/cric/ IPL 2017: World Famous Ben Stokes tipped to land 'big

across all formats

England won't forget

Cornwall playing lads

I had a dream that I was 12th man for a division 2 county side lads

Based Mackin

little /cric/ academia

Cowan out on 212
Better select him for T20

What's for lunch lads?

>>74003720
Vegemite toast and coffee lad, if the interest is there I'll take a few pics when I make it

>PM's XI squad: Adam Voges (c), George Bailey, Joe Burns, Alex Carey, Arjun Nair, James Pattinson, Will Pucovski, Jason Sangha, D'Arcy Short, Henry Thornton, Daniel Worrall, Matthew Gikes (12th man)

>>74003754

>>74003720

Tuna and tomatoes on toast.

Mackin on a hat trick lads

>>74003720
beer and chocolate

>>74003754
Are you the one that posted that yesterday? Do post pics please

Didn't get the hat trick lads

>>74003863
Yeah

south australia on suicide watch

>HUR DRUMP IS LE HETLAR
>HUR DRUMP IS LE POOTIN POPPET
execute yourself if you believe this

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What did he mean by this?

*single handedly runs /cric/

>>74004115
Seems like he's extolling your virtues, referencing your radical, fully sick personality, and hoping that you encounter someone as thrilling as Reality Check to improve your quality of life further.

>2 over, 2 maidens, no runs, 1 wicket

Is Burns, unironically, a good bowler.

Where is WalkGOD when you need him? Thread will probably die unless he shows himself.

Ingles is actually quite good lads
White"""man""" on suicide watch

>>74001874
RARE

>>74004841
get a load of this fucking freshie

>>74004115
>y'all

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looks like CricketFan69 finally decided to put his money where his mouth is

>that fight is actually happening. Quade is actually 'fighting' a literal 4chan-tier manchild

>>74004850
Hah, I only came here for the (you)

>>74004877
how are they even in the same weight class

>>74004877
>While McInnes holds a professional boxing record of 0-2, his resume reportedly includes 55 fights across Muay Thai kickboxing, boxing and cage fighting.

Based fatty boombah
He's an elite combatant in waiting, he's just trying to find the right discipline.

>>74004992
He's also an elite /tradie/

>>74004997
RIP Gayde Pooper

>Alex Carey closing in on his half century in a match winning innings.
>Inglis with two great innings.

Wade on suicide watch

>>74004877
fight of the century lads

>>74004877
Are you implying that I'm quade Cooper? I'm offended

>the state of South Australia

>>74005078
you are even worst than that

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>>74005046
kek

>>74004115
>y'all
based straffo

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reminder to lobby your local cricket ground to install a roof

elite finish coming up in the SA v WA game lads

*wakes up and immediately starts shitposting*

what's a "bogun" lads

poo gun

B A S E D MOODY

Just quoted every poo peeland post ITT that does NOT have any au/sp/ memes, gimmicks, phrases and personalities in it, lads.

AMA

>>74005328
Nice /rug/ meme.

Mackin call up when?

How come the poo peelanders here get genuinely angry over every little thing?

Could it be they are genuinely bitter, angry, manlets in real life but can't express their frustration in real life so they choose to autistically screech on 4chan instead?

>>74005339
nice /rug/ meme.

>>74005334
>>74005344
another appropriated /nrl/ gimmick

yawn

>>74005349
>yaen
yet another /rug/ meme you stole off me.

Have you lads noticed the recent trend of Pee Poolands becoming angered when they realise that all their memes, gimmicks and phrases were invented by /cric/ and /nrl/?

*desperately seeks approval from the "lads"*

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>>74004877

Genuine question here.

Why are Poo Peelanders so unfunny, uncharismatic, so unable to handle banter, and so devoid of any distinguishing culture?

Why do they insist on recycling old, outdated au/sp/ memes that have long grown stale?

