NPR

Sandstorm wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 2:04 pm

Big Nipper wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 2:02 pm
Maybe you should just shout for India or some other team that are favourites

Relax, son. We'll all support the Chokers....I mean Proteas until the bitter end. We always do.

ScarfaceClaw wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 2:24 pm Danny Morrison. Just shut the fuck up.

OomStruisbaai wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 4:28 pm Scotland should walk this

Biffer wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 4:28 pm

OomStruisbaai wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 4:28 pm Scotland should walk this

You’ve not watched Scottish sport much, have you.

OomStruisbaai wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 4:33 pm

Biffer wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 4:28 pm

OomStruisbaai wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 4:28 pm Scotland should walk this

You’ve not watched Scottish sport much, have you.

Coetzer will finish this off

OomStruisbaai wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 4:33 pm

Biffer wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 4:28 pm

OomStruisbaai wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 4:28 pm Scotland should walk this

You’ve not watched Scottish sport much, have you.

Coetzer will finish this off

OomStruisbaai wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 5:11 pm Pretty easy. Which group will they join?

Thor Sedan wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 5:12 pm

OomStruisbaai wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 5:11 pm Pretty easy. Which group will they join?

The NZ, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan group I think?

Torquemada 1420 wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 8:10 am ... Wasn't aware of the Aussie one. Thx: will look it up.

Biffer wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 5:14 pm

Thor Sedan wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 5:12 pm

OomStruisbaai wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 5:11 pm Pretty easy. Which group will they join?

The NZ, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan group I think?

That’s right

Also means we’re in the next World Cup as well, no qualifying tournament.

Slick wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 5:25 pm

Biffer wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 5:14 pm

Thor Sedan wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 5:12 pm

The NZ, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan group I think?

That’s right

Also means we’re in the next World Cup as well, no qualifying tournament.

Superb stuff!!

Tattie wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 5:48 pm Dare I say that Scottish sporting teams and individuals seem to have developed a bit of self-belief and mental strength in the last couple of years. Quite a few performances and results recently that would have traditionally fallen into the glorious failure category.

convoluted wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 5:25 pm

Torquemada 1420 wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 8:10 am ... Wasn't aware of the Aussie one. Thx: will look it up.

Just looked it up myself.
There is info. It was indeed 1964, and though Simpson didn't play there were some giants of the time in that Aust. team ... Bill Lawry, Ian Redpath, Norm O'Neill, Brian Booth batting; Wally Grout keeping; McKenzie, Cowper and Connolly bowling.
Can't find the rest of the team.

Don't know your age, but to a 15 year old NZer of the time, this result in the newspaper was incomprehensible.

Biffer wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 5:54 pm

Tattie wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 5:48 pm Dare I say that Scottish sporting teams and individuals seem to have developed a bit of self-belief and mental strength in the last couple of years. Quite a few performances and results recently that would have traditionally fallen into the glorious failure category.

Well, this year

1. Men’s Rugby team won in London and Paris
2. Men’s Football team qualified for a major tournament for the first time this century
3. Men’s Cricket team qualified to the big boys table at the T20 World Cup
4. Women’s rugby team qualified for the World Cup for the first time since 2010
5. Women’s cricket team qualified for the t20 World Cup for the first time

Quite the year.

Tattie wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 7:17 pm

Biffer wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 5:54 pm

Tattie wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 5:48 pm Dare I say that Scottish sporting teams and individuals seem to have developed a bit of self-belief and mental strength in the last couple of years. Quite a few performances and results recently that would have traditionally fallen into the glorious failure category.

Well, this year

1. Men’s Rugby team won in London and Paris
2. Men’s Football team qualified for a major tournament for the first time this century
3. Men’s Cricket team qualified to the big boys table at the T20 World Cup
4. Women’s rugby team qualified for the World Cup for the first time since 2010
5. Women’s cricket team qualified for the t20 World Cup for the first time

Quite the year.

Exactly. For rugby you could obviously go further v England, we seem to have their number at the moment, and France 2020&21. Just need to improve the results v Ireland and Wales.

Definitely seems to be a positivity around the fitba team. Not sure if the quality is much better but the heads don’t go down like they used to and they play for the win for the full 90+

Tattie wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 7:17 pm

Biffer wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 5:54 pm

Tattie wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 5:48 pm Dare I say that Scottish sporting teams and individuals seem to have developed a bit of self-belief and mental strength in the last couple of years. Quite a few performances and results recently that would have traditionally fallen into the glorious failure category.

Well, this year

1. Men’s Rugby team won in London and Paris
2. Men’s Football team qualified for a major tournament for the first time this century
3. Men’s Cricket team qualified to the big boys table at the T20 World Cup
4. Women’s rugby team qualified for the World Cup for the first time since 2010
5. Women’s cricket team qualified for the t20 World Cup for the first time

Quite the year.

