@Chris-B Confession - I remember it well as I watched it at the time! He was famous for ignoring physical pain and fielding ridiculously close at short leg.
Batting in those days without a helmet, they were remarkably good at not getting hit on the head - today a bash on the helmet happens with regularity.
@KiwiPie I knew you'd know all about it. I've read about it in various places - some parallels with them parachuting Cowdrey in to face Lillee and Thomson.
My cricket career ended about the time that helmets were coming in. Like Viv Richards I never wore one...and never wore one. 
Unlike Viv, I didn't play many hook shots - I gracefully swayed to leg and let it pass by!
Brisbane heat just cleaned up 157 in ten overs no wickets lost. Baz is retiring from BBL apprently still gonna play some other T20s. Didnt get to bat in his last home game. Could be outside chance of a semifinal spot based on tomorrows games.
Gabriel gets 4 match suspension for something no one heard. Sandpaper scandal recommendation from ICC was about 2 matches if I recall...
Wow - this would be one of the best/most successful last wicket partnerships ever!
Plenty bigger, but not many that have taken their team to a win. In fact - none!
@Chris-B Love a 10th wicket partnership to win a game especially when the batsman goes 6 hitting crazy
That is awesome, massive result for Sri Lanka after they've had a tough run. Test cricket is the best.
Amazing result. Didn't look like SL had any fight in them, then injuries to follow big losses... Amazing
West Indies v England: Gayle hits four sixes out of ground
@MN5 is going to wake up to this and not get out of bed.
@Crucial said in Other Cricket:
West Indies v England: Gayle hits four sixes out of ground
@MN5 is going to wake up to this and not get out of bed.
bloody hell. talk about an innings for the wank bank.
stuff.co.nz had the headline he hit a 'garage' ( as opposed to barrage ) of sixes haha....the editor is phoning his job in even worse these days.
Gayle scored 135 off 129 deliveries. Included 12 sixes and 3 fours. In other words, he scored 84 off 15 balls, and 51 off the other 114 at a strike rate well under 50.
Judging by the ease England ran down the total I'm going to say Gayle is lazy as fuck and cost the Windies that game.
Cracking last day set up in Port Elizabeth. SA need 8 wickets to save face and draw their series at home.
Sri Lanka need 137 to sweep the series 2 nil, after been sent on an arduous 3 tour quest to earn some money for the cricket board to further embezzle and squander.
Only England and Australia have ever won a test series in South Africa. Would be quite a feat for a team that got put through the ringer in NZ and Aus this summer.
Lots of wickets on this pitch so it'll be 3 hours or enthralling test cricket
@Cyclops said in Other Cricket:
Gayle scored 135 off 129 deliveries. Included 12 sixes and 3 fours. In other words, he scored 84 off 15 balls, and 51 off the other 114 at a strike rate well under 50.
Judging by the ease England ran down the total I'm going to say Gayle is lazy as fuck and cost the Windies that game.
Agree Gayle is a bit of a plodder when he is not hitting boundaries, would be interested to see how many dot balls he uses up or how many singles he bothers to run. Looks like he has done it again in tonights match.
Aussie girls managed to somehow pull victory from the jaws of defeat against NZ in Perth yesterday.
@Nevorian said in Other Cricket:
@Cyclops said in Other Cricket:
Gayle scored 135 off 129 deliveries. Included 12 sixes and 3 fours. In other words, he scored 84 off 15 balls, and 51 off the other 114 at a strike rate well under 50.
Judging by the ease England ran down the total I'm going to say Gayle is lazy as fuck and cost the Windies that game.
Agree Gayle is a bit of a plodder when he is not hitting boundaries, would be interested to see how many dot balls he uses up or how many singles he bothers to run. Looks like he has done it again in tonights match.
he's way too cool to get stressed and try and run quick singles.
Anyone else ever read the true story of Ntini's alleged rape case?
He's commentating and apart from his, no real insights/excitable role, he makes my skin crawl
South Africa are for the taking at the moment. Great effort from Sri Lanka to go there and be competitive. The problem is if you make your pitches crazy bouncy with lots of grass you turn average bowlers into world class ones. Maybe South Africa will re-think their approach. Some of their bowlers have averages close to 20 at home but Rabada for instance averages about 28 away from home.
If South Africa lose here, a 2-0 win versus Bangladesh should take us second in the world.
@Donsteppa said in Other Cricket:
Sri Lanka are 147/2... go you good things!
Very good batting from Mendis and Fernando (O). Very impressed, played straight and looked good doing it
Only one team in the world that are better than us in the format that matters.
Savour that I think
@Siam said in Other Cricket:
Anyone else ever read the true story of Ntini's alleged rape case?
He's commentating and apart from his, no real insights/excitable role, he makes my skin crawl
Any links? Wasn't aware of it and find it easier to ask than to google
Not sure if anyone's following, but England and Windies are going nuts at St Georges
Windies set 419 to win, they need antoher 187 at 7s, with 6 wickets in hand. Monster 6s all day, it's just nuts. Anyone know if the ground is 'NZ' sized?
also, Gayle doing his 'good Gayle' impression; 127 off 66 so far. Insanity.
Edit:
Mark Wood’s figures are 6-0-34-4. The rest have combined figures of 18-0-195-0.
Hear Butler got to fifty then got his next hundred runs in 32 balls or something!!
Morgan with a 'slow' hundred in 88 balls!
Would be amazing to watch a game like that - essentially 50 over 20/20!
@Virgil said in Other Cricket:
Gayle gone, cleaned up by @MN5 favourite ginger World class alrounder
Jason Holder has black hair.
Glenn Maxwell beat India 2-0 in the T20 series, as it turns out.
There is a clip of his highlights on this page: https://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket/india-vs-australia-second-twenty20-international-live-blog/news-story/84f17e4eae917ff069889d85734b7b3f
The second last shot for 6 is just freakish. Got to 100 off 50, sure (113 off 55 in the end), but that shot epitomises how freakish he is; strides down the wicket and short-arm bunts the pace bowler for a maximum. Just fucking wow.
@NTA said in Other Cricket:
Glenn Maxwell beat India 2-0 in the T20 series, as it turns out.
There is a clip of his highlights on this page: https://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket/india-vs-australia-second-twenty20-international-live-blog/news-story/84f17e4eae917ff069889d85734b7b3f
The second last shot for 6 is just freakish. Got to 100 off 50, sure (113 off 55 in the end), but that shot epitomises how freakish he is; strides down the wicket and short-arm bunts the pace bowler for a maximum. Just fucking wow.
Everyone beats India in T20s these days...
@MN5 said in Other Cricket:
@Virgil said in Other Cricket:
Gayle gone, cleaned up by @MN5 favourite ginger World class alrounder
Jason Holder has black hair.
you love the black guys aye
