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Cricket anecdotes: historical, apocryphal and local
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There must be plenty stories out there - famous ones we've all heard, famous ones we haven't as well as, all those that LjCC players and forum visitors (ave age around 40 = plenty of experience) have happened upon over the years. there must be room for the Animal and other stories ... who knows perhaps An...
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The Tony Greig Show
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on crincinfo. is a slightly bizarre listening experience. Recommended. 
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Pick your World Cup final 15s - any team.
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I'll start with my Australian team.
R.Ponting (c)
Keepers
A.Gilchrist
B.Haddin
Batsmen and All-Rounders
M.Hayden
M.Clarke
M.Hussey
A.Symonds
C.White
S.Watson
B.Hogg
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B.Lee
G.McGrath
M.Johnson
N.Bracken
S.Clark
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Vaughan out with injury. The Flintoff / Strauss Captaincy debate returns.
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Vaughan has injured his hamstring and will not play in at least England's next match. Andrew Flintoff returns to the captaincy. Who would be the best pick in your opinion? Flintoff or Strauss. I'm starting to think Strauss as Flintoff hasn't looked too comfortable having to bowl sides out by himself...
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England Victorious (the thread formerly known as Latest results discussion CB series (the thread formerly known as England victorious!))
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I had the strangest dream last night - England won a match on Australian territory. The bowling was disciplined, the fielding was of a high quality, and we didn't even fall apart after losing 5 wickets early on in our run-chase. Should I be worried about these bizarre nocturnal visions? Is medica...
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Is this the worst English X1 ever?
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...or is it that the Aussies are just so **** hot. That score of 110 on a docile batting strip like Adelaide ranks up their with some of the early Croat scores in the late nineties. In fact, Bilic and boys could possibly make the English X1
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Shahid Afridi gets 4 match ban
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For waving his bat at a spectator who clearly had a few choice words to him as he was dismissed. In my opinion this is a bit over the top. Anyone who has seen Afridi hit something with his bat would know that if this were the case ("Mr Afridi's actions were a clear threat to that spectator, and had t...
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Happy Preseren Day
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National holidays, dontcha just love em? Deadly. Where's the dancing in the streets, the foodstalls, the impromptu cricket match in the park, the out-of-tune ex-Miss Slovenia hacking her way through 'I Will Survive'? Instead, listen to some half-dead **** rattling through a few po...
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What are your 5 favourite beers in the world?
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As local Slovenian beers "Union" and "Laško" have taken a bit of criticism I thought I'd ask what brews other forum members are quite partial to. Myself I quite like - in no particular order Steinlager - a clean crispy New Zealand lager. Very refreshing Red Stripe - Jamaica...
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Apart from LjCC which other teams do you support?
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AFL - The mighty "Sydney (South Melbourne) Swans"
Rugby League - The Canberra Raiders
Cricket - Australia
Football - Chelski
over to you guys...
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Best and worst cricket commentator?
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While everyone is obviously a fan of Richie Benaud as we have all listened to his nasal whine for the last 45 years or whatever... there are other commentators. Who makes you laugh, who makes you cringe? I quite like Mike Atherton and Nasser Hussain from what I've heard and Bill Lawry's enthus...
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We woz robbed...again
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Was Jonny Wilkinson wearing lipstick today? What the hell was the TV ref doing allowing that try? That is the worst decision I have ever seen since Gatting, Gooch, and Lamb got triggered LBW in Pakistan. Amazing effort from Wilko, though. Good to see him back. Do the Slovenes, and Australian Slovene...
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Who is your Google double?
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We've all done it. "Googled" our own name to see who else shares it. Tell us here about your Google double.
I seem to be an under 13 striker who hit the bar with a glorious volley for the Hornchurch Urchins Under 13s.
Who are you?
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Best Captain (any team)
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Who has in your opinion been the best captain for any team you wish to talk about. I would say that Mark Taylor may have been the best Australian captain and I think he helped groom the likes of Steve Waugh and Ricky Ponting into winning captains as well. Mike Brearley would be the stand-out of all the Engl...
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Website in general thread
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This thread is designed for everyone to offer comments and suggestions on the website. What do you think of the new forum? Has that idiot Brad labelled your photo incorrectly? Do you feel that the comments were a bit harsh under that photo of you getting spanked for four? Well, you know what you have to d...
