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Post by notoriousnobbi on Apr 18, 2024 17:10:23 GMT
chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/britains-brexit-drift.html (yes, I hijacked the thread, but with good reason as the beginning of that piece is has some cricket analogies I do not understand. I promise it's the only exception on the sports board. So anyone who is bored or lightly feels triggered, just don't click on the spoiler, thank you)
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Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 18, 2024 17:16:01 GMT
Bazball is all out attack and damn the consequences.
Lord’s is a cricket ground in London, headquarters of English cricket. India is easily the most important cricketing country now and has been for many years.
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Post by jeffersoncody on Apr 18, 2024 20:02:16 GMT
jeffersoncody 2 things make a T20 game good. A genuine contest between bat and ball, and tension in the run chase. There has not been a game I’ve seen yet that has had both. The chase RR pulled off (or more likely Jos Buttler pulled off) against KKR looked on the surface to be a great game, but RR batted themselves into trouble and should’ve won much easier, and KKR although scoring 223, were probably 25-30 short of a competitive total. It was poor batting by both sides really. The financial success of T20 cricket has given Test cricket - for which attendances are falling all over the world; except when certain countries are playing each other, a boost and ultimately a longer lease of life. It's giving the low attention masses what they want and filling the coffers. To keep tournaments like the IPL alive and pumping, pushing up the ante is essential. By all means, level the playing fields between batter and bowler when it is nation against nation in an international T20, but the IPL is a circus, and the crowds come to be entertained by big hits and spectacular catches. Funny how Bumrah is able to make a devastating impact on any surface and has a been a threat every time he gets ball in hand. Have loved watching Gerald Coetzee ramp it up to 150 and surprise batsman (Liam Livingstone, LOL, tonight), or how about Nandre Burger? Coetzee and Burger are certainly the two most difficult and uncomfortable bowlers to face in the nets and are just going to get better and better as they mature. Good game tonight. Let the show go on, it is for the people, the coffers, and the bold young (and not so young) gladiators who have dedicated themselves almost solely to this form of the game, not the dyed in the wool cricket buffs like us who have loved the game ever since we can remember. And how fearsome is the now bulked up 21-year-old Matheesha Pathirana - the newly crowned prince of Sling, dude can send it down at 152 ks.
And golf is a good walk ruined. If there was 100 different sports available to watch concurrently, I reckon golf would be 98th or worse in that list for mine. Oy vey, "sex and golf are the two things you don't have to be good at to enjoy".
And as for watching it; well if you never saw Ernie "The Big Easy" Els hit a golf ball in his prime you've missed out on something sublime, fuck I used to love to watching Ian Woosnam play. Golf is a fascinating game that is as fun, frustrating and fascinating to watch as it to play. Such a mental game - you're playing the course and yourself. Had a friend called Zeppie, a surfer, a sign writer and laid back to the max. Zeppie didn't have a fucking thought in his empty head, wasn't worried about a thing, no inner demons to deal with, so when he hit the ball he didn't overthink it, his swing was a thing of beauty; poetry in motion, but his short game sucked, unfortunately. One had to wonder why God game him that swing; what waste! One of the great days of my late dad's life was when he scored his first hole in one - he had been preparing for it for years, with two insurance policies for buying the clubhouse a round. Hell, the only thing I ever did he was proud of was hit an eagle on the par 4 at the Hill Golf Course. My first shot was a monster drive, but it veered off into the bushes. I was in the woods, but I had one hell of a lie and a clear line of sight to the hole, and hit the perfect 5 iron. Nearly fainted when it hit the pin and fell in the hole - it was my last moment of glory on the golf course; LOL, my one shining moment when I was in alignment with the golfing Gods.
Took my dad to see TIN CUP when he was still alive, he loved it so much he seemed to be purring and gurgling with pleasure in the seat next to me. When he saw the likes of Craig Stadler and Fred Couples in the movie he was shouting out their names, as excited as my daughter was when saw the animated Little Mermaid on the big screen back in the day."It's the greatest game there is".
"Ask anybody. It's fun. It's hard and you stand out there on that green, green grass, and it's just you and the ball and there ain't nobody to beat up on but yourself; just like Mister Newnan keeps hittin' himself with the golf club every time he gets angry. He's broken his toe three times on account of it. It's the only game I know that you can call a penalty on yourself, if you're honest, which most people are. There just ain't no other game like it."
Of course, I like watching women's tennis too, what do I know other than what I like.
weststigersbob ,
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Post by weststigersbob on Apr 19, 2024 16:35:31 GMT
jeffersoncody , I don’t have a problem with the IPL or the T20 game. What I don’t like watching is shit cricket. And for a tournament of its size and importance, the IPL sure does do some really bizarre things to ensure some shit cricket gets played. I wholeheartedly disagree. I don’t get any enjoyment from playing it, and watching it is worse. I think the longest I’ve lasted is about 10 minutes. I literally couldn’t tell you the difference between the two players you mentioned. I care so little I doubt I could even recognise them in photos.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 19, 2024 18:30:36 GMT
Golf is down there with basketball and rugby league (sorry bob!) as the worst sports invented.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Apr 19, 2024 18:35:53 GMT
I like T20 too but it's rapidly becoming like soccer in that one match bleeds into another and it's the context that makes them mean something. And it's the same with individual matches. I will never forget Jonathan Trott going onto the back foot at the MCG and timing a short ball from Michael Beer straight back past him for 4. It was effortless, majestic and just a superb shot. In T20 there is no difference between one guy clearing his front leg and hitting it over mid wicket for 6 and anyone else. Though inside out shots over cover for 6 are still breathtaking (providing their timed and not leading edges). The push towards higher scores in ODIs makes them equally samey and ultimately forgettable. I support CSK. They're fair to middling this year. Wake me up in the knockouts.
