[Richie Benaud voice]
Good afternoon, evereebodee
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Please, please, please let us beat the Aussies! 🙂

Us ? thought you were a leek eater cap'n

And don't give me any of that English and Welsh Cricket Board nonsense either.

😉

I'm half Welsh, half English, TM. I had to burn down my own holiday cottage. (Not my joke, sadly!)

I'm not at all South African or Irish, so I suppose I can't play for the England and Wales Cricket team these days…. 😉

Toss won…. That bodes as well as can be! Bowling first….

16-3 (or 4-16 for our Aussie readers…) after four

Nice.

plenty of time for us to grab defeat from the jaws of victory

Shhhhh!

24-3 as the powerplay ends. 5 dot balls in a row…

Is it too early for a beer?

45-4 after 10….

*Opens a beer*

Don't know why but I'm listening to it on Talksport with Goughy and Irani….Can't beat TMS though with Geoffrey 'correeedoor of uncirtinty' Boycott and Aggers

80-4

Hmmm. Hussey seems on fine form. Worryingly so. Too little too late, though?

On the plus side, the D-L run rate should be in England's favour I suspect.

So, 148 to win.

Here goes!

come on lads! ecb will be eating humble re ipl if this pulls off.

Not the best of starts….

Getting better now, though!

Kieswetter swatting it all over the park!

Both Sarfricans going well. 🙂

Might not need the Irishman to help out! 🙂

😆 😆 😆

Big 6

Choosing the ball to swipe at very well. Impressive batting!

Keeps getting better! KP is bashing it all over the place!

psychie is very quiet tonight 😀

grahamb, that's a good point. Crying in to his VB, no doubt!

This is coming at a canter now. It would take something astonishing for Australia to win this now!

Erm. Not too sure I like the way this is going at the moment…..

Not again, SURELY?

17 from 27 balls. We need an Irishman to get those.

We need an Irishman to get those.

Funny you should mention that.

😉

Absolutely p*ssed all over 'em 🙂

5 from 21. Even we can't mess this up.

\o/

Kylie Minogue, Crocodile Dundee, Midnight Oil, Neighbours, Cadel Evans, Steve Irwin, Rupert Murdoch, Dame Edna Everage – your boys took a HELL of a beating!

🙂

W00t! Cricket World Champs 🙂

Get in.

Yeehaaaaaa. Hopefully a great omen for the real World Cup next month. 😉

Awesome!

You beauty!

I'd like to think it's an omen for the ashes in the winter, but i suspect it won't be.

we needed 25 from 30 and my girlfriend said "that's quite an ask . . " then he hit a six 🙂

Excellent result.

psychie is very quiet tonight

It's Psychle, actually…

grahamb, that's a good point. Crying in to his VB, no doubt!

It was Tooheys New I'll have you know ;), nice and cold (and hideously overpriced) at the Temple Walkabout… Now drinking Old Speckled Hen in honour of the victorious champions 🙄

You lot do know it's not cricket right? Let's wait for the proper 2011 World Cup, oh, and The Ashes in Australia, before ya'll start crowing too much about your 'superiority' 😉 at the sport you invented 😆

Oh, and all Englishman out there, if you were so confident in your team, why'd no-one (CFH in particular?) not take up my offer of a wager?? You'd be £50 up right now… and I always pay out, just ask Lanesra 🙂

You know what, that's truly why I don't like English supporters, no confidence in their team to win (regardless of the contest!) but they'll crow like mad dogs when they do get a suprise and get up… fairweather supporters at best! 😉

Bah, humbug!

Psychle, would you like to be in my shoes and support England here in Ireland?
I wasn't confident at all, I hoped it'd be rather quick and painless. Got home, put the kettle on, the telly got into gear and.. flippin'ell, 8 for 3? By the time I recovered it was England's turn to try an mess up. How did they fail so badly? Winning is a sin, a real Englishman never wins, he allows the opposition to feel important by withdrawing his skills at the appropriate moment. There should be an inquiry on how England forgot its obligation towards the lesser other country. It mustn't be repeated ever again, disgrace!

Let's wait for the proper 2011 World Cup, oh, and The Ashes in Australia

The Ashes in Australia where you'll be trying to win back what we won last time? I make that 2 out of 3 forms of the game we're officially better than you at right now 😀