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There's another virus at play affecting test cricket at the moment. It's symptoms present as administrators with their head up their own arse.
Like the other virus, this one is another reminder that we put too much faith, give too much credit, to those that govern the things we hold dear.
The Poms and Pakis keep going off for bad light.
No rain, just overcast skies and an astonishing unwillingness to use the lights - even though the players want them.
About the only genuine sporting contest in the world right now, potential worldwide audience and the telecast keeps being interrupted for bad light.
Million dollar light towers watch on in silence.That's a good look for cricket eh?
All the stringent covid preparations and effort in putting international cricket on in this way, in probably the only country able, and the ICC can't pass an extraordinary permission for lights to be used in August 2020?
Fucken eggs!
Meanwhile the cricket is fucken grouse! Pakis are trying hard to be patient in typical English conditions. They've got the world's longest tail but an exciting bowling line up. Pakistan 223 for 9 after winning the toss, end of day 2, 2nd test.
The last day's play of the 1st test was classic test cricket. Poms needed 277 with all wickets in hand. The day just see-sawed and just when it looked gleefully like the Pakis would win, Woakes and Butler put on 139 at nearly run a ball, so the baddies won a thriller.🙂
But I digress, fucken bad light in a lockdown pandemic, jesus !😡
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MS Dhoni Profile - Cricket Player India | Stats, Records, Video
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MS Dhoni has retired.
First Indian captain that I really liked.
Legend of the game with an outstanding ODI record.
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i honestly thought he retired like 2 years ago
hell of a player
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Not NZ Cricket - but, Baron Botham of Ravensworth...!!!
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@Chris-B said in NZ cricket 2020:
Not NZ Cricket - but, Baron Botham of Ravensworth...!!!
Beefy is an absolute legend. Will always be one of my all time favourite players. Guys like him and his mate Viv Richards would absolutely dominate even more in today’s era.
Bloody nice fella too, I met him when he was on a speaking tour in the Middle East when my family lived there in 1990. A few years later my old man spotted him at a restaurant in Welly and got him to sign a napkin for me, he was a bit pissed but still remembered Dad from that tour he did.
Ya gotta feel sorry for Flintoff and Stokes having to try and live up to what he did....
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@ACT-Crusader said in Other Cricket 2020:
Not sure where to put this, but anyone else watching the BeIN Sports Cricket’s Greatest XI series. Hadn’t seen them. Pretty well put together.
1-Gavaskar
2-Gooch
3-Bradman
4-Tendulkar
5-Sobers
6-Kallis
7-Gilchrist
8-Khan
9-Warne
10-Akram
11-HoldingA mate of mine in the UK just sent me a photo of himself and number 5 on that list! Spent the afternoon at his house yesterday having a few rums!
As I typed he just sent a pic of a signed bat that just arrived.
Gary is looking spritely for 84 -
So I have a little more to the story now.
Mate is in Barbados on holiday (apparently a 'safe' destination according to the UK) and at a bar gets talking to Greg Armstrong (ex player/rebel manager) who is big friends with Sir Gary.
After expressing how much of a legend he thinks Sobers is, Armstrong takes him to Gary's house for a drink and a chat. Out of the blue the signed bat arrives at the hotel the next morning.I would say he's a jammy bastard but tbh this kind of thing isn't unusual for him. He is just a really likeable bloke that has a knack for making connections.
As an example, I was walking to a meeting with him in Belgravia one day and this car slows down and Paul Weller calls out hello. Turns out my mate used to live near Weller and his missus would babysit the kids sometimes. -
@Crucial said in Other Cricket 2020:
So I have a little more to the story now.
Mate is in Barbados on holiday (apparently a 'safe' destination according to the UK) and at a bar gets talking to Greg Armstrong (ex player/rebel manager) who is big friends with Sir Gary.
After expressing how much of a legend he thinks Sobers is, Armstrong takes him to Gary's house for a drink and a chat. Out of the blue the signed bat arrives at the hotel the next morning.I would say he's a jammy bastard but tbh this kind of thing isn't unusual for him. He is just a really likeable bloke that has a knack for making connections.
As an example, I was walking to a meeting with him in Belgravia one day and this car slows down and Paul Weller calls out hello. Turns out my mate used to live near Weller and his missus would babysit the kids sometimes.Whilst it's certainly not up there with a breakfast with Joe Moody, Jerome Kaino, Liam Squire and Damien McKenzie having a few rums with the greatest All Rounder in history ( well, arguements can be made for Kallis and Imran but anyway ) is pretty darn cool.
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@nzzp said in Other Cricket 2020:
@MN5 said in Other Cricket 2020:
the greatest All Rounder in history ( well, arguements can be made for Kallis and Imran but anyway ) is pretty darn cool.
not with me. Sobers, then daylight.
