"Suresh K S" <sureshkarathin... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote in messagenews:d09ff2bf-48bb-4fe7-85fc-b6d899de222a at (no spam) q35g2000vbi.googlegroups.com...

Are they so different? As in is one so much better the other?

during the Ashes tests Australia dominated most of the statistics, i dont
feel England were the better test side

On Sep 19, 8:09 am, "Dave -Turner" <ad... at (no spam) 127.0.0.1> wrote:

"Suresh K S" <sureshkarathin... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote in messagenews:d09ff2bf-48bb-4fe7-85fc-b6d899de222a at (no spam) q35g2000vbi.googlegroups.com...

Are they so different? As in is one so much better the other?

during the Ashes tests Australia dominated most of the statistics, i dont
feel England were the better test side

So the better team lost? Oh dear little Davie still wallowing in his
bile and bitterness.

Are they so different? As in is one so much better the other?

So the better team lost?

The Australians look good on paper; however, Test cricket is played on
grass

Jellore wrote:

On Sep 19, 8:09 am, "Dave -Turner" <ad... at (no spam) 127.0.0.1> wrote:
"Suresh K S" <sureshkarathin... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote in messagenews:d09ff2bf-48bb-4fe7-85fc-b6d899de222a at (no spam) q35g2000vbi.googlegroups.com...

Are they so different? As in is one so much better the other?

during the Ashes tests Australia dominated most of the statistics, i dont
feel England were the better test side

So the better team lost? Oh dear little Davie still wallowing in his
bile and bitterness.

Australia won every test where they won the toss.

England won half of the tests where they won the toss; and drew the
other half.

In ODOs the toss is less relevant, since each side is playing on a day 3
pitch.  Hence the marginally better Australian side are able to win each
game, regardless of the toss.

And don;t get me started on this, "Why would you have ODOs after tests?"
whinge that the Poms have got on.  (Rob Smythe, I'm lloking at *you*.)

 - Syd

On Sep 19, 8:09 am, "Dave -Turner" <ad... at (no spam) 127.0.0.1> wrote:
"Suresh K S" <sureshkarathin... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote in messagenews:d09ff2bf-48bb-4fe7-85fc-b6d899de222a at (no spam) q35g2000vbi.googlegroups.com...

Are they so different? As in is one so much better the other?

during the Ashes tests Australia dominated most of the statistics, i dont
feel England were the better test side

So the better team lost? Oh dear little Davie still wallowing in his
bile and bitterness.

Australia won every test where they won the toss.

England won half of the tests where they won the toss; and drew the
other half.
snip

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The Australians look good on paper; however, Test cricket is played on
grass

Nice quip!

--
Lawrence
"If I was a towel, why would I be wearing this hat and this fake
moustache" - Steven McTowelie - 19 April 2006

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The Australians look good on paper; however, Test cricket is played on
grass


Nice quip!

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higgs wrote:
On Sep 21, 7:36 pm, "Lawrence Logic" <lawrence-OmitThisBit-lo... at (no spam) amd-
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On Sep 19, 2:25 pm, "Lawrence Logic" <lawrence-OmitThisBit-lo... at (no spam) amd-
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The Australians look good on paper; however, Test cricket is
played on grass
Nice quip!
--
Lawrence
"If I was a towel, why would I be wearing this hat and this fake
moustache" - Steven McTowelie - 19 April 2006
It is quite adroit. But I wonder who coined it? Type the two phrases
"look good on paper" and "played on grass" into Google search, enter,
and there are 17,600 results. This was the first result.
BYLINE: Jonty Mark
"Ever heard the phrase, "They look good on paper, but football's
played on grass, not on paper"?
It's an old footballing cliche, though actually, it's not always
true. Football sometimes isn't played on grass at all.
Admittedly, it's not played on paper either. If football isn't played
on grass, it is played on astroturf."
An honest person would have made some version of an acknowledgement
that the phrase was not theirs, or admitted as such upon comment,
however honesty and Mr Buckberry-Cotsford-Higgs do not reside under
the same roof.
Alright, this is just for the sake of argument: I don't think he would
be dishonest if he did not acknowledge. It may well be that he did not
know that someone else had coined it earlier but he ALSO coined the
same thing. So in all fairness and being ignorant of any previous
occurrences he is not being dishonest if he claims that he coined it.
Doesn't it happen to you that you think of something or interpret
something in a specific way and when you are told that some relatively
well known personality also did the same earlier? So this could be the
same case.
But yes previous experiences with the individual may gave us a clue on
the truth of the matter. However, to be overly fair we could treat
every instance of behavior as independent of specific history of the
individual's behavior.
I don't think that Higgs needed to acknowledge the source because it's just
a stock line.  It has been said hundreds or thousands of times by various
people over a long period of time, but it was still a nice quip when
presented in this thread.  I doubt that Higgs actually thinks that he's just
coined a new phrase.

Thank you.
I made no attempt to pass the comment off as a new phrase I had
invented,  I simply made a quip vis the apparent dominance of
Australia from a casual look at the stats in the absence actually
watching the matches, much as you'd see any day of the week on rsc.

Not that I feel I need to justify myself to dishonest trolling sock
puppets with a barrow to push

Higgs

So you ARE Lawrence Logic?

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LOL!

Who's Bigpong Internet Services?

On Sep 22, 7:30 am, higgs <kenhig... at (no spam) hotmail.com> wrote:

LOL!

Who's Bigpong Internet Services?

They stink