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Post by Carl LaFong on May 18, 2020 18:11:09 GMT
In recognition of his consecutive Test pairs, Mark Waugh, who had scored a century on his Test debut, was temporarily nicknamed "Audi", after the car-maker with the four-circle logo. His team mates pointed out that if he had scored five Test ducks in a row, he could have been nicknamed "Olympic".
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Post by Aj_June on May 18, 2020 18:17:20 GMT
In recognition of his consecutive Test pairs, Mark Waugh, who had scored a century on his Test debut, was temporarily nicknamed "Audi", after the car-maker with the four-circle logo. His team mates pointed out that if he had scored five Test ducks in a row, he could have been nicknamed "Olympic". Wow, I didn't know that stat about Waugh. He was most famously nicknamed as Afghan.
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Post by Carl LaFong on May 18, 2020 18:18:59 GMT
In recognition of his consecutive Test pairs, Mark Waugh, who had scored a century on his Test debut, was temporarily nicknamed "Audi", after the car-maker with the four-circle logo. His team mates pointed out that if he had scored five Test ducks in a row, he could have been nicknamed "Olympic". Wow, I didn't know that stat about Waugh. He was most famously nicknamed as Afghan.  Id forgotten about that one (the forgotten Waugh/war)
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Post by hoskotafe3 on May 18, 2020 18:19:15 GMT
Gilchrist was a little unlucky on his. In the first innings the ball pitched outside leg and, if memory serves, he got bat on it as well. Second innings was plumb as you like. Horrible sweep shot first ball, struck on the thigh pad but it was hitting middle and leg 3/4 of the way up.
I remember Agarkar raising his bat to the crowd when he finally got a run in that Australia series.
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Post by Aj_June on May 18, 2020 18:24:36 GMT
Gilchrist was a little unlucky on his. In the first innings the ball pitched outside leg and, if memory serves, he got bat on it as well. Second innings was plumb as you like. Horrible sweep shot first ball, struck on the thigh pad but it was hitting middle and leg 3/4 of the way up. I remember Agarkar raising his bat to the crowd when he finally got a run in that Australia series. Agarkar raising his hand after that single. Seems like happened yesterday. Sometimes, I am frightened at the thought of how fast time goes. Will be old and probably die while posting on this forum. Scary. Or for that matter Kumble taking 6/12 against the West Indies in 1993 feels like just yesterday too. I even remember some of the things I talked in the school the next day.
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Post by Aj_June on May 19, 2020 2:20:52 GMT
 Courtney Walsh - The Textbook Calypso Leave |
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Post by hoskotafe3 on May 19, 2020 2:57:22 GMT
Courtney Walsh - The Textbook Calypso Leave Steve Smith needs to lift his game... |
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Post by Carl LaFong on May 19, 2020 14:49:04 GMT
Suwanji Madanayake, the spinner who wants to play into his 50s The Sri Lankan cricketer started in 1991 and wants to play on for a few more years, saying clubs ‘need my experience’ www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/may/19/suwanji-madanayake-the-spinner-who-wants-to-play-into-his-50s-cricketHe looked older as a teenager than he does now! The scorecard wormhole starts innocently enough. You are daydreaming of a match, pull it up and spot a player you didn’t realise was in the team. Curiosity takes over. When did he debut? What did he average? And his great aunt played Test cricket before the war? I wonder what her average was … and, so it goes. That’s how it went for me last month, on the 90th anniversary of the first Test triple ton - Andy Sandham’s 325 in 1930. Who played in that game? Much to my delight Wilfred Rhodes, in his 58th and final appearance aged 52.
Next, naturally, I clicked on Rhodes’s debut, an astonishing 31 years earlier. And what do you know, that Ashes match at Trent Bridge in 1899 was both WG Grace’s final Test outing and Victor Trumper’s first. Mind blown. Yes, in that moment, I was frustrated that Rhodes did not continue a few months further into 1930 to play against Don Bradman when he hit his first triple – missing the chance to link the defining careers of The Don and The Doctor – but you can’t have it all.... |
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Post by hoskotafe3 on May 21, 2020 7:08:53 GMT
And another trip back to 1992-93. Dean Jones, for reasons he attempts to explain here, decided to poke the wild bear Curtley Ambrose by telling him to take off the wrist band on his bowling hand. What followed was about twenty minutes of wonderful cricket with Ambrose and Jones trading shots at each other (Jones hit a a great on drive running down the wicket to Ambrose not shown here and had a deliberate nick for 4 in there too that aren't shown here) and then demolition. Jones isn't on the wicket montage though: he got out to Anderson Cummins at the other end.
