General Cricket Discussion

[Varun]

Perhaps Ishant Sharma. If he can regain the pace he could generate last year, he would be pretty much a crucial part of Indian Test Team in future.

 

[AkshayS]

Perhaps Ishant Sharma. If he can regain the pace he could generate last year, he would be pretty much a crucial part of Indian Test Team in future.

There are people from who you can't expect anything, Ishant has turned into one.
I'd say there is a better possibility of Zak hitting 140 regularly somehow than expecting Ishant to do anything good.

 

[Cricketman]

Pakistan and India are two very similar countries. Both have very same cultures, environment, cuisine etc...

Then why is it that one has produced such great faster bowlers but struggled to produce batsmen and vice-versa for the other? Seems like the patition of 1947 was of pacers and batsmen.

We have produced good bowlers, just most have been spinners.

I think diet has a lot to do with it. They in general eat more meat.

 

[pcfan123]

Perhaps Ishant Sharma. If he can regain the pace he could generate last year, he would be pretty much a crucial part of Indian Test Team in future.

last year? he was still garbage. he has been garbage since that Aussie tour. Maybe a good game here or there but no way near threatening the way he was down under.

 

[shravi]

last year? he was still garbage. he has been garbage since that Aussie tour. Maybe a good game here or there but no way near threatening the way he was down under.

Think you're forgetting his more iconic series of when Australia toured India. He was the man of the series then. A fast bowler picking up man of the series in India is quite something.

 

[Varun]

last year? he was still garbage. he has been garbage since that Aussie tour. Maybe a good game here or there but no way near threatening the way he was down under.

I meant of that tour. Only that I forgot the time when that tour took place.

 

[TruSachFan]

Curtly Ambrose on Caribbean T20

Fielder drops two easy catches on a row...

Ambrose: I thought the first effort was pretty ordinary. I said to myself, "Let's give him a chance", but two in a row? That's PATHETIC.

 

[aussie1st]

Brad the bunny - Hohns sheds light on Hodge mystery

So now we know why he was dropped in Test after his double 100. I suspected it was due to a weakness they had spotted but I thought it was the one outside off stump. They are consistent at least since Bevan was put into the never again basket when they noticed his short ball weakness.

 

[War]

Brad the bunny - Hohns sheds light on Hodge mystery

So now we know why he was dropped in Test after his double 100. I suspected it was due to a weakness they had spotted but I thought it was the one outside off stump. They are consistent at least since Bevan was put into the never again basket when they noticed his short ball weakness.

Nah i dont buy any of the drivel now from Hohns. He aint fooling nobody, Hodges dropping was a simple case of them coming to their senses after they axed Martyn stupidly after the Ashes. Thus they wanted Martyn back quickly.

Hodge should have played that return series in SA in bowler-friendly conditions to see how he would have really feared. If they are suggesting that double hundred @ Perth was on a road (which it was).

Given the way England ended up bowling in the 2006/07 Ashes (especially Harmo) Hodge would have had a field day with the bat.

They want to talk abt a AUS batsmen with a short-ball deficiency, that was Darren Lehmann - not Hodge.

 

[Papa_Smurf]

Was watching some of Warne's old videos on Youtube when I came across this:

Parkinson is such an amazing interviewer - by far the best interview I've seen of Warne. Discusses everything in length - his start, how he came into cricket, how he became a legend, controversies, personal life,retirement...the list goes on.

Definitley worth a watch. It happened after the 06/07 Ashes.

 

[angryangy]

Nah i dont buy any of the drivel now from Hohns. He aint fooling nobody, Hodges dropping was a simple case of them coming to their senses after they axed Martyn stupidly after the Ashes. Thus they wanted Martyn back quickly.

That's pretty much what he said though, isn't it? He denied it being about personality and just said Martyn was a better player.

The irony is that in hindsight, that South Africa tour was the only notable thing Martyn did after coming back. His spot in the team shouldn't have proved such an embargo on Hodge or any seasoned player being part of the squad.

The problem with managing players like Hodge was never that they should really have knocked players like Martyn out of a spot, but that after those players went, they still weren't an option. The team still looked strong when Katich, Hodge and Jaques were the fringe players around the side. Now Jaques got injured and Hodge eventually gave up, so there was no single monolithic act of injustice, but there were certainly other choices when the likes of Marcus North made their debuts.

 

[PrimeOdysseus]

have they posted or came up with FTP after 2012 yet?

cause I'm really interested to see how they going to fit all these new events including, test championships, IPL etc.

 

[AngryPixel]

Finally, Show-cause notice for Ten Cricket channel

Ten Cricket has been asked to explain the violation of the Indian government's advertising codes during its coverage of the recently concluded series between India and South Africa

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Their broadcast was a shame. I had to watch the match on DD which had crappy commentary but very very less amount of ads. I dont think anyone outside India would have had this kind of coverage

1)Ads between overs continue till the bowler is about to release the 1st ball of next over.
2)As soon as someone gets out, ads comes in a second. You had to wait till the next batsman had played a ball. Then they will show replay between the run up of bowler for the next ball.
3)This during live broadcast

4)Mobile phone or Some other commercial thing's animation popping out of ground during live match
5)If batsman ask for a runner,umpires are talking, physio is called in or captain is setting fields, that is advertisement time for broadcaster.
6)Biased commentary. Okay we know that you are there to earn some bucks but why the hell is every commentator is biased towards India? It wont hurt to support other team once in a while

 

[treva]

Just thought I'd plug an article I've written for my universities student newspaper on the Ashes. Let me know what you think.

Were England worthy Ashes winners? | The Linc

 

[Chewie]

Nathan Bracken is retiring from all forms of cricket:

Australia: Knee injury forces Nathan Bracken to retire | Cricket News | Global | ESPN Cricinfo