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Vaughan quits as One day captain
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in a move that should certainly please Paichukka - Michael Vaughan has stood down as England's One Day Captain. Paul Collingwood is favourite to get the job or Kevin Pietersen. Any thoughts? I think Collingwood would be a good choice, but whoever gets the job has to be captaining the best team there is...
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Job Offer
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http://www.coe-recruitment.com/JobDetails.aspx?vacancyID=115
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LJCC Website - why aren't the new pictures up yet?
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Just to let you know that we are aware that we haven't uploaded the pictures from the Slovenian national championships yet. Sadly this is because we have managed to fill our quota of space on our host. We are changing this to a bigger and better host so we can get the photos and stories from Sunday (and som...
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England v West Indies
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The World Cup is over and Vaughan is injured again. Time to play name your England team. Mine would be Andrew Strauss (capt) Alastair Cook Ian Bell KP (subject to fitness) (Owais Shah standby or Bopara) Paul Collingwood Andrew "Pedalo" Flintoff Paul Nixon (has done enough to keep the glov...
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Slovenian National Championships
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4 teams. Quality beginners. Thanks Rob, Brad, Tom, Paul F, Manish, Borut, Egon, Robi J, Al. Brilliant cricket. I enoyed it massively. I saw 5 or 6 new players that will play for Slovenia if you guys keep up the hard work. Thanks for a great day. I took loads of pictures, which will be up by Monday. Sloveni...
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Spot the bluffer
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This is a fantastic little test: You have to spot the bluffer from two people talking about War & Peace. Not obvious at all! Answer not revealed till tomorrow (Friday). The voting so far is almost exactly neck and neck.
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Cliche Watch -- The World Cup
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An essential part of being a sportsman today is the ability to cut readymade phrases from the great big metatext in the sky and paste them in as soon as approached by a journalist. Busy Bollocks Nixon today: 'I think anything like this brings guys together. There's a lot of honesty and opennes...
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Random cricinfo scorecards
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There are hours of fun to be had randomly clicking on a year in the archive. So let's have your scorecards -- obscure matches, amazing matches, evocative ones. Extra points if a player has the same surname as a Ljubljana player past or present.
[url=http://www.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1910S...
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Fabulous middle names of cricketers?
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Reading about Scotland vs Canada (who do you support there Angus?), I noticed that former West Indian player Anderson Cummins is now playing for Canada and to give his full name... Anderson Cleophas Cummins it reminded me that there have been some fanstastic middle names (especially in the West Ind...
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Six and out (the cricketing equivalent of jackets down) - ideas please
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This is where we build our own version of the game played in our youth(s). The rules, sorry, laws, will be drafted later. Let's have some ideas first. We're talking the cricket we played in the garden, the school yard, the street or the park. For instance, the law of "six and out" is essentia...
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The Knowledge
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It was good to see Al Jennings back in action in today's Guardian. Mr Jennings has been all too quiet recently...
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The next England coach
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Right, well when things are going so badly, all one can do is look to the future. Who is the man (and I think in all probability it will be a man) who can lead England to future glory? Assuming he will be taking over after England's early exit from the World Cup (!), he'll essentially have to achiev...
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Zimbabwe - Australian government steps in.
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I'm sure you've all seen the story. The Australian government have told the Australian Cricket Board that they don't want Australia to tour Zimbabwe. So should Governments have any say over sporting bodies. Hypothetically, the passports of the Australian side could be confiscated to prevent the...
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Live coverage
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Bangladesh vs India. 1st ODI. Is live now. http://livecricketonline.blogspot.com/ (MUST BE OPENED IN INTERNET EXPLORER) (If you don't have the Sopcast software it will tell you to download and install it, do so) the Sopcast link is the best picture and sound I have had ever with this. Could be an exc...
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World Cup results/reaction thread
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Well someone had to start this one sooner or later, so here it is. World Cup fever is almost upon us. Feel the heat, people. Feel it. Tomorrow sees the first day of the peculiar phenomenon they could have called the "spurious pretext for an extra week of gate receipts" but they didn't a...
