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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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Airstream Driver
May 6, 2009

JingleBells posted:

How exactly do I join this league? I've got a team but it needs a code and there's no "join" button on the page you've linked to :(

He posted the code a few pages back. I'm too lazy to look for you though sorry.

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Centusin
Aug 5, 2009

Bharatrocity posted:

Went ahead and made a league

https://fantasy.iplt20.com/ifl/leagues/view/18743

League code is 20086.

I care about the IPL.

tanglewood1420
Oct 28, 2010

The importance of this mission cannot be overemphasized
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).

Negligent
Aug 20, 2013

Its just lovely here this time of year.
I want to pick a team of 10 Glenn Maxwells and one Haddin

auzdark
Aug 29, 2005

Mercy is the cry of the soul that stirred,
Mercy is the cry and it's never heard.

Negligent posted:

I want to pick a team of 10 Glenn Maxwells and one Haddin

One Haddin, Ten Watsons.

Shane Warne and Iain Healy only commentary.

Doc Holliday
Dec 24, 2002

The Deadly Hume posted:

Even Slater was good when he did a year with the ABC. Then it was off to Nine where he joined the chorus of gargling.

I don't really like Slater as a commentator but he seems to have this thing where he is an intellectual sponge. Drop him in with some thoughtful commentators who don't go for the banter and he is at the very least mildly tolerable. This is the same guy who shortly after breaking up with his wife was asked by a journo at a Sydney grade game about his personal life and promptly went out hooking at everything only to get smashed in the face.

Also, not to defend the likes of Shane Warne but I've heard him on TMS and he just talks about cricket when he's not dropped in with the lads. It can't be stressed enough how much the producers and the executive direct the absence of intellect in the commentary. Of course he's still an idiot.

As for criticism of Blowers, he is very much the colour of the commentary (to borrow an American term) but my word I need to hear about the 3:37 to Islington; the status of the pigeons and the scrumptiously delightful vanilla slice with extra custard from Mrs Archer from the Chelsea Retirement Village (in the vein of Brian Johnston) in-between Trott pushing to cover and there's no score.

Doc Holliday fucked around with this message at 14:17 on Apr 8, 2015

Bharatrocity
Oct 20, 2005

One day son, all I own will still belong to the state

Umpire cam offers valuable footage to the viewers at home.

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


Completely forgot about IPL. Just tuned in, first time watching T20 for me.

Oh hey, Morkel the Snorkel is bowling.

Brett824
Mar 30, 2009

I could let these dreamkillers kill my self esteem or use the arrogance as the steam to follow my dream
For anyone curious, they're still "Yes Bank" Maximums this year.

Bharatrocity
Oct 20, 2005

One day son, all I own will still belong to the state

They still call them Yes Bank Maximums. How can cricket still be alive and vibrant if we get this kind of stagnation at its highest level?

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Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


Oh hey, the Mumbai Indians are choking like... Indians?

Bharatrocity
Oct 20, 2005

One day son, all I own will still belong to the state

they need to rename them mumbai super indians maybe that will work

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


LOL this umpire cam is poo poo/the poo poo

lynch_69
Jan 21, 2001

Laffo Sunil Narine first ball 4.

Edit: still has his stupid haircut I see.

Brett824
Mar 30, 2009

I could let these dreamkillers kill my self esteem or use the arrogance as the steam to follow my dream
I love how wild the crowd goes when they just show a 10 second shot of Tendulkar sitting down.

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


Brett824 posted:

I love how wild the crowd goes when they just show a 10 second shot of Tendulkar sitting down.
He should pull an Arnold Schwarzenegger and become Prime Minister.

lynch_69
Jan 21, 2001

Match update: they're having a CEAT Tyres strategic timeout.

Bharatrocity
Oct 20, 2005

One day son, all I own will still belong to the state

Reckon Chawla fell in the ghee cauldron as a toddler

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


This strategic timeout has me craving KFC Ceat

Brett824
Mar 30, 2009

I could let these dreamkillers kill my self esteem or use the arrogance as the steam to follow my dream
Glad they get two CEAT Tyres Strategic Timeouts per innings, need to get as much strategy in as possible.

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


It's a shame Inzamam retired before T20 became a thing. I'd love to see him go for a hit.

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


Is it just me or is this pitch really small?

Also, that sound effect for a boundary is driving me insane.

Lungboy
Aug 23, 2002

NEED SQUAT FORM HELP

Bharatrocity posted:

They still call them Yes Bank Maximums. How can cricket still be alive and vibrant if we get this kind of stagnation at its highest level?

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Are you sure? On Sky, the splash screen just says "MAXIMUM" and the commentators haven't mentioned Yes Bank at all while I've been listening.

lynch_69
Jan 21, 2001

KKR fielders have knack of dropping catches from Shakib's bowling.

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


Morkel wearing a snorkel?

Lungboy
Aug 23, 2002

NEED SQUAT FORM HELP
Bumrah (the Everliving) has to be the best name in cricket history.

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


They just played this on the Sky Sports stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH0K_XIIBow

Dead Goon
Dec 13, 2002

No Obvious Flaws



I joined this IPL thing. My team is called "No Obvious Flaws".

Bharatrocity
Oct 20, 2005

One day son, all I own will still belong to the state

Lungboy posted:

Are you sure? On Sky, the splash screen just says "MAXIMUM" and the commentators haven't mentioned Yes Bank at all while I've been listening.

Might have been a slip up early on, but they definitely said it

lynch_69
Jan 21, 2001

Respective national disgraces Navjot "murderer" Singh Sidhu and Shoaib "genital warts" Akhtar talking over each other in the mid game panel discussion on the Indian Sony Six stream. Complete with live band and in studio cheerleaders.

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


Dead Goon posted:

I joined this IPL thing. My team is called "No Obvious Flaws".
But is that what the advanced metrics say?

Dead Goon
Dec 13, 2002

No Obvious Flaws



Josh Lyman posted:

But is that what the advanced metrics say?

I would like to think so, yes.

lynch_69
Jan 21, 2001

:siren: broken bat :siren:

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


Having only watched World Cup ODIs, this T20 business doesn't feel like a real cricket match, more like a batting exhibition.

Lungboy
Aug 23, 2002

NEED SQUAT FORM HELP
ODIs aren't real cricket :colbert:

Brett824
Mar 30, 2009

I could let these dreamkillers kill my self esteem or use the arrogance as the steam to follow my dream
https://soundcloud.com/radiohauraki/hauraki-breakfast-the-corey-anderson-chant-march-24-2015

Even in the IPL :allears:

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


Those gilded shoulders on the MI kit :barf:

Bharatrocity
Oct 20, 2005

One day son, all I own will still belong to the state

Downton no longer managing director of the ECB

tanglewood1420
Oct 28, 2010

The importance of this mission cannot be overemphasized

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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Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


Corey Corey Corey Corey Corey Corey Anderson, he bats and boDROPPED

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