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Post by Gaz on Nov 16, 2021 9:37:36 GMT
Howzat is that your'e on a sticky wicket if you think I can keep this up for much longer I might "run out" of things to say and the thread will be "over" without any "extras". Im guessing that’s what the other teams were saying once the Aussies rose from the ashes to become champions of T20…. even though that’s pretend cricket. Bring on the real Ashes 👍 |
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Post by mortified on Nov 16, 2021 10:15:34 GMT
What is a 'sticky wicket' anyway?  |
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Post by dontthinkitmatters on Nov 16, 2021 12:09:46 GMT
No balls to it.
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Post by railroad007 on Nov 16, 2021 17:02:52 GMT
I might "run out" of things to say and the thread will be "over" without any "extras". Im guessing that’s what the other teams were saying once the Aussies rose from the ashes to become champions of T20…. even though that’s pretend cricket. Bring on the real Ashes 👍 I thing the Aussies will win the 5 test series 6 nil. Smith will break a batting record, most runs by an Aussie against a team with one fast bowler, 2 geriatrics and other fast mediums who are great when it's overcast at Lords but shite on a bouncy true wicket using a ball that an angle grinder couldn't damage. Fcuking Root and his overbowling of Archer. Smith v Archer at Perth was going to be a sporting highlight of the year. Fast medium is a real English thing that has never done much in Oz, we stuffed the Aussies in 2010 because of the batting, captaincy of Strauss and the bowling going after the Aussies to a specific plan with a top class spinner and superb fielding....not going to happen again. |
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Post by quovadis on Nov 16, 2021 17:08:24 GMT
Lost the topic here me thinks 🤔
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Nov 16, 2021 20:27:41 GMT
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Post by freewilly on Nov 16, 2021 21:08:47 GMT
Sounds exactly like something from Flying Debris
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Post by mortified on Nov 17, 2021 5:29:42 GMT
I know how to apply 'sticky wicket'. It's been in common use as long as I can remember. But I'm not sure where the expression originally comes from. And, try as I might, I can't find anywhere on that link that tells me. I think I got lost in a forest of adverts  Seems to have been first used in 1950. Why or how it doesn't seem to say. Is it a cricketing analogy? I presume so. Like, say, a wicket not falling even when it was hit by the ball was called a sticky wicket. Or something like that. Not that it matters. I was just curious. |
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Post by charles on Nov 17, 2021 6:40:50 GMT
I think the definition of 'sticky wicket' that dontthinkitmatters provided is better. As in "That eunich was a sticky wicket."
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