*constantly recycles same tired old rhetoric*

*looks up rhetoric in dictionary*

Why do Poo Peelanders lack the creativity and mental capacity to produce their own memes and gimmicks? Do they not feel ashamed to have to leech off the Big Strong Australians?

*dogs on his mates*

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Why are Poo Peelanders so quick to attack Australian posters for their elite memes and then turn around and spout them themselves soon after?

*seethes with anger and jealousy at the mere sight of a BSK*

>>74005420
KEK get a load of this fresh off the boat from facebook and reddit newcunt posting his disgusting normie memes in an attempt to "banter with the lads"

>>74005427
Nice /nrl/ memes

>>74005420
End yourself for posting this asinine facebutt meme.

>>74005438
nice /rug/ meme

>>74004062
What is this flag even even

The fucking gall of Poo Peelanders to speak as if they know anything about au/sp/ culture and history, when they are a self confessed newcunts who contribute no OC, nothing to discussion, and by their own definition are cancerous shitposters.

Absolutely pathetic.

*calls everyone pathetic, is actually a pathetic NEET irl*

Just quoted every poo peeland post ITT that does NOT have any au/sp/ memes, gimmicks, phrases and personalities in it, lads.

AMA

*repeats self*

>>74005463
peanut butter or nutella? Please reply quickly

*is uncontrollably triggered by New Zealanders*

Imagine spending your entire afternoon furiously spouting a /cric/ meme that was of such poor quality that it was abandoned half way through a thread

>>74005470
nutella Mr Ankush S***al

>>74005328
>>74005339
>>74005360
>>74005377
>>74005394
>>74005421
>>74005454
>>74005463
This obsession.

>>74005478
*dabs*
*thanks*

>>74005463
>>74005470
Both of you are subject of a 90 year old Queen of a nation we declared independence from 250 years ago. Eat shit.

>>74005470
>a leaf

>>74005486
Saved to my Amerilad banter

This is the single worst thread in the history of 4chan. Bravo Australia.

*cannot post without mentioning NZ*

Birds NZ have lost wars to: 0
Birds Ausfailia have lost wars to: Emu

>>74005442
>butt
t. 12 year old

>>74005512
>stale /int/ memes

Is this the nadir of Poo Peeland posting?

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>>74005432
>>74005442

>>74005499

Blame the Poo Peelanders that ironically try to act retarded so they can feel like they have a place in au/sp/, even if it is just as Australia's whipping boys.

*forgets to turn off BSK proxy after a false flagging session*

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>>74005527

>>74005527
Get that dick out of your mouth, son.

KEK, look at how they turn on each other

*gets startled and upset by water falling from sky*

It's really gonna shit up the Ausfailians when they realise all this memeing is actually from one of their own on holiday who flies home on Wednesday.

Any of you lads watching the fight tonight? Should we make a new thread or discuss it here?

*continues to address the "lads", receives no replies*

>>74005622
Yeah lad, got money on /mundine/

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>>74005643

Which one is better?

Test:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aVwIquBS5o

ODI:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIYkjFUIKFU

*replies to self*

>>74005675
Test. Dunno if I'd call it the greatest catch ever, let alone the greatest South African catch with the shit Jhonty Rhodes took

>>74005694
The video was probably made by some curry or bandwagoner from here, not the best name for it either imo. I agree that it is spectacular, and the technique is flawless, but I have seen better, or at least ones that look better

>>74005622
Not watching because I'm not paying $60 to watch pooxing but I've got $10 on that shitposter Mundine

Worth chucking another tenner on eith Mose Mosoe or the fat kid Quade is fighting?

>>74004877
based goosey

Johan Botha is the greatest ambassador for afrikaner-australian relations.

discuss.

>>74005774
Botha is a literal spastic
Did you miss his hissy fit after getting hit for a six in the BBL final?

