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Biffer wrote: ↑Mon Dec 05, 2022 3:20 pm Well, Scotland properly shat the bed against Namibia. Poor score of 208 batting first, had Namibia at 111/7 but somehow managed to let them power on from there to 210/7. Shite.
Awesome. :clap:
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Bangers beat India again!
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Scotland bowl Namibia out for 119 in the last game of the tri series in Namibia.

Having looked at the tables, I think a win today would mean Scotland qualify for the tournament in Zimbabwe next year.
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Scotland 121/3 off 16.5. Qualification for next year's tournament done.
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Biffer wrote: ↑Thu Dec 08, 2022 12:20 pm Scotland 121/3 off 16.5. Qualification for next year's tournament done.
That's better!
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Welcome back to leg spin. :thumbup:
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Torquemada 1420 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 09, 2022 7:45 am Welcome back to leg spin. :thumbup:
7 wickets on debut. Well played!
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SaintK wrote: ↑Fri Dec 09, 2022 10:16 am
Torquemada 1420 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 09, 2022 7:45 am Welcome back to leg spin. :thumbup:
7 wickets on debut. Well played!
Needed to. Has Pak got a single frontline seamer fit?

Just realised he got wickets with the carrom ball!!
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wickets this morning,

Leach gets another, bowled him - 165/5
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skittles,

169/8
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Judging by the two wickets that have fallen, Pakistan ain’t getting anywhere near that total.
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Leach gets ul Haq! Seventeen overs left today for Pakistan to lollapse.
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Genuine question. What was the big deal about the 1st England v Pakistan test?

Didn’t see it or read anything about it at the time but all the papers seem to be still talking about it in awed terms
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Slick wrote: ↑Sun Dec 11, 2022 7:30 pm Genuine question. What was the big deal about the 1st England v Pakistan test?

Didn’t see it or read anything about it at the time but all the papers seem to be still talking about it in awed terms
England scored 500 runs on day 1.

Also, most runs in a five day test ever.
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Biffer wrote: ↑Sun Dec 11, 2022 7:53 pm
Slick wrote: ↑Sun Dec 11, 2022 7:30 pm Genuine question. What was the big deal about the 1st England v Pakistan test?

Didn’t see it or read anything about it at the time but all the papers seem to be still talking about it in awed terms
England scored 500 runs on day 1.

Also, most runs in a five day test ever.
Oh, right!

Also saw quite a bit about Stokes’ captaincy being great
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less than 100 to get, 5 wickets in hand...
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Three wickets left now, with a highly dodgy out from the TMO on the last wicket.
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Slick wrote: ↑Sun Dec 11, 2022 7:30 pm Genuine question. What was the big deal about the 1st England v Pakistan test?

Didn’t see it or read anything about it at the time but all the papers seem to be still talking about it in awed terms
It was the flattest of pitches - normally both sides would score 600 or so at 4 an over in the first 4 days and the game would have been the dullest of dull draws. Pakistan might not even have batted a second time.

By scoring at 6.5 in the first innings, and then making a very aggressive declaration, England made a result likely and then managed to engineer 20 wickets to win.

England set Pakistan 343 to win in c. 95 overs, so a rate of about 3.6 - on that pitch you would have Pakistan favourites to get that, so it was a very brave decision.
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This is awesome. Love this approach from Abrar.
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Pakistan made England work bloody hard for it but a deserved win for the Stokes machine.
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Kiwias wrote: ↑Mon Dec 12, 2022 7:12 am Three wickets left now, with a highly dodgy out from the TMO on the last wicket.
Soft signal was out so he would have struggled to overturn the call. A bit like the try in our test with England
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IMO they've been getting those calls wrong a fair amount in the past few years. Yes I know, foreshortening effect etc, but there's been a handful I can think of that really shouldn't have been given.

Then again it's the equivalent of "umpire's call" which I think is a total cop-out anyway...
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fanatic bowling from Wood to get the 2 settled players out and setup the win :thumbup:

Pakistan need to take a serious look at how they play those leg side deliveries.
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Enzedder wrote: ↑Mon Dec 12, 2022 8:51 am
Kiwias wrote: ↑Mon Dec 12, 2022 7:12 am Three wickets left now, with a highly dodgy out from the TMO on the last wicket.
Soft signal was out so he would have struggled to overturn the call. A bit like the try in our test with England
TMS was saying that the rules have recently been changed and the soft signal has no bearing on the decision making unless there's a technology failure
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Kiwias wrote: ↑Mon Dec 12, 2022 7:12 am Three wickets left now, with a highly dodgy out from the TMO on the last wicket.
Just seen it on the news, admittedly they didn’t show multiple slowmos but I’m amazed it was given out.
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Spark Sport gooonne!

