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therattle posted:Why was he never selected for England? The ECB read his surname and had an instant allergic reaction
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BWV posted:I don't get it. Every year I read more about how analytics and spreadsheet jockeys are becoming more important and yet the same teams consistently gently caress it up. This happens a lot in North American leagues. You’ve got a lot of clubs who are fully on board and hiring smart folks early. Usually teams that haven’t had a lot of success but youngish owners who are ready to make their mark. Then you have another set of owners who want to look smart by following the trends, but only hire 3 people and give them next to no power or resources. And then there’s the (usually) old families that do not actually care to improve the team at any cost, even when the evidence is staring them in the face. The last group will go to their grave before admitting their ideas of running a team are wrong. I’m curious; Which teams fit in which bucket?
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therattle posted:Why was he never selected for England? He was highly rated when he was young, he was England U-19s captain I think? Then his early twenties in county cricket were underwhelming and he slipped out of the picture. He started scoring runs for Kent only once they were relegated and it's very hard to get picked for the test team while playing in the second division.
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tanglewood1420 posted:He was highly rated when he was young, he was England U-19s captain I think? Then his early twenties in county cricket were underwhelming and he slipped out of the picture. He started scoring runs for Kent only once they were relegated and it's very hard to get picked for the test team while playing in the second division. Got it. Thanks.
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Nybble posted:This happens a lot in North American leagues. You’ve got a lot of clubs who are fully on board and hiring smart folks early. Usually teams that haven’t had a lot of success but youngish owners who are ready to make their mark. Then you have another set of owners who want to look smart by following the trends, but only hire 3 people and give them next to no power or resources. And then there’s the (usually) old families that do not actually care to improve the team at any cost, even when the evidence is staring them in the face. The last group will go to their grave before admitting their ideas of running a team are wrong. Almost all the IPL teams are owned by giant Indian corporations (think US equivalent of Johnson and Johnson, Walmart, Dow Chemical, etc.) or sport focused private equity groups so my sense is that it is less about ownership and more about roster construction and the limited effect coaches/teams have on getting star players to change their game. A team like RCB (Bangalore) always invests a ton of their money in opening compilers/anchors like Faf and Kohli and as a result feel obliged to let them see more balls than they should, especially when they have guys batting at 5-8 who can all smash boundaries but don't get much time. Punjab and Lucknow also rely too heavily on this strategy, almost entirely because they've invested big bucks in slow rollers (but hugely popular players) like Dharwan and KL Rahul. Compare that to KKR (Calcutta) who moved Narine, a player who's batted 6/7 over the past few years, up to open or Rajasthan, who ditched all their anchors and sometimes let Ashwin bat in the powerplay just to get a few boundaries. Then you have teams like Gujarat, Mumbai and Chennai who have all won titles scoring around 170 and having great bowling. This might still be possible, especially for teams like Gujarat that play on larger grounds, but I think once teams realize how big of an advantage the impact player is they'll come around and start going harder, especially in the powerplay.
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quote:For those of you who like to know the ins and outs of cricket quirks, we just spoke to match referee Mike Smith. He who confirmed that it was the wind that initially stopped play at Old Trafford. The umpires had suggested that it would be sensible to put the covers on the square as a precaution at lunch because rain was forecast. But by the time play was due to start the headgroundsmanager said it was too windy to pull the flat sheets off as it was putting his staff at risk - if they were to be lifted into the air or hit in the face. This was confirmed by the Lancashire safety officer. The covers were to be taken off when the wind dropped – but before that happened, the rain started. At least Lancashire isn't in Durham, who haven't bothered to play at all yet.
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God drat what a catch by Bishnoi
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Lyon out for a golden duck for Lancashire, so far has bowled two overs for three runs
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Completely unrelatedly, It is former England opener/keeper Alec Stewart's birthday today. Also unrelatedly: I have met his brother-in-law. Fellow England Batsman Mark Butcher. From ages ago when he played at South Melbourne, and my dad was the team manager. (His sister has huge tits by the way.)