>>74005778
wasn't it beautiful tho

>>74005303
>>74005370
>>74005382
>>74005391
>>74005406
>>74005457
>>74005467
>>74005474
>>74005504
>>74005547
>>74005591
>>74005631
>>74005685

I will NEVER recover from this

Garbage "banter" seeping into /cric/ lately

>>74005922
forgot to switch to CF69 lad

>>74005922
>CF69 pretending to be shitspouter

stop

>nevill scores a century
>ingles scores two 40s
>hartley scores a century
>carey scores a 40

how badly is >wade sweating lads

Is it possible to be /comfy/ in a warm climate?

Reminder that our solar system has a second sun that is easily verified, yet NASA continues to suppress information on it.

>>74006029
just woke up lads

`.` <--- mfw wade is in the australian side

I have a theory that when the first fleet was setting sail they put all the unfunny cunts everyone hated on the New Zealand boat

>>74006098
Easy on the truthies lad

>>74006025
stealth rare lads

>>74006025
it's only possible to be comfy in a warm climate

Elite truthbomb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7BXp7tVzME

based

Danny Brown's pretty good lads

>>74006206
Is his new album any good? I wasn't big on his last one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0boHcBFSR0 should have never been cut from it

>>74006206
>>74006218
kill yourselves

>>74006239
based goosey

What's for tea lads?

>>74006265
black coffee

Reminder that Auckland is ten times the city crushedchurch is and this makes Daniel seethe. Especially when he remembers that his grand dad single handedly fucked everything up

>>74006277
t. mayor of auckland

I've been coming to /cric/ for well over 3 years now and I have never partaken in trip/doxxed "personalities" drama.

I honestly have no fucking idea what you cunts are talking about when you mention shit like Sean and Walkcunt and Daniel etc.

I just scroll right by it.

The only person I'm interested in is straffo desu.

>>74006265
scones with cheese and jam

>>74006330
What flavour jam?

>>74006339
strawberry

>>74006341
What cheese?

>>74006343
horse cheese.

>>74006343
finely grated sharp cheddar

>>74006348
he's not fucking talking to you, don't be rude

What reliable secondhand car should I buy for under ~$12,000 lads?

>>74006363
If you're white get a commodore
If you're asian get a skyline

Really ugly people around Auckland this weekend. Fuck the nrl nines for bringing in the worst people.

@74006413

You're too poor to afford a beach house you can get away to for long weekends.

>>74006448
Daniel

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At the wogball lads

>>74006516
conisdered necking yourself Stavros?

>>74006516
Who is playing lad?

>>74006516
based walkie

>>74006527
Roar vs. Sydney

>>74006566
Are you from Suicideland and a wog?

What a tough hand to be dealt in life

>>74006598
Gaelic blood

>>74006613
you mean italiano?

HEY, YOU HERE LAD?

LOL
LAD
LAD
LADLADLAD

LMAO LADS XD

INTERNET FRIENDS XDXD

LAD
A
D

LOLLOLOLOLOLOOL

LADS CHECK IT OUT

I'M AT X LADS AMA, MY LADS

LADS LTD XDXD

LE LAD LAD LAD HAHAHAHAHAHAA

YOU LADS ARE MY M8S LADS

CHECK OUT MY DIN DIN LAD HAHA

LMAO LAD GREAT LE BANTZ XDXD
LAD

LAD
A
D

>>74006659
This.

>>74006659
Everyone in /cric/ needs to be exterminated.

based ivan

>>74006678
LAD
A
D

>>74006677
Nah, just need the containment general that was au/sp/ to resurrect and house the autistic aussie posters who shit it up with their weak gimmicks.

au/sp/ used to be their outlet to sperg out in, but they went too savage and now jannies delete them on sight

>lads

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Christ, what a fucking choke.

>LE CHRIST XDXD
>DUDE, CHOKE LMAO

search zarina fullerton on facey

>>74006838
what am I looking at

oh ok

>>74006659
*farts*

What happened to my last post

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based fucking goosey

>>74007538

>>74007672
how did he go?