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Fined for calling selectors clowns
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Former Australian Test bastman Greg Blewett has been find $1000 for calling the South Australian selectors "clowns". Is this the most ridiculous sports fine you have heard of before, or is it warranted. God only knows how much I'd get fined for offering my opinion on the English sele...
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Forum guessing game
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We currently have 19 registered members from 9 different countries. Austria, Australia, Germany, India, Luxembourg, the UK, Slovenia, Spain and Switzerland.
We have also had visitors from at least 5 other countries
Who will be the next 3 countries to join in?
I think we'll eventuall...
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England's All time best One day XI
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as voted for by Test Match Special is. Graham Gooch Marcus Trescothick Robin Smith Kevin Pietersen Allan Lamb Andrew Flintoff Ian Botham Alec Stewart Darren Gough Bob Willis Derek Underwood Not a bad team I guess, though myself I'd have David Gower in place of Allan Lamb.No disrespect to Lamb bu...
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What was the greatest cricket match ever?
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Simple really. What in your opinion has been the greatest, most exciting or most memorable cricket match you've ever seen or followed? Obvious candidates are 2 one day matches featuring Australia and South Africa. Firstly, the record breaking match early in 2006 in South Africa, where...
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Strange or weird things you've done in the name of work?
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We've all done some weird things in the past to earn a quid, tolar, dollar or Euro in the past.
How many of you have done translations about horse parasites or similar. What stands out in your mind as a weird day at work?
For me. I had to count people at tube stations in London for an hour. Generally we...
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Who is the best genuine pace bowler in the world at the moment?
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Shoaib Akhtar, Makhaya Ntini, Brett Lee, Steve Harmison. Who would in your opinion be the most frightening prospect to face in the middle? Ntini is class, Akhtar and Harmison erratic, but the one I'd be most worried about is Lee. I haven't really seen enough of Malinga or Shane Bond and altho...
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Are there any plans to celebrate 10 glorious years of LCC?
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Are there?
Should there be?
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The winner of the 2006 Guest Star of the year is....
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Merlene Ottey.
Congratulations to a fantastic athlete, who is a wonderful role-model and an inspiration to 1000s of athletes around the world and who deserves all the recognition she deserves. She is amazing as she continues to compete with other Athletes much less than half her age and still b...
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Will Al win the GuestStar award?
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Our own club legend Al Green is one of 4 nominees for Ex-pat sportsman of the year for his contribution to developing cricket in Ljubljana amd Slovenia.
There are only 4 days of voting left. Do you think he can win?
BTW don't forget to vote
[url=http://www2.gueststar.org/en/vote....
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Which part of the website do you use the most?
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Simple really. What do you use the most? What is most useful for you?
While we test out our brand new forum, we thought we'd just try one of the many cool functions it offers with our first forum poll.
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For new users using hotmail accounts. Important.
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We have heard that for some new users using hotmail accounts that they haven't received their activation e-mails. We think that this may be because it goes to your junkmail or bulk folder. If you want your account activated just send an message anonymously here and we'll activate it for you.
Chee...
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Were you a "Duck on Debut" member?
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Are you one of the infamous Ljubljana Cricket Club "Duck on Debut" club? Own up and offer your pathetic excuse here. Me I scored a 5 ball duck before being bowled by a rather pedestrian trundler from Velden Cricket Club. As I didn't actually touch any of those balls at all with the bat I guess the "sun got i...
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Martyn, McGrath and Warne retire. Who next?
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Now that Damien Martyn, Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath have all announced their retirements from test cricket this year, have we seen all we are going to see with Australian and English players retiring?
Justin Langer is unlikely to play at the world cup, so will he stick around until Australia's...
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England's One Day Bowling Attack
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As you may be aware I support Australia in the cricket, but as here in Slovenia the team I see the most coverage of and discussion (mainly on Sky News) are England so I have a soft spot for them.
However I am utterly baffled and annoyed by their "poor" (diplomatic word here) performances in the One Day...
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Worst English spinner of the last 10 years?
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Ashley Giles has received a lot of crictisism lately, while Monty Panesar it seems can do no wrong (I know I'm a huge fan) but this has made me think about some of the English spin "experiments" over the last 10 years. Not too many have been very successful it must be said. OF the following players who do yo...
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