Aussie Cricket
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Cricket:
@mimic said in Aussie Cricket:
Mark just made it look easy though. Beautiful to watch
Off his pads? Sexual. Up there with a Lara cover drive for me (and a Ponting pull shot)
It was his late cut shot that showed his talent.
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@antipodean said in Aussie Cricket:
@mariner4life said in Aussie Cricket:
@mimic said in Aussie Cricket:
Mark just made it look easy though. Beautiful to watch
Off his pads? Sexual. Up there with a Lara cover drive for me (and a Ponting pull shot)
It was his late cut shot that showed his talent.
Tendulkar too. He cut balls so close to his body - just leaned back, let them go past him, and then flicked them down to fine leg for four. Incredible talent to be able to do that.
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@nzzp said in Aussie Cricket:
@antipodean said in Aussie Cricket:
@mariner4life said in Aussie Cricket:
@mimic said in Aussie Cricket:
Mark just made it look easy though. Beautiful to watch
Off his pads? Sexual. Up there with a Lara cover drive for me (and a Ponting pull shot)
It was his late cut shot that showed his talent.
Tendulkar too. He cut balls so close to his body - just leaned back, let them go past him, and then flicked them down to fine leg for four. Incredible talent to be able to do that.
Cutting to fine leg is up there with hooking to 3rd man. It takes a special cricketer.
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@Crazy-Horse said in Aussie Cricket:
@nzzp said in Aussie Cricket:
@antipodean said in Aussie Cricket:
@mariner4life said in Aussie Cricket:
@mimic said in Aussie Cricket:
Mark just made it look easy though. Beautiful to watch
Off his pads? Sexual. Up there with a Lara cover drive for me (and a Ponting pull shot)
It was his late cut shot that showed his talent.
Tendulkar too. He cut balls so close to his body - just leaned back, let them go past him, and then flicked them down to fine leg for four. Incredible talent to be able to do that.
Cutting to fine leg is up there with hooking to 3rd man. It takes a special cricketer.
Arr, too early. Third man, obviously. There was a shot he played in the early 2000's against the aussies, where he literally just swayed back, and flicked it. Seriously excellent - minimum movement, maximum effect/
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@mimic said in Aussie Cricket:
Mark just made it look easy though. Beautiful to watch
Mark Waugh would have to be the most elegant right hander ever right?
When the most elegant batsmen are listed the same names along with Waugh come up - Gower, Lara, Sobers, Sangakarra, Fleming and Turner (in an NZ context) - all lefties.
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@rotated said in Aussie Cricket:
@mimic said in Aussie Cricket:
Mark just made it look easy though. Beautiful to watch
Mark Waugh would have to be the most elegant right hander ever right?
When the most elegant batsmen are listed the same names along with Waugh come up - Gower, Lara, Sobers, Sangakarra, Fleming and Turner (in an NZ context) - all lefties.
I actually rate Kane as more elegant than Afghanistan for all around shot making. Sometimes I watch Kane lean into a push and the next thing I know it's at the boundary. But generally the classically elegant are usually lefties...Turner was a RHB.
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@rotated said in Aussie Cricket:
@mimic said in Aussie Cricket:
Mark just made it look easy though. Beautiful to watch
Mark Waugh would have to be the most elegant right hander ever right?
Yeah, except he just misses out due to the glorious unparalleled elegance of Martin David Crowe 🙂
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@Siam said in Aussie Cricket:
Yeah, except he just misses out due to the glorious unparalleled elegance of Martin David Crowe 🙂
Just read this piece on MDC from Mark Nicholas back in 2012
"To a man the Australians came to our dressing room and raised a glass to the bloke with the knackered knee who could still bat with the gods." Describing Crowe playing for an invitation XI 2-3 years after he retired. MDC made a century againt the touring aussies. Never knew that.
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@rotated said in Aussie Cricket:
@mimic said in Aussie Cricket:
Mark just made it look easy though. Beautiful to watch
Mark Waugh would have to be the most elegant right hander ever right?
When the most elegant batsmen are listed the same names along with Waugh come up - Gower, Lara, Sobers, Sangakarra, Fleming and Turner (in an NZ context) - all lefties.
Crowe
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@Siam said in Aussie Cricket:
@rotated said in Aussie Cricket:
@mimic said in Aussie Cricket:
Mark just made it look easy though. Beautiful to watch
Mark Waugh would have to be the most elegant right hander ever right?
Yeah, except he just misses out due to the glorious unparalleled elegance of Martin David Crowe 🙂
Read. The. Thread. Before replying ...
