Its Summer! - the Fever Cricket Thread. (Part 1)

Gangsta!2009-06-09 14:42:02

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Good too see Bangladesh finally getting a rocket shoved up there arse and told that they can't be mediocre anymore.

Jamie Siddons: "If the boys just keep disobeying the plan you end up with a sh*tty little score like 130."

Chris Martin returning to Canterbury. We might actually manage to get 20 wickets this season with Bond and Martin as apposed to last season were we struggled to get 10.

I think our status as epic under performers is once agained justified. FFS.

I would like to congratulate the Black Caps on another epic failure at a world event. Must have been tough beating Scotland and Ireland.

You guys are aware that Sri Lanka has a population of 20 Million and a culture where kids play Cricket like Brazillian kids play Football, right? New Zealand does exceptionally well as a team, but it is hard to overcome the overall quality of the Sri Lankan side. I'm picking them and SA for the final. Critical_Lemon2009-06-17 14:15:37

CL, its not just that we lost to Sri Lanka, Its that we only scored 100 against Pakistan and 110 against Sri Lanka. So Basically in 2/3 games against decent quality sides we were thrashed and we lost the third we lost by 1 run.

The 1 run loss, as gutting as it is, I can live with. But scores of 99 and 110 are quite simply pathetic particularly with the batsman we have who should love and excel at this form of the game.

CL is right - in general we do peform pretty well for a small nation, however, in this tournament we did not do ourselves any justice, we beat Ireland and scotland - whoopee. Against the Pakis who are not in good nick we lose by capitulating and only scoring 100, then the Sri Lankan - who, admittedly are a very good side biowl us out for 110??

I think each time we go on about "small nation doing well against big nations" provides justification for mediocrity. Most of our team has been playing in the IPL being paid ridiculous amounts of money, and when they come back together to represent their country in cricket they play rubbish. We've always tried to be competitive on the main stage for cricket and we need to stop justify playing sh*te and giving some players the axe when they're not playing well!

yeah our big guns simply did not show up for this tournament - they'll use the injury excuse of course - mccullum, oram, ryder, vettori, styris etc all carrying or returning from injury - at the end of the day they have to do better than the latest results! Utterly embarrassing!

They do need to do better, but the fact is a lot of our players aren't up to it at that level, so our big players need to fire. What happened against Sri Lanka is that they bowled fantastically and soon enough they were through to the guys that just can't cope with their skill.

From my point of view, it isn't being okay with mediocrity, I actually don't care who wins Cricket games, it's being realistic. The next smallest current test nation is Sri Lanka, with 16 million more people than us. Striving to win is what every sports team needs to do, but why go mental every time you lose to a team of an undoubtedly higher quality?

And we can't afford to drop everyone who plays badly. There are just some players who need to be in the side all the time. Oram isn't one of those IMO, though. I actually don't rate him as more than a decent bowler.

Ashes predictions...?

2 - 1 Australia.

Ponting top scorer

Johnson man of the series.

best out of 5 isn't it?

 

Yes cause that's what happened last time they played. And the time before. And the time before.

Errr, last Ashes series in England. 2-1 to England. Greatest series of all time. Ring any bells?

The series before that in 01, Aussie won 4-1. A result in every match.

The series before that in 97, Aussie won 3-2. A result in all but one match (six tests that time).

Shall i go on? Or will that be enough?

  Gangsta!2009-07-09 12:51:09

Are we going to be debating this for the next month, or are some people going to put up their predictions?

2-2

HAPPY NOW?

2-2?

I thought it was best of 5 etc...etc...

I'm going to go England 3-1. But all close.

 

Australia 3-1

lol @ England.

lol @ england.

The Sikh of Tweak and the Burnley Express have the last lol. Probably England's best start to an Ashes series for many years!

lol @ Australia.

lol @ Ponting.

LOLSTRALIA.

Nathan Lolritz couldn't finish a pair of tail enders off.

Hahahahaha.

Bangladesh beat the West Indies for just their 2nd ever test match victory. 13 top West Indies players were on strike but still...

Can't you catch a player where ever you want to? I thought it was only stumpings where you needed to be behind the stumps?

KP is right, as soon as the ball has hit the bat (or the batsman for that matter) the keeper can touch the ball as long as he wasn't infront of the stumps before the ball was hit.   Gangsta!2009-07-14 16:21:24

Oh, I hate Punter as well, don't worry.

Yes. But as soon as his gloves pass he stumps it should be called a no-ball. And Haddins gloves past the stumps before Strauss hit the ball.

Oh ok, I haven't seen the dismissal so wouldn't know.