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Cricket
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Blackface in crowd 129 55.36%
References to Lord of the Rings 104 44.64%
Total: 233 votes
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Apr 5, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
I just found out there is an IPL team called the "Rising Pune Supergiants"

:stare:

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Apr 5, 2017

by FactsAreUseless

Varkk posted:

Remember when Darryl Tuffey conceded a fuckload of runs in the first over against Australia in Christchurch?

I still can't figure how he got an international call up considering he was a middling at best first class bowler.

That one was probably spot fixing

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Apr 5, 2017

by FactsAreUseless

Burn Down Canberra posted:

its going to be tough to pick a pace attack for the ashes if they are all fit.

Pattinson is looking fantastic in first class cricket lately. Play all four of them and use maxwell as the spinner ?

Here is pattinson bowling jennings

https://gfycat.com/ExcellentBoilingHummingbird

That shot was... not good

racing identity
Apr 5, 2017

by FactsAreUseless

BrigadierSensible posted:

He seems to be that unique beast that is too much of a oval office to be an Australian cricketer.

Hodge-itis

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Apr 5, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
http://www.theroar.tv/windies-tailender-loses-test-with-ridiculous-shot/

Gotta play your shots

racing identity
Apr 5, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
Kohli will always be a hero in my books for his ability to infuriate Australians by doing exactly what they have done to everyone else for the last 20 years - be arrogant, unsportsmanlike, borderline cheats

racing identity
Apr 5, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
Mark Waugh, pretending Fox Sports are broadcasting from the UK, just said "the match over there.. I mean here"

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Apr 5, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
They did it for Jez

racing identity
Apr 5, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
England are wearing creams again, as God intended

racing identity
Apr 5, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
Also it costs Sweet gently caress All to run community level junior cricket - kids all have their own gear, and everything is run by volunteers.

When they say "grassroots cricket" they actually mean pouring money into development pathways cricket for elite juniors.

racing identity
Apr 5, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
In other cricket admin news, there's going to be a coup at the the Cricket Victoria AGM and the grotesquely incompetent board will be spilled

racing identity
Apr 5, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
Kookaburra have been preparing for Afghanistan's entry into test cricket

racing identity
Apr 5, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
Cricinfo seems to do a complete app overhaul every 12 months and manage to make it worse every time

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Apr 5, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
This Jennings fella seems a bit shithouse

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Apr 5, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
Lol at England playing three 30(ish) year old debutants

racing identity
Apr 5, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
The Ashes will be a bloodbath

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Apr 5, 2017

by FactsAreUseless

BrigadierSensible posted:

Another slight problem with the Aussie line up for teh first test is they only have 2 pace bowlers. If one of them goes down with an injury, or can't handle the humidity, then they are stuck with 1 good spinner, 1 crap one and a bunch of part time spinners.

Maxwell bowls medium pace, but not even at the Mitch Marsh level

Wade is the third seamer

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Apr 5, 2017

by FactsAreUseless

Scylo posted:

The lesson should be just pick an Asian specialist team that doesn't have Warner, Wade or Khawaja in the team

Such a team would have Shaun Marsh in it

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Apr 5, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
Great idea leaving the stump mic on between overs so we can hear all the moronic Australian sledging

racing identity
Apr 5, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
If these two don’t get the bulk of the runs they won’t win. None of these other clowns will do it.

racing identity
Apr 5, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
Is it... happening?

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Apr 5, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
Also, Australians are particularly ashamed of being defeated by a poor country of small, dark-skinned men

racing identity
Apr 5, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
Wade’s failures are my lifeblood. I feed off them.

racing identity
Apr 5, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
One of the least aesthetically pleasing batsmen I’ve ever seen is Matthew Hayden (career average 50.73)

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Apr 5, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
After about a hundred progressively more awful app redesigns, the current cricinfo IOS app is actually good - it’s responsive and the scores are the first thing you see when you open it, not garbage news and video content.

The website on the other hand, is an abomination.

racing identity
Apr 5, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
Australia batsmen will clown all over England on flat Australian pitches. We forget how dominant they are at home when they go overseas to get pummelled every winter

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Apr 5, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
Send Saj Mahmood over IMO

racing identity
Apr 5, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
Didn’t Jimmy smack Michael Clarke with a batting pad after a match once?

racing identity
Apr 5, 2017

by FactsAreUseless

Scylo posted:

it's good that Australia have the great coaching minds of David Saker and Brad Haddin to help them recover from these losses

Haddin: "have you tried swearing at them some more?"
Saker: "have you tried eating several thousand cheeseburgers?"

racing identity
Apr 5, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
Boyd Rankin went back to playing for Ireland after playing for England

racing identity
Apr 5, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
Also Maddinson got bowled leaving a ball that hit halfway up middle and leg

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Apr 5, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
A light scratching can be heard from inside Ashley Giles’ coffin

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Apr 5, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
Alex Carey should be the keeper for the next 10 years

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Apr 5, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
Starc bowling with a pink ball at 9pm in Adelaide will make every batsman in the world look stupid

racing identity
Apr 5, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
Easy to confuse the heaters and the strikers because Cricket Australia assigned them both the same colours to wear.

8 teams and they couldn’t find different colours for each of them.

racing identity
Apr 5, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
The surest thing in the world is that Australia will be 3-400 at the end of day one at the Gibbs and the series will be over

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Apr 5, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
I won't believe the Marsh selection until I hear it with my own ears. It just seems too preposterous to be true

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Apr 5, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
England will win on a green top

it won’t be a green top

racing identity
Apr 5, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
Tight bowling, solid defence, lots of leaves

This... this is cricket

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Apr 5, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
Cricket genius Warney is arguing that Moeen’s stats show that he is a better all-rounder than Stokes. The stats on screen as he is speaking show that Moeen’s batting average is lower and bowling average is higher

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