It's being shut down, and all NZ international cricket will be free-to-air on TVNZ from next July. :thumbup:
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TFW in pro 20 over cricket you manage to score fewer runs than there are overs

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Big Bash League: Sydney Thunder bowled out for 15 by Adelaide Strikers

Sydney Thunder were dismissed for 15 - the lowest score in men's Twenty20 history - as they were thrashed by Adelaide Strikers in the Big Bash League on Friday.

Chasing 140 to win, Thunder were bowled out in just 35 balls, with number 10 Brendan Doggett top-scoring with four.

Five players made a duck, including England T20 World Cup winner and opening batter Alex Hales.

The previous lowest score was Turkey's 21 against the Czech Republic in 2019.

Strikers' pace bowler Henry Thornton took 5-3 and Wes Agar 4-6 as they claimed a 124-run victory against the abject Thunder.

They had posted a reasonable 139-9 from their 20 overs but tore through Thunder's batting line-up, with the hosts reduced to 9-6 and then 10-8.

Thunder's sole boundary came from a Brendan Doggett inside edge in the penultimate over of the match, which gave him the top score of four.

Their innings of 5.5 overs is the shortest innings in men's T20 history.

"I feel like I need to retire now. I don't think I'm getting better than that," Thornton told Channel Seven.

"I honestly cannot believe what just happened. I think everyone here probably doesn't know what is going on either. It was amazing."

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Emotional opening to the cricket test in Brisbane as they pay their respects to the 2 police officers murdered this week.

Hardly a dry eye in the place.
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Wonderful to wake up and see SA have already had a bat. 152 all out.
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Enzedder wrote: ↑Sat Dec 17, 2022 12:12 am Emotional opening to the cricket test in Brisbane as they pay their respects to the 2 police officers murdered this week.

Hardly a dry eye in the place.
Read about that story. Those brothers were completely unhinged.
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Test over inside of 2 days. Head grounds-keeper better hope his pay/bonus isn't linked to gate receipts.

Aus win by 6 wickets, chasing 34 to win after SA skittled again for 99. Rabada with 4 for 14. Extras comforable top scorer as Steve Smith tops the Aus second innings batting with 6 runs...
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Insane_Homer wrote: ↑Sun Dec 18, 2022 8:05 am Test over inside of 2 days. Head grounds-keeper better hope his pay/bonus isn't linked to gate receipts.

Aus win by 6 wickets, chasing 34 to win after SA skittled again for 99. Rabada with 4 for 14. Extras comforable top scorer as Steve Smith tops the Aus second innings batting with 6 runs...
I didn’t see any of it but surely that’s going to be a substandard surface?
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Biffer wrote: ↑Sun Dec 18, 2022 8:22 am
Insane_Homer wrote: ↑Sun Dec 18, 2022 8:05 am Test over inside of 2 days. Head grounds-keeper better hope his pay/bonus isn't linked to gate receipts.

Aus win by 6 wickets, chasing 34 to win after SA skittled again for 99. Rabada with 4 for 14. Extras comforable top scorer as Steve Smith tops the Aus second innings batting with 6 runs...
I didn’t see any of it but surely that’s going to be a substandard surface?
Indeed. Too green with lots of divots. Very poor from the ground staff.
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England from 145-5 to 354 all out and a lead of 50!
Pakistan with an hour to bat until stumps
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Been a remarkable year for England since the West Indies tour.
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Enzedder wrote: ↑Sat Dec 17, 2022 12:12 am Emotional opening to the cricket test in Brisbane as they pay their respects to the 2 police officers murdered this week.

Hardly a dry eye in the place.
I didn't see it, but I hope the "respects" extended to the poor sod of a neighbour, who (i) was a totally innocent victim and (ii) seems to have been largely overlooked in most media accounts.
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Proteas useless top order skittled again. Time to replace the lot of them.
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Babar Azam won the toss and Pakistan will bat first.

Pakistan: 1 Imam-ul-Haq, 2 Abdullah Shafique, 3 Shan Masood, 4 Babar Azam (capt), 5 Saud Shakeel, 6 Sarfaraz Ahmed (wk), 7 Agha Salman, 8 Nauman Ali, 9 Mohammad Wasim, 10 Mir Hamza, 11 Abrar Ahmed

New Zealand: 1 Tom Latham, 2 Devon Conway, 3 Kane Williamson, 4 Henry Nicholls, 5 Daryl Mitchell, 6 Tom Blundell (wk), 7 Michael Bracewell, 8 Tim Southee (capt), 9 Ish Sodhi, 10 Neil Wagner, 11 Ajaz Patel
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Would love Southee to give Kane a dozen overs today. :twisted:
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