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England making a meal of this since Bell got out.
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Jan 23, 2015 07:41
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Shmoses posted:Weird that this video should come up, my mate and I watched this an hour or so ago. Anyway the reason Langer retired was because that was the rule of that Mickey Mouse Super 8s comp they were playing. Same way he was getting 8 for balls hit over the fence Sounds like that dumb Cricket Max thing where you could hit a 12.
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Jan 23, 2015 07:48
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Even Guptil is hitting boundaries down the ground, blimey.
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Feb 14, 2015 00:02
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Burn Down Canberra posted:Is this the kiwis best side or will there be some changes to the line up when they play Australia. Still fancy the kiwis to beat us over there but I reckon if we draw them in a later round game in Australia we will win. Maybe Kyle Mills in for Milne? More experience and Mills isn't exactly pretty with the bat but he can give the ball a bit of a hump. How good at batsman is Milne? e: beaten like England trying to chase 300
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Feb 17, 2015 02:11
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Bangladesh looking to get to 260 by the close and then press the advantage on day two.
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Feb 18, 2015 05:13
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 FYI this also works for any other sport, except rugby because that is a silly game for silly people.
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Feb 20, 2015 01:06
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NZ anthem sounds like a vague ripoff of Hark The Herald Angels Sing.
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Feb 20, 2015 01:57
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If Ballance is going to play shots like that then it may as well be me out there. My club team have seen plenty of that from me over the seasons.
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Feb 20, 2015 03:04
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Lionel Richie posted:Not really no. Bopara is fine for England really; he's a middling sort of player but beggars can't be choosers and occasionally he'll do something to win a game. Ballance is the next Ramprakash/Hick/vintage Bell who looks way too good in county cricket and out of his depth in internationals (Bairstow is in that category too). Hales should probably have a run in the side, but he's flakey as gently caress himself. Ballance is better than that, he will be a solid test player for us. Whether he has enough shots for limited overs cricket remains to be seen though.
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Feb 20, 2015 03:26
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He had a terrible IPL last year, but he was the second highest runscorer in the Big Bash this year and played two fewer matches than everyone else in the top five.
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Feb 20, 2015 03:46
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What the gently caress happened to you Stuart? You used to be an excellent no. 8, but for the last two years you've been clueless with the bat.
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Feb 20, 2015 04:17
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If the Black Caps go hard at this they could conceivably win the match before the lunch interval is due.
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Feb 20, 2015 04:34
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Why not just go to death bowling? Yorkers and slower balls. Can't be any worse than this.
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Feb 20, 2015 05:04
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What in christ's name is Finn doing? Horrendous bowling. This has got to be the worst performance in World Cup history from a test nation.
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Feb 20, 2015 05:17
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IceAgeComing posted:it wouldn't matter if you had mcgrath bowling at the minute tbh McGrath wouldn't be serving up a mixture of juicy length balls and hopeless short stuff.
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Feb 20, 2015 05:21
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Interesting shot there.
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Feb 21, 2015 02:46
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Afridi to come in and score a double hundred in 120 balls to save them. In my dreams anyway.
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Feb 21, 2015 03:35
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Dunbar posted:Are batting lineups always set so that the best batters are up first? Or would they ever organize in such a way to have batters with certain strengths set up to face different bowlers or the different configurations of fielders? Generally the higher up the order you bat the better a player you are. Openers (1 and 2) are usually specialists - it is more difficult to bat early on in the innings as the ball is harder so it bounces higher and quicker and also is more likely to swing in the air (due to aerodynamics that no-one really understands) - so your openers are hopefully players with solid defensive technique who are used to playing the moving ball and can blunt the oppositions best bowlers upfront, but they also have to be good players who can score. 3, 4, 5 and 6 are the middle order - these are your most talented batsman who will score most of your runs. Generally you order them best to worse, but most players have some personal preference for where they bat in the order due to specific technical reasons (batters worse against pace will bat at 5 or 6, worse against spin at 3 etc.) 7 and 8 are late order players who are generally in the team not as a specialist batsman ( the wicketkeeper commonly bats at 7, 8 is almost always a bowler) but still have to contribute with some runs. These guys will often come in late in the innings when teams are going hard for runs, so they have to be able to play big shots and hit with power even if they aren't as technically skilled as the middle order players. 9, 10 and 11 are your bowlers, any batting ability is a bonus. They just bat best to worst. However over the last 15 years or so it's become fashionable for at least one of your openers to be avery aggressive player akin to a no. 7 who will try to hit boundaries right from the off rather than play a traditional opening role. This is to take advantage of the powerplay rules in the first 10 overs of each innings - that rule has been around a long time but whilst teams used to treat is as a bonus they now actively exploit it as a plan to score big. tanglewood1420 fucked around with this message at 04:16 on Feb 21, 2015 |
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Feb 21, 2015 04:12
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Pakistan start off 1-4 and still end up outscoring England yesterday.
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Feb 21, 2015 05:33
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James Taylor made an excellent 98* and Steve Finn took a hattrick.
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Feb 21, 2015 20:56
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goatface posted:All those wasted years where only Shiv knew that the secret to cricket was having stuff stuck on your face. 
