posted Nov 3, 2008

I got tickets!!!!..was easy...i went on the website..booked it quick and easy..paid the cheapest price of £50!!!im going on the saturday which is the 4th day...hopefully wont be over by then!!!lol

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posted Nov 3, 2008

India has won Bokker Prize 5 times including recent one - Australia is an english sepaking country - no pulitzer/booker prize winners there

An Indian Mittal is the richest in UK - Indian Tata Motors owns Jaguar and Land Rover now - India has the best software talent in the world - all proves, with cricket to top it off, India is the best country in the world

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What the? Anyone else on here have even the slightest clue what all that is about?

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posted Nov 3, 2008

when all england could muster was 91 against a weak west indies team - why even play Ashes - waste of time

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posted Nov 3, 2008

fairandbalncedfan - why didn't you start your own thread instead of ignoring the subject matter of this one, i.e. the rubbish ticketing system?

I wish I could say I was surprised at their incompetence but as an ex-Glamorgan member I'm afraid I can't.

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posted Nov 4, 2008

fairandbalancedfan

Am loving your fair and balanced viewpoints on cricket, culture and the world in general.

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posted Nov 4, 2008

fairandbalancedfan is seriously unbalanced!!!!!


I'm an aussie and I don't see the 5-0 ever happening again in the near future, England will be in form by the time the ashes rolls around. It will be another tight contest and I have no idea which way it will go because both teams have some work to do before then. Hard to tell really.

I know I prefer to watch the poms V aussies any day rather than India V aussies because even if we have a go at each other generally its good natured.

The balmy army are a great laugh and add to the whole thing, there is no racism whinging and whatever happens we don't have months and months and months of either side crying about how their team is full of angels that are getting picked on without any reason

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posted Nov 4, 2008

India has won Bokker Prize 5 times including recent one - Australia is an english sepaking country - no pulitzer/booker prize winners ther



I think its the booker prize you are talking about. My husband went to school with this guy,
http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/authors/wintont/wintont.html

he has been up for it several times and won other awards. get off your high horse

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posted Nov 4, 2008

fairandbalancedfan, sorry to spoil your xenophobic part, but you may be interested to know that the Booker has indeed been won by an Australian author ...

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/10/15/1065917444033.html

Oh wait a minute ... more than one has

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9901E5D8143EF93BA25753C1A9679C8B63

And where does Aravind Adiga hold citizenship? India and, ohhhh, Australia

http://www.topix.com/forum/world/australia/T3I6SSM5NC25PA07V

Tell you what, if you want to be a muppet, be an informed one at least.

To the author of this thread, apologies for hijacking it briefly, but couldn't resist responding to this bloke.

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posted Nov 5, 2008

With regards to the selection of venues for the forthcoming Ashes series, I'm saddened that Trent Bridge was not assigned a match.

Personally, I find TB a super little venue. It's intimate and contains a good atmosphere on matchdays. And, given that it generally is a 'result pitch', too...

Given that there are perhaps six or seven grounds harbouring desire to stage top category matches, couldn't some of these grounds augment capacity so as to permit more cricket fans the opportunity of viewing Ashes cricket?

ps. "fairandbalanced[fan]" - talk about a misnomer(!)

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