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Offline Chris Smith

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #1185 on: July 11, 2019, 07:18:06 PM »
Not wishing to get ahead of ourselves, but are Irish people allowed to be knighted?

Terry Wogan
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I think they can if they were born before Irish independence, so Wogan is a Sir but Geldof just an honorary one.

Offline cheltenhamlion

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #1186 on: July 11, 2019, 07:48:31 PM »
The Channel 4 thing is a bonus. I wont have Sky in my house so can now watch it. It has upset the apple cart at home though after my revision to weekend plans. You can do all that shit still if you want to but I will be watching the cricket has not pleased the wife.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #1187 on: July 11, 2019, 08:16:29 PM »
Not wishing to get ahead of ourselves, but are Irish people allowed to be knighted?

Terry Wogan
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I think Milligan was born in India.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #1188 on: July 11, 2019, 08:39:16 PM »
He was definitely a British citizen and I don't think he realised his Irish roots until he was quite old.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #1189 on: July 11, 2019, 08:44:37 PM »
Amazing victory today. Please go and win it now without thinking it's a forgone conclusion.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #1190 on: July 12, 2019, 08:36:05 AM »
Not wishing to get ahead of ourselves, but are Irish people allowed to be knighted?

Terry Wogan
Spork Mulligoon

I think they can if they were born before Irish independence, so Wogan is a Sir but Geldof just an honorary one.

Wogan was born in 1938

Spink Millington was born in India in 1918 to an Irish father and English mother, so his nationality is a bit mixed up

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #1191 on: July 12, 2019, 08:42:25 AM »
I believe Milligan held an Irish passport, not one hundred per cent sure, I must check.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #1192 on: July 12, 2019, 09:01:43 AM »
Wogan had dual citizenship.

Really looking forward to the final. England won’t get a better chance of willing it.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #1193 on: July 13, 2019, 09:11:44 AM »
So England could end up as World Champions in 50 over cricket tomorrow yet next season there won’t be a first class 50 over competition in this country. ECB you should hang your heads in shame.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #1194 on: July 13, 2019, 10:38:11 AM »
When does B*no get his well deserved Knighthood for services to smugness and pretentiousness ?

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #1195 on: July 13, 2019, 02:21:19 PM »
So England could end up as World Champions in 50 over cricket tomorrow yet next season there won’t be a first class 50 over competition in this country. ECB you should hang your heads in shame.
Amazingly bizarre situation.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #1196 on: July 13, 2019, 02:28:41 PM »
England should win the World Cup tomorrow. They are far superior than New Zealand in almost every position. With exception of Williamson, Taylor and Santner NZ are a very ordinary team  however a team they are and that's their strength. If England match their team play it should be fairly straight forward but...

In figuring out how to beat  the Kiwis the England coaching staff should be studying two games that both finalist played against Pakistan. They were both beaten so that will point to what to do and not to do.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #1197 on: July 13, 2019, 02:40:57 PM »
On the train to Marylebone now cannot wait for tomorrow feeling very similar to Play-off final day making this same journey - quietly confident we have the better team and just need to deliver on the day.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #1198 on: July 13, 2019, 10:48:07 PM »
I really hope we do it tomorrow. It would feel a fitting circle. New Zealand’s massacre of us in 2015 was the real nadir moment. Then the subsequent series against them was the beginning of the new dawn. It feels right for us to face, and hopefully beat, them in the World Cup.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #1199 on: July 14, 2019, 10:18:30 AM »
NZ bat first. Come on England.

 


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