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Post by Carl LaFong on Aug 28, 2019 22:43:36 GMT
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Aug 28, 2019 23:12:58 GMT
Well, do yourself a favour bob and don't look at the cricinfo poll on greatest 4th inning batting performsnces. Perera way out in front of Stokes, Lara a distant third, Laxman at Mohali in 2010 4th.
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Post by weststigersbob on Aug 29, 2019 3:01:14 GMT
“Cricinfo” + “Poll” = bias of the highest order. In fact the majority of sources on the internet have plenty morons who think they know a lot about the game, but in reality don’t know shit from sugar, and their National and myopic bias shows. Quora and Reddit in particular are notoriously bad for it. I had to change my reddit account after my previous one was continually downvoted because I had the temerity to question the legacy and overall career of Tendulkar and how it stifled Indian cricket for the best part of a decade, primarily because of his selfishness and his chasing of records (especially the 100th 100). Didn’t matter what I posted, I was downvoted. Thankfully that sub isn’t as bad as it used to be.
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Post by Aj_June on Aug 30, 2019 7:39:04 GMT
“Cricinfo” + “Poll” = bias of the highest order. In fact the majority of sources on the internet have plenty morons who think they know a lot about the game, but in reality don’t know shit from sugar, and their National and myopic bias shows. Quora and Reddit in particular are notoriously bad for it. I had to change my reddit account after my previous one was continually downvoted because I had the temerity to question the legacy and overall career of Tendulkar and how it stifled Indian cricket for the best part of a decade, primarily because of his selfishness and his chasing of records (especially the 100th 100). Didn’t matter what I posted, I was downvoted. Thankfully that sub isn’t as bad as it used to be. Although I love to read user comments I was delighted when cricinfo removed that feature. Because people with immense national biases would keep singing praise of their players (mostly Asians in the case of cricinfo because of the great disparity in population of subcontinent and the rest of the cricket following world). I find polls ludicrous because stupid Indians would choose Sehwag in all-time world XI over the likes of Hutton & Hobbs.
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Post by weststigersbob on Aug 30, 2019 8:22:09 GMT
AJ, that’s nothing. How’s about the to and fro as to the best all rounder of all time. Sobers and Miller with a bit of Dev, Imran, Botham or Hadlee chucked in ? Perhaps Kallis ? Nope. Shahid Afridi vs Yuvraj Singh. Or the claim, with over 1000 upvotes, that during the 90’s and 00’s, not a single Australian batsman was good enough to play for India. The best however, and it’s often repeated, is how easy Bradman had it in his career. You know, no fast bowlers, no spinners, everything was military medium with a the basics of 2 slips, gully and a ring field where no one chased the ball nor dived. And to what end ? To prove Sachin was better. Than Bradman.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Aug 30, 2019 9:02:43 GMT
Well, when you have all time greats like Ajay Jadeja, Kiran More, Kris Srikkanth, Vinod Kambli and Sanjay Manjrekar, pretty hard to find room for M Waugh, S Waugh, Ponting, Taylor, Boon or Langer.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Aug 30, 2019 9:53:52 GMT
While the 90s is harder, from the OOs picking the best XI between the two countries seems pretty straight forward. you'd have: Hayden, Sehwag, Ponting, Tendulkar, Clarke, Laxman, Gilchrist, Kumble, Warne, Gillespie and McGrath. I can't see any issue picking two spinners when they're as good as those two, and I rate Anil's batting slightly above Warne's.
You could maybe put Dravid in at 6 over VVS, and can make an argument for Langer over Sehwag due to the strength of his partnership with Hayden. If you wanted a third seamer rather than Kumble, I'd be tempted to take the left hander Zaheer Khan over Brett Lee. Apologies if I'm forgetting a really great Oz paceman in there somewhere. My memory and knowledge of 90s cricket is much better than 00s in general.
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Post by SportsFan19 on Aug 30, 2019 10:55:31 GMT
Well, guys! Let's just start all over again. I think posts here will stay for a long time. I make prediction that England will the 2019 world cup! Is this a good place to ask questions? What is the ashes? Is it International competition? If so, how is it different than the World Cup?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2019 11:01:10 GMT
Well, guys! Let's just start all over again. I think posts here will stay for a long time. I make prediction that England will the 2019 world cup! Is this a good place to ask questions? What is the ashes? Is Iden International competition? It's so how is it different than the World Cup? It is played between Australia and England every couple of years. Five, 5 day test matches, in which each team plays two innings. Kind of like the Ryder Cup is to golf (Europe vs the Americas).
