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@shark said in Other Cricket 2020:
He barely averages under 30, FFS. Open your blinkers: Southee is servicable but he isn't, and never has been, a genuine stike bowler.
He's Simon Doull, basically. Good in swinging conditions, but otherwise middle of the road. Not bad by any stretch, but firmly in the solid journeyman category.
Interestingly, though, only slightly worse than Jimmy Anderson (who has longevity on his side for sure).
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Possibly a nickname/sledge that's been around for ages, but I saw one of the Aussie Facebook cricket pages referring to "Jimmy Clouderson" for the first time last week. Overly harsh, but they take no prisoners across the ditch.
I'm not a noted fan of Southee. But I'm still shaking my head at opening the bowling at the SCG with Henry and CdG in our first ever Test match back there since 1683...
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remember at the start of his career, when Jimmy Anderson was pretty average? It seemed the only guy he got wickets against was us. He got better and better though. His seam release is almost perfect these days, what a swing bowler.
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@mariner4life He's someone who'll be appreciated more when he retires. Prboably the best swing bowler the game has ever seen, both with the duke and kookaburra.
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@African-Monkey said in Other Cricket 2020:
@mariner4life He's someone who'll be appreciated more when he retires. Prboably the best swing bowler the game has ever seen, both with the duke and kookaburra.
I'll take Wasim Akram
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@mariner4life said in Other Cricket 2020:
@African-Monkey said in Other Cricket 2020:
@mariner4life He's someone who'll be appreciated more when he retires. Prboably the best swing bowler the game has ever seen, both with the duke and kookaburra.
I'll take Wasim Akram
Bloody hell, I still have nightmares of sitting on the couch in the mid 90s when NZ were chasing a hundred odd to win and him and Waqar got five each. What a pair they were.
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@MN5 said in Other Cricket 2020:
@mariner4life said in Other Cricket 2020:
@African-Monkey said in Other Cricket 2020:
@mariner4life He's someone who'll be appreciated more when he retires. Prboably the best swing bowler the game has ever seen, both with the duke and kookaburra.
I'll take Wasim Akram
Bloody hell, I still have nightmares of sitting on the couch in the mid 90s when NZ were chasing a hundred odd to win and him and Waqar got five each. What a pair they were.
felt like they came every summer for a while, to get a hundred wickets each.
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@mariner4life said in Other Cricket 2020:
@MN5 said in Other Cricket 2020:
@mariner4life said in Other Cricket 2020:
@African-Monkey said in Other Cricket 2020:
@mariner4life He's someone who'll be appreciated more when he retires. Prboably the best swing bowler the game has ever seen, both with the duke and kookaburra.
I'll take Wasim Akram
Bloody hell, I still have nightmares of sitting on the couch in the mid 90s when NZ were chasing a hundred odd to win and him and Waqar got five each. What a pair they were.
felt like they came every summer for a while, to get a hundred wickets each.
Regularly taking such mighty scalps as Rod Latham, Shane Thomson, Ken Rutherford and the two Blairs.......( MN5 shudders at the state of NZ cricket in the mid 90s )
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@MN5 said in Other Cricket 2020:
@mariner4life said in Other Cricket 2020:
I'll take Wasim Akram
Bloody hell, I still have nightmares of sitting on the couch in the mid 90s when NZ were chasing a hundred odd to win and him and Waqar got five each. What a pair they were.
So how do you think those of us at Seddon Park felt?
Wasim is my favourite fast bowler.
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@mariner4life Yeah, no comeback there, I conveniently forgot about him.
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@African-Monkey said in Other Cricket 2020:
@mariner4life Yeah, no comeback there, I conveniently forgot about him.
most batsmen from the 90s would like to do the same
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@Gunner said in Other Cricket 2020:
@shark said in Other Cricket 2020:
@MN5 Gunner seems to think Southee is beyond reproach. He's not. I'm just balancing the argument.
How is it up there on that high horse?
Good, Tim's Dad.
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@Bovidae said in Other Cricket 2020:
@MN5 said in Other Cricket 2020:
@mariner4life said in Other Cricket 2020:
I'll take Wasim Akram
Bloody hell, I still have nightmares of sitting on the couch in the mid 90s when NZ were chasing a hundred odd to win and him and Waqar got five each. What a pair they were.
So how do you think those of us at Seddon Park felt?
Wasim is my favourite fast bowler.
guaranteed nightmare test for me...i still get queasy about that last innings.
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Womens cricket is pretty rubbish viewing. If they think putting womens cricket on TV will bring eyeballs.. he is kidding himself. The product just isnt good.
""We're very, very focused on making sure we've had a very strong lineup of women's content on Spark Sport because we think that's a terrific opportunity."
Happy to let ratings decide? Yeah I bet not.
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Other Cricket 2020:
Womens cricket is pretty rubbish viewing. If they think putting womens cricket on TV will bring eyeballs.. he is kidding himself. The product just isnt good.
""We're very, very focused on making sure we've had a very strong lineup of women's content on Spark Sport because we think that's a terrific opportunity."
Happy to let ratings decide? Yeah I bet not.
If it was the only cricket/sprt on, I would watch it in a heartbeat. Would even pay for Sky Sports again
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@Hooroo said in Other Cricket 2020:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Other Cricket 2020:
Womens cricket is pretty rubbish viewing. If they think putting womens cricket on TV will bring eyeballs.. he is kidding himself. The product just isnt good.
""We're very, very focused on making sure we've had a very strong lineup of women's content on Spark Sport because we think that's a terrific opportunity."
Happy to let ratings decide? Yeah I bet not.
If it was the only cricket/sprt on, I would watch it in a heartbeat. Would even pay for Sky Sports again
You realize they arent talking live cricket during the covid timeframe? You would watch competitive marbles at the moment.
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Other Cricket 2020:
@Hooroo said in Other Cricket 2020:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Other Cricket 2020:
Womens cricket is pretty rubbish viewing. If they think putting womens cricket on TV will bring eyeballs.. he is kidding himself. The product just isnt good.
""We're very, very focused on making sure we've had a very strong lineup of women's content on Spark Sport because we think that's a terrific opportunity."
Happy to let ratings decide? Yeah I bet not.
If it was the only cricket/sprt on, I would watch it in a heartbeat. Would even pay for Sky Sports again
Yo do realize they arent talking live cricket dont you? You would watch competitive marbles at the moment.
It's womens cricket, of course I didn't read the article, man!!
OK, that is a big no from me then. I assumed it was about live cricket.