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@MN5 said in Other Cricket 2020:
@nzzp said in Other Cricket 2020:
So the West Indies get up over the English at the Rose Bowl. First test match post-Covid, no crowds, but a cracking game.
Windies were effectively 27-4 chasing 200, but got there pretty comfortably thanks to a big 95 from one of the middle order. Followed this on and off through the daily updates given time zones, and seemed a damn good test match. Must be weird playing inside empty stadia - maybe the new normal?
I do wonder, though, if there are no crowds why not go to genuinely small grounds with good pitches, put up temp camera positions, and have at it? How nice would it be at a 'garden' type ground rather than an amphitheatre?
I’m glad test cricket has been unaffected by Covid
Except for no saliva on the ball. Decreases the opportunity for sandpaper use.
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@MN5 said in Other Cricket 2020:
@nzzp said in Other Cricket 2020:
So the West Indies get up over the English at the Rose Bowl. First test match post-Covid, no crowds, but a cracking game.
Windies were effectively 27-4 chasing 200, but got there pretty comfortably thanks to a big 95 from one of the middle order. Followed this on and off through the daily updates given time zones, and seemed a damn good test match. Must be weird playing inside empty stadia - maybe the new normal?
I do wonder, though, if there are no crowds why not go to genuinely small grounds with good pitches, put up temp camera positions, and have at it? How nice would it be at a 'garden' type ground rather than an amphitheatre?
I’m glad test cricket has been unaffected by Covid
Jesus that’s actually funny, do you get your boys to write your jokes now..
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@Virgil said in Other Cricket 2020:
@MN5 said in Other Cricket 2020:
@nzzp said in Other Cricket 2020:
So the West Indies get up over the English at the Rose Bowl. First test match post-Covid, no crowds, but a cracking game.
Windies were effectively 27-4 chasing 200, but got there pretty comfortably thanks to a big 95 from one of the middle order. Followed this on and off through the daily updates given time zones, and seemed a damn good test match. Must be weird playing inside empty stadia - maybe the new normal?
I do wonder, though, if there are no crowds why not go to genuinely small grounds with good pitches, put up temp camera positions, and have at it? How nice would it be at a 'garden' type ground rather than an amphitheatre?
I’m glad test cricket has been unaffected by Covid
Jesus that’s actually funny, do you get your boys to write your jokes now..
I could screenshot the absolute plethora of likes you've given me on FB over the years but that would only embarrass you.
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@MN5 said in Other Cricket 2020:
@Virgil said in Other Cricket 2020:
@MN5 said in Other Cricket 2020:
@nzzp said in Other Cricket 2020:
So the West Indies get up over the English at the Rose Bowl. First test match post-Covid, no crowds, but a cracking game.
Windies were effectively 27-4 chasing 200, but got there pretty comfortably thanks to a big 95 from one of the middle order. Followed this on and off through the daily updates given time zones, and seemed a damn good test match. Must be weird playing inside empty stadia - maybe the new normal?
I do wonder, though, if there are no crowds why not go to genuinely small grounds with good pitches, put up temp camera positions, and have at it? How nice would it be at a 'garden' type ground rather than an amphitheatre?
I’m glad test cricket has been unaffected by Covid
Jesus that’s actually funny, do you get your boys to write your jokes now..
I could screenshot the absolute plethora of likes you've given me on FB over the years but that would only embarrass you.
#fakenews
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Cool game. I left the Windies at effectively 4 down for 30 something, with some admiration that they'd pushed the poms valiantly. The new dukes was going all over and the poms were bowling disciplined.
A fine win for the caribbeans. That Blackwood 95 must have been class on a 5th day wicket with uneven bounce.
Crazy toss decision by Stokes in that weather. Anderson bowling like he's 10 years younger. Poms still picking journeymen batters who average under 40 in 1st class, and come to test cricket with glaring technical flaws - play 10 games, get a ton and only ever get mentioned with the suffix " oh yeah, I think I remember him" Vince, Malan, Stoneham, Keaton someone, Carbery, etc. Now add Denly and soon crawley.
Not that I can offer better but they're taking our "chuck em in and see" approach to batsmen selections to new heights.Jason Holder is a marvel.
Please let there be a turning wicket so we can see big Rahkeem in action. He's got biggerGreat to have test cricket to watch in an evening instead of that incessant Netflix browsing we've been doing for months!
Root obviously got one 9 months ago, so he's back for the next one at old Trafford on Thursday.
Oh, and if there's one professional sport where the players are used to no crowds, it's red ball cricket!
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@Siam said in Other Cricket 2020:
Cool game. I left the Windies at effectively 4 down for 30 something, with some admiration that they'd pushed the poms valiantly. The new dukes was going all over and the poms were bowling disciplined.
A fine win for the caribbeans. That Blackwood 95 must have been class on a 5th day wicket with uneven bounce.
Crazy toss decision by Stokes in that weather. Anderson bowling like he's 10 years younger. Poms still picking journeymen batters who average under 40 in 1st class, and come to test cricket with glaring technical flaws - play 10 games, get a ton and only ever get mentioned with the suffix " oh yeah, I think I remember him" Vince, Malan, Stoneham, Keaton someone, Carbery, etc. Now add Denly and soon crawley.
Not that I can offer better but they're taking our "chuck em in and see" approach to batsmen selections to new heights.Jason Holder is a marvel.
Please let there be a turning wicket so we can see big Rahkeem in action. He's got biggerGreat to have test cricket to watch in an evening instead of that incessant Netflix browsing we've been doing for months!
Root obviously got one 9 months ago, so he's back for the next one at old Trafford on Thursday.
Oh, and if there's one professional sport where the players are used to no crowds, it's red ball cricket!
Had a look at the scoreboard, how does the opener get 8 not out? Retired hurt ?
I think Holder is a brilliant captain as well as best all rounder in the world. What a player
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@akan004 said in Other Cricket 2020:
@booboo said in Other Cricket 2020:
Anyone in Aus with Foxtel turn on to 501 NOW.
You will not regret it.
First match of the '87 WSC at Perth.
Some super catches Dipak Patel.
And a 2nd last ball result
Streamed it last night. Great match.
I recall watching it live at home at Ma n Pa's, home from Uni.
Was just after that Aussie fuck umpire robbed us in the test at the MCG (the ball must have been going under McDermott's stumps ... arrsehole).
Just saw the Req RR at 9. Unherd of in those days. Bastards got close. So glad to see the deflation when they thought they had it won.
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@booboo said in Other Cricket 2020:
@akan004 said in Other Cricket 2020:
@booboo said in Other Cricket 2020:
Anyone in Aus with Foxtel turn on to 501 NOW.
You will not regret it.
First match of the '87 WSC at Perth.
Some super catches Dipak Patel.
And a 2nd last ball result
Streamed it last night. Great match.
I recall watching it live at home at Ma n Pa's, home from Uni.
Was just after that Aussie fuck umpire robbed us in the test at the MCG (the ball must have been going under McDermott's stumps ... arrsehole).
Just saw the Req RR at 9. Unherd of in those days. Bastards got close. So glad to see the deflation when they thought they had it won.
Yeah, around the 35th over I thought they had no chance. Can't believe they got so close. Crowe's batting was sheer class too.
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@MN5 said in Other Cricket 2020:
@booboo said in Other Cricket 2020:
Jeez Paddles was a pleasure to watch
He was such a man amongst boys in the NZ teams he played in. Shame he never had KW, Rossco, BMac, Boult and Vettori alongside him.
Which is annoying me at the moment, we have a pretty good team and no one to play.
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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 has retired.
First Indian captain that I really liked.
Legend of the game with an outstanding ODI record.
