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All Aboard the Bandwagon

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    #62
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Valetta wrote: »
    Played cricket with my sister as kids in the back garden. I whacked the ball over the back wall and made 118 runs while she ran out the front gate, down the road and round the back lane to retrieve it.

    Shortly after that boundaries were introduced into the game.

    I think Chris Gayle did a similar thing the other day.


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    #63
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    There are some that would say that cricket is a truly Gaelic sport. Indeed, if Michael Cusack had his way, it would be a GAA sport.


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    #64
    anncoates
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    It strikes me as one of those sports that's fun to play but boring to watch, like snooker or darts.


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    #65
    Boskowski
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    thelad95 wrote: »
    I reckon I could count on one hand the number of players on that team actually born in Ireland.

    Bit like the football team so :pac:


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    #66
    FTA69
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    anncoates wrote: »
    It strikes me as one of those sports that's fun to play but boring to watch, like snooker or darts.

    The Darts at Ally Pally is the best craic ever.


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    #67
    Maximus Alexander
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    anncoates wrote: »
    It strikes me as one of those sports that's fun to play but boring to watch, like snooker or darts.

    I love watching a bit of snooker. Well, I used to. Being all grown up and junk now I couldn't possibly find the time.


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    #68
    valoren
    Registered Users Posts: 5,462 ✭✭✭valoren


    Guy:Incognito wrote: »
    Right, I'm out.
    For how many runs?


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    #69
    GavRedKing
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    biko wrote: »
    I wish I could like cricket



    but I can't

    Some people dont like it, they love it.

    :o


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    #70
    anncoates
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    FTA69 wrote: »
    The Darts at Ally Pally is the best craic ever.

    Haven't heard the phrase Ally Pally for yonks. :)


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    #71
    vienne86
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    anncoates wrote: »
    It strikes me as one of those sports that's fun to play but boring to watch, like snooker or darts.

    I watch it the odd time. What I don't get is the people who listen to it on the radio!


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    #72
    Badly Drunk Boy
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    I like the sketch in The Savage eye where a cricket player and a hurler pass each other on their way home from their respective training or matches. They stop, look at each other, examine each other's implement (hurl and cricket bat), hand them back, and then continue on their way, not having said a word to each other.


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    #73
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Im still on the UFC/McGregor bandwagon. Do I have to get off that to get on this one or is there like a Leap Card or something?


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    #74
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    FTA69 wrote: »
    The Darts at Ally Pally is the best craic ever.

    Pah! 'Circus darts' as Wolfie Adams would say. Lakeside is the real home of darts son. :D


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    #75
    iDave
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    Omackeral wrote: »
    Im still on the UFC/McGregor bandwagon. Do I have to get off that to get on this one or is there like a Leap Card or something?

    Its gets thrown in for free with the Rugby bandwagon. Soccer costs extra.


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    #76
    To Elland Back
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    Crooked Jack wrote: »
    We used to play rounders with a hurl and either a tennis ball or handball. Fuckin stupid, if you got any sort smack on the yoke at all it would end up a mile away

    That's why cricket is better than rounders


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    #77
    Crooked Jack
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    To Elland Back wrote: »
    That's why cricket is better than rounders

    at least we played in the rain


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    #78
    RomanKnows
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    Crooked Jack wrote: »
    at least we played in the rain

    With a massive chip on your shoulder as well no doubt, Jack.


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    #79
    keithclancy
    Registered Users Posts: 9,222 ✭✭✭keithclancy


    Indian lads in work said Ireland was doing well in the Cricket.

    I was like "We have a Cricket bat?"


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    #80
    Crooked Jack
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    RomanKnows wrote: »
    With a massive chip on your shoulder as well no doubt, Jack.

    Over cricket? Not at all, like I said I was only messing earlier. i don't know nor care enough about cricket to genuinely criticise it. Im glad to see it's an all Ireland team though and I'd wish them the best of luck as i would any Irish team.
    Some people here seem to think I was trying to make some sort of republican point, which is preposterous and says more about them than me. I was only poking a bit of good natured fun at what, to outsiders, appears to be a rather odd game.


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    #81
    HoratiJoe
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    Ireland have an edge because our cricket hurls are made from Ash


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    #82
    efb
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    Gonna watch the match with my Ed Sheeran tickets


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    #83
    Gits_bone
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    What time is kick off in the next match?


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    #84
    Say Your Number
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    I don't know an awful lot about cricket but it looks like we'll need to find another bandwagon to jump on judging by how this is going so far.


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    #85
    Darkglasses
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 14,526 Mod ✭✭✭✭Darkglasses


    Well we're still very much in it, getting 200 up today helped. Too many possible permutations right now. Next up is Zimbabwe on Saturday night/Sunday morning, that's an absolute must-win.


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