Author Topic: Cricket thread  (Read 112465 times)

Offline one-eyed

  • Administrator
  • RFC Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 97882
    • One-Eyed Richmond
Re: Cricket thread
« Reply #1095 on: December 16, 2023, 06:46:21 PM »
Pakistan 271 all out. Lyon 3 wickets, Starc & Cummins 2, Hazlewood, Marsh 7 Head 1 each.

Aussies currently 1/4. A lead of 220 runs. Warner out for a duck.


Offline one-eyed

  • Administrator
  • RFC Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 97882
    • One-Eyed Richmond
Re: Cricket thread
« Reply #1096 on: December 16, 2023, 10:12:29 PM »
Aussies 2/84 at Stumps. Smith 43*, Khawaja 34*.

A lead of 300 runs.

Not that easy to bat now with some deliveries leaping up off that pitch.

Offline WilliamPowell

  • Administrator
  • RFC Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 40205
  • Better to ignore a fool than encourage one
    • One Eyed Richmond
Re: Cricket thread
« Reply #1097 on: December 17, 2023, 09:56:23 AM »
Warner goes from chocolates to boiled lollies in 5 balls

So question becomes if he fails in the Boxong Day test does he deserve to get his swansong at the Sydney Test?

Personally I think he's very lucky to be playing this test. His form in test matches hasn't warranted his selection for the last 2 years
"Oh yes I am a dreamer, I still see us flying high!"

from the song "Don't Walk Away" by Pat Benatar 1988 (Wide Awake In Dreamland)

Offline Diocletian

  • RFC Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 19371
  • RWNJ / Leftist Snowflake - depends who you ask....
Re: Cricket thread
« Reply #1098 on: December 17, 2023, 12:45:33 PM »
Warner goes from chocolates to boiled lollies in 5 balls

So question becomes if he fails in the Boxong Day test does he deserve to get his swansong at the Sydney Test?

Personally I think he's very lucky to be playing this test. His form in test matches hasn't warranted his selection for the last 2 years

He won't be dropped but he's lucky we're playing Pakistan who are useless in Oz and the Windies who are barely test standard these days so the side can probably afford to carry one or two passengers  through the summer.... :shh
"Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good...."

- Thomas Sowell


FJ is the only one that makes sense.

Offline WilliamPowell

  • Administrator
  • RFC Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 40205
  • Better to ignore a fool than encourage one
    • One Eyed Richmond
Re: Cricket thread
« Reply #1099 on: December 17, 2023, 12:54:31 PM »
Warner goes from chocolates to boiled lollies in 5 balls

So question becomes if he fails in the Boxong Day test does he deserve to get his swansong at the Sydney Test?

Personally I think he's very lucky to be playing this test. His form in test matches hasn't warranted his selection for the last 2 years

He won't be dropped but he's lucky we're playing Pakistan who are useless in Oz and the Windies who are barely test standard these days so the side can probably afford to carry one or two passengers  through the summer.... :shh

Agree
"Oh yes I am a dreamer, I still see us flying high!"

from the song "Don't Walk Away" by Pat Benatar 1988 (Wide Awake In Dreamland)

Offline mightytiges

  • RFC Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 58590
  • Eat 'Em Alive!
    • oneeyed-richmond.com
Re: Cricket thread
« Reply #1100 on: December 17, 2023, 06:46:43 PM »
This could be over within the next hour. Aussies only need 4 more wickets.
All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be - Pink Floyd

Offline one-eyed

  • Administrator
  • RFC Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 97882
    • One-Eyed Richmond
Re: Cricket thread
« Reply #1101 on: December 17, 2023, 07:41:32 PM »
All over. Aussies win by 360 runs.

Lyon got his 500th (and 501st) wicket  :clapping.

Pakistan out for just 89. Hazlewood 3/13, Starc 3/31, Lyon 2/18, Cummins 1/11.


Online Francois Jackson

  • RFC Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 14021
Re: Cricket thread
« Reply #1102 on: December 17, 2023, 10:17:38 PM »
lyons 500 wickets against countries who have thrown the towel in years ago in this format.

wouldnt even be in the same league as warnies 500 wickets.

Currently a member of the Roupies, and employed by the great man Roup.

Offline Damo

  • RFC Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 4460
  • Member of famed “Gang Of Four”. Ground the airbus!
Re: Cricket thread
« Reply #1103 on: December 18, 2023, 12:37:15 AM »
lyons 500 wickets against countries who have thrown the towel in years ago in this format.

wouldnt even be in the same league as warnies 500 wickets.

One guy took 708 at 25.41
The other is sitting on 501 at 31.00

No comparison and I don’t reckon anyone would be silly enough to do so

Lyon has still been a very good and underrated player for a long time

But would be like comparing a Dusty with a Prestia etc

Great teammate , very VERY good player .. but not one of the greatest of all time

Online Andyy

  • RFC Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 9928
Re: Cricket thread
« Reply #1104 on: December 18, 2023, 09:38:24 AM »
Shame for Pakistani to capitulate like they did

As for Lyon, he's had his critics, but 500+ wickets is a seriously impressive feat and even I don't know how he got them off. I've always thought his variation is quite limited and I wonder if he gets wickets because batsman just don't respect him all that much but here he is with 500+ and still playing, proving us all wrong.

Not bad for a bloke who was working as a curator. Kind of like if Podsiadly went and kicked 400-500 goals.

Offline Damo

  • RFC Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 4460
  • Member of famed “Gang Of Four”. Ground the airbus!
Re: Cricket thread
« Reply #1105 on: December 18, 2023, 11:51:38 AM »
Shame for Pakistani to capitulate like they did

Yeah shattering
Dunno how I slept last night

Offline one-eyed

  • Administrator
  • RFC Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 97882
    • One-Eyed Richmond
Re: Cricket thread
« Reply #1106 on: December 19, 2023, 07:16:26 PM »
MCC CHIEF COMMENTS ON POSSIBILITY OF TWO MCG TESTS, FORECASTS STRONG 2023 BOXING DAY CROWDS.

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2023/12/18/mcc-chief-comments-on-possibility-of-two-mcg-tests-forecasts-strong-2023/

Offline one-eyed

  • Administrator
  • RFC Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 97882
    • One-Eyed Richmond
Re: Cricket thread
« Reply #1107 on: December 23, 2023, 02:30:13 PM »
The Kiwis were bowled out for just 98 at home by Bangladesh in an ODI lol.


https://www.msn.com/en-au/sport/cricket/cricket-internationals/game-centre/sp-id-230196

Offline one-eyed

  • Administrator
  • RFC Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 97882
    • One-Eyed Richmond
Re: Cricket thread
« Reply #1108 on: December 26, 2023, 10:28:11 AM »
No change. No Boland.

Pakistan have won the toss and will BOWL first!


https://twitter.com/1116sen/status/1739422163059544195

Offline one-eyed

  • Administrator
  • RFC Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 97882
    • One-Eyed Richmond
Re: Cricket thread
« Reply #1109 on: December 26, 2023, 12:57:28 PM »
Aussies 1/90 at Lunch.

Warner 38 .... out on the last ball before the break.
Khawaja 36*