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Who will score the next Ljubljana century?
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So far we have seen 2 centuries. Firstly from Mark and then a club record score by Steffen. Who do you think will be next? -- Edited by El Presidente at 09:53, 2006-12-20
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great first lines (songs)
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Shameless exploitation of your collective brain- I need a few more for something I'm doing with one of my classes. I'm after opening lines of the quality of: Well, my dinner's on fire while she watches TV, and if you ever wondered what it's like to be me... or Dynamite and nitroglycer...
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Players you hate (from your own country)
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Having watched Sth Africa beat England and seeing some of the venom spat in the direction of England by the English fans among us, I thought it would be interesting to learn of the players you just cannot abide. I hope Shane Watson injures himself again so he doesn't come back into our side as he is frankl...
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The retirement thread
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A lot of players and officials have called it stumps on their careers after this world cup, beginning with Nathan Astle back in December and going through to Brian Lara and Duncan Fletcher. Greg Chappell (india), Duncan Fletcher (Eng), Adrian Birrell (Ire), John Buchanan (Aus), Peter Cantrell (Ne...
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World Cup XI (so far)
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The inevitable name-your-XI-so-far thread. We can probably do a nightmare XI too, which ends up more popular, human nature being what it is... Mine: Hayden Jayasuriya Ponting (c) Styris Gibbs Boucher Vaas Flintoff Bond Muralitharan Tait Subtlety at the top, Ponting has actually captained well f...
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What's all this about then?
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I was just reading some comments on the BBC's forum 606 (warning - not too much intelligent or friendly debate on there most of the time) and I came across this thread which speculated on the make up of the next England test team. It seems Ljubljana's loss is England's gain in the 'keeper situation in thi...
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100th Thread and things 100
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To celebrate our 100th Thread, I give you 100 items of, like all general knowledge, useless general knowledge: Rats are smarter than dogs, can go longer without water than a camel, and when left alone (without the company of other rats) for long periods of time, will go insane. When domesticated, t...
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Great 'Weakest Link' answer
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This one is particularly for Paichukka, though it made me cry with laughter. Heard on Weakest Link recently. Anne "complete the following wellknown phrase from Casablanca. Here's looking at you.....?" Instant answer from young contestant who may have been dared or bet to do it - "...
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Cricketer lookalikes
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Ljubljana's own Chris "Phantom" Bishop vs Bill "Slogger" Lawry. The nose, the mouth, the chin, the wispy hair, the forehead, the being a Victorian. However to be fair to our "Slog" no-one would ever call him "the corpse with pads" and I think it'...
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How will YOU be following the World Cup?
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From the TV in your living room, a TV in a pub, on the radio? Will it be text-based, with witty comments from the Guardian "team", or have you found a sketchy torrent operating out of Bangkok?
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lj facilities
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the german lads used to hamburg and the reeperbahn are wondering if there is an area of ill-repute in lj where roxanne might be able to turn on the red light. pls advise
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'Cricketers who have/used to have another profession' World Cup watch
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Charl Vangeveldt, prison warder Shane Bond, plod Dwayne Leverock, plod Your picks. Any more instances of cricketers working for the repressive apparatuses of the state particularly welcome.
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Commentators, pundits, writers you love and hate
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I've been reminded to start this thread by the oleaginous presence of Mark Nicholas in the commentary box. Is there a more annoying dip****? He sounds like a Premiership commentator, all portentous "I'll tell you what" Hampshire man yacht pub bollocks. I like Atherton, Holding, David L...
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Cricket break: the beautiful game
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It's easy this football lark, innit? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ortWLYEYnM *sorry, just popped in to make this links clickable. EL P -- Edited by El Presidente at 10:28, 2007-03-30
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Catchy titles for a book on the Slovenian dual.
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I've got this friend who's producing a book on one of the notable grammatical features of the Slovene language - the dual number. For those of you unaware of this (you've obviously not spent time in Slovenia where it is mentioned to foreigners twice a day), it is simply that as well as the familiar singu...
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