Thread: Cricket scores around the world

Originally Posted by Necron99

Have they figured out you need to hit the ball more than 25 meters to make the fence yet?

I like it when people put a lot of effort into a clever gag....

....when will you?

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

I was complaining about the fact that they resorted to Duckworth Lewis, which clearly changed the game, when they didn't need to.

Originally Posted by Wally Dorian Raffles

Duckworth-Lewis will change - Morgan - BBC Sport

I said the English were moaning about it...were Duckworth and Lewis Czechs?

West Indies struggling in chase of 392

West Indies 220 (Holder 82*, Blackwood 51, Hazlewood 5-38) and 6 for 2 (Starc 2-1) need another 376 runs to beat Australia 399 and 212 for 2 dec (Marsh 69, Warner 62, Smith 54*)

Australia making it look easy in the Caribbean - a far cry from Engerland who struggled there just weeks before.

Originally Posted by Bruce Bayliss

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

I was complaining about the fact that they resorted to Duckworth Lewis, which clearly changed the game, when they didn't need to.

Originally Posted by Wally Dorian Raffles

Duckworth-Lewis will change - Morgan - BBC Sport

I said the English were moaning about it...were Duckworth and Lewis Czechs?

He's Irish you dickhead.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

He's Irish you dickhead.

So he was speaking on behalf of Ireland?

Brendon Julian 'Sir Wank Forrell' cricket trophy presentation gaffe | Stuff.co.nz

Smith named world's best Test batsman

Originally Posted by bobo746

Smith named world's best Test batsman

His purple patch started around here when he tonked Swann all over the park to make his first ton on Australian soil.


Swann's last test??

Originally Posted by bobo746

Smith named world's best Test batsman

So he should be, phenomenal run of form over recent times. Lets hope it ends now.........

Hope he cleans up the poms.

Originally Posted by Bobcock

So he should be, phenomenal run of form over recent times. Lets hope it ends now.........

Usually a batsman in form like Smith is at the moment is worked out by opposition sides and their run ends until they sort out their weakness.

I don't think Smith has a weakness though and his style is so unauthodox I really believe he may be the next best batsman for many years to come.

Oh I'm sure he will be in the side scoring runs for years, but every batsman has a lean patch...... lets all just hope and pray to the Cheese God that it happens over the next 18 months

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

Usually a batsman in form like Smith is at the moment is worked out by opposition sides and their run ends until they sort out their weakness.

Fair comment...but WTF is the English team is going to work him out...they can't even work out Ross Taylor.

Originally Posted by Bobcock

but every batsman has a lean patch

Bradman did in his last game scoring a duck and ending up on a 99.9 test average.

^ 99.94 to be 100% correct

There are batsmen....and then there is Bradman, rules for the larger group do not apply to the lone individual mentioned.

It's a simple as that.....

I love it when people list rankings with the rather confident....

Best Centre in the World

1 Conrad Smith

Daylight

2......

Usually bullshit.......it's just opinion......

But in this one and only case it is spot on....

1. Bradman

Daylight

More Daylight

2.....

Yes, a few million Indians will tell you otherwise and people try to argue about the standards being lower etc. - but yes, Bradman was a freak.

From all reports there were plenty of quick bowlers back then and playing on uncovered pitches with minimal protection with bats that resembled toothpicks makes him all the more a freak

If it was so easy why didn't anyone else do it?

Another one of our players badly injured

English players 'in tears' after sickening Moises Henriques and Rory Burns incident | smh.com.au

This comes after Rogers was hit on the helmet weeks ago and is still recovering

Originally Posted by Bobcock

If it was so easy why didn't anyone else do it?

Bradman practiced using a stump to bounce a golf ball against a cement wall for hours on end.

He was not a big hitter but was a great guider of the ball through gaps around the oval.

Originally Posted by Bobcock

If it was so easy why didn't anyone else do it?

The fact that his strike rate was so high makes his feats even more amazing. I think he still holds some kind of record for the amount of runs scored in a day - even in today's climate of quick run scoring ( Mind you, England is still a bit behind the times in that department )

Something for the poms to think about

Ryan Harris isn?t in Australia?s best XI | The Roar

Originally Posted by Wally Dorian Raffles

Bradman was a freak.

Who had a weakness against short pitched bowling on leg stump...it took a crafty and hard nosed upper class Englishman born in India to work that out...Australia would have been proud of him...but he was on the wrong side.

^ yeah, you have already mentioned that because he only averaged 50 something in the body line series he is some how over-rated :rollseyes:

It is true that they don't like Jardine cos he was a Pom that beat them up......

They even made a TV show about how hard done by they were.....

It's funny that they don't see the 74/75 series in the same light....

Just a bunch of fucking whingers in truth, it's only the self realisation that makes them project.....