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@booboo said in Other Cricket 2020:

@akan004 said in Other Cricket 2020:

@booboo said in Other Cricket 2020:

Anyone in Aus with Foxtel turn on to 501 NOW.

You will not regret it.

First match of the '87 WSC at Perth.

Some super catches Dipak Patel.

And a 2nd last ball result

Streamed it last night. Great match.

I recall watching it live at home at Ma n Pa's, home from Uni.

Was just after that Aussie fuck umpire robbed us in the test at the MCG (the ball must have been going under McDermott's stumps ... arrsehole).

Just saw the Req RR at 9. Unherd of in those days. Bastards got close. So glad to see the deflation when they thought they had it won.

Yeah, around the 35th over I thought they had no chance. Can't believe they got so close. Crowe's batting was sheer class too.

@booboo said in Other Cricket 2020:

Jeez Paddles was a pleasure to watch

He was such a man amongst boys in the NZ teams he played in. Shame he never had KW, Rossco, BMac, Boult and Vettori alongside him.

@MN5 said in Other Cricket 2020:

@booboo said in Other Cricket 2020:

Jeez Paddles was a pleasure to watch

He was such a man amongst boys in the NZ teams he played in. Shame he never had KW, Rossco, BMac, Boult and Vettori alongside him.

Which is annoying me at the moment, we have a pretty good team and no one to play.

Rakheem Cornwall bowls like a dad to a kid in the back yard.

Sir Andrew Strauss? I hadn't noticed that.

Englan unable to defend 328 against the might of Ireland at Southampton
England all out for 327
Ireland romping home with 329/3 in 49.5 overs.
Mother's side of the family naturally distraught, father's side expected to sober up by about Labour Weekend!

@Siam said in Other Cricket 2020:

Rakheem Cornwall bowls like a dad to a kid in the back yard.

Sir Andrew Strauss? I hadn't noticed that.

He’s certainly a gutsy player alright

@Higgins sensational well done Ireland.

329/3! That' ridiculous

There's another virus at play affecting test cricket at the moment. It's symptoms present as administrators with their head up their own arse.

Like the other virus, this one is another reminder that we put too much faith, give too much credit, to those that govern the things we hold dear.

The Poms and Pakis keep going off for bad light.

No rain, just overcast skies and an astonishing unwillingness to use the lights - even though the players want them.

About the only genuine sporting contest in the world right now, potential worldwide audience and the telecast keeps being interrupted for bad light.
Million dollar light towers watch on in silence.

That's a good look for cricket eh?

All the stringent covid preparations and effort in putting international cricket on in this way, in probably the only country able, and the ICC can't pass an extraordinary permission for lights to be used in August 2020?

Fucken eggs!

Meanwhile the cricket is fucken grouse! Pakis are trying hard to be patient in typical English conditions. They've got the world's longest tail but an exciting bowling line up. Pakistan 223 for 9 after winning the toss, end of day 2, 2nd test.

The last day's play of the 1st test was classic test cricket. Poms needed 277 with all wickets in hand. The day just see-sawed and just when it looked gleefully like the Pakis would win, Woakes and Butler put on 139 at nearly run a ball, so the baddies won a thriller.

But I digress, fucken bad light in a lockdown pandemic, jesus !

MS Dhoni has retired.

First Indian captain that I really liked.

Legend of the game with an outstanding ODI record.

i honestly thought he retired like 2 years ago

hell of a player

He only played 90 tests, which shows that even India haven't played that much red-ball cricket in the 2000s.

Not NZ Cricket - but, Baron Botham of Ravensworth...!!!

@Chris-B said in NZ cricket 2020:

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Not NZ Cricket - but, Baron Botham of Ravensworth...!!!

Beefy is an absolute legend. Will always be one of my all time favourite players. Guys like him and his mate Viv Richards would absolutely dominate even more in today’s era.

Bloody nice fella too, I met him when he was on a speaking tour in the Middle East when my family lived there in 1990. A few years later my old man spotted him at a restaurant in Welly and got him to sign a napkin for me, he was a bit pissed but still remembered Dad from that tour he did.

Ya gotta feel sorry for Flintoff and Stokes having to try and live up to what he did....

It is kind of crazy that being good at cricket gets you to vote on government policies.

@KiwiPie said in NZ cricket 2020:

It is kind of crazy that being good at cricket gets you to vote on government policies.

I know, definitely a slippery slope. Next we’ll have presidents elected solely due to being rich and powerful.

@ACT-Crusader said in Other Cricket 2020:

Not sure where to put this, but anyone else watching the BeIN Sports Cricket’s Greatest XI series. Hadn’t seen them. Pretty well put together.

1-Gavaskar
2-Gooch
3-Bradman
4-Tendulkar
5-Sobers
6-Kallis
7-Gilchrist
8-Khan
9-Warne
10-Akram
11-Holding

A mate of mine in the UK just sent me a photo of himself and number 5 on that list! Spent the afternoon at his house yesterday having a few rums!
As I typed he just sent a pic of a signed bat that just arrived.
Gary is looking spritely for 84

So I have a little more to the story now.

Mate is in Barbados on holiday (apparently a 'safe' destination according to the UK) and at a bar gets talking to Greg Armstrong (ex player/rebel manager) who is big friends with Sir Gary.
After expressing how much of a legend he thinks Sobers is, Armstrong takes him to Gary's house for a drink and a chat. Out of the blue the signed bat arrives at the hotel the next morning.

I would say he's a jammy bastard but tbh this kind of thing isn't unusual for him. He is just a really likeable bloke that has a knack for making connections.
As an example, I was walking to a meeting with him in Belgravia one day and this car slows down and Paul Weller calls out hello. Turns out my mate used to live near Weller and his missus would babysit the kids sometimes.

@Crucial said in Other Cricket 2020:

So I have a little more to the story now.

Mate is in Barbados on holiday (apparently a 'safe' destination according to the UK) and at a bar gets talking to Greg Armstrong (ex player/rebel manager) who is big friends with Sir Gary.
After expressing how much of a legend he thinks Sobers is, Armstrong takes him to Gary's house for a drink and a chat. Out of the blue the signed bat arrives at the hotel the next morning.

I would say he's a jammy bastard but tbh this kind of thing isn't unusual for him. He is just a really likeable bloke that has a knack for making connections.
As an example, I was walking to a meeting with him in Belgravia one day and this car slows down and Paul Weller calls out hello. Turns out my mate used to live near Weller and his missus would babysit the kids sometimes.

Whilst it's certainly not up there with a breakfast with Joe Moody, Jerome Kaino, Liam Squire and Damien McKenzie having a few rums with the greatest All Rounder in history ( well, arguements can be made for Kallis and Imran but anyway ) is pretty darn cool.

@MN5 said in Other Cricket 2020:

the greatest All Rounder in history ( well, arguements can be made for Kallis and Imran but anyway ) is pretty darn cool.

not with me. Sobers, then daylight.

@nzzp said in Other Cricket 2020:

@MN5 said in Other Cricket 2020:

the greatest All Rounder in history ( well, arguements can be made for Kallis and Imran but anyway ) is pretty darn cool.

not with me. Sobers, then daylight.

It's a tough one. Kallis was up there with Tendulkar, Lara, Dravid, Ponting, Hayden........plus had the added bonus of being about as good as Chris Martin as a bowler ( never a world beater but pretty damn decent ).

He's the only "batting" All Rounder that deserves a mention. The majority of the rest are "bowling" all rounders. Closest of the modern era would be Stokes if he continues improving like he is I guess.