The Ashes

MagicJ · Post by **MagicJ** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 7:55 pm

Arriving tomorrow to coincide with the start of the Ashes, does anybody know how likely i am to catch any of the tests? Preferably highlights as i don't think i can sit in the pub watching sky sports for 10 hours a day for 5 days in a row. And waiting for BBC World to dedicate a whole 30 seconds of their sports bulletin to cricket just doesn't do the game justice.
Any pubs in Helsinki likely to show any action?
Streaming links would be good.

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muddymuddy1 · Post by **muddymuddy1** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 9:46 pm

This is my best option at the moment.........not the live stuff for me, but they seem to have highlights scheduled at more civilised times of the day.

http://www.aussiebar.net/sports.html

continuum · Post by **continuum** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 11:00 am

Aussie Bar in Kamppi are showing extended (3hr) highlights of Ashes cricket at 1730hrs each day on Thursday 23 and Friday 24. I'm going and hope to meet others there. Broadcast times for the highlights are different at weekends, as the weblink in the previous post shows.

Jussi · Post by **Jussi** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 2:47 pm

As for streaming, http://www.myp2p.eu have links to the ashes matches - you will however have to download one or more off the programs. These are spy and adware free with the exception of Pcast.

MagicJ · Post by **MagicJ** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 6:21 pm

Thanks, i'll try and get to the bar for some highlights, but the way it's looking after 2 days it won't be much fun sitting in a bar full of Aussies with them scoring runs for fun.

As for streaming cheers Jussi i use this site for football, i just hadn't spotted any cricket links before. Shame there's no TVants link as i've always found that the best.

MagicJ · Post by **MagicJ** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 11:16 am

Just found 10 minute daily highlights on Sky Sports. Thankfully i didn't look hard enough for the first test.

http://msnsport.skysports.com/ashes/

Jussi · Post by **Jussi** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 12:09 pm

Nice - thanks a lot!!

MagicJ · Post by **MagicJ** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 1:28 pm

Man i was looking forward to a nice drawn game in the second test then the whole team goes out and bats like me in the second innings

It's a long long way back from 2-0 down, but at least the sky highlights are good.

muddymuddy1 · Post by **muddymuddy1** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 2:52 pm

Thanks also for the Sky highlights which were most enjoyable for the first 4 days of the last test.............

I have also found this on-line radio coverage.......it isn't quite TMS and appears to be a couple of Indian guys watching Sky, but at least it covers the action. It tends to cut out occasionally and play an extremely annoying jingle, however if you re-load you get it back.

http://www.cricketworld.com/radio/

Come on Monty!!!

muddymuddy1 · Post by **muddymuddy1** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 5:55 am

Another radio coverage option:

http://stanjames.teamtalk.com/StanJames/Ashes_Popup

Juha H. · Post by **Juha H.** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 6:18 pm

Why are there test matches in cricket? Don't they ever play seriously, they always only test?

muddymuddy1 · Post by **muddymuddy1** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 6:25 pm

That is an amusing question

(I am assuming that you aren't just taking the mickey?)

I understand your confusion. These are not Test matches as in experimental. They are called Test matches as they are international games at the highest level over the longest period of time (5 days) and are therefore considered the ultimate test of the players' abilities.......therefore "Test Match"

Juha, please don't send a follow up asking for an explanation of the rules!

However, if you would like to see some cricket in the flesh here in Finland, I can let you know when games are going on in the Summer.

simon · Post by **simon** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 8:10 pm

What a English fekking joke this whole series has been. Where the föck has been the backbone of the team.

whats the point

otyikondo · Post by **otyikondo** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 3:14 pm

Bump!

OUT!

M.B.E. Hubris b. Nemesis 0

Gottim! Nemesis sends Hubris's off-stump cartwheeling with a good-length delivery that came back sharply off the seam. Having not experienced one in the nets, Hubris never saw it coming, and he now trudges ruefully back to the pavilion, where he will join his compatriots - players and armchair players* alike - who fondly imagined that they were as FIGJAM as their last result.

* Maybe it's just the exile in me getting all jaundiced and curmudgeonly and grumpy-old-mannish and Finlandisedly vaatimaton "don't blow your own trumpet" and all, but it seems somehow that the Brits have a humungous, grotesque, totally STEEPLING ability to believe that they are THE BEST in the world at anything and everything (until proven wrong), and therefore I cannot say this result saddens me much... except if I were an Australian cricket fan, when I would wish to have my money returned in full - I would argue that I did not pay to watch pampered lambs being shorn and slaughtered.

There's a sad kind of parallel (somewhere) with ... [Whaaaaat?????? you gotta be kidding. Ed.] 9/11, if only in the sense that the narrow and hard-won victory of 2005 garnered massive temporary support for cricket in England (where it has played second fiddle to football for decades), only for this support to be crudely pissed up against the wall by the very people who should have taken it and nurtured it - players and administrators.

After this last fiasco, the bargain-basement medals and the ticker-tape parades all seem a long long way away and more than a little ridiculous. Which they were.

simon · Post by **simon** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 3:33 pm

And to think half of these jokers got MBE's only a year ago.

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