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Post by hoskotafe3 on Apr 14, 2023 15:51:16 GMT
Pakistan taking advantage of their players being ineligible for the IPL or just general travelling to Pakistan by having a T20I series against NZ. Only game in town if you're not interested in teams called the Knight Riders, Super Kings, Indians etc.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 14, 2023 16:23:28 GMT
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Apr 14, 2023 19:47:58 GMT
Harry Brook's rough start over: 100no in a comfortable win.
And Rauf flattened NZ taking 4-18 as the kiwis were rolled for 94.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Apr 15, 2023 18:35:21 GMT
Sikanda Raza earns his dough playing a really superb innings to get Punjab home over Lucknow. Happy for the guy.
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Post by weststigersbob on Apr 16, 2023 3:01:57 GMT
Sikanda Raza earns his dough playing a really superb innings to get Punjab home over Lucknow. Happy for the guy. Quality player. Should be a walk up start for Punjab every game. Matt Short is going alright for them too. as an aside, not only do most of the team names seem to be blending into each other, so too now are the kits. It seems every side is wearing some form of blue and red. |
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Post by Aj_June on Apr 19, 2023 16:48:54 GMT
Sikanda Raza earns his dough playing a really superb innings to get Punjab home over Lucknow. Happy for the guy. Raza has been one of the best player of Zimbabwe for last few years. I have seen a few of his innings. He is a very high impact player.
KL Rahul is possibly the player I hate most after Virat Kohli. Another selfish player who wastes so many balls in t-20 game on flat surfaces. I can't get this "I will first get myself in and then play shots" when you are playing in a t-20 game on a perfect batting pitch. He wastes balls that should ideally be played by someone like Nicholas Pooran and Stoinis.
These players need to understand that making 39 of 32 balls (while playing in powerplay) is definitely putting your team at risk of losing a game, especially when your opposition has the best t-20 batsman in the world (Buttler) and other powerful hitters like Sanju samson and Hetmyer and Holder).
If I ever play against Buttler, I will believe setting a target of minimum 200 is the necessity. I will send hitters like Pooran to open the batting.
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Post by Aj_June on Apr 19, 2023 17:47:50 GMT
Well previous comment seems to be showing me to be a bit of an idiot. But in the long run, KL Rahul attitude to batting in t-20 has not paid any dividends to either India or IPL teams he has batted in.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Apr 21, 2023 18:04:33 GMT
And my 2 cents on the 434 game. I think it was a great game...in isolation. We'd never seen anything like that before and it fired the imagination. Unfortunately law makers decided to try and manufacture similar games through asenine rule changes. The thing is you can't manufacturer great games. They happen organically. That particular game happened at the end of a great 5 game series that itself was part of an intense rivalry. And one of the least likely things to lead to a great ODI game is a team making a massive total batting first.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Apr 22, 2023 19:38:41 GMT
Well previous comment seems to be showing me to be a bit of an idiot. But in the long run, KL Rahul attitude to batting in t-20 has not paid any dividends to either India or IPL teams he has batted in. Join the club. You can head over to V2 and find numerous times I posted my learned opinion on the cricket thread and was completely wrong within days, if not seconds. I said 3 days into the last test of the 2017 Border-Gavaskar trophy that "anyone in the history of the game would rather be in Australia's position." I was incredibly consescending to our English posters halfway through the 2019 WC about Australua's excellence and England's mental fragility. I don't think I got one thing right after the 1st test of the 2021 B-G series. My advice: stick by your guns. |
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Post by Aj_June on Apr 30, 2023 7:17:07 GMT
Guys, here is a question. Who do you think was a better bowler of their respective era between Dennis Lillee and Glenn McGrath? Even though I personally did not like to see Glenn McGrath succeed (I was more of a Pollock fan) I genuinely believe Glenn McGrath was the best bowler of my era (better than Akram, Ambrose, Donald and Pollock). I wonder if Lillee was similarly the best of his era. My question has 2 parts. 1.If you directly compare Lillee and McGrath, who is better? 2. Who was more dominant in their own era? Was Lillee better than the likes of Garner, Marshall, Imran, like McGrath was better than Akram, Waqar, Ambrose, Walsh, Donald and Pollock? (I am only talking in context of Test Cricket) of course, there might be people disagreeing with me that McGrath was a better bowler than those I listed. That is fine with me. hoskotafe3, Carl LaFong, weststigersbob, jeffersoncody |
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Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 30, 2023 9:18:10 GMT
I haven’t seen enough cricket from both periods to be able to form an opinion, jc.
What about Jeff Thomson? Was Lillee definitely the better of the two?
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Apr 30, 2023 9:32:53 GMT
Lillee's career was a long one. In the mid 70s he was almost certainly the best pacer in the world. He was behind Marshall and probably Imran in the 80s. He was behind Snow in the early 70s but unquestionably better overall. So from 1973-78 he was probably the best in the world.
McGrath had no serious challengers once Ambrose retired given Akram and Donald has declined. You know my feelings on Pollock (never did it against the best). So from 1999-2007 McGrath was clearly the best in the world with only young Steyn really near him.
So McGrath was slightly more dominant in his career than Lillee. But who would I rather watch? Lillee. From the sweat flick to those famous steps at the top of his run to the long run in and then the great leap just before the popping crease he was the greatest show on earth and my favourite fast bowler ever to watch.
FFS Tom Gleeson created a popular Lillee caricature 15 years after he retired!
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Post by Aj_June on May 1, 2023 6:53:19 GMT
Lillee's career was a long one. In the mid 70s he was almost certainly the best pacer in the world. He was behind Marshall and probably Imran in the 80s. He was behind Snow in the early 70s but unquestionably better overall. So from 1973-78 he was probably the best in the world. McGrath had no serious challengers once Ambrose retired given Akram and Donald has declined. You know my feelings on Pollock (never did it against the best). So from 1999-2007 McGrath was clearly the best in the world with only young Steyn really near him. So McGrath was slightly more dominant in his career than Lillee. But who would I rather watch? Lillee. From the sweat flick to those famous steps at the top of his run to the long run in and then the great leap just before the popping crease he was the greatest show on earth and my favourite fast bowler ever to watch. FFS Tom Gleeson created a popular Lillee caricature 15 years after he retired! So in conclusion, it seems at their best, Lillee was slightly better than McGrath but when it comes to longevity McGrath was better. |
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Post by Aj_June on May 1, 2023 7:00:20 GMT
A few things about IPL
1. The fielding standards of non-international Indian players is very bad.
2. The captains do not know the correct batting order for their team.
3. Livingstone can hit mighty sixes.
4. Among uncapped Indian players who I want to see in Indian team - Got to be Rajasthan's Yashasvi Jaiswal. He is not a slow starter. Does not waste ball.
West indies has won T-20 world cup twice, mostly because their batsman have got the correct style for t-20 cricket, in which there is never a favourite team. You just need batsman who get going from start. India should get the services of Jaiswal and Gaikwad. Players like Kohli, Gill and KL Rahul and Gill have the same approach. India should play only 1 of these 3. If I am not wrong Australia does not always play Smith. Being the best test batsman does not necessarily mean your selection should be automatic.
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Post by Power Ranger on May 2, 2023 19:00:54 GMT
Delhi beat Gujarat. Bottom of the ladder defeated the top.
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