We Did It - We Actually Did It

[joggerjayne]

England WON the World Netball Series !

Not only that ... we beat the Silver Ferns in the Final.

At least there's one sport that England are really good at.

[jomifl]

Fortunately the players in the England team won't be corrupted by offers of huge amounts of cash and forcibly transferred to teams in other countries.
Good luck to them.

[jno]

erm, they're quite good at cricket too - world number one in two of the game's three forms.

Rugby not so good.

[joggerjayne]

Does that happen in other sports, jomifl ?

Oh, sorry ... cricket too, jno? I'm not a big follower of cricket.Well, Rah team, rah, to our cricketers, too.

[jno]

JJ, it's less than a year since the Australians were thrashed, crushed, marmalised, discombobulated, annihilated and eviscerated. In Australia too. Since then the Sri Lankans and Indians (the previous number one team) have been sent packing. England have been for some time seriously good at cricket.

[joggerjayne]

Oh, so ... that's good then.

Part of the trouble with cricket is that, when they give the score on the radio, you can never tell who's winning.

[jno]

well, you can as a rule but you have to do some sums and then read the weather forecast.

[joggerjayne]

Okaay.

So ... bit weird, then.

[wolf63]

>>>Part of the trouble with cricket is that, when they give the score on the radio, you can never tell who's winning. >>>

This made me laugh - cricket is a game that I know zilch about, it isn't really a 'Scottish' sport!

;-)

[jno]

reading weather forecasts should come naturally to any true-blooded Englishperson.

I'm sorry you missed the Ashes, they were tremendously uplifting, though they did happen at night MCC time. Also, three of the five ended right in the middle of the shipping forecast so anyone trying to follow them on radio was a bit disappointed.

[joggerjayne]

When were the Ashes ?

[jno]

shame on you, wolf, and here's the Cricket Scotland Hall of Fame only two days old

http://www.cricketsco...LaunchoftheHallofFame

[jno]

last winter, JJ, December-February. Fair warmed up the chilly winter nights they did.

[joggerjayne]

And we won? The Ashes, I mean?

I don't suppose they played any of the games at Hove, or I'm sure we'd have heard about it.

I have, of course, been to Lords! =0) A couple of years ago, to watch Sussex, against ... was it Hampshire,or someone like that? I didn't really follow the game, but I know we were rubbish.

[wolf63]

jno - I actually know one of the guys on the Board of that exciting club for cricket Scotland. I didn't know that until I had a glance at your link.

It still looks like a boring sport. ;-)

[jno]

the Ashes, yes, that's the name for England-Australia cricket matches.

When England lost a series in 1882 an obituary was published:

" In Affectionate Remembrance
of
ENGLISH CRICKET,
which died at the Oval
on
29th AUGUST 1882,
Deeply lamented by a large circle of sorrowing
friends and acquaintances

R.I.P.

N.B.—The body will be cremated and the
ashes taken to Australia."

There is a little urn (in London, not Australia at all) containing the ashes of something, maybe a cricket ball.

None of the matches last winter was played in Hove on account of Hove not being in Australia.

[joggerjayne]

"on account of Hove not being in Australia"

Okay, so you hadn't mentioned that it was held in Australia.

So it will be in England next time, yes?

[jno]

excuse me, I refer you to my distinguished post of 23.03, where mention of the venue was made (it included stadia with names like the Gabba and the Waca). Yes, the next one should be in England in 2013.

[joggerjayne]

Oh, ya, sorry.

=0/

[jno]

also my mention that the matches were played in the middle of the night in winter, rather than in the middle of the day in summer, as is customary, might have tipped you off that some hemispherical adjustments to your thinking were needed.

[joggerjayne]

Yes yes yes ... okay, okay ... so I wasn't paying attention.

I get it now !

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