It's a tough one. Kallis was up there with Tendulkar, Lara, Dravid, Ponting, Hayden........plus had the added bonus of being about as good as Chris Martin as a bowler ( never a world beater but pretty damn decent ).
He's the only "batting" All Rounder that deserves a mention. The majority of the rest are "bowling" all rounders. Closest of the modern era would be Stokes if he continues improving like he is I guess.
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@MN5 said in Other Cricket 2020:
@Crucial said in Other Cricket 2020:
So I have a little more to the story now.
Mate is in Barbados on holiday (apparently a 'safe' destination according to the UK) and at a bar gets talking to Greg Armstrong (ex player/rebel manager) who is big friends with Sir Gary.
After expressing how much of a legend he thinks Sobers is, Armstrong takes him to Gary's house for a drink and a chat. Out of the blue the signed bat arrives at the hotel the next morning.I would say he's a jammy bastard but tbh this kind of thing isn't unusual for him. He is just a really likeable bloke that has a knack for making connections.
As an example, I was walking to a meeting with him in Belgravia one day and this car slows down and Paul Weller calls out hello. Turns out my mate used to live near Weller and his missus would babysit the kids sometimes.Whilst it's certainly not up there with a breakfast with Joe Moody, Jerome Kaino, Liam Squire and Damien McKenzie having a few rums with the greatest All Rounder in history ( well, arguements can be made for Kallis and Imran but anyway ) is pretty darn cool.
No arguments to be made. SGS is the GOAT Allrounder in the widest sense.
For a cricket fan he would certainly be near the top of the list of people you'd like to meet. -
@Crucial said in Other Cricket 2020:
@MN5 said in Other Cricket 2020:
@Crucial said in Other Cricket 2020:
So I have a little more to the story now.
Mate is in Barbados on holiday (apparently a 'safe' destination according to the UK) and at a bar gets talking to Greg Armstrong (ex player/rebel manager) who is big friends with Sir Gary.
After expressing how much of a legend he thinks Sobers is, Armstrong takes him to Gary's house for a drink and a chat. Out of the blue the signed bat arrives at the hotel the next morning.I would say he's a jammy bastard but tbh this kind of thing isn't unusual for him. He is just a really likeable bloke that has a knack for making connections.
As an example, I was walking to a meeting with him in Belgravia one day and this car slows down and Paul Weller calls out hello. Turns out my mate used to live near Weller and his missus would babysit the kids sometimes.Whilst it's certainly not up there with a breakfast with Joe Moody, Jerome Kaino, Liam Squire and Damien McKenzie having a few rums with the greatest All Rounder in history ( well, arguements can be made for Kallis and Imran but anyway ) is pretty darn cool.
No arguments to be made. SGS is the GOAT Allrounder in the widest sense.
For a cricket fan he would certainly be near the top of the list of people you'd like to meet.100%, all I'm saying is Kallis deserves a mention for his extraordinary achievements too. Both of them are world beaters based on their batting alone, they'd be hall of famers whether they turned the arm over or not.
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@MN5 said in Other Cricket 2020:
@nzzp said in Other Cricket 2020:
@MN5 said in Other Cricket 2020:
the greatest All Rounder in history ( well, arguements can be made for Kallis and Imran but anyway ) is pretty darn cool.
not with me. Sobers, then daylight.
It's a tough one. Kallis was up there with Tendulkar, Lara, Dravid, Ponting, Hayden........plus had the added bonus of being about as good as Chris Martin as a bowler ( never a world beater but pretty damn decent ).
He's the only "batting" All Rounder that deserves a mention. The majority of the rest are "bowling" all rounders. Closest of the modern era would be Stokes if he continues improving like he is I guess.
Going by stats alone, Kallis is only marginally behind Sobers with the bat and marginally above with the ball. Very similar (although Sobers got his batting average on uncovered pitches)
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@Crucial said in Other Cricket 2020:
@MN5 said in Other Cricket 2020:
@nzzp said in Other Cricket 2020:
@MN5 said in Other Cricket 2020:
the greatest All Rounder in history ( well, arguements can be made for Kallis and Imran but anyway ) is pretty darn cool.
not with me. Sobers, then daylight.
It's a tough one. Kallis was up there with Tendulkar, Lara, Dravid, Ponting, Hayden........plus had the added bonus of being about as good as Chris Martin as a bowler ( never a world beater but pretty damn decent ).
He's the only "batting" All Rounder that deserves a mention. The majority of the rest are "bowling" all rounders. Closest of the modern era would be Stokes if he continues improving like he is I guess.
Going by stats alone, Kallis is only marginally behind Sobers with the bat and marginally above with the ball. Very similar (although Sobers got his batting average on uncovered pitches)
In terms of aura Sobers has it all over Kallis which is perhaps a tad unfair. As you say their stats are pretty similar overall.
