Nemesis strikes again
Sep. 7th, 2009 09:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
We went to the second one-day international at Lord's on Sunday. England of course did not win, but as a large proportion of the fun comes from having a sit and a chat with
mraltariel and passing judgement on the people around us, that was fine. Also, we had a very nice picnic hamper. And we took some pictures.
applegnat, some of these might be of special interest.

Trains were not running between Cambridge and Kings Cross. Oh no. That would have been convenient.

For
applegnat, a study of James Anderson (picture big as yer hat here).

Jimmy about to take a wicket!
mraltariel is very pleased with this one. (Big pic here.)

Mid-afternoon, a Lancaster bomber flew overhead, to commemorate the anniversary of the outbreak of WW2. Immediately afterwards, England, who had been doing rather well up till then, turned useless.

Never mind, we still had each other. And the Enterprise.
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Trains were not running between Cambridge and Kings Cross. Oh no. That would have been convenient.
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Mid-afternoon, a Lancaster bomber flew overhead, to commemorate the anniversary of the outbreak of WW2. Immediately afterwards, England, who had been doing rather well up till then, turned useless.
Never mind, we still had each other. And the Enterprise.
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Date: 2009-09-07 09:13 pm (UTC)Now had it been the Enterprise that had flown overhead, I'd have accepted that the English batsmen had a valid excuse to be distracted. :)
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Date: 2009-09-08 07:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-08 01:27 am (UTC)I grinned at the picture. It's rather Snape-esque.
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Date: 2009-09-08 05:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-08 07:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-08 07:14 am (UTC)Train of the Damned.
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Date: 2009-09-08 07:05 am (UTC)Turned out useless again? What a nation.
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Date: 2009-09-08 07:14 am (UTC)Turned out useless again? What a nation.
Hee! "No Bloody Use Since 1941."
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Date: 2009-09-08 02:37 pm (UTC)Glad you had a fun day regardless! Hurrah!
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Date: 2009-09-08 02:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-08 09:53 am (UTC)So that is what Phil Tufnell meant by "Corpuscle Red" (his fellow commentators favoured "Corpuscular"). It is the second coloured England outfit this year; they were in dark blue (as modelled by Claire Taylor) for the limited-overs games earlier in the season. See explanation above.
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Date: 2009-09-08 10:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-08 08:57 pm (UTC)Jealous. Seethe. Even if they did lose. Green. Fester.
And Our Boy Andy has just lost at the US Open.
Grumble. Snort. Spit.
Cuss.
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Date: 2009-09-10 10:48 am (UTC)We shall raise a glass to you at Trent Bridge next week.
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Date: 2009-09-10 01:35 pm (UTC)"We shall raise a glass to you at Trent Bridge next week."
Sadists!
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Date: 2009-09-10 01:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-10 01:48 pm (UTC)"Masochists too, the way England are playing!"
True . . . especially when it's left to Sidebottom and Bresnan to show the batsmen what they should have been doing.
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Date: 2009-09-10 09:06 pm (UTC)And when the opening batsmen seem to play as if they've got to hold out for 5 days, rather than put a couple of hundred on the board.
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Date: 2009-09-11 10:55 pm (UTC)This is what happens when you drop the players that are actually doing OK.
Too right! Bring back Boycott, is what I say.
Me and one other . . .
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Date: 2009-09-09 11:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-10 11:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-25 10:36 pm (UTC)OK, so you wish you'd seen http://www.cricinfo.com/iccct2009/engine/current/match/415276.html . . .
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Date: 2009-09-26 08:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-27 01:31 pm (UTC)Darn it, we could only watch on Sky
Well, you're many rungs up the ladder from me: all I could do was follow the score on Cricinfo.com . . .
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Date: 2009-09-27 08:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-27 08:47 pm (UTC)Wasn't this one exciting?
You bet! Even just following the commentary I found my pulse rate was going up.
I did worry that we might get 30 consecutive wides at one point.
Ditto. Or that Broad would bowl a few overs of absolute garbage and hand the match to SA on a platter.
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Date: 2009-09-29 10:32 am (UTC)