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Post by hoskotafe3 on Mar 4, 2022 7:24:41 GMT
And in the classic cricket being shown as part of the Rod Marsh tribute on Kayo... Deano's just dropped Richard Gabriel! Windies need 50 to win with 2 wickets in hand. Whispering Death just brought up a 50 off 34 balls!
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Mar 4, 2022 8:32:18 GMT
Windies women stun NZ in the Women's World Cup opener. Winning by 3 runs after the kiwis lost 3 wickets in the last over. Really good game with plenty of twists. Sophie Devine's hundred proving in vain.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Mar 4, 2022 11:06:30 GMT
Congrats to Imam Ul-Haq. May be a road, but you've still got to play well to score a hundred. Great to see an appreciative full house to cheer him on too.
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Post by weststigersbob on Mar 4, 2022 14:25:22 GMT
Holy shit - just saw on Foxsports that Shane Warne has died from a heart attack in Thailand……
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Post by Carl LaFong on Mar 4, 2022 14:26:50 GMT
Holy shit - just saw on Foxsports that Shane Warne has died from a heart attack in Thailand…… Just saw that. Shocking stuff. RIP to a legend.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Mar 4, 2022 14:27:29 GMT
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Post by Carl LaFong on Mar 4, 2022 15:20:16 GMT
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Post by Carl LaFong on Mar 4, 2022 15:22:34 GMT
Maybe Shane was overdoing the exercise:
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Mar 4, 2022 19:03:10 GMT
Bloody hell. It goes without saying that Shane Warne was the biggest cricketing personality of my life time (only Sachin comes close) but is he the biggest Australian personality of my lifetime too? Steve Irwin and Hugh Jackman probably the only two who would be ahead due to their popularity in the US. Here's a guy who was able to shake off taking money off a bookie and getting banned for failing a drug test through sheer weight of personality. None of it stuck.
His impact on World cricket was seismic. His commentary (when he wasn't being all matey on Fox) could be incisive. He was at the centre of so many great moments in Australian cricket. I think all you need do is look at his true career bookends. He came of age in 1992 against the great West Indies team, taking 7-52 to win the Boxing Day test. A series Australia would go on to lose. 14 years later he took his 700th wicket at the same ground a couple of days after announcing his retirement. Australia had lost only 9 tests at home in that period, 2 of which came in that 1992 series and another 2 Warne didn't play in.
RIP to a legend.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Mar 4, 2022 19:53:54 GMT
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, England batsman Mike Gatting said: "I have a picture on my wall of that ball, and me missing it and it hitting the stumps. I'm part of history and I'm involved with a special person who enhanced cricket.
"We talked about it and he said he wanted to get it down the other end and spin it, but he didnt know how far it would. Neither did I.
"He was never short of confidence and that wicket launched him on the ladder to greatness. It was an amazing ball.
"The great thing about him was his love of the game and just his will to win."
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Mar 4, 2022 21:27:14 GMT
Harsha Bhogle gave a nice tribute. He talked about how Shane would take any young spinner under his wing. He could remember a young Indian spinner getting really excited as Warne showed him how to flight and turn the ball and he followed his advice and could see it turning as it was supposed to. He said Warne teared up in the commentary box when the kid took a 5-fer and acknowledged the work Warne had put in with him in the post match. Warnie just loved the game and loved seeing other people fall in love with the game.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Mar 4, 2022 21:43:41 GMT
Vic Marks: www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/mar/04/the-greatest-spinner-ive-ever-seen-and-an-incredibly-generous-cricketerWarne was not the complete wrist-spinner. His googly, the one that spun into the right-hander, was probably inferior to that of England’s Adil Rashid. It was not that well-disguised and he he did not use it very often. But that did not matter much. The leg break spun prodigiously as the replays of Mike Gatting and Andrew Strauss heading back to the pavilion as if betrayed by the cricketing gods demonstrate. And his flipper slid devilishly off the pitch as a famous dismissal of Alec Stewart reminds us.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Mar 5, 2022 4:01:24 GMT
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Mar 5, 2022 9:26:28 GMT
Not a fan of Chairman Dan, but he got that call right.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Mar 5, 2022 9:42:36 GMT
Not a fan of Chairman Dan, but he got that call right.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Mar 6, 2022 16:59:35 GMT
Jadeja backs up 175no with 5fer and 4fer as India win by an innings and 200+. Think he might have been Man of the Match.
Not too many saying the Aussie team is terrible, querying who's coaching this rabble or the rest after they finished day 3 at 2-271, well on the way to being the only team who can win the match which will likely be drawn.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Mar 7, 2022 18:56:32 GMT
You want some irony? Warne died on Daryll Cullinan's 55th birthday. I was surprised to read that Warne only dismissed Cullinan 4 times in test cricket. Seemed many more.
A Saffer publication put up what I thought was an interesting post about this, Cullinan seeing a therapist etc. I was going to comment, but unfortunately the comments had degenerated when a group of Australians decided they had to hi jack the post after someone had written "I was at Durban when Hansie destroyed him." Apparently you're not allowed to mention Hansie was an exceptional player of spin without mentioning he was a cheat.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Mar 7, 2022 19:52:59 GMT
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Mar 8, 2022 17:23:14 GMT
England wins the toss, bats. They bat like twats. Root fails at 3. Currently 4-93 and staring down the barrel of yet another sub-200 score. Stokes, Bairstow and Foakes the hope.
Their bowling attack? Overton, Wood, the non travelling Woakes and Leach.
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Post by weststigersbob on Mar 8, 2022 18:02:31 GMT
Batting like twats is the speciality of Windies cricket over the last 20 years, so England aren’t out of it.
If there was ever an advertisement for pitches that have pace and bounce being good for bowling - that deck in Rawalpindi is exhibit A. Low, slow but incredibly flat. Snoozefest. I saw some plonkers suggest it wasn’t too bad because Australia were bowled out. Too bad half of the poles were through sheer boredom and not too clever shots.
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