I see that they've started.
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Yup, and because the BCCI are acting the cunt, we're being treated to the host commentary slagging Cook's captaincy, while rimming MS Dhoni's piles. Short memories, some people. -
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No truer words spoken than those first 3 in the thread title.Comment
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I care.
This isn't going very well. But you gotta say Dhoni rules this particular arena.Comment
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Cook fails again. 3 runs in 10 balls...Comment
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So, we get a reasonable total, but can't bowl...Comment
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Bloody Hell.
A wide followed by a no ball in the penultimate over?Comment
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Dhoni knows how to end a match.Comment
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ursus arctos wrote:
It's as if he was playing for Pakistan...Bloody Hell.
A wide followed by a no ball in the penultimate over?Comment
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Four wickets for eight runs. It's deja vu all over again.Comment
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That was pathetic.Comment
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I was going to go for "abject", but "pathetic" will do.Comment
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Martin Johnson said that Keith Fletcher's job as England coach in India seemed to involve mostly having to decide between the words "pathetic" and "crap".
Free entry at the Pakistan-Sri Lanka match. Nonetheless, the atmosphere is about as lively as Gloucestershire playing a championship match at Bristol in May.Comment
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The collapse of the Dubai economy has to have had a serious negative impact on these matches. Quite a few of the people from the subcontinent who used to go have left due to the lack of work, while those that remain are terrified of taking a day off for cricket lest they lose their jobs.Comment
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And I wanted an excuse to moan about Twenty20. Did they get decent crowds before?
A spinner just took a wicket with a no-ball.Comment
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My understanding is that they got decent crowds in Sharjah at the peak of the weekly (or at least it seemed like that) IndoPak ODIs, and that they also drew decent crowds in Dubai during the boom, but I don't have the stats to back that up.
India is the only country that I could see drawing more than risible crowds to a test match in Dubai right now, given that there remains a significant population of Indians who are still doing reasonably well.Comment
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England could probably sell Dubai out, unless I've got the wrong impression of the Barmy Army.
Michae Slater said that they played once in Sharjah where they needed drinks every 15 minutes.Comment
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25,000 seats? Really?Comment
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I was meaning the Barmy Army probably wouldn't be bothered with ethical considerations of going to Dubai.Comment
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No, most of them probably wouldn't.
My sister and five of my bestest friends were at the ODI in Mumbai on Sunday. They probably constituted the bulk of England's support - the Barmy Army are proper Test-match purists.Comment
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