0-0 at the wogball, i can not wait for based /afl/ to start again

>>74008485
>not watching the fight

>>74008501
internet has been really shit lately

just woke up lads

>tfw moving to another room in the hotel and you don't know if the milk is important to bring

>>74005622
>>74005730
Rekt lad

>>74010635

shit that flag must be pretty rare

>>74013017
It looks nearly identical to the Philippines

Only test cricket is real cricket, everything else is rounders.

putting bars on my window to keep the africans out today, such is life in cuckbourne

>>74013642
There aren't any blacks in Cuckbourne let alone Australia though

>>74010635
i would definatly take the milk lad

>>74014072
I did, the timing was awkward though because the cleaning lady wanted to clean my room(which means I have to leave) and my new room wasn't ready to move into at that moment. I didn't really feel comfortable leaving my bags in the check in office because all the money I have and my passport. I didn't want to leave the milk out because it would go bad in the heat

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based goosey

>>74013017
>>74010635

I miss my old house and my USVI flag :(

Hope your having a good Caribbean night mate. If I get a remote job there is a good chance I'm moving back; even though I moved away in the first place because crime rates, haha.

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saxon dropping truthies

>>74018818
give us some context lad
also since when was Daniel friends with saxon
What's their endgame?

>tfw no Monique Gxxxx girlfriend
Where is that guy

>At the end of a two-day meeting in Dubai on Friday, the Chief Executives Committee (CEC), tasked with creating structures for Test, ODI and T20 cricket that give meaning to international matches, arrived at the proposals that will now go to the ICC Board. The ICC Board does meet on Saturday but it is currently unclear whether these proposals will be discussed in that meeting or at the next one in April: much of the Board meeting on Saturday is expected to centre around a new financial model cricket hopes to implement. Having come through the CEC meeting, however, means there is consensus in the first place.

>If the CEC proposals are approved, then from 2019 onwards cricket may see a rolling two-year Test league with a 9-3 format, where the top nine Test countries compete among themselves and against the three lower-ranked teams comprising Zimbabwe and most likely Ireland and Afghanistan (depending on whether they earn Test status). It is understood the CEC also approved a three-year, 13-team ODI league, the culmination of which will result in qualification for the 50-over World Cup, and a system of regional qualification tournaments through which teams attempt to qualify for the World T20.

fucking stupid

Despite talk of a conference-style structure with 12 teams, the proposals call for a 9-3 league. That is, nine Full Members excluding Zimbabwe will play each other in Test series either home or away once over a two-year period, at the end of which there will be a play-off between the top two teams.

The duration of the series will be up to the members - even a one-off Test can be considered a series. The system of how points will be awarded, given that each series will not be of the same length, is yet to be worked out. The home and away stipulation is such that, if, for example, New Zealand tours Sri Lanka in the first two-year league cycle, then in the following one Sri Lanka will tour New Zealand. If one team refuses to play another - as has been the case with India playing Pakistan - they will forfeit points. Full Members will retain the power to schedule bilateral series should they wish outside of this league structure.

The details of how the bottom three teams operate within this league are still to be fully worked out. They will play against each other in what will be Test matches, but essentially outside of the league structure and with no points at stake. Administrators, however, are also working out a way for the nine Full Members play a series against at least one of the three in each cycle, to provide them with exposure and the opportunity to improve.

Part of the reason this is not yet finalised is because it is linked to the question of membership status for Associate sides, which is on the agenda of the ICC Board meeting on Saturday. There is talk of decoupling Test status from Full Membership, so that a side - such as Afghanistan or Ireland - can play Tests without being Full Members.

At the end of a four-year period - of two cycles - the performances of these three teams will be assessed and it is here, presumably, where the Test ambitions of other Associate sides come into play. Performances there will be part of a criteria for Test status; another criterion is for countries to have a domestic first-class competition. Ireland's domestic competition was approved last year; Afghanistan's came up at the CEC meeting and it is believed it will also be granted first-class status.