Exactly. For rugby you could obviously go further v England, we seem to have their number at the moment, and France 2020&21. Just need to improve the results v Ireland and Wales.

Definitely seems to be a positivity around the fitba team. Not sure if the quality is much better but the heads don’t go down like they used to and they play for the win for the full 90+

Yr Alban wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 9:54 pm

Tattie wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 7:17 pm

Biffer wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 5:54 pm

Well, this year

1. Men’s Rugby team won in London and Paris
2. Men’s Football team qualified for a major tournament for the first time this century
3. Men’s Cricket team qualified to the big boys table at the T20 World Cup
4. Women’s rugby team qualified for the World Cup for the first time since 2010
5. Women’s cricket team qualified for the t20 World Cup for the first time

Quite the year.

Exactly. For rugby you could obviously go further v England, we seem to have their number at the moment, and France 2020&21. Just need to improve the results v Ireland and Wales.

Definitely seems to be a positivity around the fitba team. Not sure if the quality is much better but the heads don’t go down like they used to and they play for the win for the full 90+

The weird thing about the fitba team is that they seem to have developed the knack of snatching victory from the jaws of defeat, rather than vice versa as is traditional. Made the Euro finals by winning two games on penalties (after giving up a last minute equaliser v Serbia). More recently they won away in Vienna when only that would do, and have ground out late wins v Israel and the Faroes to put themselves one win v Moldova away from the World Cup playoffs. The opposition hasn’t exactly been top drawer, but these are the games in which Scotland teams have been falling over for years.

Pleased for the cricket team. The only problem is that I absolutely cannot stand cricket. It’s the world’s worst excuse for a sport.

Shane Getkate isn't sure how long his heart wasn't beating, but he does know it was shocked twice with a defibrillator.

It was 2011 and the Ireland all-rounder was 19, trying to make his way in professional cricket, playing an under-19s game for Warwickshire against Cheshire.

"I've had Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome all my life, but it was never an issue until that day," he tells BBC Sport.

"Maybe once or twice a year my heart would go a bit quick, but I'd chill out, put an ice pack on my neck for 20 or 30 minutes and my heart rate would go back down.

"On that day it was hot. I bowled my spell, sat down next to the coach and I wasn't feeling great. I tried to do the same thing with my ice pack. The next minute I was on the deck.

"One of the mums at the game did CPR. Paramedics came in a helicopter. They used the defibrillator on me twice. I was in a coma for two days."

Wolff-Parkinson-White is a reasonably common heart condition that Getkate, now 29, says he was diagnosed with at the age of eight or nine.

Whereas previously it had caused few issues, on this particular Wednesday at Dorridge Cricket Club it almost claimed his life.

"I'm lucky the paramedics got to me so quickly," he says. "If they had been five or 10 minutes later, I wouldn't be here."

When he came around two days later, at his bedside were not only his father and auntie, but also Ireland internationals William Porterfield and Boyd Rankin, who had been playing nearby for the Warwickshire second team when Getkate collapsed.

His mother was desperately trying to make her way from South Africa, where she had been attending a nursing conference.

While Getkate's immediate thoughts were on digesting what had happened and his happiness at being alive, his mind soon turned to cricket.

"I was in one hospital for two or three weeks. I wasn't sure if I was ever going to play again, or even run again," he says.

"The doctors said they were 99% sure I would never play cricket again. As a 19-year-old, that was hard to take."

However, when Getkate was moved to a different hospital, he had surgery that involved "sticking wires through my groin".

Four weeks after he collapsed, he was out of hospital. Two weeks after that, he was playing cricket again.

"It was a miracle turnaround," he says.

....

That remarkable return was the beginning of Getkate's journey to becoming an international cricketer and being named as a reserve in the Ireland squad for the T20 World Cup that is taking place in the United Arab Emirates and Oman.

As he spent time with the Marylebone Young Cricketers at Lord's and played domestically in Ireland, injuries saw him morph from a fast bowler to a power-hitting medium-pacer.

All the while, he never forgot who saved his life.

"The paramedic's name was Terry Flowers. I would ring him on Christmas Day just to say thank you for what he did," says Getkate.

Biffer wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 6:20 pm Little bit of a sting in the tal for the England/Australia/South Africa/West Indies group getting both Sri Lanka and Bangladesh and no associate nation. No easy games in that group.

Yr Alban wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 9:54 pm Pleased for the cricket team. The only problem is that I absolutely cannot stand cricket. It’s the world’s worst excuse for a sport.

fishfoodie wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 11:01 pm A Long read; but a lesson in being thankful for everyday.


https://www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/58725016

... and I'm sure those phone calls help that paramedic get out of bed every day