Cricket Thread

[Spork]

Not actually watching that stream, but justin.tv always delivers.

[Speakman]

bingo. cheers mate. never heard of that site before

http://www.justin.tv/yahoo12345

for those interested, its nearly over anyway

[SteddieEddie]

Can't believe Pakistan lost that game.

Were they in a hurry to get back to the hotel? They still had one day left to play.

[Speakman]

Fairly Interesting article on Roger Mortimer's Role with Daniel Vettori in the Black Caps

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10619285&pnum=0

Mortimer has managed Olympic athletes, such as Drysdale, Ulmer and Carter, and has been working with Vettori since late '08

[Scunner]

Reading cricinfo.com's commentary of the first Australia v Pakistan one dayer. There was a few comments about teams having the same colour uniforms and how Australia, Pakistan, Kenya and Ireland all use a similar green. I had a laugh at this comment in response.

Shannon: "I'm just happy to see uniforms that look good. There's no requirement in cricket for "telling the teams apart" -- ahem Test Matches ahem -- and if you still have trouble the two guys with the bats are from the batting side!"

[kilabee]

I still laugh when the aussies call canary yellow gold.

[Scunner]

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Canary Yellow! That's Australian Gold my friend and don't you fucking forget it! Canary Yellow indeed...

[Zarkov]

Afridi, not good enough to play in the IPL.

Yeah, right.

[TofuEater]

Cameron White thought so.

[Scunner]

Afridi, not good enough to play in the IPL.

Yeah, right.

Probably worried he might try to eat all their cricket balls. They can be a bit expensive.

[Ngati_Grim]

Go Greatbatch!

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[maorifulla]

Mark Greatbatch was the friggin man back in the days

But not as legendary as Chris Pringle

[kilabee]

Didn't have a cool fringe like Pringle.

Ps. Welcome back international cricket tonight.Even if it's just a 20/20

[SteddieEddie]

and against Bangladesh, which we will in all likelihood loose

[Speakman]

im still laughing about this guy.

OM NOM NOM

[Speakman]

BRENDON, WHAT THE FUCK

[kilabee]

Another piss easy victory.Hardly the ideal warm up for the aussies.

[Speakman]

love dannyboys strike rate of 400. nice wee boost to his stats

[Quasikomodo]

love dannyboys strike rate of 400. nice wee boost to his stats

He's played 250 games so it will be less than negligible.

Even so ...... Dans the Man

[Speakman]

very true

[MattaH]

From the cricinfo awards:

HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF TEAM RUNS

Ross Taylor
This one's an unlikely winner - Taylor scored 782 runs in 2009, which is 18.19% of New Zealand's total runs scored in the year. The leading run-scorer of the year, Samaraweera, scored 17.22% of Sri Lanka's total runs as Sri Lanka had several high-scoring batsmen in 2009 - of the top six leading run-getters, four were Sri Lankans.

HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF RUNS IN BOUNDARIES

Ross Taylor
Taylor struck nine sixes and 106 fours in the 782 runs he scored, a percentage of 61.13. Gayle was next at 59% (18 sixes and 82 fours in 739), while Watson had a percentage of 57.26. At the bottom of the pile was Paul Collingwood, with a percentage of just 39.78 (88 fours and two sixes in a tally of 915).

BATTING PAIRS OF THE YEAR: OPENERS
(cut-off: at least eight innings)

Brendon McCullum and Jesse Ryder
In 11 innings this New Zealand pair put together 519 runs at an average of 47.18 and a scoring rate of 6.15 runs per over, giving them a partnership index score (average stand multiplied by runs per ball) of 48.36. India's Sehwag and Tendulkar were next, with an index score of 44.22 (average 40.20 at a scoring rate of 6.60 runs per over).

MOST DISCIPLINED: ODIs

New Zealand
In the 24 ODIs they played in 2009, New Zealand conceded only 203 extras, an average of 8.46 per match, which was the lowest among all teams. India and Bangladesh were next, with 11.4 extras each per match. New Zealand also had the biggest differential between extras gained while batting and extras conceded in the field - they got 341 and conceded 203, a difference of 138.

[Zarkov]

December 14, 1989

On the last day of the last Test of his first Test series, in Sialkot, gets hit on the nose by Waqar Younis - also in his first series. Falls down, gets up, and wipes away the gushing blood. Medical assistance is declined. Is eventually out for 57.

http://www.cricinfo.com/india/content/player/35320.html?index=timeline



Go the Black Caps.

[~SoL1D_Sn4Ke~]

Tendulkar.

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[henno]

That was a shocker Billy

[Speakman]

want to watch, but cannot.




but fuck i'm looking forward to sunday