>>74018884
It's on a cricinfo article about Cowan wanting the Duke ball used in home tests since it swings for longer.

As for Danny and Saxon, that's a recent development. My headcanon is that Daniel has become a /pol/ regular after Ivana went for the Big Indian Cock over him.

>>74019474
This truthbomb doesn't settle well with me 2bh. Bare in mind that Daniel ALREADY listens to prog metal AND doesn't believe in God. Adding the idea that he hates coloureds worries me. Is the world ready for someone this freethinking?

>>74019516
I would beat the fuck out of any cunt I meet who browses /pol/

>>74019526
You weren't really included in this exchange poospitter.

>>74019516
You are right, it's a worrying development. Remember how Daniel publically mocked Chlöe Swarbrick purely because of her gender? I fear that Daniel is preparing to follow in the Hay family footsteps and run for office in Chrischurch with an alt-right agenda.

>>74019543
Reminder that Chloe BTFO him on twitter, causing him to scuttle away like he did after the earthquake.
Reminder that every time Daniel smells rubbish he has a PTSD attack.
Reminder that Daniel has flushed years of Hay family prestige down the toilet.

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>>74019526
you would LITERALLY be torn apart, limb by limb

>>74019584
>Handsome, muscular South Australians
How can other states compete?

>>74019449
>That is, nine Full Members excluding Zimbabwe will play each other in Test series either home or away once over a two-year period, at the end of which there will be a play-off between the top two teams.
good

>They will play against each other in what will be Test matches
Lol, inb4 some Afghani guy has a Bradman-tier average just by statpadding against Zimzam for the next 5 years

>>74019664
yeah I can't wait for one game test """series""", fuck the ashes and fuck the South African and Indian series

Conferences were objectively better

>>74019675
>fuck the ashes and fuck the South African and Indian series
those are still going to happen you sperg, did you even read the text you posted?

>one game test """series"""
nothing wrong with it. 4 and 5 Test series' are dumb and almost always the last two Tests are just dead rubbers. When was the last time there was a good 5 Test series. 2005?

i dont mind seeing one-off Tests against windies, Bangers etc. 3 Tests are far too much for those teams and two Tests is retarded. Throw in three t20's (no ODIs plz) and those series can be interesting

>>74019686
Truthbomb

ah yes the part of the empire best forgotten

>>74019686
Yes they're happening but you're barely going to see anyway. I don't give a fuck about dead rubbers or whatever, I would just rather see England or South Africa play over Bangladesh and New Zealand.

its also going to be a fucking pain with scheduling since only a third of the nations are in the souther hemisphere.

Fixtures are already cramped enough with ever expanding T20 leagues and two other formats to balance and we're already seeing that cause problems with first class cricket in Australia.

I also don't like the lower test tier. That just makes Ireland and Afghanistan's """promotion""" pointless. It's also going to do nothing to expand the game in Ireland since they aren't going to give a fuck about games against those two. The games they're interested in are ones against England. That's what has drawn crowds in the past. These two nations are irrelevant to Irish cricket band wagoners.

Conferences could have avoided all of these problems. They should have gone with that.

>>74019686
>4 and 5 Test series' are dumb
kys

south africa is looking fabulous today

based a-league

>six nations
>half the team aren't sovereign nations

>>74019812
Indeed.

>>74020076
>Nations = states

RETARD ALERT

>>74020180
>sovereign

>>74020191
stop expecting pajeets to know these things and making them look bad. /cric/ is a non racist board.

>>74020191
that's why it's called the six nations and not the six sovereign nations

>>74020332
any non-sovereign nation is a meme

>bees stopped play
Sri Lankans being carried by Nature, fucking Buddhists using dark magic!!

