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Can I please not live in a world where test cricket becomes 100% Bazball? If it gets to the stage where every team just throws the bat from ball 1 and make 280 all out in 53 overs or 437-1 in a day if their luck is in then the format will die pretty fast.
For batsmen with dodgy technique but great eye and power and playing on good pitches without bounce (and with short boundaries), they may start to bat like this making the odd 83 in 72 balls between the inevitable low scores not to mention the occasional 164 in 146 balls. Who wants to watch that in test cricket? Once batsmen no longer worry about getting out, let's abandon all cricket that lasts longer than a day.
Rant over.
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Can I please not live in a world where test cricket becomes 100% Bazball? If it gets to the stage where every team just throws the bat from ball 1 and make 280 all out in 53 overs or 437-1 in a day if their luck is in then the format will die pretty fast.
For batsmen with dodgy technique but great eye and power and playing on good pitches without bounce (and with short boundaries), they may start to bat like this making the odd 83 in 72 balls between the inevitable low scores not to mention the occasional 164 in 146 balls. Who wants to watch that in test cricket? Once batsmen no longer worry about getting out, let's abandon all cricket that lasts longer than a day.
Rant over.
@KiwiPie said in Other Cricket:
Can I please not live in a world where test cricket becomes 100% Bazball? If it gets to the stage where every team just throws the bat from ball 1 and make 280 all out in 53 overs or 437-1 in a day if their luck is in then the format will die pretty fast.
For batsmen with dodgy technique but great eye and power and playing on good pitches without bounce (and with short boundaries), they may start to bat like this making the odd 83 in 72 balls between the inevitable low scores not to mention the occasional 164 in 146 balls. Who wants to watch that in test cricket? Once batsmen no longer worry about getting out, let's abandon all cricket that lasts longer than a day.
Rant over.
Settle down Boycott, times have to move on sometimes. It puts more onus on the bowlers. I like it.
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@KiwiPie said in Other Cricket:
Can I please not live in a world where test cricket becomes 100% Bazball? If it gets to the stage where every team just throws the bat from ball 1 and make 280 all out in 53 overs or 437-1 in a day if their luck is in then the format will die pretty fast.
For batsmen with dodgy technique but great eye and power and playing on good pitches without bounce (and with short boundaries), they may start to bat like this making the odd 83 in 72 balls between the inevitable low scores not to mention the occasional 164 in 146 balls. Who wants to watch that in test cricket? Once batsmen no longer worry about getting out, let's abandon all cricket that lasts longer than a day.
Rant over.
Settle down Boycott, times have to move on sometimes. It puts more onus on the bowlers. I like it.
@MN5 said in Other Cricket:
@KiwiPie said in Other Cricket:
Can I please not live in a world where test cricket becomes 100% Bazball? If it gets to the stage where every team just throws the bat from ball 1 and make 280 all out in 53 overs or 437-1 in a day if their luck is in then the format will die pretty fast.
For batsmen with dodgy technique but great eye and power and playing on good pitches without bounce (and with short boundaries), they may start to bat like this making the odd 83 in 72 balls between the inevitable low scores not to mention the occasional 164 in 146 balls. Who wants to watch that in test cricket? Once batsmen no longer worry about getting out, let's abandon all cricket that lasts longer than a day.
Rant over.
Settle down Boycott, times have to move on sometimes. It puts more onus on the bowlers. I like it.
It'll only take teams being rolled for a hundred a few times and things will move.
This looked good partly due to batting, partly the ball going to sleep and partly injuries and bowling.
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@Donsteppa Once played a cricket match close to Broadmoor, the high-security psychiatric hospital - during the game, we noticed that the boundary was being lined by police facing into the forest that our pitch bordered. We carried on as well.
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Momentous knock in County cricket. Could spurn a movie. "Fourth by Northeast" . What a blaster. 410 runs from Sam.
@ARHS said in Other Cricket:
Momentous knock in County cricket. Could spurn a movie. "Fourth by Northeast" . What a blaster. 410 runs from Sam.
referencing this for those not active onc ricketing websites:
https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/sam-northeast-410-i-had-a-lot-more-nerves-in-the-190s-than-in-the-390s-which-sounds-ridiculous-1325992 -
In honour of left handed day I saw this on a cricket thread…..
Here’s my all time left handed XI. Some really good batsmen like Graeme Pollock, Justin Langer, Mike Hussey, Shiv Chanderpaul, David Gower and Graeme Smith miss out….harder to find really amazing bowlers though hence our boy Trent sneaks in !
1 Matthew Hayden
2 Alastair Cook
3 Brian Lara
4 Kumar Sangakkara
5 Allan Border
6 Garry Sobers
7 Adam Gilchrist
8 Wasim Akram
9 Alan Davidson
10 Derek Underwood
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@Donsteppa said in Other Cricket:
I wonder if Hadlee can sneak in as a left handed bat.
Good point. A lot of guys are “natural” right handers who happen to bat left handed but given his primary skill is bowling probably not unfortunately.
Boult bats right handed as an example and Lara bowls right handed too.
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@Bovidae said in Other Cricket:
England and BMac come crashing back to earth against SA.
Baz-ball back-fires….
Proteas bowling lineup is top drawer. Batting is very hit and miss, but their bowling is quick, can swing and I’m looking forward to them getting a go on the Aussie decks later this year.
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@Bovidae said in Other Cricket:
England and BMac come crashing back to earth against SA.
Baz-ball back-fires….
Proteas bowling lineup is top drawer. Batting is very hit and miss, but their bowling is quick, can swing and I’m looking forward to them getting a go on the Aussie decks later this year.
@ACT-Crusader said in Other Cricket:
@Bovidae said in Other Cricket:
England and BMac come crashing back to earth against SA.
Baz-ball back-fires….
Proteas bowling lineup is top drawer. Batting is very hit and miss, but their bowling is quick, can swing and I’m looking forward to them getting a go on the Aussie decks later this year.
There some dreadful shots played by English batsmen, playing expansive shots instead of digging in. Heard an interview with Stokes afterwards and he was all "we won the first 4 tests of the summer playing this way" so obviously a first innings collapse is their chosen method of victory.
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@Duluth said in Other Cricket:
136/8 20 overs left
Warner out for 94. Maxwell only got 19
Everyone else has got fuck all
out for 141, Zimbos struggling but still in with a chance at 117/6 just need to get the runs, time no issue
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Tom Bruce, the free spirit who has finally found his identity as a cricketer
He was the next big thing, and then he wasn't, but the New Zealand batter has bounced right back with a phenomenal sequence of scores
Quite a good read, and also some interesting technical food for thought in there about evolving to an off-stump guard and batting out of his crease.
