English posters are you getting nervous?

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Just for fun and to put some added pressure on me english mates.

You will soon be playing a two test series vs Sri Lanka

Ourselves will be embroiled in a tussle with the Balck Caps.

Here are the possible outcomes of the series and the resultant ICC test rankings.

England wins 2-0 - ranking points - 120
England wins 1-0 - ranking points - 119
England draw 1-1 - ranking points - 116
England lose 0-1 - ranking points - 114
England lose 0-2 - ranking points - 113

SA wins 3-0 - ranking points - 119
SA wins 2-0 - ranking points - 117
SA wins 1-0 or 2-1 - ranking points - 116
SA draw 1-1 or 0-0 - ranking points - 113
Sa lose 0-3 - ranking points - 107
SA lose 0-2 - ranking points - 108
SA lose 1-2 od 0-1 - ranking points - 110.

Sooooooooo, are ya nervous.

Duty281 wrote:

Demon Racer wrote:

Duty281 wrote:SA beat NZ 2-1 in the series. England edge past SL 1-0 thanks to some inspired bowling. Then England destroy WI 3-0 and SA 2-0. South Africa's batting holds no fears in English conditions.

SL batsmen getting back into form. They've destroy Swann and Panesar. They'll win the series 2-0

Beating the Windies is as meaningless as beating Bangladesh.

SA batting holds no fears in England? Graeme Smith loves batting in England. AB averages 64 in England and Amla 45...

Damn sight better than Pietersen or Trott in SA...

Judging by the increasingly aggressive nature of your posts, I'll sense that you are nervous. SL batsmen getting back into form? Not a single score of above 350 made in their last Test Series against South Africa. 1-0, maybe 2-0 England

As for Eng v Sa, last time 1-1 in South Africa 2009 - England have improved since then plus this series is in England. I'll enjoy watching Anderson, Broad and Swann tear you apart. I'll enjoy our batting pile up centuries for fun. I'll enjoy us winning by an innings. I'll enjoy being no.1.

Not nervous one bit.

England got wiped out by an inferior Pakistan side, who can't bat for toffee. SL will maul England's medium paced dobbers. Sangakkara, Dilshan, Mahela, Chandimal will fill their boots and then some.

Demon Racer wrote:

Duty281 wrote:

Demon Racer wrote:

Duty281 wrote:SA beat NZ 2-1 in the series. England edge past SL 1-0 thanks to some inspired bowling. Then England destroy WI 3-0 and SA 2-0. South Africa's batting holds no fears in English conditions.

SL batsmen getting back into form. They've destroy Swann and Panesar. They'll win the series 2-0

Beating the Windies is as meaningless as beating Bangladesh.

SA batting holds no fears in England? Graeme Smith loves batting in England. AB averages 64 in England and Amla 45...

Damn sight better than Pietersen or Trott in SA...

Judging by the increasingly aggressive nature of your posts, I'll sense that you are nervous. SL batsmen getting back into form? Not a single score of above 350 made in their last Test Series against South Africa. 1-0, maybe 2-0 England

As for Eng v Sa, last time 1-1 in South Africa 2009 - England have improved since then plus this series is in England. I'll enjoy watching Anderson, Broad and Swann tear you apart. I'll enjoy our batting pile up centuries for fun. I'll enjoy us winning by an innings. I'll enjoy being no.1.

Not nervous one bit.

England got wiped out by an inferior Pakistan side, who can't bat for toffee. SL will maul England's medium paced dobbers. Sangakkara, Dilshan, Mahela, Chandimal will fill their boots and then some.

Medium paced dobbers

England's bowlers are better than Sa's bowlers. True you have Steyn, the best, but we have 3 bowlers in the top 10 as opposed to SA's 2. WE ARE ENGLAND AND WE ARE NUMBER 1!

Its almost as if sonic boom kept registering different accounts pretending to be various nationalities whilst posting the same stupid digs to get a reaction isnt it?

Obviously that couldnt happen on the internet

Peter Seabiscuit Wheeler wrote:Its almost as if sonic boom kept registering different accounts pretending to be various nationalities whilst posting the same stupid digs to get a reaction isnt it?

