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Posted: **Sat Jul 01, 2023 3:01 pm**

GogLais wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 2:57 pm Presumably Oz happy that Lyon isn’t going to damage himself further.

We don't lose against the English......

Posted: **Sat Jul 01, 2023 3:03 pm**

How many specialist fielders have Eng got on as subs? Ahmed as well as Potts?

Posted: **Sat Jul 01, 2023 3:03 pm**

Gary Lyon

Posted: **Sat Jul 01, 2023 3:10 pm**

Eng with everyone on the boundary for a cripple. Would have thought a slip and bowling at the stumps would be a better plan?

Posted: **Sat Jul 01, 2023 3:13 pm**

Gutsy from Lyon. Even Sir Andrew doesn't like it.....

Posted: **Sat Jul 01, 2023 3:15 pm**

Deepsouth wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 3:13 pm Gutsy from Lyon. Even Sir Andrew doesn't like it.....

Lyon

Posted: **Sat Jul 01, 2023 3:17 pm**

Beginning to look really stupid by Eng.

Posted: **Sat Jul 01, 2023 3:22 pm**

Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 3:17 pm Beginning to look really stupid by Eng.

What an effort from Lyon. Old school. The old greenkeeper at Manuka Oval.

Proud of you mate.....

Posted: **Sat Jul 01, 2023 3:23 pm**

Interesting target....very gettable.

Surely England won't fall for the short ball tactic again?

Posted: **Sat Jul 01, 2023 3:26 pm**

Thor Sedan wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 3:23 pm Interesting target....very gettable.

Surely England won't fall for the short ball tactic again?

It is, but I wonder if England have the nerve for it......

Posted: **Sat Jul 01, 2023 3:37 pm**

So - take it steady and see where they’re at lunchtime tomorrow? Maybe not!

Posted: **Sat Jul 01, 2023 4:08 pm**

Deepsouth wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 3:22 pm
Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 3:17 pm Beginning to look really stupid by Eng.
What an effort from Lyon. Old school. The old greenkeeper at Manuka Oval.

Proud of you mate.....

Gutsy stuff and also massive psychological victory to the Aussies.

Posted: **Sat Jul 01, 2023 4:35 pm**

Thor Sedan wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 3:23 pm Interesting target....very gettable.

Surely England won't fall for the short ball tactic again?

I know the game has changed in many ways but the highest chase is 344 (albeit for 1) by the Windies some 40 years ago.

Posted: **Sat Jul 01, 2023 4:45 pm**

Thor Sedan wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 3:23 pm Interesting target....very gettable.

Surely England won't fall for the short ball tactic again?

Not looking so gettable now.

Posted: **Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:22 pm**

Thinking about the rarity of specialist bowlers as captains and now we have Southee and Cummins but I can't recall a previous one for Aus.
Benaud was an all rounder.

Posted: **Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:25 pm**

Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:22 pm Thinking about the rarity of specialist bowlers as captains and now we have Southee and Cummins but I can't recall a previous one for Aus.
Benaud was an all rounder.

Probably have to go back to Shane Warne in the 90s, though it might have been just one day games

looking at Wikipedia, Ray Lindwall was a captain for one test only and guess you could claim he was an all rounder too

Posted: **Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:32 pm**

tabascoboy wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:25 pm
Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:22 pm Thinking about the rarity of specialist bowlers as captains and now we have Southee and Cummins but I can't recall a previous one for Aus.
Benaud was an all rounder.
Probably have to go back to Shane Warne in the 90s, though it might have been just one day games

looking at Wikipedia, Ray Lindwall was a captain for one test only and guess you could claim he was an all rounder too

Don't think Warne ever captained a test: as you say, he may have done so in pyjama. Lindwall was defo a bona fide quickie but didn't know he'd ever captained. Was top notch rugby (league) player too!

{EDIT} Wiki has him as an all rounder so I guess the position stands.

Posted: **Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:33 pm**

Well Bazball seems to be going swimmingly....

Posted: **Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:35 pm**

Deepsouth wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:33 pm Well Bazball seems to be going swimmingly....

And after all the "we are not changing for anyone".........

Posted: **Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:40 pm**

Biffer wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 7:42 am Pooran and Hope in now, if Scotland can break this partnership quickly we could skittle them.

Slick, WI cricket has been hollowed out over the years by a combination of bad administrators and the dominance of US sports, particularly basketball, in the Caribbean. Fifty years ago if you were six foot four and athletic you would have been straight into pace bowling. Nowadays they go to basketball.

Yeah, knew it had got bad but didn’t realise it had got this bad.

Remember going to watch Scotland v WI in Edinburgh in ‘96 (?) and it was just a day out on tour.

Posted: **Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:47 pm**

Slick wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:40 pm
Biffer wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 7:42 am Pooran and Hope in now, if Scotland can break this partnership quickly we could skittle them.

Slick, WI cricket has been hollowed out over the years by a combination of bad administrators and the dominance of US sports, particularly basketball, in the Caribbean. Fifty years ago if you were six foot four and athletic you would have been straight into pace bowling. Nowadays they go to basketball.
Yeah, knew it had got bad but didn’t realise it had got this bad.

Yup. Pretty much spot on. Throw in
- a break down of the inter island co-operation (now recriminations abound)
- plenty of corruption which seems to have taken permanent root post Stanford and
- the bizarre approach from the 90s to prepare Pakistan style dead tracks
and it's the death of Calypso cricket.