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BrigadierSensible posted:Completely unrelatedly, It is former England opener/keeper Alec Stewart's birthday today. Bit weird to be talking about your aunt's huge tits.
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BrigadierSensible posted:Completely unrelatedly, It is former England opener/keeper Alec Stewart's birthday today. Thank you for this pertinent information
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webmeister posted:Thank you for this pertinent information It’s the quality content that keeps me coming back.
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It's better than IPL updates at any rate
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That's one of his best posts in ages.
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Bairstow out for 0-3 Ever since the Ashes he is one of players that I just enjoy seeing failing edit: What a close match. Final over was nailbiting Digital Jedi fucked around with this message at 18:44 on Apr 9, 2024 |
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holy poo poo that punjab vs sunrisers game was intense. Pat Cummins is a brilliant captain. Last over was match fixing levels of bowling by Undakat, Pat's composure saved them there. Ulio fucked around with this message at 18:48 on Apr 9, 2024 |
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Harry Brook got a ton for Yorkshire yesterday, so hopefully that should be the end of Bairstow as a test player unless something catastrophic happens to Foakes before the first test of the summer
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:Harry Brook got a ton for Yorkshire yesterday, so hopefully that should be the end of Bairstow as a test player unless something catastrophic happens to Foakes before the first test of the summer Bairstow isn't going anywhere until he retires
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Bairstow will celebrate his 200th test with a quickfire 20 & 7.
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Wow, Royals win it on the last ball. Titans getting the first slow over rate penalization of the season. What's the actual rule and calculation for this in IPL? Wiki doesn't list T20 but T20Is
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Rajasthan in shambles, couldn't defend 14 off 6 and 34 off 12. Maybe they should have given Lovely Trenty two more overs at the death (you know, his specialty) after he only gave up 8 off his first two overs in the power play.
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Dead Goon posted:Bairstow will celebrate his 200th test with a quickfire 20 & 7. so his form will have picked up by then?
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Lmao https://x.com/StuartBroad8/status/1778332983134412876
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Some pain for the bowlers in the County Championship today. Pour one out, if you can be bothered, for England international Brydon Carse who served up 13 overs for 95 runs against Warwickshire. Matthew Potts and Scott Boland were better, but both still went at over 4. Oof.
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Durham's shoeing continues.
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goatface posted:Durham's shoeing continues. This prompted me to look at the score. That Warks scorecard is quite something.
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Some of the scorecards remain painful for bowlers. Sussex are having a go at beating the 698 Warks declared on, Middlesex are 362/2, Yorkshire are 365/4 after only 74 overs, there's a bunch of other scores over 400. Not what I'd expect for mid April games.
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County bowlers practising with a Kookaburra ball, just in case they never have to play for England in Australia (or wherever else they use that ball).
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goatface posted:Some of the scorecards remain painful for bowlers. Sussex are having a go at beating the 698 Warks declared on, Middlesex are 362/2, Yorkshire are 365/4 after only 74 overs, there's a bunch of other scores over 400. Jeez, Durham made 517 and are now following on. That must be among the higher follow on scores.
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The ECB really does have to start giving out penalty point deductions more often, because this round of games is just stupid
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RIP 'Deadly' Derek Underwood. I'm old enough to have seen him play at the end of his career. loving amazing bowler
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kingturnip posted:The ECB really does have to start giving out penalty point deductions more often, because this round of games is just stupid Next week it's back to the Dukes balls and you'll see the familiar 170 plays 190 of April cricket return. biglads posted:RIP 'Deadly' Derek Underwood. I'm old enough to have seen him play at the end of his career. loving amazing bowler Before my time, but a legend of the game no doubt.
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therattle posted:Why was he never selected for England? Long story short, wrong place at the wrong time. Decided to leave Kent for Hampshire to improve his selection chances just before Kent old boys Ed Smith then our lord and master Bobsy Keysy atarted running the England show. Got injured for a while at Hampshire and lost in the shuffle there, now being a 21st Century Matthew Maynard in Wales.
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I love that IPL siren. SRH putting up a real good total Digital Jedi fucked around with this message at 16:35 on Apr 15, 2024 |
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