Obviously that couldnt happen on the internet

Third time I'm being compared to this SB fellow. I can prove I'm SA, passport+birth certificate, if SB is also from Durban then its a once in a million occurrence...

Duty281 wrote:
England's bowlers are better than Sa's bowlers. True you have Steyn, the best, but we have 3 bowlers in the top 10 as opposed to SA's 2. WE ARE ENGLAND AND WE ARE NUMBER 1!

Funny things are these rankings, when Australia where top no one cared about rankings. A few England players get into the top 10s and its the be all and end all of cricket. Double standards.

ChequeredJersey wrote:As great as they are, I'd still stick with Braod, Anderson and Finn atm. Bresnan et al. in the wings waiting. Just hope KP's rediscovery of form can last and transfer into the Tests.

I might not want to compare these sets of bowlers to quickly.

True we only have two bowlers in the top ten.

But look at Philander, he has continued his form in the domestic season and he moved into the top twenty rankings within only 4 tests.
Marchant de Lange may only have played 1 test, but when you look at his current form, the man is on fire. He has taken 9 wickets in domestic limited overs cricket on his last 4 games, and 7 wickets in three matches in NZ.

Then our other back up seam bowler Tsotsobe has taken 14 wickets in his last 7 ODI's.

Me thinks it is closer than what you would think.

biltongbek wrote:

ChequeredJersey wrote:As great as they are, I'd still stick with Braod, Anderson and Finn atm. Bresnan et al. in the wings waiting. Just hope KP's rediscovery of form can last and transfer into the Tests.

I might not want to compare these sets of bowlers to quickly.

True we only have two bowlers in the top ten.

But look at Philander, he has continued his form in the domestic season and he moved into the top twenty rankings within only 4 tests.
Marchant de Lange may only have played 1 test, but when you look at his current form, the man is on fire. He has taken 9 wickets in domestic limited overs cricket on his last 4 games, and 7 wickets in three matches in NZ.

Then our other back up seam bowler Tsotsobe has taken 14 wickets in his last 7 ODI's.

Me thinks it is closer than what you would think.

I'm sure it is close and that's why I'm looking forward to seeing them compete! And in English conditions, I will stick with our rather varied attack, though I'm sure yours will do a lot of damage. Our boys are playing really well with each other atm

Peter Seabiscuit Wheeler wrote:

Demon Racer wrote:

ChequeredJersey wrote:

Demon Racer wrote:

ChequeredJersey wrote:As great as they are, I'd still stick with Braod, Anderson and Finn atm. Bresnan et al. in the wings waiting. Just hope KP's rediscovery of form can last and transfer into the Tests.

Steyn is twice as good as any other fast bowler in the World.

Hyperbole for the win

Find another fast bowler averaging 5 wickets per match, at 23 runs a piece. Not mickey mouse Anderson and co.

Youre right, the next best bowler averages 2.5 wickets at 46, he really is twice as good as everyone else. No hyperbole here.

Demon Racer wrote:

Duty281 wrote:
England's bowlers are better than Sa's bowlers. True you have Steyn, the best, but we have 3 bowlers in the top 10 as opposed to SA's 2. WE ARE ENGLAND AND WE ARE NUMBER 1!

Funny things are these rankings, when Australia where top no one cared about rankings. A few England players get into the top 10s and its the be all and end all of cricket. Double standards.

You can't generalise. I did care about the rankings when Australia were top and I still do today. South Africa are the nearly men of World Cricket.

Duty281 wrote:

Demon Racer wrote:

Duty281 wrote:
England's bowlers are better than Sa's bowlers. True you have Steyn, the best, but we have 3 bowlers in the top 10 as opposed to SA's 2. WE ARE ENGLAND AND WE ARE NUMBER 1!

Funny things are these rankings, when Australia where top no one cared about rankings. A few England players get into the top 10s and its the be all and end all of cricket. Double standards.

You can't generalise. I did care about the rankings when Australia were top and I still do today. South Africa are the nearly men of World Cricket.

