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Given that VdM, who took him out, proceeded to shepherd the ball over the dead ball line at reduced pace, I can't see how he wouldn't have been able to touch it down if VdM were not there? And as I understand it you are supposed to judge it as if the offending player were not there.

An interesting article in the Torygraph about Smith at 15 -they're presenting some reasonable arguments as to why they think it's a good call. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/2025/02/04/marcus-smith-england-full-back-france-analysis-six-nations/ In 2023, when England suffered their record l...

My conspiracy theory is that aging has already been cured, but it's a tightly kept secret, which is why Murdoch just Will. Not. Die.

See also Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos & Thiel. Probably also Trump, Putin etc. Endless oligarchy & tyranny is upon us.

A spiv is a dodgy businessman, black market, seedy, always on the lookout for making a quick buck, more often than not borderline illegally. Cheap shiny suit, nasty little moustache. Del boy in Only Fools and Horses, Private Walker in Dad's Army. The Irish use it to insult the owners of the premiers...

Benefit of the doubt has always been a "thing" in cricket (sports?) and home teams have generally been given that benefit since Jesus was a lad. Seems that even with technology, that law still applies. Not sure the South African women would agree. They've been on the receiving end of some...

It's excellent, and Rylance is a brilliant actor, but he just seems to me desperately miscast as Mantel's Cromwell. A major part of his character is that he was a bruiser, and you sense, could be again; people are physically intimidated by him as well as afraid of him as a political operator. And he...

On the positive side it may have hastened the demise of Crawley. Spot the odd one out: England batting averages | Player | Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | BF | HS | Ave | SR | 100 | 50 | 0 | 4s | 6s | |---------------|----:|-----:|---:|-----:|----:|----:|------:|-------:|----:|---:|--:|---:|---:| | HC Broo...

Having said which Stokes gets a yorker to swing in fast and late - great work by Young to keep it out.

There’s been some seam and swing, but not sure enough to justify bowling.

Bethell looks the real deal to me. Those punch drives down the ground, barely more than a forward defensive, suggest an immaculate technique and timing. Pope & Crawley should be anxious. Particularly Pope, I fear, because of the opener thing and because Crawley seems to be untouchable, a sort of...

It's been a long time since I saw a "A side would beat the senior side" post.

There are 4 missing: Greenwood, Catt, Woodman and Hill.

It’s Danny Grewcock beside Cohen

Oh no, it’s a slimmed down Vickery, isn’t it.

Cohen & Regan I reckon on the left.

Is that Mike Catt between Lewsey & Back? Fucking hell if so.

Get rid of IHT. If you receive total gifts or inheritance with value over £1,000 (or something like that) in a calendar year it has to be declared as income and taxed as such.

Thank fuck for that. Not sure I could have coped with the club WhatsApp group if NZ hadn't held their nerve. When India were effectively 52/3 I was fearful.

(No-one has ever done it before - previous highest 1st innings lead to result in defeat was Sri Lanka vs Australia, 1st Test at Colombo, Aug 17 1992 when Sri Lanka lost after posting a 291 run 1st innings lead.)

How the fuck do you cock up a 354 run 1st innings lead!

(I seem to be slightly odd in this but personally I don't really give a shit whether humanity / self aware intelligence goes extinct 500 years after I die or 500 billion years after I die. It's going to go extinct with the universe anyway. Quite like to give our great grandchildren's generation as g...

Musk is a spineless, gutless, trump supporting degenerate plum. Even if that's all true hes also doing more than any other invidiual alive at the moment to ensure the long term survival of the human race... For me Musk's proposition fails on its own terms. Things I think are pretty obvious: * In th...

Why do amateurs play softball?

Well I scored my first 50 on Sunday aged 47, so I reckon I'm only just getting started.

They say they did 160,000 matches in 2016. Let's assume 200,000 matches this year, 3/4 on a Saturday - 150,000 over 18 weekends == 8,333 concurrent games. Call it 10,000 to make the maths easy. Games played at 16 overs per hour (yeah, right...) == 96 balls an hour, 1 ball every 37.5 seconds. Multipl...

The traffic live scoring on a Saturday is still tiny, competent web devs should not be having issues with it.

Play Cricket's always been rubbish - whoever wrote it knows shit about web programming. I have found so many security flaws in it over the years it's ridiculous. The UX continues to be atrocious. The fact that pro scorer is a windows only app is insane. Just an all round shoddy bit of work.

Scorecard: https://mickleover.play-cricket.com/web ... ts/6106278
Max Thomson's stats: https://mickleover.play-cricket.com/pla ... ype_id=179

Have to admit I find this more than a little bizarre. I’m perfectly happy with blocking for a draw (and have done so successfully twice this season), I cannot quite work out why they didn’t make an attempt to pick up some batting points. Also can’t work out how a team can finish on 20 something aft...

Enzedder wrote: ↑Sat Jul 13, 2024 1:57 am
or he would have replicated Hadlee's last ball heroics
And mine - and Murilee's.

Or, you know, Stuart Broad's.

Think c.45% of the country would describe themselves as atheist or non religious. And a decent chunk of the other 55% would be non Christian. Atheism (or being non Christian) as an attack line would probably struggle for traction I think it would have been a thing until very recently. It's literall...

The flawed system also delivered a referendum on making it less flawed in very recent history. The Great British Electorate, in their infinite wisdom, didn't vote (57.8%) or voted against (28.5%) with only 13.7% voting for a system where every vote would count.

Hard to know who blew that most. Until the 17th over I was happy to say that SA were bowling brilliantly, but frankly Baartman's horror show there should have gone for more than 21 - only 1 6 from 5 rank full tosses. And then Livingstone holes out to another that should have gone for 6 in the next o...

clydecloggie wrote: ↑Tue Jun 11, 2024 12:28 pmBatting against England is always a good idea

You're not wrong, but should surely be in the cricket thread?

I gather the WI rainy season starts in June.

Is there a mandatory lobotomy on appointment to any position in a sporting government body?

Honestly, Quins are a ridiculous team to support

I think he's just suggesting they haven't spotted it. I was a bit amazed that no-one mentioned it on commentary, and I could find no mention on social media, which is why I started putting up pics and videos. Astonishingly it seems to have gone under the radar.

The video's worse, makes it look really deliberate:

Mahoney wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 2:28 pm Completely deliberate finger in a Toulouse eye by an Exeter player there?

Umm...

Completely deliberate finger in a Toulouse eye by an Exeter player there?

Right Fin, have another go

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