Worst part was Ambrose was having an average summer (by the ridiculously high standards of someone with a sub 21 bowling average) until then. He played himself into peak form with 5-32 here. From there he took 3-25 in the second final, 6-74 and 4-46 in the Adelaide test and 7-25 (including an insane 7-1 in his second spell) and 2-54 at Perth. His swag from that series: Player of the Finals in the ODIs, Man of the Match at Adelaide and Perth and then won the B&H International Cricketer of the Year Award. With 33 wickets in the 5 test series I think he may have been Player of the Test Series too..
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on May 25, 2020 0:16:56 GMT
A-Z of Cricket - A is for Akram and Alderman
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Post by weststigersbob on May 25, 2020 1:43:17 GMT
And another trip back to 1992-93. Dean Jones, for reasons he attempts to explain here, decided to poke the wild bear Curtley Ambrose by telling him to take off the wrist band on his bowling hand. What followed was about twenty minutes of wonderful cricket with Ambrose and Jones trading shots at each other (Jones hit a a great on drive running down the wicket to Ambrose not shown here and had a deliberate nick for 4 in there too that aren't shown here) and then demolition. Jones isn't on the wicket montage though: he got out to Anderson Cummins at the other end. Worst part was Ambrose was having an average summer (by the ridiculously high standards of someone with a sub 21 bowling average) until then. He played himself into peak form with 5-32 here. From there he took 3-25 in the second final, 6-74 and 4-46 in the Adelaide test and 7-25 (including an insane 7-1 in his second spell) and 2-54 at Perth. His swag from that series: Player of the Finals in the ODIs, Man of the Match at Adelaide and Perth and then won the B&H International Cricketer of the Year Award. With 33 wickets in the 5 test series I think he may have been Player of the Test Series too.. Ambrose is an interesting case in terms of how past players are thought of in the modern era. While I have no hesitation in saying that the late 80’s and early 90’s was a period when there were a number of upper tier fast bowlers around - the 3 names that constantly get bandied about are Wasim, Waqar and Donald, then later in the 90’s comes McGrath then Lee and Shoaib. I could easily mount a case that aside from Akram’s advantage of left-handedness, Ambrose was the superior bowler to all those listed. I think the only thing Ambrose couldn’t do was hoop it around corners....
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Post by hoskotafe3 on May 25, 2020 2:21:22 GMT
Not long after posting this I watched a Kayo marathon which included Ambrose, Wasim and Donald among others. Most remarkable thing about Ambrose is that he only played cricket because his mother nagged him and even up until he was dropped in 1990, 2 years into his international career, he still treated cricket as a hobby sport while he waited for his basketball career to take off.
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on May 25, 2020 17:39:21 GMT
A-Z of Cricket - A is for Akram and Alderman of Cricket - B is for Border, Botham, Broad and The Don.
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on May 26, 2020 17:49:32 GMT
A-Z of Cricket - A is for Akram and Alderman of Cricket - B is for Border, Botham, Broad and The Don. - C is for Curtly, Courtney & Croft
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Post by Aj_June on May 28, 2020 6:39:44 GMT
 Shepherd is my all-time favourite. No umpire like him nowadays. |
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Post by hoskotafe3 on May 28, 2020 21:53:02 GMT
Australia has announced the next summer's fixtures. Australia are playing a test against Afghanistan! For some god forsaken reason the game is at Perth Stadium and not the WACA. Then 4 tests against India. We have 3 ODIs and a T20 against NZ in January. Summer starts with a lead in ODI series against Zimbabwe in August followed by T20I series against West Indies and India in the lead up to to the WT20...assuming it happens.
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Post by Aj_June on May 28, 2020 22:01:02 GMT
Australia has announced the next summer's fixtures. Australia are playing a test against Afghanistan! For some god forsaken reason the game is at Perth Stadium and not the WACA. Then 4 tests against India. We have 3 ODIs and a T20 against NZ in January and a lead in series against Zimbabwe in the lead up to to the AT20...assuming it happens. I watch all the sports and yet during the lockdown it became clear that I do not miss anything as much as cricket. I just want to see a good cricket game now. Hoping we can see all those fixtures you listed. Poor Afghans. I love them. But they would be murdered by Aussie players. |
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Post by weststigersbob on May 29, 2020 4:57:51 GMT
A day night Test at Perth Stadium against Afghanistan seems a bit strange. I heard that CA was thinking about having the game at Alice Springs. Don’t know what happened to that idea. Seems like the sort of game perfect for a smaller venue like Canberra, or really from left field a picturesque ground like Drummoyne Oval.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on May 29, 2020 5:30:06 GMT
Day night test at Perth means about 60% of it is past my bedtime. And given it's Afghanistan I doubt it will be compelling enough to demand a full replay...
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jun 6, 2020 1:36:44 GMT
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