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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 [livejournal.com profile] 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. [livejournal.com profile] 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 [livejournal.com profile] applegnat, a study of James Anderson (picture big as yer hat here).


Jimmy about to take a wicket! [livejournal.com profile] 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.

Date: 2009-09-07 09:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jhall1.livejournal.com
Never mind, we still had each other. And the Enterprise.

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. :)

Date: 2009-09-08 07:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
*snort!* Yes! Or a Borg cube.

Date: 2009-09-08 01:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] toft-froggy.livejournal.com
There's something quite frightening about that ticket.

I grinned at the picture. It's rather Snape-esque.

Date: 2009-09-08 05:15 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] mraltariel.livejournal.com
Fear the eyebrow! Fear it!

Date: 2009-09-08 07:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
Why not both eyeboroughs? Is one of them less feary?

Date: 2009-09-08 07:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
There's something quite frightening about that ticket.

Train of the Damned.

Date: 2009-09-08 07:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katlinel.livejournal.com
The players are very colourful in their matching outfits. Bless.

Turned out useless again? What a nation.

Date: 2009-09-08 07:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
Bless indeed. Also, they are all practically children. Bless!

Turned out useless again? What a nation.

Hee! "No Bloody Use Since 1941."

Date: 2009-09-08 02:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] azalaisdep.livejournal.com
Defeat, victory, jaws, snatching. Again.

Glad you had a fun day regardless! Hurrah!

Date: 2009-09-08 02:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
Never has an icon been more appropriate! Ah well, as the man to whom I got chatting at Cambridge station said, at least we won the big one.

Date: 2009-09-08 09:53 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] kalypso-v.livejournal.com
Usually, when I go to a one-day match, I find the two teams happen to have hit on almost identically coloured outfits, and wonder why they bothered. (The correct answer, of course, is "so that they could sell replicas to kids.")

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.

Date: 2009-09-08 10:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
I like the dark blue more, I have to say.

Date: 2009-09-08 08:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com

Jealous. Seethe. Even if they did lose. Green. Fester.

And Our Boy Andy has just lost at the US Open.

Grumble. Snort. Spit.

Cuss.

Date: 2009-09-10 10:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
And more crap cricket news! Better from the football, I understand.

We shall raise a glass to you at Trent Bridge next week.

Date: 2009-09-10 01:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com

"We shall raise a glass to you at Trent Bridge next week."

Sadists!

Date: 2009-09-10 01:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
Masochists too, the way England are playing!

Date: 2009-09-10 01:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com

"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.

Date: 2009-09-10 09:06 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] mraltariel.livejournal.com
This is what happens when you drop the players that are actually doing OK.

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.

Date: 2009-09-11 10:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com

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 . . .

Date: 2009-09-09 11:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] applegnat.livejournal.com
Bliss is it in this era of English cricketing pulchritude to be alive, but to see James Anderson through your eyes is very heaven. Shame about the play. Fantastic pictures, though, the second one, ouf, so good.

Date: 2009-09-10 11:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
We saw him and thought of you ;-)

Date: 2009-09-26 08:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
Darn it, we could only watch on Sky. [livejournal.com profile] mraltariel did see the victory at Durham last weekend: I was not with him for that match, gah.

Date: 2009-09-27 01:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com

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 . . .

Date: 2009-09-27 08:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
It's rotten you can't get to see it. Wasn't this one exciting? I did worry that we might get 30 consecutive wides at one point.

Date: 2009-09-27 08:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com

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.

Date: 2009-09-29 10:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
I was thinking of you hitting 'refresh' at cric.info, and how extremely exciting that would be! I was watching Broad from behind the fingers of my hands: I can't understand where his talent has gone.

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