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Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 11, 2020 10:14:20 GMT
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Post by Aj_June on Apr 11, 2020 10:16:32 GMT
Oh, it was awesome! Will take the quiz later but that innings was amazing. Had England won the series it would have been even more special/memorable for the English fans.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 11, 2020 10:17:32 GMT
9/12
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Post by nogbad on Apr 11, 2020 11:44:40 GMT
Not very well, 6/12. Can't recall if listened to it live on TMS or just watched the highlights later. Possibly the latter, last year's Tour de France was the best I've ever seen, so that distracted me from the cricket somewhat.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 11, 2020 14:16:16 GMT
Not very well, 6/12. Can't recall if listened to it live on TMS or just watched the highlights later. Possibly the latter, last year's Tour de France was the best I've ever seen, so that distracted me from the cricket somewhat. TMS are broadcasting the commentary from the test just now. We're up to lunch on day 4 (the last day of the test): www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/cricket/52136844Eng 238/4 in their 2nd innings, still need another 121 to win.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Apr 11, 2020 19:50:30 GMT
It was the best innings Stokes had played in about 5 weeks. I remember dad telling me it was a fluke and I asked him "Can something be a fluke if it's repeated?"
That's the commendable thing about Stokes. He gets hit for 4 sixes in the last over of the WT20 Final along with a series of other so close but so far efforts and he just dusts himself off and continues to put himself in those positions. You keep doing that your luck turns. Instead of getting two top edges go for 6 off your bowling, the ball ricochets off your bat for overthrows or you get given not out on a plumb lbw with 2 left to win.
9/12 btw.
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Post by Aj_June on Apr 11, 2020 20:05:46 GMT
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Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 12, 2020 1:22:10 GMT
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Post by weststigersbob on Apr 12, 2020 2:33:29 GMT
5/12. Pathetic.
Then again, I’m still absolutely salty that he wasn’t given LBW. It was absolutely salmon trout. One of the poorest decisions in Cricket history. Dead straight ball, didn’t turn, didn’t bounce, hit his back leg in front of middle stump.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 12, 2020 4:23:15 GMT
5/12. Pathetic. Then again, I’m still absolutely salty that he wasn’t given LBW. It was absolutely salmon trout. One of the poorest decisions in Cricket history. Dead straight ball, didn’t turn, didn’t bounce, hit his back leg in front of middle stump. Shouldn’t have wasted that review! 
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Apr 12, 2020 4:54:59 GMT
5/12. Pathetic. Then again, I’m still absolutely salty that he wasn’t given LBW. It was absolutely salmon trout. One of the poorest decisions in Cricket history. Dead straight ball, didn’t turn, didn’t bounce, hit his back leg in front of middle stump. Shouldn’t have wasted that review! Glenn McGrath agreed on the day
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Post by Aj_June on Apr 12, 2020 11:46:22 GMT
9/12 places you as one of the top cricket experts on this side. You were on par with Hosko who is an awesome resource for cricket and sports journalist and you bettered Bob who has excellent knowledge of the game. hitchcockthelegend give it a try!
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Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 12, 2020 11:48:34 GMT
9/12 places you as one of the top cricket experts on this side. You were on par with Hosko who is an awesome resource for cricket and sports journalist and you bettered Bob who has excellent knowledge of the game. hitchcockthelegend give it a try! A few lucky guesses if I'm being honest! I'm way behind you and the ocker posters in my cricketing knowledge.
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Apr 12, 2020 13:22:30 GMT
10/12
I got the scores he was dropped on wrong and the number of runs needed when Leach came to the wicket. I got lucky with 1929, pure guess.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Apr 12, 2020 20:01:46 GMT
I knew the 1929 one because I've read numerous biographies on Bradman and Archie Jackson who both debuted in that series. That Melbourne test was one of the great games ever played and heartbreak motivated Bradman and Jackson in that staggering partnership they shared at the Oval which settled the 1930 series. Remarkably and tragically, Jackson had already contracted TB by the time he played that innings. He ended up in a hostel in the Blue Mountains where he was almost certainly treated by my grandmother, who started there in 1929.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 12, 2020 20:10:19 GMT
10/12 I got the scores he was dropped on wrong and the number of runs needed when Leach came to the wicket. I got lucky with 1929, pure guess. I knew those two so didn’t have to guess them.
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