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@booboo said in Aussie Cricket:
@Siam said in Aussie Cricket:
@rotated said in Aussie Cricket:
@mimic said in Aussie Cricket:
Mark just made it look easy though. Beautiful to watch
Mark Waugh would have to be the most elegant right hander ever right?
Yeah, except he just misses out due to the glorious unparalleled elegance of Martin David Crowe 🙂
Read. The. Thread. Before replying ...
Why break the habit of a lifetime?
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Cricket:
@booboo said in Aussie Cricket:
@Siam said in Aussie Cricket:
@rotated said in Aussie Cricket:
@mimic said in Aussie Cricket:
Mark just made it look easy though. Beautiful to watch
Mark Waugh would have to be the most elegant right hander ever right?
Yeah, except he just misses out due to the glorious unparalleled elegance of Martin David Crowe 🙂
Read. The. Thread. Before replying ...
Why break the habit of a lifetime?
If anyone was rude enough they could call it a bit of a flat learning curve.
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@Snowy said in Aussie Cricket:
@mariner4life said in Aussie Cricket:
@booboo said in Aussie Cricket:
@Siam said in Aussie Cricket:
@rotated said in Aussie Cricket:
@mimic said in Aussie Cricket:
Mark just made it look easy though. Beautiful to watch
Mark Waugh would have to be the most elegant right hander ever right?
Yeah, except he just misses out due to the glorious unparalleled elegance of Martin David Crowe 🙂
Read. The. Thread. Before replying ...
Why break the habit of a lifetime?
If anyone was rude enough they could call it a bit of a flat learning curve.
I'm sure nobody is ...
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@nzzp said in Aussie Cricket:
Not sure if this has been posted (couldn't see it yet) but this is an itneresting documentary from supersport on the ball tampering.
not quite finished, but a generally decent summary. Completely omits the SBW facemasks though!
Some people may have forgotten that the tour was already a controversial shambles before the sandpaper incidents. The sandpaper was just the most dramatic incident of a very unpleasant tour.
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@rotated said in Aussie Cricket:
@mimic said in Aussie Cricket:
Mark just made it look easy though. Beautiful to watch
Mark Waugh would have to be the most elegant right hander ever right?
When the most elegant batsmen are listed the same names along with Waugh come up - Gower, Lara, Sobers, Sangakarra, Fleming and Turner (in an NZ context) - all lefties.
I'd personally rate Lara the best to watch by far out of that lot. Or anyone really. Seemed to get the backlift up so much quicker than anyone else.
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@SynicBast said in Aussie Cricket:
@Siam said in Aussie Cricket:
Yeah, except he just misses out due to the glorious unparalleled elegance of Martin David Crowe 🙂
Just read this piece on MDC from Mark Nicholas back in 2012
"To a man the Australians came to our dressing room and raised a glass to the bloke with the knackered knee who could still bat with the gods." Describing Crowe playing for an invitation XI 2-3 years after he retired. MDC made a century againt the touring aussies. Never knew that.
I had to track that one down:
I favour an innings hidden away in the Oxfordshire countryside, at Wormsley, home of John Paul Getty's fascination for the game. Retired for almost two years and without having held a bat in hand during that time, or a net in preparation, Crowe walked to the wicket to open the innings for Getty's team in pursuit of 267 to beat the touring Australians. A full attack sans Shane Warne went after him, and of the first 16 balls delivered by Glenn McGrath and Jason Gillespie, Crowe failed to hit one. At No. 17 from McGrath, he rose to his toes and struck a wondrous back-foot drive that remains as vivid to this day as it was then. He made a hundred, of course. We would have won if the rest of us had not been such muppets. To a man the Australians came to our dressing room and raised a glass to the bloke with the knackered knee who could still bat with the gods.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/587012.html
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This is some of the most awkward, painful coverage and commentary I've even heard.
- Mark Waugh making weight jokes in the box, with a female commentator in there. She had to interject to ensure the viewers knew Waugh was referring to the blokes only.
- Who does Waugh think the England born and bred female commentator would support in an England v India world cup final? FFS what a dumb ass question.
- However, she (what's her name btw??) did blot her copybook when she said a shot was "beautifully timed" only for Waugh or Haddin to say it was a thick edge.
- Then after drinks we have to endure one of the most awkward on-field interviews ever as they ask Nathan Lyon about two questions too many as he's trying to make his way in a hurry to the bowling crease. Tremendous innovation that, Fox. Yikes.
- Just after that they announce we're going to tune into Alex Carey behind the stumps. For several balls we hear him scratching around in the dirt, playing with the bails and saying "Well bowled" a couple of times. Fucking ground breaking. Thankfully one of the Indians smacked a six to break the boredom and bring Larry, Mo and Curly back into it.
