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SynicBast

@Bovidae said in Other Cricket 2020:

@MN5 said in Other Cricket 2020:

@mariner4life said in Other Cricket 2020:

I'll take Wasim Akram

Bloody hell, I still have nightmares of sitting on the couch in the mid 90s when NZ were chasing a hundred odd to win and him and Waqar got five each. What a pair they were.

So how do you think those of us at Seddon Park felt?

Wasim is my favourite fast bowler.

guaranteed nightmare test for me...i still get queasy about that last innings.

Baron Silas Greenback

Womens cricket is pretty rubbish viewing. If they think putting womens cricket on TV will bring eyeballs.. he is kidding himself. The product just isnt good.

""We're very, very focused on making sure we've had a very strong lineup of women's content on Spark Sport because we think that's a terrific opportunity."

Happy to let ratings decide? Yeah I bet not.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/121211412/more-cricket-on-screen-during-covid19-lockdown-as-new-zealand-cricket-and-spark-sport-launch-new-partnership

Hooroo

@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Other Cricket 2020:

Womens cricket is pretty rubbish viewing. If they think putting womens cricket on TV will bring eyeballs.. he is kidding himself. The product just isnt good.

""We're very, very focused on making sure we've had a very strong lineup of women's content on Spark Sport because we think that's a terrific opportunity."

Happy to let ratings decide? Yeah I bet not.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/121211412/more-cricket-on-screen-during-covid19-lockdown-as-new-zealand-cricket-and-spark-sport-launch-new-partnership

If it was the only cricket/sprt on, I would watch it in a heartbeat. Would even pay for Sky Sports again

Baron Silas Greenback

@Hooroo said in Other Cricket 2020:

@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Other Cricket 2020:

Womens cricket is pretty rubbish viewing. If they think putting womens cricket on TV will bring eyeballs.. he is kidding himself. The product just isnt good.

""We're very, very focused on making sure we've had a very strong lineup of women's content on Spark Sport because we think that's a terrific opportunity."

Happy to let ratings decide? Yeah I bet not.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/121211412/more-cricket-on-screen-during-covid19-lockdown-as-new-zealand-cricket-and-spark-sport-launch-new-partnership

If it was the only cricket/sprt on, I would watch it in a heartbeat. Would even pay for Sky Sports again

You realize they arent talking live cricket during the covid timeframe? You would watch competitive marbles at the moment.

Hooroo

@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Other Cricket 2020:

@Hooroo said in Other Cricket 2020:

@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Other Cricket 2020:

Womens cricket is pretty rubbish viewing. If they think putting womens cricket on TV will bring eyeballs.. he is kidding himself. The product just isnt good.

""We're very, very focused on making sure we've had a very strong lineup of women's content on Spark Sport because we think that's a terrific opportunity."

Happy to let ratings decide? Yeah I bet not.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/121211412/more-cricket-on-screen-during-covid19-lockdown-as-new-zealand-cricket-and-spark-sport-launch-new-partnership

If it was the only cricket/sprt on, I would watch it in a heartbeat. Would even pay for Sky Sports again

Yo do realize they arent talking live cricket dont you? You would watch competitive marbles at the moment.

It's womens cricket, of course I didn't read the article, man!!

OK, that is a big no from me then. I assumed it was about live cricket.

MN5

@SynicBast said in Other Cricket 2020:

@Bovidae said in Other Cricket 2020:

@MN5 said in Other Cricket 2020:

@mariner4life said in Other Cricket 2020:

I'll take Wasim Akram

Bloody hell, I still have nightmares of sitting on the couch in the mid 90s when NZ were chasing a hundred odd to win and him and Waqar got five each. What a pair they were.

So how do you think those of us at Seddon Park felt?

Wasim is my favourite fast bowler.

guaranteed nightmare test for me...i still get queasy about that last innings.

They really did seem to visit every summer from memory......those were the days....now we alternate between powerhouses like Bangladesh and Sri Lanka ( minus Sangakara and Jayawardne )

ACT Crusader

Not sure where to put this, but anyone else watching the BeIN Sports Cricket’s Greatest XI series. Hadn’t seen them. Pretty well put together.

