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IdleRich
IdleRich
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jenks
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True story - I was with my dad shopping on a Saturday afternoon and we stopped outside a telly shop - Radio Rentals or such like - to check how the cricket was going, I said to Dad “that’s the new spinner they’ve got, he’s not done much in the county games.” We both stood there to see that first ball to Gatting and then stayed to watch it being endlessly replayed on a dozen screens.
subvert47
I don't fight, I run away
What I remember most about that is the Aussie commentator (Richie Benaud or Ian Chappell or someone) talking about Warne (before he came on) with another commentator who hadn't seen him bowl at all, saying "I think you're going to like him" or something like that. Whatever, it was an absolutely perfect understated set up for Warne's fucking bonkers first delivery.
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luka
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There is a scene in the 2001 Channel 4 documentary Shane Warne’s English Summer in which the Australian leg-spinner is shown in the Hampshire dressing room a few minutes before play is about to begin, wolfing down an enormous plate of chips. The interviewer suggests that perhaps this is not the nutritional regimen normally associated with the world’s top athletes.
“Well,” Warne replies through a mouthful of ketchup and deep-fried matter, “if I don’t have my chips, I’m not happy. And if I’m not happy, I don’t bowl well. A piece of lettuce or fruit doesn’t make you feel good, does it?”
“Well,” Warne replies through a mouthful of ketchup and deep-fried matter, “if I don’t have my chips, I’m not happy. And if I’m not happy, I don’t bowl well. A piece of lettuce or fruit doesn’t make you feel good, does it?”
woops
is not like other people
it does not
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
Genius, kids have been teaching me the varieties of leg spin. Right arm leg spin bowler, arsenal of deliveries varying in flight, speed, spin and landing spot. And then the next over is a gasket with “pace, seam, swing, accuracy from someone else”, mixing up pressure points which in turn generates wicket taking. “Take 20 wickets over 5 days and score more runs batting wins at test level”. Understood. Ish
There was a huge buzz round the city when the Australians blew in. Even if you don’t understand the archaic laws of cricket (I don’t fully), the skill sets are still clear. I remember Clive Rice and Hadlee’s name being almost god-like at Trent Bridge when they won, Larwood‘s bodyline legacy too. It was always fun seeing the English depressed. The ground is a quaint mix of rickety and ultra-new. Why play a test in Southampton when these strange castles can host
There was a huge buzz round the city when the Australians blew in. Even if you don’t understand the archaic laws of cricket (I don’t fully), the skill sets are still clear. I remember Clive Rice and Hadlee’s name being almost god-like at Trent Bridge when they won, Larwood‘s bodyline legacy too. It was always fun seeing the English depressed. The ground is a quaint mix of rickety and ultra-new. Why play a test in Southampton when these strange castles can host
IdleRich
IdleRich
Weird... the lack of a follow up post could be construed to imply that nothing exciting happened...
Anyway, big drama in the Cricket World Cup today. In case any of you missed it, I'm referring to the Sri Lanka Vs Bangladesh game which featured a controversial wicket.
It you don't follow cricket you may not know that to get someone out (ie to take the wicket) it's normally not enough for the situation to be technically one that would remove them, the fielding team also has to appeal to the umpire and say "How's that?" or similar, and then the umpire decides if it was indeed caught or an LBW* or whatever.
So here the scandal is cos the Bangladeshi captain seized on the technicality and appealed - very controversial in a sport which is supposed to be a kind of reference point for fair play and sporting manners (hence the expression "it's simply not cricket" which means that something has been done dishonourably or unfairly) apparently the umpires gave him two chances to withdraw his appeal, they probably said "Oh come on dear boy, that would hardly be cricket would it? And if you do insist o going ahead with it then the entire world will think you an absolute Berkshire".
But he insisted and so they lost a wicket, the first time it's occurred in this manner for 146 years. People are not happy. At the press conference the guy who was out called the opposing captain as absolute disgrace but he definitely wanted to say cunt.
*LBW is Leg Before Wicket, one of the ways to get someone out; following an appeal by the fielding side, the umpire may rule a batsman out lbw if the ball would have struck the wicket but was instead intercepted by any part of the batsman's body (except the hand holding the bat). The umpire's decision will depend on a number of criteria, including where the ball pitched, whether the ball hit in line with the wickets, the ball's expected future trajectory after hitting the batsman, and whether the batsman was attempting to hit the ball.
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
Kids are all over Cricket 24, quite freakish gameplay, none of the glitchy pixel haemorrhages of pre game iterations instead everything flows and the game itself seems to encourage bouncers to the head
mixed_biscuits
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Knowing cricket the match probably hasn't finished yet