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a quick cricket quiz
Posted by Junior Wells on 25 August 2009 - 7:14am.
Here is how we play.
for each question I answerfor Australian and you lot answer for England
Question 1 What is the approximate size of the population that we draw our cricket team from?
Australia : 21 million
England : ?
Question 2 How may players in the current Test team were eligible to play for another country?
Australia : None
England ?
Question 3 How may players who played for Australia in a Test in recent memory were eligible to play for another country?
Australia : 1 - Kepler Wessels ( Sth Africa)
England ?
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So if I understand your point correctly
you're saying that of course England are the better Cricket team and you know the reasons why. Very good of you, thanks.
Learn to lose
with grace.
Bitter
is also a rather lovely type of ale.
But sour grapes
don't make a very nice w(h)ine.
Yes, Australia has a much smaller population... not much England can do about that though is there?! And as for players eligible for other countries, you simply pick the best players available, surely?
Admittedly I think it's a bit OTT to go borderline hysterical when we've won a 2-team tournament (regardless of the opposition) but... we won! We lost the Ashes fair and square in 2007 and we've regained them fair and square now.
I thought ...
... it was the Poms who were supposed to be the whingers. Deal with it mate.
Steady on, Tony
Quite a few of us up here are Product of More Than One Country and very proud of it; bragging about the racial purity of your homeland is something you guys really need to get over.
The greatest prize in sport
Spoiling an Aussie's day.
Wrongity wrong
More recently born outside Oz than Kepler was the delightful Andrew Symonds, who was, in fact, born in Birmingham, UK. If it hadn't been for his over-fondness for refreshment, who knows what he would have brought to the party? Buckfast, probably.
Nice one Richie B
Ah Aussies,Now let's see if they want to play the same game with Rugby-League and Union and Athletics. How soon they forget.
Richie B
you're not that Ritchie B are you? A rare thing an Ozzie with some grace.
Nope.
But as a cricketer playing most games in and around London Aussie-baiting is a crucial part of my on-field weaponry...even the one on our team.
Isn't half their rugby teams (RL & RU)
from Tonga?
NB........
Just seen the above - sorry Paul!
And on Saturday ... ?
Isn't this the same RU team who were beaten in Sydney by New Zealand at the weekend?
And how big is the population of NZ compared to Australia (and Western Samoa and Tonga and ... )?
Over exposed
Austrailian sporting prowse oh sorry wrong thread.
Any relation to
David "Darth Vader" Prowse? :-)
it didn't look
right when I wrote it down!
Racial purity in the Aussie cricket team?
Not many native Australians in the team mate. However, please don't stop being such bad losers, it's what makes beating the Aussies so much fun!
well now that certainly hit a raw nerve eh what
I have been reading UK papers over the last few days and i dont think winning with grace has been achieved.
Those of you that followed my comments would recall me saying the better team for the series won the series and i congratulated england and Word cricket followers on their victory.
I agree on the NZ comment - I think New Zealand are one of the world's great sporting overachievers on a population basis.
Andrew Symonds -damn forgot him !
I wasn't talking about the english team having to have a lineage back to boadicea - i think that is an unfair representation of my comment. Andrew Symonds -damn forgot him !
you reckon i'm touchy !!
Aw, look...
Your initial post was intentionally provocative. Pointing out that it was whiney, inaccurate and borderline offensive doesn't make us 'touchy'.
So you poke
the placid dog with the stick then complain about his aggressive nature when he growls at you?
Wandering...
Off the original topic, I'm not sure the Kiwis are such overachievers in rugby - sure, there aren't many of them, but it's the only country in the world where rugby union is undeniably the national sport. Everywhere else it's either a bit posh - England, Australia, Ireland, South Africa (sort of) - or regional - Wales and France. There aren't many Kiwis, but every one of them is rugby mad.
I still think Australia's the biggest sporting overachiever, for number of sports you excel at for a relatively small population. This may be the wrong time to ask, but why are Aussies so good - sturdy immigrant stock, can-do, individualistic culture? Dunno, but it's always extra special to beat you.
This is true.
When I started primary school in NZ, the headmaster took us out to the playing field, and for the first hour of the first term the class of five-year-old spent an hour passing a rugby ball round and round in a circle. Rugby is also posh in South America - most of the participants would have gone to schools - probably English language - based on the UK public model.
Well
Don't they invest comparatively large amounts of money in promoting sport and supporting their atheletes?
There's no room on the scoreboard
for a story, Tony old chum.
Need to get your rugby boys playing a bit harder too....
Tony, mate
You were the better team. You scored more runs & took more wickets. Pound for pound, your players are better. You had more dodgy umpring decisions go against you and iffy tracks to play on. But your team isn't the behemoth it once was & you're going to lose some more. Better get used to it until Cricket Australia wake up & do something about it. Like using foreign players.
sporting overachievement
Australians do do well in sport - per head.
Alas the deification of any sportsperson who is successfulhas tended to be at the expense of recognition of high achievers in the scientific field and to a lesser extent the creative pursuits.
Not sure whether it is the same for New Zealand.
Yes let's not forget Oz's artistic contribution
to the world