1-Gavaskar
2-Gooch
3-Bradman
4-Tendulkar
5-Sobers
6-Kallis
7-Gilchrist
8-Khan
9-Warne
10-Akram
11-Holding

Bones

@ACT-Crusader without Willey there, then it gets even worse with "The bowler's Holding the batsman's Gooch" huh.

mariner4life

@ACT-Crusader said in Other Cricket 2020:

Not sure where to put this, but anyone else watching the BeIN Sports Cricket’s Greatest XI series. Hadn’t seen them. Pretty well put together.

1-Gavaskar
2-Gooch
3-Bradman
4-Tendulkar
5-Sobers
6-Kallis
7-Gilchrist
8-Khan
9-Warne
10-Akram
11-Holding

Shit team

nzzp

@mariner4life six bowlers and a wicket keeper batsman. Unbalanced as a team no matter how exceptional the players

ACT Crusader

@nzzp said in Other Cricket 2020:

@mariner4life six bowlers and a wicket keeper batsman. Unbalanced as a team no matter how exceptional the players

It’s not my team but when you look at those first 8 names, they all know how to score test runs. Also taking 20 wickets is king in test cricket....

Siam

No Hadlee. Doesn't count.

MN5

@ACT-Crusader said in Other Cricket 2020:

Not sure where to put this, but anyone else watching the BeIN Sports Cricket’s Greatest XI series. Hadn’t seen them. Pretty well put together.

1-Gavaskar
2-Gooch
3-Bradman
4-Tendulkar
5-Sobers
6-Kallis
7-Gilchrist
8-Khan
9-Warne
10-Akram
11-Holding

Gooch stands out like dogs balls much as I did admire him. Marshall would get in ahead of Holding too.

SynicBast

@MN5 said in Other Cricket 2020:

@ACT-Crusader said in Other Cricket 2020:

Not sure where to put this, but anyone else watching the BeIN Sports Cricket’s Greatest XI series. Hadn’t seen them. Pretty well put together.

1-Gavaskar
2-Gooch
3-Bradman
4-Tendulkar
5-Sobers
6-Kallis
7-Gilchrist
8-Khan
9-Warne
10-Akram
11-Holding

Gooch stands out like dogs balls much as I did admire him. Marshall would get in ahead of Holding too.

I'd go for one of Bradman's contemporaries in Bill Ponsford over Gooch everytime.

MN5

@SynicBast said in Other Cricket 2020:

@MN5 said in Other Cricket 2020:

@ACT-Crusader said in Other Cricket 2020:

Not sure where to put this, but anyone else watching the BeIN Sports Cricket’s Greatest XI series. Hadn’t seen them. Pretty well put together.

1-Gavaskar
2-Gooch
3-Bradman
4-Tendulkar
5-Sobers
6-Kallis
7-Gilchrist
8-Khan
9-Warne
10-Akram
11-Holding

Gooch stands out like dogs balls much as I did admire him. Marshall would get in ahead of Holding too.

I'd go for one of Bradman's contemporaries in Bill Ponsford over Gooch everytime.

Well yeah, I mean he had a very good record for the era he played in, he was definitely a personal favourite in the day ( an average of 42 vs some of the best fast bowlers ever is something to be proud of ) but others have more of a claim I would have thought.

Still, there's only one other opener in the top 10 run scorers who averaged over 50 so perhaps he's not as left field as I initially thought ?

http://www.howstat.com/cricket/statistics/batting/BattingBestAggregateForPosition.asp

SynicBast

Average in the case of an opener is actually a telling statistic as is conversion rate and balls faced.

Snowy

@SynicBast said in Other Cricket 2020:

Average in the case of an opener is actually a telling statistic

Yeah more so than other positions, but who they play their cricket for is important too given that %50 ish of their matches will be in home conditions. Morning on day one in England is probably a bit more difficult than day one in India. Day 5 India is a different thing with a turning ball but the openers may not bat that day.

MN5

@Snowy said in Other Cricket 2020:

@SynicBast said in Other Cricket 2020:

Average in the case of an opener is actually a telling statistic

Yeah more so than other positions, but who they play their cricket for is important too given that %50 ish of their matches will be in home conditions. Morning on day one in England is probably a bit more difficult than day one in India. Day 5 India is a different thing with a turning ball but the openers may not bat that day.

As an opener there's also statistically far less chance of getting cheeky not outs to pad the average that other batsmen get. Not taking anything away from them as they're all legends of the game but Kallis, Chanderpaul, S Waugh and Border all got heaps ( over 40 ) to help get the numbers up.

That being said I often reckon Matthew Hayden doesn't quite get the respect he might deserve given he had a bit of a flat track bully reputation.