Golf, I used to watch occasionally growing up and I was a big fan of Els (The Big Easy) but I lost interest as I got older.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 19, 2024 18:39:26 GMT
I like T20 too but it's rapidly becoming like soccer in that one match bleeds into another and it's the context that makes them mean something. And it's the same with individual matches. I will never forget Jonathan Trott going onto the back foot at the MCG and timing a short ball from Michael Beer straight back past him for 4. It was effortless, majestic and just a superb shot. In T20 there is no difference between one guy clearing his front leg and hitting it over mid wicket for 6 and anyone else. Though inside out shots over cover for 6 are still breathtaking (providing their timed and not leading edges). The push towards higher scores in ODIs makes them equally samey and ultimately forgettable. I support CSK. They're fair to middling this year. Wake me up in the knockouts. Golf, I used to watch occasionally growing up and I was a big fan of Els (The Big Easy) but I lost interest as I got older. Did the local crowd clap that Trott shot?
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Post by jeffersoncody on Apr 19, 2024 18:58:07 GMT
jeffersoncody , I don’t have a problem with the IPL or the T20 game. What I don’t like watching is shit cricket. And for a tournament of its size and importance, the IPL sure does do some really bizarre things to ensure some shit cricket gets played. Thank you for sharing your opinion westigersbob, even if it's not necessarily one I agree with.I wholeheartedly disagree. I don’t get any enjoyment from playing it, and watching it is worse. I think the longest I’ve lasted is about 10 minutes. I literally couldn’t tell you the difference between the two players you mentioned. I care so little I doubt I could even recognise them in photos. LOL, it sounds as if you feel the same way about golf as I feel about Soccer and Aussie Rules Football westigersbob.
Of course, It Don't Mean A Thing (If You Ain't Got That Swing)
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Post by jeffersoncody on Apr 19, 2024 19:05:04 GMT
Golf is down there with basketball and rugby league (sorry bob!) as the worst sports invented. LOL. Clearly, you ain't got that swing either Carl.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Apr 19, 2024 19:44:02 GMT
I like T20 too but it's rapidly becoming like soccer in that one match bleeds into another and it's the context that makes them mean something. And it's the same with individual matches. I will never forget Jonathan Trott going onto the back foot at the MCG and timing a short ball from Michael Beer straight back past him for 4. It was effortless, majestic and just a superb shot. In T20 there is no difference between one guy clearing his front leg and hitting it over mid wicket for 6 and anyone else. Though inside out shots over cover for 6 are still breathtaking (providing their timed and not leading edges). The push towards higher scores in ODIs makes them equally samey and ultimately forgettable. I support CSK. They're fair to middling this year. Wake me up in the knockouts. Golf, I used to watch occasionally growing up and I was a big fan of Els (The Big Easy) but I lost interest as I got older. Did the local crowd clap that Trott shot? England were about 159 ahead going into Day 2 with 10 wickets in hand so there was more Barmy Army in then Aussies, but I can't imagine anyone would have been sitting on their hands after that shot. Bill Lawry loved it. He actually seemed to relish watching a team get on top and grind their opposition into the dust. He will always be the guy who set Garry Sobers' Windies team 701 in the 4th innings.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 20, 2024 11:47:10 GMT
Famous cricket pub partly destroyed by fire: Mitcham residents say the Burn Bullock had been ‘disgracefully neglected’ prior to the blaze www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/20/fire-partly-destroys-grade-ii-listed-london-pubThe neighbouring Mitcham Cricket Club said the historic pub had been “disgracefully neglected for years”. Thanking the fire brigade, the club wrote on X: “A black day for Mitcham. Named in honour of our former player and its former landlord. Disgracefully neglected for years. The original Association of Cricket Umpires and Scorers was formed by Tom Smith in an upstairs room here. Firefighters are doing their best to save what they can.”
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Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 20, 2024 11:48:56 GMT
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Post by Power Ranger on Apr 20, 2024 16:49:23 GMT
Bloody hell. Big scores lately in the IPL. A cracker of a game ATM DC v SRH.
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Post by Aj_June on Apr 20, 2024 16:52:26 GMT
I have very little interest in club cricket however I am a big fan of Heinrich Klaasen's batting and whatever little IPL I might have seen would have mainly been Heinrich Klaasen's batting.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Apr 24, 2024 7:06:31 GMT
Happy 51st birthday to one of the best ever to do it: the Little Master Sachin Tendulkar. I know it's cool to say he was over rated, that he played for 3 years too long. Blah blah blah. But in the 90s he was the greatest show on earth. Whether it was scoring 148no at the SCG as a 19 year old, or being the only Indian who turned up for 1999-00 tour (Laxman didn't arrive until the last day of the series). He top scored in 4 of India's 6 innings of the series and scored a majestic, mostly forgotten, hundred at Melbourne. And when he got a crack at Australia in India: according to Mark Taylor, Shane Warne walked up to him after bowling 2 balls to Sachin and said "Basically: we're fucked." Kid could play.
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