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Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

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Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Lmao have you seen the pitch for this

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

https://twitter.com/beastieboy07/status/1622931080637734912
Almost wish this was real because it's a masterful troll.

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

webmeister posted:

seriouspost, why is preparing a spinning track to suit your spin bowlers considered "doctoring" and tantamount to cheating, but preparing a greentop for seamers or a fast bouncing deck for the quicks a-okay?
Both of those are fine, it makes winning away even more of an achievement.

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Mister Chief posted:

Is Vettori bowling?
He got a wicket, so no.

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

PEDs tbh

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

re pitches: git gud

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Don't support any team with Scott Kuggeleijn in it.

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Nepotism

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

It's all about scrambled seam now, gramps.

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

edogawa rando posted:

even if it is England.
Yeah let's not get stupid here

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

2 wickets basically means he's redeemed himself.

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Heh, at least we could draw a game.

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Centusin posted:

peak performance as an old man, smells like a drug cheat
That's right

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Just check their Instagram accounts?

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Ratios and Tendency posted:

He's the captain of Wellington and has an ODI 140 but yeah for sure bro.
Hmm true he should be captaining our test team

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Eat my entire arse Bazball

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Digital Jedi posted:

Having only the England/NZ match to compare it to, why is the score in this series so low? Was this not the same type of match?

Aus needed 2 to win. He hit the boundary for 4 and the display says AUS won by 9. I'm confused
The pitches they're playing on are different because of the weather in India and it's harder to score runs. People will get mad about it because they think it ruins the contest or whatever but it actually makes cricket more fun.

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

If Oz wins we should throw the Sri Lankan games.


Or maybe we don't need to :thunk:

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Nah, there's no rules about what a good pitch is and everyone's got to bat and bowl on it. This wicket was the most random of the lot and Australia won, it's not like India benefits from making the games a crapshoot considering they won a series in Australia on "normal" pitches.

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

I'm talking about in general, not what some toff from the ICC thinks.

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

RichardA posted:

When a pitch is prepared evenly along the length of the pitch and evenly for left and right handers then sure you can say that. Deliberately preparing the pitch so differently at the length spinners land vs pacers land the ball is what I object to. Also the argument that India doesn't need to doctor the pitches in this way is one that I agree with. That it isn't necessary or perhaps not even helpful does change that they did and continue to do it.
That Twitter post about the left hand doctoring was some guy trolling literal days before the match and sucking in the media, if he hadn't posted it nobody here would bring it up. Khawaja top scored for Australia and loving Axar Patel scored 80.

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

I think Australia are already through, but if it's a drawn series and Sri Lanka whitewash NZ then they go through to the final instead of India.

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Vettori was our best batsman for like a year.

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Both tied tests were off the second to last ball, but I can't remember any that were won off the last delivery of the match.

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

Didnt NZ just do this against England? I seem to recall it was desperatly close?
Heaps of time was left in that one.

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

MrL_JaKiri posted:

Almost every test is won off the last ball :v:

(Exception being ones that are won from illegal deliveries, which has probably happened but none spring to mind)
Every one where Murali took the last wicket. :grin:

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Nicholls :negative:

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Digital Jedi posted:

Broke 200 that's crazy

I Assume it's pretty rare?
Yeah it is. You might think as a NZ fan I'm happy that Nicholls has scored 200. Well you'd be wrong.

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

BWV posted:


Chennai Super Kings, “CSK”

Best one of the 10.

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Kane's out of the World Cup, very glad that he put his body on the line for the Gujarat Titans.

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

They upgraded the colour.

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:

Ireland all out for 492, and the question I have is what sort of road are they playing on
Welp...

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Just the worst answers

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

The fix is in.

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Nice declaration Brendon you stupid idiot

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Great captaincy and bowling strategy

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Surprised the Lord's members could physically assault anybody without their bones disintegrating

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

The stumping was fine, Bairstow is an idiot.

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Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Ratios and Tendency posted:

He's in his crease when Carey catches the ball and doesn't attempt a run, which by all convention is the end of the play. It's bullshit to appeal and the wrong decision to give it out.
You realise by this definition you can never be out stumped?

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