11th Match - Pakistan v Sri Lanka

[smash84]

not ideal for either of the teams, a win would have helped one of the teams a lot more rather than having one point each.

Pak would have definitely fancied themselves against this SL outfit much more than their next 4 matches against Aus, Eng, SA. and NZ

 

[StephenZA]

Bristol is in England at all times, not just when it's raining.

Ah... just checking. So there is some rain in June in England?

 

[Neil Young]

Ah... just checking. So there is some rain in June in England?

Erm...if you're trying to make a point here, it is most definitely lost on me! I have missed something earlier, obviously.

It is really grim out there. Heavy rain and not even warm.

 

[Bijed]

Erm...if you're trying to make a point here, it is most definitely lost on me! I have missed something earlier, obviously.

It is really grim out there. Heavy rain and not even warm.

All based on this thread: http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cha...rounding-rain-made-sound-like-real-issue.html

Occasionally the BBC, cricinfo and the like play along by pretending a match in England in June is delayed by rain

 

[Howe_zat]

The England in June meme has become a more enduring legacy to CW from Howe than the (excellent) podcast.

Yeah. I obviously didn't make my point properly, so I'll cop it, but I wish it wasn't basically the opposite of what I meant.

I still hate doomsaying about the weather, it's the ill-informed certainty of it that really grinds me. Like every ignorant opinion that gets plastered over the internet and picked up by the mob. So when my statement got remembered as 'it never rains in England in June', which is obviously a statement with all the same wrong certainty about it, it feels like I'm being held to account for the other side's thing. Honestly, it gets me down.

 

[mr_mister]

Mate its harmless banter ha.

 

[Howe_zat]

I know. Just doesn't feel that way. As is often the case when you are the target.

 

[mr_mister]

Yeah fair point.

 

[hazsa19]

Just met a fella here who’s travelled from Stornaway. So gutted for him

 

[stephen]

Just met a fella here who’s travelled from Stornaway. So gutted for him

That's only Scotland. I've driven further to go to the beach.

 

[stephen]

That came across a bit callous. It does suck when something like that happens, I do feel for him. But it's not like he flew out from Pakistan or something.

 

[Neil Young]

Upside is he'll feel very much at home today.

 

[hazsa19]

That came across a bit callous. It does suck when something like that happens, I do feel for him. But it's not like he flew out from Pakistan or something.

I’m gonna go ahead and say with a good degree of confidence that no one has flown from Pakistan to Bristol just to watch this match.

 

[mr_mister]

Can't they just play it the rain. It works for footy

 

[morgieb]

Can't they just play it the rain. It works for footy

Would be really dangerous for the bowlers in terms of run-ups etc

 

[hazsa19]

Rain is very very light now, it’s brightened up, and radar looks promising.

 

[mr_mister]

Do you think they wait way longer to call a game off in world cups compared to JAMODIs? Or is it the same time ruling

 

[andruid]

the gods don't wanna see Sri lanka play

 

[Borges]

So is there going to be a game? Or are my little Lankans getting robbed?

 

[mayor]

Looking at the forecast on weather.com I doubt a completed game is possible today. My bet is that they will set a time for the game to start after the inspection, and the rain will return before scheduled start of play.