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Dysgenesis posted:For those that have never seen, I'd forgotten about Devon, that Cronje bowled dismissal was magic, half on the front foot defending with only middle stump rocking back. And then Richie Benaud at the end of the video  Byolante posted:Boycott was right, just bowl yorkers on the stumps As my old captain used to say "just bowl at the fuckin' pegs".
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Apr 18, 2015 06:43
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Dysgenesis posted:http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/32376031 If you check out the ground on google maps the straight boundaries look shorter than the length of a pitch. I know people with bigger backyards.
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Apr 20, 2015 22:27
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https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/Nantwich+Cricket+Club/@53.077476,-2.509299,170m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x8a979dc717aa9231 Closer to 40 I would think.
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Apr 21, 2015 01:12
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RideTheSpiral posted:Have to include the length of the pitch in a drive! A summer of The Big Show made me forget.
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Apr 21, 2015 09:19
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IceAgeComing posted:why was that man wearing a kfc bucket on his head Massive Big Bash fan.
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Apr 22, 2015 22:36
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serious gaylord posted:I hope Carberry comes back tbh. All the Aussies were scared of him. It still puzzles me why he and KP were made the scapegoats from that series. (I do know why, but logically it never made sense).
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Apr 24, 2015 13:05
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Did you bowl within yourself? Never. I can't. I am an outlaw. Great read.
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Apr 27, 2015 22:55
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Did they just mow the outfield to make a pitch?
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Apr 28, 2015 04:15
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IceAgeComing posted:they're using the scottish method of pitch creation I've played on a few of those Scottish wickets, helmets not required.
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Apr 28, 2015 14:41
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IceAgeComing posted:gilchrist was the only good person in that australian team If the scuttlebutt is true, he was especially good to the ladies 
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May 7, 2015 13:38
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Plus the U.S. didn't miss out on hosting the Cricket World Cup due to corruption.
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May 29, 2015 00:36
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Airstream Driver posted:The ball will be poo poo. I've played 20/20 club games with those pink kookaburra balls and they are flat out terrible. The wear in a really weird non-good way and the seam gets mashed into nothing very quickly, I'd hate to be bowling the 80th over of an innings with it.
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Jun 30, 2015 06:34
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goatface posted:Isn't it something to do with the colouring process for lighter colours softening the leather? Pretty much this, the tanning/colouring process ends up with something feeling closer to a soft plastic coated leather rather than just plain leather. By the looks of things acrylics and dyes are used to get the colouring done.
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Jun 30, 2015 22:02
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BrigadierSensible posted:Does anyone here know how to get the ABC Grandstand commentary when you live overseas? I've tried it before and it says that it is unavaillable in my area. Try this one, I've had it work for me on my phone many times when ABC radio should have been blocked: http://www.abc.net.au/sport/cricket/live-streaming/
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Jul 8, 2015 03:59
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The English jumpers are flat out awful.
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Jul 8, 2015 11:25
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Seams posted:This Warne fellow sounds a bit shite. Warne's RPO is 2.66 while Johnson's is 3.27, not as bad as I thought it would be.
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Jul 9, 2015 13:20
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Unimpressed posted:Nah, it'll be a KFC SMS poll. Dirty Rotten to be named captain.
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Jul 15, 2015 05:51
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Clarke doing some square leg catching practice, looks like his back is buggered.
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Jul 17, 2015 12:17
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Negligent posted:A ship in the harbour is safe but that's not what ships are built for loving hate that ad. Good thing Lee and Warne are talking about the slope at Lords, never heard anything about that before.
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Jul 17, 2015 12:54
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runoverbobby posted:I understand the sentiment but still think the follow-on is a better means because it gives the opportunity to win by an innings. The problem always with a follow-on is making your quicks bowl for two+ days, and unless you've got a top class spinner in your side you're just asking for trouble.
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Jul 19, 2015 00:01
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Why the hell is Dharmasena further back than Ballance?
