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webmeister posted:Strong contender for worst lbw referral of all time Doesn’t seem to be any bat on that. Go to ball tracking when ready .
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Can you rock and roll that Can you rock and roll that
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Also lets not forget the 3rd Ind vs Aus test wasn't supposed to be at Indore. It was scheduled for Dharamsala. But the BCCI in all it's wisdom forgot that it is winter, and that grass grows slower in the winter, especially a Himalayan winter. So the ground was not ready for an international match. And on truth was never likely to be. But they postponed switching venues until the last minute for ... reasons. So Indore didn't have as much preparation time as they usually would of had for a Test.
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It's good to see some big scores early on in the WPL. I do think there's probably quite a big gap between the elite players and everyone else, but if James Vince has taught us anything it's that you can be in the "everyone else" camp and still have a successful professional career.
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This is a obscure factoid that will be of little interest to anyone, but it is vaguely thread relevant. Jamie Siddons, (arguably the best Australian batsman to never play a single Test), never played county cricket. Which I found interesting because many players of his generation and talent would go over to England to collect large paychecks playing for minor counties against mediocre opposition. Countless West Indians did it, Saqlain Mushtaq made a good living off of it, and DiVenuto and Cosgrove are the Australians that did it that immediately come to my mind. But not Jamie Siddons. Also Siddons apparently played 2 games for the Sydney Swans in the AFL. Which I didn't know.
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Mar 6, 2023 05:51
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Why did DiVenuto never play for Australia? He was pretty drat good in the Sheffield Shield.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Why did DiVenuto never play for Australia? He was pretty drat good in the Sheffield Shield. Didn’t most of his career basically overlap with the Waugh brothers, Ponting, Langer and Hayden?
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webmeister posted:Didn’t most of his career basically overlap with the Waugh brothers, Ponting, Langer and Hayden? Hmmm yeah hard to compete with them.
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Di Venuto was a decent player, actually that's harsh he was a good player, but I don't think he'd have pulled up trees at test level. Would very likely have been a competent middle order batter, 36-38 average kinda player but no better imho. Stuart Law is the incredible one. 27,000 first class runs at an average of 50.52 including 79 hundreds. Dominated in Sheffield Shield and County Cricket year in year out for a decade. And only one test cap. Amazing really. He made 54 not out in his only test innings too, against Sri Lanka in 1995. tanglewood1420 fucked around with this message at 10:27 on Mar 6, 2023 |
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Mar 6, 2023 09:24
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Australia having a chance in the third test has to be partly due to the wicket being more randomly prepared than not. If the BCCI had its organisation better, it likely would have been more finely tuned towards Indian preferences. I am surprised Stuart Law didn't play more test matches, his name is familiar enough that I thought he was a minor part of the team, not just one game! Beven got far more cricket but even he didn't seem to get a good a crack as what he deserved.
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Mar 6, 2023 09:49
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The Australian team of that era was just something else.
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Electric Wrigglies posted:I am surprised Stuart Law didn't play more test matches, his name is familiar enough that I thought he was a minor part of the team, not just one game! Beven got far more cricket but even he didn't seem to get a good a crack as what he deserved. I dunno, Bevan had a pretty ordinary test career as I remember it, I don’t think he ever even scored a century? And although he was a fantastic finisher in ODIs, I remember there were definitely times he protected his average by not getting out chasing an improbable target.
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Sam Curran again being an enigma by taking the two openers and then being thumped around a bit. Bit rough on the new spinner, but at least he got a wicket. Still, he's 18, he'll bounce.
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Mar 6, 2023 11:12
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Bevan was poo poo. Had an entire career/reputation built on one shot. A four straight down the ground off the last ball to win a meaningless ODI. The bowler was Roger Harper, if I remember rightly. And whilst he wasn't Dhoni-esque selfish as a "finisher", his average is sure as hell inflated by his many not outs. But I think he did get a test century in Adelaide. Forget against who. Probably England. BrigadierSensible fucked around with this message at 11:27 on Mar 6, 2023 |
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goatface posted:Sam Curran again being an enigma by taking the two openers and then being thumped around a bit. Bangers are a decent side. I think they've done a nice job of integrating Rehann into lower pressure situations, feels like he'll get more positives than negatives out of this
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BrigadierSensible posted:Bevan was poo poo. Nah I just checked, six ODI centuries but no Test centuries. And I know it was a different era but man, a career strike rate of 75 in ODIs sounds comically low these days. There's even an exhilarating 24 off 83 balls in a run chase vs Pakistan that Australia surprisingly didn't win! But on the other hand.. THE LAST BALL CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT
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BrigadierSensible posted:Bevan was poo poo. Nope, highest score of 91, in his 2nd test against Pakistan. Although he did make a 85* vs the windies in Adelaide, you're probably thinking of that. And he did more than that one odi innings. There is also this one against NZ https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/vb-series-2001-02-61098/australia-vs-new-zealand-10th-match-65624/full-scorecard
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Average of 29.07 in tests, wtf Bevo I thought you were better than that 
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Sam Curran at 5 is definitely a choice
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He's sometimes v good with the bat. Sometimes.
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KajiTheMelonMan posted:Average of 29.07 in tests, wtf Bevo I thought you were better than that Struggled against the short ball in tests. He was probably a better bowler than batsman in tests. His strike rate was excellent. He did win us a lot of Odis though. He definitely wasn't poo poo, that is absurd. Airstream Driver fucked around with this message at 12:49 on Mar 6, 2023 |
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goatface posted:He's sometimes v good with the bat. Today: Not his best work.
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I don't think they're going to win this.
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goatface posted:I don't think they're going to win this. Seems unlikely. Though I think Shakib is bowled out
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BrigadierSensible posted:Bevan was poo poo. Deranged take
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It's early days, but the Mumbai Indians in the WPL look like a pretty scary team
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albo will make sure our boys win https://twitter.com/plalor/status/1632981553566318592?s=20
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Wait it’s literally called the Narendra Modi stadium?! edit; lmao it is
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The Grade Cricketer podcast had Ramachandra Guha and he did a nice job talking about the relationship between the BJP and BCCI. Like most normal people, he is a very anti-Modi, and so it was a good listen.
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Yeah he talked about that too. He's a pretty well established historian/public intellectual so I guess he feels protected from it but he talked about how all the Australian and Indian former players won't say poo poo because they know it might gently caress with their IPL/commentating money. Combined with what Gideon Haigh has been writing about it's an interesting window into how important cricket is to the BJP and how their involvement will likely stagnate the national program because of a cronyism and lack of oversight. Personally, I find the whole thing fascinating and insane.
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They're going to bring in 75k of his supporters for the 1st day. They want a record crowd. Who was the last active leader to have a stadium named after themselves? Saddam Hussein? Stalin? Seems cool and good.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Aren't Modi fans like insane? Yes. A thousand times yes.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Aren't Modi fans like insane? They're nazis op
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Usually you get insane nazis at football matches. Hopefully cricket nazis are a bit more civilized.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Shane Warne Stadium Shane Warne was a lot of things but I don’t think he was a religious or ethnic supremacist At least that I know of
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