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Post by iancapetown on Jan 4, 2017 14:29:54 GMT
I have four tickets - courtesy of SA Breweries - for Day 4 of the Test at Newlands tomorrow. Full monty hospitality, free beer and all the rest. With 2 hrs to go on Day 3, Sri Lanka are chasing 507, and are on 58/2. Now, waiting for close of play to decide to head down there with my mates. Even if I get half a day, that'll do me. But I reckon if there's five/six wickets down, at close, is it worth it?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2017 14:53:17 GMT
Going and not seeing much cricket would be a bit annoying.
Not going and missing some good cricket would be REALLY f.annoying.
So I reckon 5 down and I'd still go.
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Post by Humph on Jan 4, 2017 14:57:04 GMT
"Good" cricket?
There's a concept to grasp. How does that work then? 🤔
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Post by WDB on Jan 4, 2017 15:01:10 GMT
I'd go anyway. Cricket, sunshine, beer, that view - who wouldn't?
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Post by iancapetown on Jan 4, 2017 15:04:17 GMT
www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jan/03/ben-stokes-south-africa-england-jonny-bairstow"Going in to bat on a hat-trick on Saturday, Ben Stokes produced an innings that will for ever sit in the memory of those fortunate enough to have been at Newlands, and many who were not, so that by the time he was run out in slightly comical fashion an hour after lunch on Sunday, after AB de Villiers had dropped a vertical mishit at mid-on, he had made 258, the highest score by an England batsman against South Africa." I had tickets. My Mother-in-law passed away the day before....
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Post by iancapetown on Jan 4, 2017 15:05:40 GMT
I'd go anyway. Cricket, sunshine, beer, that view - who wouldn't? Bar opens at 11. Could be all over by then. 4 down now... for 70.
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Post by Alanović on Jan 4, 2017 15:40:52 GMT
www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jan/03/ben-stokes-south-africa-england-jonny-bairstow"Going in to bat on a hat-trick on Saturday, Ben Stokes produced an innings that will for ever sit in the memory of those fortunate enough to have been at Newlands, and many who were not, so that by the time he was run out in slightly comical fashion an hour after lunch on Sunday, after AB de Villiers had dropped a vertical mishit at mid-on, he had made 258, the highest score by an England batsman against South Africa." I had tickets. My Mother-in-law passed away the day before.... Did that last statement give rise to any considerations of the nature of your personal family/loved ones venn diagram?
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Post by WDB on Jan 4, 2017 17:43:58 GMT
"Good" cricket? There's a concept to grasp. How does that work then? 🤔 Away back to yer bagpipes!
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Post by Humph on Jan 4, 2017 18:11:34 GMT
Cricket, to me anyway, is a bit like Brexit. Insofar as a lot of people say they are in favour of it, but when asked to explain why, they can't really say. So instead they just pretend to like it because they think they should. Those who see it from the outside can't begin to understand why or what the heck is going on, or why they started in the first place. 🤔
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Post by iancapetown on Jan 4, 2017 18:33:14 GMT
www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jan/03/ben-stokes-south-africa-england-jonny-bairstow"Going in to bat on a hat-trick on Saturday, Ben Stokes produced an innings that will for ever sit in the memory of those fortunate enough to have been at Newlands, and many who were not, so that by the time he was run out in slightly comical fashion an hour after lunch on Sunday, after AB de Villiers had dropped a vertical mishit at mid-on, he had made 258, the highest score by an England batsman against South Africa." I had tickets. My Mother-in-law passed away the day before.... Did that last statement give rise to any considerations of the nature of your personal family/loved ones venn diagram? Would have been a bit unsporting, Alan. I'd walked in at 11:30 the night before, having come off the shift, and saw the missus most distraught... I thought she'd tumbled on to one of my 'away game' shenanigans... As it was,I could hardly leave her in her grief and head off to the match, could I? (STOP sniggering, Otto...)
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Post by iancapetown on Jan 4, 2017 18:36:01 GMT
130/4. Game on. Even if it lasts til lunchtime, will be a good day out, methinks. Now, where's my Indiana Jones hat?
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Post by WDB on Jan 4, 2017 18:57:50 GMT
Should last till teatime from there, and yes, it'll be a grand day out. We went along to a similar situation at The Oval in 2011: not a run chase but India five down trying to avoid an innings defeat. It might have been over in an hour, but Tendulkar scratched his way to 90, with capable support from the nightwatchman Mishra, who was much the more fluent of the pair. They survived the entire morning session, before the England bowlers found their rhythm in the afternoon and finished the innings and the match just before tea.
We saw England complete a 4-0 series win and one of the greats play his last Test innings in England. The ground was full, the Indians in the crowd around us enjoyed their team's late rally and applauded both sides generously at the end. The sun shone and we had time to go to the South Bank for noodles and beer afterwards.
I hope you have an equally fine day out.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2017 20:11:29 GMT
Ah Cricket.
I loved it when the TMS commentary box was filled with characters like Johnners, ARL, The Boil etc etc all sadly passed on.
These days, I can't seem to get that excited. Shame really. I have tried to get my boys interested but they have caught the Manchester City FC bug from me instead. Mind you, I preferred that when I knew we were going to lose, so I didn't get my hopes up. Now, I'm disappointed that we play poorly and don't win every game 5-0.
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Post by WDB on Jan 5, 2017 14:22:42 GMT
Oh dear, SL fell in a heap. Pity. Still, I hope you enjoyed what you saw - and got your share of the beer.
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Post by iancapetown on Jan 5, 2017 17:43:44 GMT
All over by lunch. but started the pint at 10am, had 4 by 12h30. A dozen samoosas. Then headed across the road and had 2 more - hopped the train back into town, a few more there, then bus home. Yes. A good day out.
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