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Dunc
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Night watchman anyway.
The real talking point of the day though is KP's warning. Right or wrong? Certainly was time wasting I think, even if KP was in the right, just because he kept trying the switch. Interesting though.
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 1:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Dunc wrote: | Night watchman anyway.
The real talking point of the day though is KP's warning. Right or wrong? Certainly was time wasting I think, even if KP was in the right, just because he kept trying the switch. Interesting though. |
Didn't see that but will watch highlights this evening. Wasting time when we are trying to win a test, unless it was just before lunch or something? |
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| Dunc wrote: | Night watchman anyway.
The real talking point of the day though is KP's warning. Right or wrong? Certainly was time wasting I think, even if KP was in the right, just because he kept trying the switch. Interesting though. |
The only question is whether the bowlers back foot had landed in the delivery stride before KP 'switched', all else is superfluous.
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So all the bowler's end umpire has to do is watch both of the bowlers' feet, at the same time check the batsman and then readjust focus to follow the flight of the ball.
I'm really not sure about it. If the batsman gets it right, it's exciting to watch. If he doesn't, he can look a right plonker.
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 2:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Don wrote: | So all the bowler's end umpire has to do is watch both of the bowlers' feet, at the same time check the batsman and then readjust focus to follow the flight of the ball.
I'm really not sure about it. If the batsman gets it right, it's exciting to watch. If he doesn't, he can look a right plonker. |
I think that would be the common sense thinking on the matter. By the same token, is the doosra or the googly an illegal ball?
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| Esox Lucius wrote: | | Don wrote: | So all the bowler's end umpire has to do is watch both of the bowlers' feet, at the same time check the batsman and then readjust focus to follow the flight of the ball.
I'm really not sure about it. If the batsman gets it right, it's exciting to watch. If he doesn't, he can look a right plonker. |
I think that would be the common sense thinking on the matter. By the same token, is the doosra or the googly an illegal ball? |
Is the term 'bowled by a Chinaman now deemed un PC  unless of course the bowler is Chinese  |
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enjoy the cricket whats 50,000+ tamils to you?
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Don
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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| deepseahoop wrote: | | enjoy the cricket whats 50,000+ tamils to you? |
Muttiiah Muralitharan, you dipstick. But he's a sign of reconciliation. Not what you'd like to see at all. Silly sod. Or ... convince me.
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| deepseahoop wrote: | | enjoy the cricket whats 50,000+ tamils to you? |
About $3.57 at todays exchange rate.
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Do the ICC think they are FIFA?
The bowler always has the upper hand choice-wise while a batsman can only ever react so it's a stupid directive clearly aimed at pleasing TV audiences.
What if a batsman comes down the wicket before the final stride but doesn't change his grip?
And, more to the point, does two constitute a "series"? It probably does grammatically but not, IMO, in any sports sense (that must surely be at least three?). |
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| DAVEf wrote: | Do the ICC think they are FIFA?
The bowler always has the upper hand choice-wise while a batsman can only ever react so it's a stupid directive clearly aimed at pleasing TV audiences.
What if a batsman comes down the wicket before the final stride but doesn't change his grip?
And, more to the point, does two constitute a "series"? It probably does grammatically but not, IMO, in any sports sense (that must surely be at least three?). |
I was once fortunate enough to have a series of ladies, and to be frank, any more would have been as waste.
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| BiscuitRanger wrote: | | DAVEf wrote: | Do the ICC think they are FIFA?
The bowler always has the upper hand choice-wise while a batsman can only ever react so it's a stupid directive clearly aimed at pleasing TV audiences.
What if a batsman comes down the wicket before the final stride but doesn't change his grip?
And, more to the point, does two constitute a "series"? It probably does grammatically but not, IMO, in any sports sense (that must surely be at least three?). |
I was once fortunate enough to have a series of ladies, and to be frank, any more would have been as waste. |
Two is two is surely a pair (and not a series)?
And that still applies even if it was over a ten year period  |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 8:32 am Post subject: |
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| deepseahoop wrote: | | enjoy the cricket whats 50,000+ tamils to you? |
Predictably ingnorant and twattish. |
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Dunc
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| Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 9:15 am Post subject: |
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| DAVEf wrote: | Do the ICC think they are FIFA?
The bowler always has the upper hand choice-wise while a batsman can only ever react so it's a stupid directive clearly aimed at pleasing TV audiences.
What if a batsman comes down the wicket before the final stride but doesn't change his grip?
And, more to the point, does two constitute a "series"? It probably does grammatically but not, IMO, in any sports sense (that must surely be at least three?). |
I thought the beligerence of KP was unsporting though. Obviously Dilshan was going to keep pulling out of his stride if he sees him move. The ICC put their directive in to stop the sort of stalemate we saw yesterday, which was manufactured by KP.
Anyway, DSH's damning analysis of the conflict in SL has left me weeping into my Sky TV remote, shorting it, so I'm no longer able to watch the match.
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| Dunc wrote: | | DAVEf wrote: | Do the ICC think they are FIFA?
The bowler always has the upper hand choice-wise while a batsman can only ever react so it's a stupid directive clearly aimed at pleasing TV audiences.
What if a batsman comes down the wicket before the final stride but doesn't change his grip?
And, more to the point, does two constitute a "series"? It probably does grammatically but not, IMO, in any sports sense (that must surely be at least three?). |
I thought the beligerence of KP was unsporting though. Obviously Dilshan was going to keep pulling out of his stride if he sees him move. The ICC put their directive in to stop the sort of stalemate we saw yesterday, which was manufactured by KP.
Anyway, DSH's damning analysis of the conflict in SL has left me weeping into my Sky TV remote, shorting it, so I'm no longer able to watch the match. |
What was unsporting was Dilshan's insistence on halting his run-up. If he could see KP was altering his position what was to stop him sending down a delivery to match the altered position?
Not that KP doesn't too often come across as a spoilt prima donna. |
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