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Lungboy posted:To most people in the Cricket-playing world, they are pretty much the same thing. Untrue. Canada has been represented at the World Cup a few times and I think a Canuck even had the fastest century in a world cup a long time ago.
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Mar 3, 2015 18:43
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Madkal posted:Untrue. Canada has been represented at the World Cup a few times and I think a Canuck even had the fastest century in a world cup a long time ago. John Davidson. Australian.
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Mar 3, 2015 18:46
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So was AB bowling yesterday supposed to be some kind of insult to injury?
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Mar 3, 2015 23:28
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This is a cool article describing why England is so good at cricket http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/mar/03/the-spin-cricket-data-analysis-art-science
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Mar 3, 2015 23:36
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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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-Spiffy- posted:This is a cool article describing why England is so good at cricket 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
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Mar 4, 2015 00:11
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They'll probably analyse everything after this world cup and conclude that the best way forward is to slog everything and not worry about singles or be too obsessed with making it to 50 overs. Then they'll play somewhere with a large outfield.
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Mar 4, 2015 00:15
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so they'll play like the West Indies do then
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Mar 4, 2015 00:22
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Pretty much. Only while trying to fix Shiv's action and have him play to the programme.
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Mar 4, 2015 00:31
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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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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 I've posted about this before, and its something gaining a lot of traction with people about England. They are always 1 major tournament behind the other teams in the way they go about their game. You just have to look at the top 3 batsmen they like. You have the openers consisting of one destructive batsmen that likes to go at more than a run a ball, and then a nurdler who is happiest at a strike rate of about 60. Then you have a number 3 whos a test player through and through whos there to steady the ship and build a platform after one of the top 2 goes. Its the kind of team you'd see 3-4 years ago from South Africa and Australia. Its also a team that should score 260-290 runs. A total that, again, should have been defendable 3 years ago. The bowling too is out dated. In the modern game you need to take wickets, not restrict scoring. Slow bouncers don't do anything but get hit these days. Its no co-incidence that New Zealand and Australia are rolling teams on the back of their bowlers dismantling the other side rather than outright domination with the bat. England will not change, because by the time the statistics tell them that its worth doing these things, the game will have moved on once again.
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Mar 4, 2015 01:35
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England have scored over 300 twice this world cup and both their openers are aggressive stroke makers. Balance is there to anchor the innings while everyone else plays aggressively around him but he and Morgan are hopelessly out of form. Your bowlers are poo poo and all exactly the same and Morgan literally bowled Root to let Sangakkara get in. As usual the English media narratives are totally wrong.
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Mar 4, 2015 01:53
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serious gaylord posted:I've posted about this before, and its something gaining a lot of traction with people about England. They are always 1 major tournament behind the other teams in the way they go about their game. You just have to look at the top 3 batsmen they like. You have the openers consisting of one destructive batsmen that likes to go at more than a run a ball, and then a nurdler who is happiest at a strike rate of about 60. Then you have a number 3 whos a test player through and through whos there to steady the ship and build a platform after one of the top 2 goes. Its the kind of team you'd see 3-4 years ago from South Africa and Australia. Its also a team that should score 260-290 runs. A total that, again, should have been defendable 3 years ago. 
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Mar 4, 2015 02:17
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Ratios and Tendency posted:As usual the English media narratives are totally wrong. Add cricket to the list of sports that English media pundits are loving hopeless with, which also includes Formula One and Rugby.
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Mar 4, 2015 02:26
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Ratios and Tendency posted:England have scored over 300 twice this world cup and both their openers are aggressive stroke makers. Balance is there to anchor the innings while everyone else plays aggressively around him but he and Morgan are hopelessly out of form. Your bowlers are poo poo and all exactly the same and Morgan literally bowled Root to let Sangakkara get in. As usual the English media narratives are totally wrong. I don't know if this is a serious post but the only person anchoring England recently is Root. The only good things about that Sri Lanka game was him and the fact that Buttler can still go mental if he's not forced to bat after 20 overs. Drop Ballance; play Hales is the obvious solution but then you have to work out who out of Moeen and Bell you move to number 3. You then have to magic up a good left arm bowler and a leg spinner or something different from right arm off spin and right arm medium fast poo poo. Its not as simple as dropping Finn for someone else as I've seen others say: he's actually been better than Anderson or Broad who have literally taken two wickets each throughout the world cup. I think they should rest Anderson: he's not swinging the ball and although I doubt Jordan would be much better he could club a few with the bat and then you rest Anderson for the long series of tests that we have coming up. Pakistan 11/1 against the UAE after 5 overs
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Mar 4, 2015 02:33
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Haha the Australia game on today will end at 1am on the east coast if it goes the distance.
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Mar 4, 2015 02:46
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Burn Down Canberra posted:Haha the Australia game on today will end at 1am on the east coast if it goes the distance. They're playing Afghanistan.
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Mar 4, 2015 02:48
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There was no evidence at all that was a boundary.
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Mar 4, 2015 02:50
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It's pretty clear that the England team is bad simply because their players aren't very good. You don't need to make up other excuses for it. They're just not talented enough. Maybe in 4 years it will be different but they will need about 8 or 9 new better players which seems unlikely.