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Feb 22, 2015 03:39
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If losing this means Moores is turfed out then I'm all for it.
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Feb 23, 2015 01:37
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The 2019 World Cup in England will only have ten teams - all teams play each other once, top four go to semis - so hopefully it will be a more concise affair. Although actually counting it up now that means 48 games in 2019 vs 49 games in the 2015 tournament so never mind....
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Feb 23, 2015 07:54
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Just checked Cricinfo, turning the game on to watch Chris Gayle clown some fools (maybe).
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Feb 24, 2015 06:13
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Apparently bowling a combination of half-trackers and wides isn't an effective strategy.
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Feb 24, 2015 07:21
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Feb 24, 2015 07:45
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Mark Nicholas blaming the West Indies players 'desire' and how they are all money grubbing IPL wannabees for their recent underperformances, not that the WICB is a shithouse that lies to the players and cheats them out of their money. I wonder why they find the IPL so appealing...
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Feb 27, 2015 05:23
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IceAgeComing posted:Just gonna say this: if the proposed rules for the 2019 World Cup had been used for this one then Bangladesh would have been locked in and New Zealand would have had to have gone through the qualifier with Zimbabwe, Ireland and Afghanistan. Nah, because under the proposed new format the hosts qualify automatically. For instance, England are guaranteed their place in 2019 even though they will 15th in the rankings behind UAE, Namibia and the Solomon Islands by then.
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Mar 1, 2015 22:45
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-Spiffy- posted:This is a cool article describing why England is so good at cricket Statistical analysis is generally a good thing, England are crap because the players are crap.
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Mar 4, 2015 00:04
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webmeister posted:It's interesting how dated their thinking seems to be in this. Morgan still talking about aiming for 275 when it feels like Aus/NZ/SA/India are targeting 350+ first innings scores in every game of the WC According to irrefutable statistical analysis England have never won an ODI after scoring 400, so that's why they don't try to score that many.
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Mar 4, 2015 00:31
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Should've been a six there. Good job umpires letting the batsman leave the field before the review was done.
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Mar 7, 2015 12:16
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England team for ODIs I'd like to see in the summer (assuming KP is not coming back) Roy Hales Taylor Root Stokes Ali Buttler Willey Woakes Jordan Broad Powerful opening pair, two promising young players at 3 and 4 who have shown they can build an innings, strong hitters at 5-8, bats down to 11 (in theory, Broad has been dire with the bat the last year). Only iffy thing is no frontline spinner, but there isn't an international quality spinner waiting in England at the moment I'm aware of and Ali is passable so just have to fudge that.
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Mar 9, 2015 14:49
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Jimmy Anderson World Cup record, 24 matches - 26 wickets at 40.88, econ 5.26 All other ODIs, 169 matches - 242 wickets at 28.02, econ 4.92 Big game player And that WC record includes 8 games against Kenya, Namibia, Canada, Netherlands, Scotland and Ireland. tanglewood1420 fucked around with this message at 16:59 on Mar 9, 2015 |
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Mar 9, 2015 16:51
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If Dhoni could be arsed to sprint and pull out a dive he may have gotten home there.
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Mar 26, 2015 12:07
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Dhoni doesn't seem particularly bothered. It's as if they've just lost the second match of a five match series, not a World Cup semi-final.
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Mar 26, 2015 12:35
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Good commentators: Michael Atherton, Nasser Hussain, Russell Arnold, Michael Holding (purely because of his voice), Sourav Ganguly, Ian Smith, Ian Chappell Alright I guess: Michael Slater, David Lloyd, Shaun Pollock, Wasim Akram Terribad: Sunil Gavaskar, Nick Knight, Ian Botham, Mark Taylor, Mark Nicholas, Ravi Shastri, Pommie Mbangwa, Ian Bishop Die in a fire: Ian Healy, Shane Warne, Ian Healy and Ian Healy
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Apr 6, 2015 14:05
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gay picnic defence posted:The rookie commentators they get in on the ABC are almost always really good. The older ones are good too, I can't think of a single Grandstand commentator that really pisses me off the way the Ch9 ones do. Jim Maxwell is always excellent when he is on TMS during Ashes series. Lungboy posted:Blowers and Vic Marks are great. Simon Hughes is good too. Spot the TMS fan. Hughes is decent, I find Vic Marks a bit too chummy for my likes but he's perfectly fine. Blowers needed to retire at least three years ago sadly. He was still brilliant up until recently but now is borderline senile and can't stay on point for longer than fifteen seconds (he used to manage at least a minute).
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Apr 7, 2015 14:46
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Cricinfo headline: England dominate draw with weak hosts I expect to see that three more times once the tests start.
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Apr 8, 2015 05:08
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I have signed up with a team made of twats and where I couldn't fit in any more twats just bad players (apart from the uncapped guy, he's probably alright).
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Apr 8, 2015 10:34
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Josh Lyman posted:He should pull an Arnold Schwarzenegger and become Prime Minister. Manny Pacquiao is nailed on to be the President of The Philippines in about twenty years, I can see it happening for Sachin in India if he wanted to go for it too. Darren Lehmann for Aussie PM?
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Apr 8, 2015 17:54
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