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Jul 20, 2015 00:42
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Burn Down Canberra posted:In NSW (the state that produces the most Australian cricketers) its seen as a bit of a disadvantage for talented young cricketers to go to private schools. That is because it takes them away from playing against adults on Saturday. Growing up in WA school cricket was basically a hit and giggle, while on the weekends you'd have club cricket on one day, and the best players played junior district cricket on the other. In addition the strongest junior players would also play senior district/club cricket on a Saturday arvo.
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Jul 20, 2015 15:01
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BrigadierSensible posted:Whilst you are pushing the "kids need to play grade cricket rather than age-group/school cricket" barrow pretty hard there is a little truth in it. I think the big problem with school cricket (esp in WA) is that most schools aren't big enough to have 11-12 guys who are all good at cricket in the same year level and then to have a phys-ed teacher who's got the skills and time to coach a school team. For example all the Hussey's went to my high school in Perth, but they played at my local junior club as well as the local district team, so they had a number of skilled coaches helping them develop all the way along, and didn't have to worry about getting a decent hit with the school side. Dave Hussey "coached" our school team for a while and just encouraged us to bowl the other team out as fast as possible so he could get home and watch sport wrap-up on the Channel 10 news. Spedman fucked around with this message at 06:53 on Jul 21, 2015 |
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Jul 21, 2015 06:51
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I would think as they age getting bowled and LBW will become big issues for them quite quickly as they start to lose that amazing hand-eye coordination.
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Aug 4, 2015 04:51
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 Good take by the keeper, action a bit suspect though. (Shamelessly stolen from the mlb gif thread)
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Aug 4, 2015 22:13
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And it bears a striking resemblance to the Maxwell leave
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Aug 5, 2015 02:13
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Slater saying after watching that Clarke abomination "he's just not playing with any luck"
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Aug 6, 2015 13:23
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serious gaylord posted:Yeah, if he was lucky he'd have decided to retire after the last ashes series and people wouldn't remember him as a cripple that cant bat. You could see that's what Vaughan was thinking
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Aug 6, 2015 13:32
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EMC posted:The funnier quote in that article is That's was some of the dumbest poo poo I've read in a long time. How about you leave nearly everything and make them bowl to you when they've got their tails up, not flash and slash at anything outside off, you loving peanut.
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Aug 6, 2015 23:29
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gay picnic defence posted:The other problem is our pitches are pretty one dimensional and I think after today if a review doesn't recommend converting half the decks in the country into raging greentops like Trent Bridge then CA is pretty much incapable of learning anything. You just need to put the character back into the Australian Test pitches, it might be hard with drop-in's due to the AFL, but I'm pretty sure they'd be able to work something out with enough time and motivation.
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Aug 7, 2015 00:31
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notaspy posted:As its the wicketkeepers fault for not being in the right place to save them If its not a wide then they should be in position to take it
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Aug 7, 2015 13:17
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Drugs posted:It's not impossible for a ball to be close enough to the batsman to not be a wide, but too wide for the wicketkeeper to reach. Particularly if the bowler is bowling around the wicket. If the bowler is coming round the wicket you'd hope the keeper has positioned himself accordingly, but the exception being a marginal leg-side wide call swinging further I guess.
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Aug 7, 2015 13:25
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Drugs posted:Steve Waugh was a serial cheat. Is cheating part of what it means to wear the baggy green? He's an Australian who played sport right?
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Aug 11, 2015 02:48
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Healy was VC for a long time too wasn't he?
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Aug 13, 2015 00:45
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Or just play 10 bowlers and a keeper.
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Aug 17, 2015 00:39
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I'm enjoying the extended pauses in the commentary to go with the slow batting, test cricket, best cricket.
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Aug 20, 2015 12:22
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Here we go, Buchanan hate...
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Aug 20, 2015 12:27
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I wish Steve Smith would stop bitting his nails, its loving gross to watch.
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Aug 20, 2015 12:34
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Scylo posted:We may as well learn to love Warne because we're all going to be putting up with him for at least the next 20 years Hopefully his life choices don't make it last that long
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Aug 21, 2015 12:32
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 Broad snype
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