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Wise move,Rince.

We look well and truly smegged now

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Football I can understand them joining in with the banter north of the border.

But cricket????????

When was the last time we slated you for your failure at the World Curling Champs??

well considering we're current world champions and european championship runners up, there's not a lot you can slag us about curling

and we won the elephant polo world cup for the third year in a row

and NO former contestants from Big Bro/IACGMOOH were in the winning team !!!

Dedicated to all Test Cricket Fans

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Telegraph

Bowling plans leak angers England

England endured another disappointing day at the MCG
England's embarrassment was increased on day two of the fourth Test after their bowling plans for each Australian batsmen were leaked to the media.
The plans are prepared by team analyst Mark Garaway before each match and pinned up in the dressing room.

But a copy turned up in the hands of ABC Radio and was read out on air as England tried to break a stand between Matthew Hayden and Andrew Symonds.

They put on 279 to help Australia into a 213-run lead at close of play.


Interview: England's Matthew Hoggard

ABC claim the plans were e-mailed to them by a source, but England believe they must have been taken from their team room at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

"We don't know at this stage whether the document was taken from the dressing room or from another part of the ground.

"We're talking to the ICC security manager and we're also talking to Cricket Australia, who are as disappointed about this as we are," England media spokesman Andrew Walpole.

It was an attachment to an e-mail which seemed to specify the plans for all the Australian batsmen

ABC's Jim Maxwell

England seam bowler Matthew Hoggard described the leak as "very disappointing".

"We have detailed plans of how we want to get each batsman out. We've got them on an A4 piece of paper.

"It's laminated and we've got colour co-ordination and unfortunately someone has take a copy of it and handed it to the Australians.

"You would have thought the security in international cricket was tighter than that, but unfortunately it's been leaked," he said.

The International Cricket Council are aware of the matter but have not been asked to look into it by the England and Wales Cricket Board.

A spokesman said: "We have noted what has happened and we are keeping an eye on it but at the moment it is an ECB matter. Until a stage when it might become appropriate to get involved, we have no comment to make."

The document advised England's bowlers to keep Hayden tied down with dot balls and to position a catcher on the edge of the pitch - but neither strategy was effective during his innings of 153.

606: DEBATE
The sad truth is that for the most part, England's bowlers have not been able to master the basic disciplines to make the plans effective

DW
606: Have your say

It also suggested that Symonds was susceptible to short-pitched bowling, but despite being tested out with an occasional bouncer, he was never once tempted to play the hook shot and was unbeaten on 154 at close of play.

England's plans were, however, spot on as far as home skipper Ricky Ponting was concerned as he pulled a catch to Alastair Cook just in front of square, exactly where Garaway had picked out a potential weakness.

ABC commentator Jim Maxwell insisted they had done nothing wrong in bringing the plans to the public's attention.

"I don't think it was particularly mischievous to read it out - I can't see how any harm has been done. If this gets out into the open it's not earth-shattering news, is it?

"As we said at the time, whatever the tactics were, they weren't working," he said.

And former England skipper Mike Gatting, however, played down the significance of the issue.

"It is nice to have plans in case you need to refresh your memory, but bowlers know what they have to do. They go through it in their minds," he told BBC Five Live.

"It's all in the brain. People are making too much of it."

Hayden was equally dismissive, saying: "Generally you have to bowl the ball at the top of off stump. The best bowlers of all time have exploited that option.

"Glenn McGrath is relentless with his lines and lengths - it's not rocket science."

Amid the doom and gloom in Melbourne, a glimmer of good news for England spinner Monty Panesar, who has just been named the 2006 Beard of the Year.

Monty's facial hair has enjoyed meteoric success in the past nine months and its hard work has been acknowledged by the Beard Liberation Front, an informal network of beard wearers.

This is no mean feat, considering he was pushed all the way by one of the greatest revolutionary beards of them all, Cuba's ailing leader Fidel Castro.

Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and veteran trade union leader Paul Mackney tied for third place.

Cricket and the BotY award have a symbiotic relationship - TMS statistician Bill Frindall is a regular inclusion in the annual shortlist and Andrew Flintoff's (now distant) heroics in the 2005 Ashes series sporting a healthy gingery-blond designer stubble won him the title last year.

Panesar, a devout Sikh, will no doubt be thrilled to learn of his latest accolade after missing out on the 2006 Sports Personality of the Year award.

"Of course he (Monty) has his beard for rather different reasons than say a footballer or actor with a designer beard, but whatever the reason people have beards, we focus on the magnificence of the hirsuteness," said BLF Organiser Keith Flett.

At least this is one title the Aussies can't take away...

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Have you got any 20/20 related cartoons? OMG we were so bad again...

um I stumbled into sport by mistake and this was my pearls of wisdom on the subject last time. I think it remains the same

England's worst is yet to come
By Andrew Ramsey

January 11, 2007 AS difficult as it is to believe after its humiliating Ashes whitewash and comic cameo in Tuesday night's Twenty20 walkover, the worst of England's forgettable Australian tour is still ahead of it.

Michael Vaughan's team heads into the month-long triangular limited-overs series that begins in Melbourne tomorrow as the least-credentialled one-day outfit to visit Australia since Zimbabwe three summers ago.

It looms as one of the most tawdry tri-series of recent years as England and fellow struggler New Zealand do battle over four weeks to work out which one will face Australia in the best-of-three finals next month.

But record crowds during the Test matches and a rollicking full house for the Twenty20 frolics at the Sydney Cricket Ground suggest fans are not yet sick of seeing the tourists being pummelled.

Foxsports

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Alf Stewart ........... Skippy the Bush Kangaroo ........... Ned Kelly........... Crocodile Dundee ........ Mrs Mangel ....... Lots of blokes with arrows pointing up and down on their all in one suits ...........


can you hear me? Your boys took one hell of a beating!

Lucy Lawless.....umm...... Lord Ernest Rutherford......umm....Dame Kiri te Kanawa........I'm struggling now.....the hobbits.........Richard Hadlee.........er that rugby player with the muscles...........

Anywhoo your boys took one hell of a beating