Re: The Official Cricket Thread
Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2023 3:01 pm
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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2023 3:03 pm
How many specialist fielders have Eng got on as subs? Ahmed as well as Potts?
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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2023 3:03 pm
Gary Lyon 
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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2023 3:10 pm
Eng with everyone on the boundary for a cripple. Would have thought a slip and bowling at the stumps would be a better plan?
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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2023 3:13 pm
Gutsy from Lyon. Even Sir Andrew doesn't like it.....
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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2023 3:15 pm
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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2023 3:17 pm
Beginning to look really stupid by Eng.
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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2023 3:22 pm
What an effort from Lyon. Old school. The old greenkeeper at Manuka Oval.
Proud of you mate.....
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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2023 3:23 pm
Interesting target....very gettable.
Surely England won't fall for the short ball tactic again?
Surely England won't fall for the short ball tactic again?
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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2023 3:26 pm
It is, but I wonder if England have the nerve for it......Thor Sedan wrote: ↑Sat Jul 01, 2023 3:23 pm Interesting target....very gettable.
Surely England won't fall for the short ball tactic again?
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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2023 3:37 pm
So - take it steady and see where they’re at lunchtime tomorrow? Maybe not!
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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2023 4:08 pm
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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2023 4:35 pm
I know the game has changed in many ways but the highest chase is 344 (albeit for 1) by the Windies some 40 years ago.Thor Sedan wrote: ↑Sat Jul 01, 2023 3:23 pm Interesting target....very gettable.
Surely England won't fall for the short ball tactic again?
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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2023 4:45 pm
Not looking so gettable now.Thor Sedan wrote: ↑Sat Jul 01, 2023 3:23 pm Interesting target....very gettable.
Surely England won't fall for the short ball tactic again?
Re: The Official Cricket Thread
Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:22 pm
Thinking about the rarity of specialist bowlers as captains and now we have Southee and Cummins but I can't recall a previous one for Aus.
Benaud was an all rounder.
Benaud was an all rounder.
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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:25 pm
Probably have to go back to Shane Warne in the 90s, though it might have been just one day gamesTorquemada 1420 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:22 pm Thinking about the rarity of specialist bowlers as captains and now we have Southee and Cummins but I can't recall a previous one for Aus.
Benaud was an all rounder.
looking at Wikipedia, Ray Lindwall was a captain for one test only and guess you could claim he was an all rounder too
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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:32 pm
Don't think Warne ever captained a test: as you say, he may have done so in pyjama. Lindwall was defo a bona fide quickie but didn't know he'd ever captained. Was top notch rugby (league) player too!tabascoboy wrote: ↑Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:25 pmProbably have to go back to Shane Warne in the 90s, though it might have been just one day gamesTorquemada 1420 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:22 pm Thinking about the rarity of specialist bowlers as captains and now we have Southee and Cummins but I can't recall a previous one for Aus.
Benaud was an all rounder.
looking at Wikipedia, Ray Lindwall was a captain for one test only and guess you could claim he was an all rounder too
{EDIT} Wiki has him as an all rounder so I guess the position stands.
Re: The Official Cricket Thread
Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:33 pm
Well Bazball seems to be going swimmingly....
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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:35 pm
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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:40 pm
Yeah, knew it had got bad but didn’t realise it had got this bad.Biffer wrote: ↑Sat Jul 01, 2023 7:42 am Pooran and Hope in now, if Scotland can break this partnership quickly we could skittle them.
Slick, WI cricket has been hollowed out over the years by a combination of bad administrators and the dominance of US sports, particularly basketball, in the Caribbean. Fifty years ago if you were six foot four and athletic you would have been straight into pace bowling. Nowadays they go to basketball.
Remember going to watch Scotland v WI in Edinburgh in ‘96 (?) and it was just a day out on tour.
Re: The Official Cricket Thread
Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:47 pm
Yup. Pretty much spot on. Throw inSlick wrote: ↑Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:40 pmYeah, knew it had got bad but didn’t realise it had got this bad.Biffer wrote: ↑Sat Jul 01, 2023 7:42 am Pooran and Hope in now, if Scotland can break this partnership quickly we could skittle them.
Slick, WI cricket has been hollowed out over the years by a combination of bad administrators and the dominance of US sports, particularly basketball, in the Caribbean. Fifty years ago if you were six foot four and athletic you would have been straight into pace bowling. Nowadays they go to basketball.
- a break down of the inter island co-operation (now recriminations abound)
- plenty of corruption which seems to have taken permanent root post Stanford and
- the bizarre approach from the 90s to prepare Pakistan style dead tracks
and it's the death of Calypso cricket.
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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:47 pm
Stokes to pull England through.
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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:48 pm
Stokes gets very lucky. That was a Test match and Ashes over moment.
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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:55 pm
An afrikaaner barracking for England. You should be ashamed of yourself.....
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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:59 pm
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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2023 6:00 pm
Nonsense decision given the laws.
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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2023 6:01 pm
Yes the shame.....Torquemada 1420 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:59 pmHalf of Eng's players have been safas since D'Oliveira.
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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2023 6:11 pm
Should be 5for but we will take it. All to play for tomorrow....
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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2023 7:15 pm
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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2023 7:36 pm
A former member of the AWB calling Austtalian cricketers arrogant.OomStruisbaai wrote: ↑Sat Jul 01, 2023 7:15 pmWhy? My Mauser is spotless. Stokes is world class.
No doubt. Never like the Aussie cricketers. Arrogant pricks.
You couldn't make this up
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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2023 8:01 pm
AWB is long dead Boet. Long time agoDeepsouth wrote: ↑Sat Jul 01, 2023 7:36 pmA former member of the AWB calling Austtalian cricketers arrogant.OomStruisbaai wrote: ↑Sat Jul 01, 2023 7:15 pmWhy? My Mauser is spotless. Stokes is world class.
No doubt. Never like the Aussie cricketers. Arrogant pricks.
You couldn't make this up
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Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2023 7:29 am
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Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2023 7:33 am
I'm yet to hear him deny it.....
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Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2023 7:42 am
Zimbabwe lose three quick wickets against Sri Lanka, 30/3. Critically however, Sean Williams wasn’t one of them. He is averaging 136 in ODIs in this tournament and warm up matches.
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Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2023 7:58 am
Whispering Death.Is it intimidatory bowling? What? With 70mph-plus mickey mouse pace bowling like England did? No way it’s intimidatory! Some of the batting wasn’t really bright. Let me put it this way. If this bowling was attempted at this pace to Viv Richards, Gordon Greenidge or Desmond Haynes, you would be picking the ball off the stands! Not just them, I can think of many a batsman who would have told the umpires trying to step in, ‘Oh don’t stop them, let them bowl more short stuff.
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Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2023 8:05 am
Always a dick, eh Bazza.
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Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2023 8:28 am
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Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2023 9:01 am
Williams has fallen! Huge wicket for Sri Lanka, out for 56. Zimbabwe 128/5 after 24.
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Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2023 10:02 am
I have never support the AWB in fact I hate Terreblanche. Is that what you want to hear?
You are a sad vokker.
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Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2023 10:04 am
The Aussie cricketers are still arrogant cheating pricks.