]

Unsure. Might be worth having a look on YouTube ?

There must be a film in that

I don't know if anyone has seen Priscilla Queen of the Desert. The film is no exaggeration in outback life.

They even take the same route as I took, even a visit to the pub in Broken Hill. The scenes in Coober Pedy- that was a forsaken village a few hours from Alice in the main track. I was stuck there for six days.

Different world out there.

 

[nicko31]

Looking at tomorrow weather looks grim, maybe a less wet interlude in the middle of the day.

Heading for a draw

 

[HangletonGull]

Stumps

 

[dangull]

Its the 21st centuary. Why cant they build a Wimbledon style roof at Test grounds

 

[DJ NOBO]

England is the better side .
Aussies will take home the ashes .
Why ?
Preparation.
Bizarrely the away side’s prep was better than ours. The India game, the likes of smith and lab playing county cricket.
Look at Robinson - the powers that be took an ultra cautious approach to him playing for Sussex and what do you know he’s undercooked when it matters.
We got lucky with wood who hadn’t played any red ball .
Aussies started the series sharper than us and made it count . We are now in our stride and look fantastic but it will probably be too late

 

[raymondo]

I don't know if anyone has seen Priscilla Queen of the Desert. The film is no exaggeration in outback life.

They even take the same route as I took, even a visit to the pub in Broken Hill. The scenes in Coober Pedy- that was a forsaken village a few hours from Alice in the main track. I was stuck there for six days.

Different world out there.

On a supported bike trip we stopped one night at Coober Pedy...slept about 15 or 20 meters down in an underground hotel hollowed out of the soft rock. Weird!! The cycling around there was the most boring section of the trip .
Good movie though

 

[Eeyore]

On a supported bike trip we stopped one night at Coober Pedy...slept about 15 or 20 meters down in an underground hotel hollowed out of the soft rock. Weird!! The cycling around there was the most boring section of the trip .
Good movie though

You stayed in the same hotel as me then.

The advantage was that is was cool down there. I was there in March, so only 30 odd degrees. Not a great place in January for Poms.

Yes, not much to see out there.'I want to see the outback' I said. Two weeks later I'd had enough.