|
Cricket This poll is closed. |
|||
|---|---|---|---|
| Blackface in crowd |
|
129 | 55.36% |
| References to Lord of the Rings |
|
104 | 44.64% |
| Total: | 233 votes | ||
|
The semis would generally be of a higher quality if only the best teams were involved
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 00:06
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 28, 2024 06:41 |
|
|
Lionel Richie posted:Why don't you want England to go through Because it would be funny.
|
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 00:08
|
|
|
We all have a giggle mate but no true Englishman would ever actually want them to lose in a world cup. It's wound me up that has, I'm a bit riled tbh.
|
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 00:14
|
|
|
Did that post cause you to drop your cup of tea?
|
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 00:27
|
|
Tater Love 
|
The lack of sledging is, I presume, because David Warner cannot theoretically speak Farsi
|
|
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 00:27
|
|
|
Drugs posted:The lack of sledging is, I presume, because David Warner cannot theoretically speak Farsi Should've played Watto, he's fully fluent in Farcey
|
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 00:44
|
|
|
webmeister posted:
"I was in a game in 1992 when some batsman smashed a big six up onto that roof, what a classic moment"
|
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 01:15
|
|
|
Drugs posted:The lack of sledging is, I presume, because David Warner cannot theoretically speak Farsi Mate I'm going to be forced to report you and anyone else who disrespects The Ghan by confusing Farsi with Pashto and saying Afghani instead of Afghan. Also that horse game is played with a calf not a goat and Kohli is Pakistani.
|
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 01:20
|
|
|
I must say it's a nice change to have some actual commentary in this game and not Warne going on about mulligans or Brendon Julian's party or similar twattery
|
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 01:33
|
|
|
Drugs posted:I didn't watch the game but looked at the score and can only assume that it was a game of graceless Australian showboating Australia treated Afghanistan with a surprising amount of respect, no showboating or over the top stupidity. The Afghan players have a lot of raw talent and the bowling certainly didn't deserve to have 400+ made against it. Batting wasnt great but what do you expect of players that would almost certainly never played against bowlers near the pace of Starc / Johnson? Despite the huge loss, Afghanistan weren't an embarrassment at all.
|
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 01:46
|
|
|
Coetzer may double Scotland's previous top score in a WC.
|
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 01:59
|
|
|
Not one post about this Scotland own session?
|
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 02:00
|
|
|
Scotland may be about to guarantee England's place in the quarter finals Also this is the first game that Scotland's openers haven't collapsed and they have batted very well.
|
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 02:01
|
|
|
Haque's popped his shoulder, so even more likely now.
|
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 02:04
|
|
|
Scotland's batting is their strong point so I won't get too excited; but we have had a few good performances with the ball
|
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 02:05
|
|
|
Coetzer is one of those who always looks toilet in county cricket but good whenever he plays for his associate nation, see also the O'Brien brothers
|
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 02:09
|
|
|
Pitch looks flat as though; it'll probably end up like that England-Sri Lanka game when everyone got excited over them scoring 300; before Sri Lanka chased it down without any sweat. Would have been nice if Mommsen had hung around, but Berrington's not awful
|
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 02:13
|
|
|
Drugs posted:The lack of sledging is, I presume, because David Warner cannot theoretically speak Farsi He had a few words with an Afghan bowler over a caught behind appeal (I think it was shapoor) but Warner was actually in the right there. He didn't hit the ball and the bowler spoke to him first. Outside of that it was played in pretty good spirit. Johnson barely bowled at the body. Starc just bowled ball after ball full at the stumps. Clarke didn't just unleash the quick bowlers at them and used the game as a chance to give himself and Faulkner a bit of a stretch. Maxwell batted like a maniac but that's his style. Smith and Warner batted pretty respectfully. I think the side probably got a serve because they batted like brainless clowns against new Zealand so they were under strict orders to treat Afghanistan with respect until they established a decent score.
|
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 02:15
|
|
|
Must admit I'm not entirely confident about this bit of Scotland's batting lineup.
|
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 02:21
|
|
|
It's going to be really funny when England win the world cup
|
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 02:28
|
|
|
Scylo posted:It's going to be really funny when England win the world cup best joke of 2031 for sure
|
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 02:30
|
|
|
Scylo posted:It's going to be really funny when England win the world cup Honestly think England have more chance of winning the football world cup than the cricket one.
|
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 02:41
|
|
|
Think they're around 15 runs short of where they need to be: which is annoying. Ah well; they've played well.
|
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 02:47
|
|
|
Bangladesh are going to lose which is good because I don't like them.
|
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 02:52
|
|
|
Butch dropping some truth bombs in the sky studio. Butch is pro tier punditry.
|
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 03:15
|
|
|
The two white ball experiment is turning into a bit of a failure IMO. Yeah the white ball is a piece of poo poo in general but unless the bowlers can get the ball to swing they are going to be absolutely carted because the batsman is now hitting a much harder ball late in the game. There is less in it for spin bowlers too.