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Post by weststigersbob on Aug 30, 2019 14:53:30 GMT
Well, guys! Let's just start all over again. I think posts here will stay for a long time. I make prediction that England will the 2019 world cup! Is this a good place to ask questions? What is the ashes? Is it International competition? If so, how is it different than the World Cup? Okay, very basic explanation. The World Cup refers to the quadrennial tournament where the games are One Day Internationals. These games are 1 innings each. The Ashes is a series of Test Matches (Games that last 5 days and 2 innings each) played between England and Australia. The Ashes were created in 1882, and Australia and England have been playing Tests since 1877. If you require any other information - please ask. We, the IMDB2 Cricket Community, are happy to answer any question you have. And, there are no stupid questions ......
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Post by Aj_June on Aug 30, 2019 19:09:08 GMT
Well, guys! Let's just start all over again. I think posts here will stay for a long time. I make prediction that England will the 2019 world cup! Is this a good place to ask questions? What is the ashes? Is it International competition? If so, how is it different than the World Cup? Adding to what has already been said the Ashes is one of the oldest nation vs nation sporting rivalry. Probably the oldest one among famous ones.
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Aug 30, 2019 19:22:51 GMT
2nd Test at Sabina Park - India 157-3 at Tea Cornwall The Bear is playing for the Windies, got a wicket as well, have you seen his flighters man!!!
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Post by SportsFan19 on Aug 30, 2019 19:39:45 GMT
Is this a good place to ask questions? What is the ashes? Is it International competition? If so, how is it different than the World Cup? Okay, very basic explanation. The World Cup refers to the quadrennial tournament where the games are One Day Internationals. These games are 1 innings each. The Ashes is a series of Test Matches (Games that last 5 days and 2 innings each) played between England and Australia. The Ashes were created in 1882, and Australia and England have been playing Tests since 1877. If you require any other information - please ask. We, the IMDB2 Cricket Community, are happy to answer any question you have. And, there are no stupid questions ...... What consitutes a Cricket inning? How does scoring work?
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Aug 30, 2019 20:57:21 GMT
You have a 22 yard pitch with a set of stumps at either end. For an innings to be viable, there must be one not out batsmen at each end. In a test match there are 11 players on each side, so if 10 players are out the innings ends. On rare occasions a player may be injured and unable to bat, so they can lose only 9 wickets before being all out.
In limited over cricket OD (50 overs per side) and T20 (20 overs per side) your innings automatically ends upon the completion of the 50th or 20th over. One over consists of 6 legitimate deliveries. So 50 overs is 300 bslls per side whike T20 is 120 balks per side. An innings also ends in limited over cricket if the batting team loses 10 wickets.
On the pitch there are three thick white lines at each end. One called the popping crease, which is there for the bowler, one for the stumpline and one called the batting crease. A run is scored by the batsmen crossing and reaching the batting crease on the opposite end of the pitch safely, oft times they will attempt a second run if it's still safe to do so and can attempt as many runs as they safely can. The batsman doesn't need to have contacted the ball with the bat to attempt a run, though the run won't be credited to them if completed. It will go down as an extra.
If the ball reaches the boundary, it's 4 runs. Over the boundary is 6. If the ball hits a helmet owned by the fielding team at any time for any reason it's an automatic 5 runs.
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Aug 30, 2019 21:37:00 GMT
India are 256 for 5
Kohli out for 76 - Holder has 3 wickets
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Post by Carl LaFong on Aug 30, 2019 21:40:42 GMT
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Post by SportsFan19 on Aug 30, 2019 22:11:50 GMT
Just heading to work, but this sounds exactly what I've been looking for.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Aug 30, 2019 22:15:17 GMT
The biggest difference between cricket and baseball? In cricket the batter doesn’t have to run when he hits the ball.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Aug 30, 2019 23:10:55 GMT
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Aug 31, 2019 3:50:40 GMT
hope VIHARI and PANT cement their places today.
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