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Mar 4, 2015 02:52
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Also lol that the Jimmy Anderson is tired thing has been brought out yet again after he shits the bed away from home. He's the Mahela Jayawardene of bowling.
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Mar 4, 2015 03:42
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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 That reference to 275 was specifically at Wellington Stadium which is a lovely rugby ground with a drop in pitch. Yes the pitches have definitely improved in quality over the last decade and there hasn't been all that much cricket played there since opening in 2000. But the highest total is 322 (by Aus 2005) - and only nine times have a side scored more than 280. 275 might not be ambitious, but I think its probably a par score there. Definitely agree that England has failed with the bat a few times, but they should have been in with a sniff of defending the decent total they put up against the Lankans. A team isn't competitive if they can't pressure the batsman - the English master-plan plan so far seems to be pitch it short at 130-140k and pray for a lucky mishit or runout. Defending 400 runs wouldn't save these schoolboys dusty fucked around with this message at 04:02 on Mar 4, 2015 |
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Mar 4, 2015 03:59
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gently caress Perth, gently caress Western Australia, gently caress the ICC.
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Mar 4, 2015 06:25
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I love Perth tests but yeah day/nighters can get hosed.
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Mar 4, 2015 06:30
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Just before they get ready to humiliate the arrogant racists, I was wondering if anybody here knows if any of the Afghani players play in the IPL, BBL, CPL etc.? Surely they would be cheaper than Glen "Big Show" Maxwell, have proved themselves just as good players, (for garbage 20/20 leagues anyway), and would be just as marketable etc.
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Mar 4, 2015 06:33
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Ratios and Tendency posted:Also lol that the Jimmy Anderson is tired thing has been brought out yet again after he shits the bed away from home. He's the Mahela Jayawardene of bowling. He didn't play in the 7-match series against Sri Lanka and neither did Broad IIRC. They both look shot though.
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Mar 4, 2015 06:51
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BrigadierSensible posted:Just before they get ready to humiliate the arrogant racists, I was wondering if anybody here knows if any of the Afghani players play in the IPL, BBL, CPL etc.? No to everything you said.
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Mar 4, 2015 06:55
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Perth is the worst because the games start at 1:30 AM here I just read the chapter on USA cricket in Second XI and lmao what a clusterfuck. When the president has a public Facebook meltdown over a journalist daring to write about him, and the president's wife gets suspended from the women's team for being mad about her position, you might have a problem.
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Mar 4, 2015 07:00
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Watson dropped for Faulkner? Yes please!
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Mar 4, 2015 07:02
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As an Australian I can safely say I'll be supporting Afghanistan today
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Mar 4, 2015 07:02
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Afghanistan won the toss and decided to bowl, potentially saving the spectators from a 45 minute match
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Mar 4, 2015 07:03
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Actually they probably all bowl spin so will roll us for 120
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Mar 4, 2015 07:03
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EMC posted:Actually they probably all bowl spin so will roll us for 120 Go learn yourself some Hamid Hassan, son
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Mar 4, 2015 07:04
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Wait did they really drop Watson or are they just 'resting' him
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Mar 4, 2015 07:06
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Airstream Driver posted:Watson dropped for Faulkner? Yes please!  I was starting to think Watson could take a poo poo on the doorstep of a selector and still be in the team.
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Mar 4, 2015 07:09
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I honestly thought they'd keep Watson and he'd come out and make a hundred today and then go back to being useless for the rest of the tournament. Now I just hope Smith can make a hundred at 3, and Faulkner makes some runs wherever he comes in and then we can be rid of Watson forever.
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Mar 4, 2015 07:11
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EMC posted:Actually they probably all bowl spin so will roll us for 120 They actually have one of the better 3 man seam units in the tournament.
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Mar 4, 2015 07:12
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Scylo posted:I honestly thought they'd keep Watson and he'd come out and make a hundred today and then go back to being useless for the rest of the tournament. Now I just hope Smith can make a hundred at 3, and Faulkner makes some runs wherever he comes in and then we can be rid of Watson forever. This is the dream In reality they will drop Marsh for Watson, we all know this
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Mar 4, 2015 07:15
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Scylo posted:I honestly thought they'd keep Watson and he'd come out and make a hundred today and then go back to being useless for the rest of the tournament. Now I just hope Smith can make a hundred at 3, and Faulkner makes some runs wherever he comes in and then we can be rid of Watson forever. Yeah a (mostly) pressure-free game against minnow opposition sounds like prime territory for a Watson 83
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Mar 4, 2015 07:19
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Scylo posted:I honestly thought they'd keep Watson and he'd come out and make a hundred today and then go back to being useless for the rest of the tournament. Now I just hope Smith can make a hundred at 3, and Faulkner makes some runs wherever he comes in and then we can be rid of Watson forever. Will it be Smith at 3? Cricinfo has Clarke listed at 3 but I'm not sure if that's the batting order.
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Mar 4, 2015 07:26
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Like the Afghan bowlers tbh. They might sneak a few cheap wickets. The Australian bowlers should just rip in though.
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