|
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 03:39
|
|
|
RideTheSpiral posted:Butch dropping some truth bombs in the sky studio. Butch is pro tier punditry. 
|
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 03:41
|
|
|
Burn Down Canberra posted:The two white ball experiment is turning into a bit of a failure IMO. Yeah the white ball is a piece of poo poo in general but unless the bowlers can get the ball to swing they are going to be absolutely carted because the batsman is now hitting a much harder ball late in the game. There is less in it for spin bowlers too. No team averages more than 5 in the first 10 overs since that was introduced so you're wrong.
|
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 03:44
|
|
|
Bangladesh should have enough quality and experience to chase this, especially since Tamim Iqbal surprisingly didn't fail. They are a batsman short though with Anamul injured.
|
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 04:08
|
|
|
Burn Down Canberra posted:The two white ball experiment is turning into a bit of a failure IMO. Yeah the white ball is a piece of poo poo in general but unless the bowlers can get the ball to swing they are going to be absolutely carted because the batsman is now hitting a much harder ball late in the game. There is less in it for spin bowlers too. The people want to see massive sixes though. God forbid a batsman's strike rate drop below 80 in an ODI. Even fours don't get cheered as much as they did anymore lol. Just get rid of fielding restrictions, creep the boundaries a bit further back and get rid of the second new ball and ODI cricket will get competitive again. Seams fucked around with this message at 04:23 on Mar 5, 2015 |
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 04:21
|
|
|
Mister Chief posted:No team averages more than 5 in the first 10 overs since that was introduced so you're wrong. Because sides know they can just launch into the ball after the first ten. There is nothing in it for the slow bowlers now. Edit Plus the batting sides don't need to go hard in the first ten now because of the power plays. It's about building a foundation now. Burn Down Canberra fucked around with this message at 04:39 on Mar 5, 2015 |
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 04:32
|
|
|
I'm a bit of a lapsed cricket fan since I moved to Canada, but have fond memories of watching and playing the game in the 90's/early 2000s. As much as I love seeing AB smash a hundred million runs in 10 overs or whatever, the game is way to geared towards batters, which kind of takes the fun out of watching a fielding team compose itself and stratagise. Personally I say gently caress the powerplay/fielding restrictions. It pretty much ensures that that one team is playing with a hand tied behind their backs. Also the new game favours sloggers more than playmakers which is a shame.
|
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 04:39
|
|
|
As long as they don't remove fielding restrictions from Don Bradman Cricket, else I'd be shithouse at T20 tournaments
|
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 04:45
|
|
|
I wouldn't be surprised if more teams put nurdlers in their top order and their very best batsman lower down the order from now on. Maybe England is on to something with Bell opening...
|
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 04:49
|
|
|
Madkal posted:I'm a bit of a lapsed cricket fan since I moved to Canada, but have fond memories of watching and playing the game in the 90's/early 2000s. As much as I love seeing AB smash a hundred million runs in 10 overs or whatever, the game is way to geared towards batters, which kind of takes the fun out of watching a fielding team compose itself and stratagise. Personally I say gently caress the powerplay/fielding restrictions. It pretty much ensures that that one team is playing with a hand tied behind their backs. Also the new game favours sloggers more than playmakers which is a shame. All of this would be true if Aus v NZ didn't happen a week ago. Its poo poo bowling thats the problem, notbatting.
|
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 04:56
|
|
|
We definitely need to change all the rules due to AB de Villiers destroying lovely bowling attacks.
|
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 05:01
|
|
|
Byolante posted:All of this would be true if Aus v NZ didn't happen a week ago. Its poo poo bowling thats the problem, notbatting. Also the NZ pitch was a belter which provided a nice bit of swing for the bowlers. Games like that are going to become rarer though as the demands of TV revenue and the general public's bias towards dominating batting over dominating bowling performances entrenches itself. Batsmanship has evolved and become leagues better than just ten years ago, while bowling has become much harder in part because of ICC rules. Seams fucked around with this message at 05:18 on Mar 5, 2015 |
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 05:14
|
|
|
argh I knew Scotland were a little short They need to hope that Bangladesh through away their wickets trying for NRR or something, which I doubt they'd do
|
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 05:50
|
|
|
Get home from work to tune into some quality creep-shots of women in the crowd, and lo and behold there's a game of cricket on. Classy.
|
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 05:53
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 28, 2024 06:41 |
|
|
Burn Down Canberra posted:The two white ball experiment is turning into a bit of a failure IMO. Yeah the white ball is a piece of poo poo in general but unless the bowlers can get the ball to swing they are going to be absolutely carted because the batsman is now hitting a much harder ball late in the game. There is less in it for spin bowlers too. I have fond memories of not being able to see the ball 30+ overs into the innings. e: come on bangers! Airstream Driver fucked around with this message at 06:30 on Mar 5, 2015 |
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 06:11
|
|
