The Theresa May XI

[fredfertang]

Gave myself five minutes to come up with a side who, like our embattled PM (don't be fooled by the broad grin on my face my heart bleeds for her) started reasonably well but, ultimately, were found wanting

Daren Ganga
Adrian Barath
Mathew Sinclair
Owais Shah
Ravi Bopara
Adam Hollioake*
Zulqarnain Haider+
Simon Kerrigan
Sreesanth
Mohammed Sami
Narendra Hirwani

 

[Jarquis]

Not sure Kerrigan should count - never looked good in his one Test and although good in County cricket only got given a go in a dead rubber.

Irfan Pathan a shout perhaps?

 

[Magrat Garlick]

needs to have a captain who declared early and lost imo, Flintoff at Adelaide perhaps

 

[S.Kennedy]

What we need is a team who wins a match by 55 runs but everybody pretends they lost just because they did not win by 100 runs.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

What we need is a team who wins a match by 55 runs but everybody pretends they lost just because they did not win by 100 runs.

Stop giving Duckworth/Lewis ideas.

 

[MW1304]

What we need is a team who wins a match by 55 runs but everybody pretends they lost just because they did not win by 100 runs.

More like a team who are way ahead at the end of both first innings, before giving up their sizeable advantage by throwing all their wickets away in the third, and only managing to win at the end of the fourth with the help of a run out by a substitute fielder. Only Ricky Ponting is off to the side shouting about the Gary Pratt Agreement, which says this might not be allowed.

 

[S.Kennedy]

More like a team who are way ahead at the end of both first innings, before giving up their sizeable advantage by throwing all their wickets away in the third, and only managing to win at the end of the fourth with the help of a run out by a substitute fielder. Only Ricky Ponting is off to the side shouting about the Gary Pratt Agreement, which says this might not be allowed.

Let's look at our match - an one-dayer I believe,

May's XI, despite playing badly, post 330.
The Corbyn XI, despite playing out of their skins, post 232

Guess who wins? Guess who wins by a healthy margin?

 

[MW1304]

There's only winners and losers in life. Glad to see you're not some liberal #loser like most of this forum. They're tremendously sad.

 

[S.Kennedy]

Yes, among the Brits, there are a lot of loony lefties on here which I find odd as I always thought of cricket (like Tennis and Rugby Union) as a poshers' sport haha, public school dominated, the whites, ''lunch and tea olde boy'', etc haha. Its history is filled with amateur elegant gentlemen batsman like Ranji, Cowdrey and Gower - all stiff upper lips.

Rugby League,now that is a proper working boy's Labour voting sport. Football was before the money and middle classes arrived in the '90s - the prawn sandwich brigade, all £80 replica strips and £50 Sky subscriptions etc. It is still a working class thing if you delve into the lower/non leagues though.

Further on this May Eleven thing, you need one Scottish batsman who scores the majority of runs and saves the team's embarrassment. Mike Denness perhaps or Kyle Coetzer?

 

[mr_mister]

Phil Hughes

 

[MW1304]

Huh.

 

[mr_mister]

Phil had an amazing first test series than struggled for runs the rest of his career

 

[fredfertang]

Huh.

He may mean David Hughes - hung in as skipper even when he was no use to man nor beast

 

[MW1304]

Ah sorry, it wasn't meant in reply to your post, mr mister.

 

[mr_mister]

All good mate.


Azhar Mahmood another good one. People probably expected him to reach miandad level after that 3rd hundred against Donald and co

 

[DriveClub]

Yes, among the Brits, there are a lot of loony lefties on here which I find odd as I always thought of cricket (like Tennis and Rugby Union) as a poshers' sport haha, public school dominated, the whites, ''lunch and tea olde boy'', etc haha. Its history is filled with amateur elegant gentlemen batsman like Ranji, Cowdrey and Gower - all stiff upper lips.

Rugby League,now that is a proper working boy's Labour voting sport. Football was before the money and middle classes arrived in the '90s - the prawn sandwich brigade, all £80 replica strips and £50 Sky subscriptions etc. It is still a working class thing if you delve into the lower/non leagues though.

Further on this May Eleven thing, you need one Scottish batsman who scores the majority of runs and saves the team's embarrassment. Mike Denness perhaps or Kyle Coetzer?

Lol what the hell does this even mean stiff upper lip, public school, loony lefties, poshers sport, is this a parody account?

 

[Bijed]

Arguably a Theresa May XI would be cut down to 8 players who are expected to perform as well as a team of 11

 

[vic_orthdox]

Haha, definitely no medical staff on board.

 

[fredfertang]

Arguably a Theresa May XI would be cut down to 8 players who are expected to perform as well as a team of 11

And obviously there'd be two non-playing off field captains who would be absolutely responsible for absolutely everything, one of whom would have a silly beard

 

[GIMH]

Elections are like The Ashes - used to be a special event, now we have one every three weeks