Never understood the point of alcohol in on-field sports celebrations given the fact that alcohol and professional sport is a complete mismatch.
ICC Cricket World Cup 2019
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
It was a question regarding the two players in our team. I wasn't making a statement.Yes, some of us are salty and lacking in graciousness following our exit. Poor behavior certainly.
But to insinuate that the reason behind it is because England have Pakistani heritage players shows how obsessed you are
Thank you for not generalizing. I will again repeat England were the deserving winners. They have played some of the best cricket in last 2 years and they have been rewarded for their brave brand of cricket.
Oh wowWrong guy
No I am saying that if wickets were the deciding factor for tie break then with 3 needed off 2 and both teams having lost 8 wickets England wouldn't have gone for suicidal runs. As for the boundaries thing it is a rule they came up with to decide on tied superovers , again both teams were aware of the rule and if NZ had hit more boundaries they would have won after scoring 15 just like England did. There is no luck in that
We had a fecking Mexican in the Womens World Cup football thread who had to get thread banned because of how he kept going on about how much he hated England.
I wasn't aware there was a big England Mexico rivalry.
4d chess
Because some people think that it's perfectly acceptable to accuse someone of racism, even when there are other perfectly acceptable reasons for having a certain opinion?
The World champs failed to chase 241, got a tie with a miraculous slice of luckBut I'm loving the saltiness whilst your stars will be landing back in India after failing to chase a target of 239..
No we made 241 then it went to a tie.
I don't get it though. For me it's similar to watching Liverpool lift the Champions league. I hated that. I don't really like this as well. I don't see anything wrong with it - I'm not an England supporter. The only thing I've stated is that England were very fortunate to win; which they were - they tied on both accounts and won by virtue of hitting more boundaries - I'll ask why the team who lost fewer wickets doesn't count for more? I think I'm not going to post in this thread and will wait for the Ashes thread, where I'll be hoping for England to get smashed 5-0 and, if they do, I'll be back to rub it in. If not, then it doesn't matter since I don't support Australia.
My posts weren't aimed at all Indian Cricket fans.
Its strange. You could understand everyone hating United because we won a lot of trophies, and was very successful, but England never win anything usually.
No you haven't.
You said you hate England the the English players and you see England as the enemy.
You're the Glaston of the Indian team.
We're the World Champions..
Not all them, though. Go back a hundred pages to see who I hate.
And what's wrong with that? I don't have any issue with them as people. In fact, I'm a huge fan of Jose Butler and I've stated, in this thread, that I like Jason Roy, too.
I was born here and I've followed county cricket, a lot, and have been a huge fan of many English players like the two named above as well as Marcus Trescothick, KP, Hoggard, Caddick, Gough and some others.
England are a mess politically. The fewer lessons Europe takes from them the better.
I wouldn't be surprised if vida does feel that way. He is a bit special. Was making fun of pakistan allowing its citizens to have dual nationalities the other day.
Then ?
Yeah I know, I’m drunk
What the feck do you mean 'then'?
Tbh, I understand the rules, but it should be a dead ball if it hits the bat of the batter after the ball has been delivered and stroke played. Understand the whole overthrow issue as well, but if that hits a body part rather than a hard piece of wood, its hardly going for four..
it did look like they were counting down wanting for the moment to run. Sort of great if they planned it hoping it would go viral. But either way it made for a funny video.Bless them
who was it aimed at 'then' ?
They would have as they wanted to win, there is no way Rashid doesn't try to go back for that second run to get stokes back on strike or stokes doesn't sacrifice Rashid there.
Has to be up there as best game ever, in my lifetime that I’ve seen, and I’ve seen loads. Perhaps South Africa run chase of 438 but was a relatively meaningless match.
Tension in the ground since England being 80-4 was unbearable. Then the first tie. Then super over. Too many talking points. Going to keep me up for days living through it all.
As a sporting spectacle I even put it over Nou camp 99.
Bitter Indian fans like you?
Just watched the Wimbledon final. Fecking hell. Which ubercunt decided to have these finals on the same day?
Oh no, not being accused of racism. That's much worse than racism.
We took back control
Was I quoted by mistake?
And that makes it acceptable? What a mindset!
Stokes probably had a hard-on throughout that innings, so would have definitely gone for 4 if it hit him there
But yes it's a nonsense rule. No further runs should be allowed if a throw hits a batsmen. Wait, that could actually also become a loophole for the fielding team to exploit?
Yeah for sure, you know Stokes is the kind of guy who will bust a gut for everything and sometimes it gets you a slice of luck.
Definitely still more than can be done I think mind, in Worcestershire we have a big Asian population as does most of the West Midlands, and Moeen is a much loved man at the club yet when you look around the village leagues there are nowhere near as many Asians playing as you’d expect considering the love for the sport.
I feel like the Joker in the Dark Knight when he's walking out of the hospital. My job here is done.
At so was euro 96. What’s your point?
I just remembered. In the semi, Williamson changed his direction toward the stumps as the throw came in. Just saying
BCCI?
More like Baldrick in Blackadder Goes Forth....