Yeah, nearly always at the top, as apposed to nearly always in the middle.

england are the best test team, SA are close but that's it

Hee hee, i cant believe that this is still going. I think that our Saffer friend biltong might be the worried party in all of this

Meh.

We are playing away in OZ and England this year, there is little expectation that we will win both series.

Unlike England and OZ who has a fair few home series this year.

I forgot that i should'nt be posting here actually

Why, did you do something untoward to the cricket posters AGAIN?

I upset a couple biltong. A certain scouse chap was non too happy with me and followed me across the boards

PM?

Nah, its all good biltong. I will just continue to keep a low profile here

Yes, that's a good ploy... I think you'll get away with it.
They're all busy arguing on other threads - which is a good sign for you.

Linebreaker wrote:Yes, that's a good ploy... I think you'll get away with it.
They're all busy arguing on other threads - which is a good sign for you.

devide and conquer, eh LB.

devine retribution will eventually arrive, mate.
Us "southerners" don't get nervous do we? It's a NH thing...

True, I think the fact that our forefathers all hopped onto a ship with adventurous spirit dulled their nerves, so a number of generations later, we just don't have them in our genetic make up.





(Just don't tell the Proteas, they might choke again)

They'll be fine (at the Basin you mean?)

Funnily enough, the NZ cricket commentators can get very negative and pessimistic, going on about the choice of bowlers when things weren't happening. They are probably right but they seem to dwell on it too much.... like certain NH rugby followers, etc. In Oz, they can get stuck into certain players but they move on quickly and have the attention span of a fruit fly in comparison.

However, the rugby fraternity in NZ is the opposite. I often wonder if they are the same folk?

the attention span of a fruit fly

Not sure mate, I think the Aussie commentators just have a lot to say about a lot of things.

dwell on it too much.... like certain NH rugby followers

I know exactly what you are saying, thinking about it, i am surprised we didn't see the NZ posters harp on about every conceivable angle of winning the RWC after 24 years. I would have thought based on what we see now, that the NZ posters would only be warming up now.

They were simply relieved mate after all those years. Now they'll probably win the next 3 in a row.

Having family over in NZ, the intensity of their rugby analysis always struck me by surprise. The selection questions are big news... almost like they are in the UK - if not bigger. They have good reason for it obviously; it's such a passionate thing over there.

The 'Probables v the Possibles' matches would never occur here and it seems the evening news always leads with a rugby story.... oh, and at a quarter past the hour there will be some 'minor' story like the stock markets plummeting 1000 points in the last 24 hours.

...and that was the News today.

Now for the weather...and some more sport like the "Sheepdog Trials got off to a bright start in Gisborne today with 2 y.o. Terry (owned by Mr and Mrs Dempsey of Taihape) stealing the show!"

Sounds like an entertaining show, ..errr I mean news cast.

Biltong,

Youd better hope England win and keep winning ...or youll get demon racer back on here in no time

He'll be back on here if they lose too, no?

PSW the sacrafices we have to make in life are worth it if we beat England, I can put up with Demonracer, the question is can you?

As a neutral... I think you put that very nicely, BB. Returned with interest as they say

I learning LB.

You do good job.

I learning LB

corection I am learning LB.

I'll leave yours for you to correct. But only if you want to.

biltongbek wrote:PSW the sacrafices we have to make in life are worth it if we beat England, I can put up with Demonracer, the question is can you?

complain button, pass the buck
hes your problem not mine since you took the kings shilling

biltongbek wrote:

I learning LB

correction correction I am learning LB.

I'll leave yours for you to correct. But only if you want to.

You're doing a good job.

Linebreaker wrote:

biltongbek wrote:

I learning LB

correction correction I am learning LB.

I'll leave yours for you to correct. But only if you want to.

You're doing a good job.

Thanks for correcting my correction of my correction.

Peter Seabiscuit Wheeler wrote:

biltongbek wrote:PSW the sacrafices we have to make in life are worth it if we beat England, I can put up with Demonracer, the question is can you?

complain button, pass the buck
hes your problem not mine since you took the kings shilling

Would you then find out for me when I can expect the King's shilling (I was hoping it would be more than that though)