Posted: **Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:47 pm**

Stokes to pull England through.

Posted: **Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:48 pm**

Stokes gets very lucky. That was a Test match and Ashes over moment.

Posted: **Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:55 pm**

OomStruisbaai wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:47 pm Stokes to pull England through.

An afrikaaner barracking for England. You should be ashamed of yourself.....

Posted: **Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:59 pm**

Deepsouth wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:55 pm
OomStruisbaai wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:47 pm Stokes to pull England through.
An afrikaaner barracking for England. You should be ashamed of yourself.....

Half of Eng's players have been safas since D'Oliveira.

Posted: **Sat Jul 01, 2023 6:00 pm**

Nonsense decision given the laws.

Posted: **Sat Jul 01, 2023 6:01 pm**

Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:59 pm
Deepsouth wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:55 pm
OomStruisbaai wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:47 pm Stokes to pull England through.
An afrikaaner barracking for England. You should be ashamed of yourself.....
Half of Eng's players have been safas since D'Oliveira.

Yes the shame.....

Posted: **Sat Jul 01, 2023 6:11 pm**

Should be 5for but we will take it. All to play for tomorrow....

Posted: **Sat Jul 01, 2023 7:15 pm**

Deepsouth wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:55 pm
OomStruisbaai wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:47 pm Stokes to pull England through.
An afrikaaner barracking for England. You should be ashamed of yourself.....

Why? My Mauser is spotless. Stokes is world class.
No doubt. Never like the Aussie cricketers. Arrogant pricks.

Posted: **Sat Jul 01, 2023 7:36 pm**

OomStruisbaai wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 7:15 pm
Deepsouth wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:55 pm
OomStruisbaai wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:47 pm Stokes to pull England through.
An afrikaaner barracking for England. You should be ashamed of yourself.....
Why? My Mauser is spotless. Stokes is world class.
No doubt. Never like the Aussie cricketers. Arrogant pricks.

A former member of the AWB calling Austtalian cricketers arrogant.

You couldn't make this up

Posted: **Sat Jul 01, 2023 8:01 pm**

Deepsouth wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 7:36 pm
OomStruisbaai wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 7:15 pm
Deepsouth wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:55 pm

An afrikaaner barracking for England. You should be ashamed of yourself.....
Why? My Mauser is spotless. Stokes is world class.
No doubt. Never like the Aussie cricketers. Arrogant pricks.
A former member of the AWB calling Austtalian cricketers arrogant.

You couldn't make this up

AWB is long dead Boet. Long time ago

Posted: **Sun Jul 02, 2023 7:29 am**

Deepsouth wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 7:36 pm A former member of the AWB calling Austtalian cricketers arrogant.

You couldn't make this up

Pretty serious accusation.

Posted: **Sun Jul 02, 2023 7:33 am**

Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sun Jul 02, 2023 7:29 am
Deepsouth wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 7:36 pm A former member of the AWB calling Austtalian cricketers arrogant.

You couldn't make this up
Pretty serious accusation.

I'm yet to hear him deny it.....

Posted: **Sun Jul 02, 2023 7:42 am**

Zimbabwe lose three quick wickets against Sri Lanka, 30/3. Critically however, Sean Williams wasn’t one of them. He is averaging 136 in ODIs in this tournament and warm up matches.

Posted: **Sun Jul 02, 2023 7:58 am**

Is it intimidatory bowling? What? With 70mph-plus mickey mouse pace bowling like England did? No way it’s intimidatory! Some of the batting wasn’t really bright. Let me put it this way. If this bowling was attempted at this pace to Viv Richards, Gordon Greenidge or Desmond Haynes, you would be picking the ball off the stands! Not just them, I can think of many a batsman who would have told the umpires trying to step in, ‘Oh don’t stop them, let them bowl more short stuff.

Whispering Death.

Posted: **Sun Jul 02, 2023 8:05 am**

Deepsouth wrote: Sun Jul 02, 2023 7:33 am
Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sun Jul 02, 2023 7:29 am
Deepsouth wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 7:36 pm A former member of the AWB calling Austtalian cricketers arrogant.

You couldn't make this up
Pretty serious accusation.
I'm yet to hear him deny it.....

Always a dick, eh Bazza.

Posted: **Sun Jul 02, 2023 8:28 am**

Sandstorm wrote: Sun Jul 02, 2023 8:05 am
Deepsouth wrote: Sun Jul 02, 2023 7:33 am
Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sun Jul 02, 2023 7:29 am
Pretty serious accusation.
I'm yet to hear him deny it.....
Always a dick, eh Bazza.

People in glass houses innit mate.....

Posted: **Sun Jul 02, 2023 9:01 am**

Williams has fallen! Huge wicket for Sri Lanka, out for 56. Zimbabwe 128/5 after 24.

Posted: **Sun Jul 02, 2023 10:02 am**

Deepsouth wrote: Sun Jul 02, 2023 7:33 am
Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sun Jul 02, 2023 7:29 am
Deepsouth wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 7:36 pm A former member of the AWB calling Austtalian cricketers arrogant.

You couldn't make this up
Pretty serious accusation.
I'm yet to hear him deny it.....

I have never support the AWB in fact I hate Terreblanche. Is that what you want to hear?

You are a sad vokker.

Posted: **Sun Jul 02, 2023 10:04 am**

The Aussie cricketers are still arrogant cheating pricks.

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