>Scenes at the Wanderers. Morris brings out a fire extinguisher. One of the groundstaff uses it to scare the bees away, and the crowd cheers him on. He seems to have successfully scared the bees off the field (or not), he has his hands aloft, and then takes a high-five from Morris. We will bee back in a bit.

what the fuck?

>What's happening at the Wanderers? A beekeeper has now arrived with a container filled with honey.
lol

what a fucking meme

top fucking lmao

>sky showing some piece on abv instead of the bee action
ugh

>Asela and Dickwella now left with the salvage job. Asela is greeted by two slips. A swarm of bees now invade the Wanderers. Morris drops down for cover. Mid-on and mid-off go down. Everyone down. Midwicket - is it Andile? - stands upright and does not budge

>The bees at are it again. The players and the umpires go down, again. They lie on their tummies. Bizarre break in play because of bees (yes you read that right)

>Yikes, the bees are back, again. Bees stop play at the Wanderers. De Kock swatting them away with his right glove. The two umpires converge somehow, and they take drinks. Looks like the bees have found a new home in De Kock's helmet.

>Wanderers' head groundsman comes out with a stick in hand. Will he swat them away? Won't he? Nope, he pulls out.

>Scenes at the Wanderers. Morris brings out a fire extinguisher. One of the groundstaff uses it to spray the bees away, and the crowd cheers him on. He seems to have successfully scared the bees off the field (or not), he has his hands aloft, and then takes a high-five from Morris. We will bee back in a bit.

>The SA players are back in the park. Moments later, they head back again. Seems like the bees are still at it. "Play has been suspended until the bees move away" is the message on the big screen. This is un-bee-lievable. Please go the to the Wanderers if you know a way to drive bees away.

>What's happening at the Wanderers? A professional beekeeper has now arrived with a container filled with honey.

>Seems like he has captured most of the bees; we are not too far away from a re-start.

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Is this the greatest day in Daniel's life?

cricket is a meme sport.

didn't even realise there was a game on, why is /cric/ so dead tonight?

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Get your shit together SF. This kinda shit doesn't even happen in straya.

>>74022506
happened in the late 2000s at Kandy lad

>>74022506
I blame breast cancer

http://www.cricketcrowd.com/Play_Video-23-215-1871.html

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>>74022534
That was due to a (((rogue))) monkey if remember correctly.

You cant make this shit up. Top fucking zozzle.
>pic related

>>74022580
>a (((rogue))) monkey
kek now that's one I haven't heard of

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>>74022566
My bad. The sound effect enhances the comedy geld by 100x.

Never watched a game of cricket in my life but Ben Stokes is a cunt. Grew up near him and on a night out once one of my mates roundhouse kicked him in the head.

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This pic jiggles some neurons in my brain.

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>>74022699
you'll be glad to know that he single handedly cost England victory in the T20 world cup then

>>74022700
so it's the helmet that's attracted them?

>>74022745
Must be De Kock's honey scented hair wax. Fucking cunt.

>rabada will never uproot your middle stump with an inswinging yorker at 143 kph

>paid to collect some bees
>get to stand on the boundary and watch the game for free

>>74023009
whyevenlive.gif

>>74023009
apparently he was in the crowd already and just drove back home to pick up equipment

all over

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why is this allowed?

Tahir looks like such a fucking cunt

kek

KEK

K-E-K

>beehive directly in back of the wicket keeper
straighten your shit out South Africa

going to bed lads

>>74023543
Going to bed or having a cheeki wank beforehand lad?

>>74023637
Shut the fuck up you disgusting shitskin subhuman. You are literally garbage and your "people" should be wiped from the face of the earth.

>>74023637
we'll see how it goes lad

>>74023653
based saxon

isn't it past your bed time m8?

>>74023653
Calm down m8. Are you talking about the Tamils?

I like Saxon's gimmick the most

163? 163 at the wanderers? why on earth did we invite these subhuman island monkeys to play here? they are even worse than new zealand!