Cricket | A bit of a sticky wicket
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their was one special moment when Maxi - the guy with unstoppable wrists, broke nearly every record in the game.
he had already been fielding for 4 hrs in hot weather and was exhausted, he went out to bat with us being 7 down for 90, chasing 300 - the win/loss o meter stats gave us less than 1% as it was technically possible, just had never happeend.
he got out 3 times early, but each time they dropped the catch or the hawkeye said no.
then he went absolutely ballistic with a care free attitude and put every ball out of the park, got 100 runs, which was amazing.
then he got cramps and completely collapsed in a twitching mess on the field, and couldnt walk anymore.
then just stood there, not moving his legs, and proceeded to hit ANOTHER 100 RUNS, with just his wrists, smacking every ball out of the park
made 200 runs, won the game, never happened before, never will happen again, its hard to scoree 100 runs, doing it without leg movement is impossible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug2Cxv1SI50
he had already been fielding for 4 hrs in hot weather and was exhausted, he went out to bat with us being 7 down for 90, chasing 300 - the win/loss o meter stats gave us less than 1% as it was technically possible, just had never happeend.
he got out 3 times early, but each time they dropped the catch or the hawkeye said no.
then he went absolutely ballistic with a care free attitude and put every ball out of the park, got 100 runs, which was amazing.
then he got cramps and completely collapsed in a twitching mess on the field, and couldnt walk anymore.
then just stood there, not moving his legs, and proceeded to hit ANOTHER 100 RUNS, with just his wrists, smacking every ball out of the park
made 200 runs, won the game, never happened before, never will happen again, its hard to scoree 100 runs, doing it without leg movement is impossible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug2Cxv1SI50
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Trivial question: why does Australia wear yellow uniforms?noddy wrote: ↑Fri Nov 24, 2023 8:43 am their was one special moment when Maxi - the guy with unstoppable wrists, broke nearly every record in the game.
he had already been fielding for 4 hrs in hot weather and was exhausted, he went out to bat with us being 7 down for 90, chasing 300 - the win/loss o meter stats gave us less than 1% as it was technically possible, just had never happeend.
he got out 3 times early, but each time they dropped the catch or the hawkeye said no.
then he went absolutely ballistic with a care free attitude and put every ball out of the park, got 100 runs, which was amazing.
then he got cramps and completely collapsed in a twitching mess on the field, and couldnt walk anymore.
then just stood there, not moving his legs, and proceeded to hit ANOTHER 100 RUNS, with just his wrists, smacking every ball out of the park
made 200 runs, won the game, never happened before, never will happen again, its hard to scoree 100 runs, doing it without leg movement is impossible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug2Cxv1SI50
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_ ... _Australia“Canary Yellow? That’s Australian Gold my friend and don’t you forget it.”
officially our flag colours are red/white/blue like most of the anglosphere colonies, but for sports, the most important thing, we have our own national colours.
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Taylor Swift? She a baller too??..... good form....'>......
She irons her jeans, she's evil.........
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NASA decodes swing bowling, its more complicated than I suspected.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-08/ ... /103418492
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-08/ ... /103418492
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That's a cool article.
The full lunging body motion still throws me off.
The full lunging body motion still throws me off.
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yeh, throwing with a straight arm is biomechanically absurd, the run up and jump at the end like a javelin thrower is a big part of trying to get speed without the elbow whip.
its interesting how both bat and ball sports "crippled" the thrower - indicates that a run up, jump and bent elbow throw would be probably unplayable.
its interesting how both bat and ball sports "crippled" the thrower - indicates that a run up, jump and bent elbow throw would be probably unplayable.
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Both also legalized or 'officialized' over-arm motions at roughly the same time and have been tweaking around the edges of that decision since.
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amusingly cricket only had the cultural pressure to bowl overarm right up until the 1980's, when my team abused the area of grey in the law to win a game and caused an international furore which the new zealanders still rant about to this day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underarm_ ... nt_of_1981
was super pathetic but funny because it was against the kiwis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underarm_ ... nt_of_1981
they needed a "home run" to win, so we rolled the ball along the ground, underarm, to make it impossible.As a direct result of the incident, underarm bowling was banned by the International Cricket Council as "not within the spirit of the game".
was super pathetic but funny because it was against the kiwis
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The cricket world cup is being held in the USA this year,
Which is completely stupid - temporary stadiums with dead pitches, crowd of rich indian.diaspora and not even shown on american tv.
Meanwhile, crickets stronghold elsewher cant watch because timezones
Which is completely stupid - temporary stadiums with dead pitches, crowd of rich indian.diaspora and not even shown on american tv.
Meanwhile, crickets stronghold elsewher cant watch because timezones
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Karl Schwab did this.
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"You will get 15 minute highlights and you will enjoy it"
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This makes sense as to why a local sports radio guy was mentioning cricket during a rant about how awful the New York Mets are.
He kept going, "We even have cricket now!" (his point being there are so many entertainment options available, a bad team still getting viewers/fans in the seats is no longer a guarantee.)
He kept going, "We even have cricket now!" (his point being there are so many entertainment options available, a bad team still getting viewers/fans in the seats is no longer a guarantee.)
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https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/icc ... cket-score
The USA collection of expats easily beat the Canuckistan collection of expats with some excellent hitting
The USA collection of expats easily beat the Canuckistan collection of expats with some excellent hitting
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Baseball twitter has been all aflutter over some apparent beef started with cricket twitter.
It's all very ridiculous but my timeline is filled with "angry" baseball fans who are now tuned into the goings on with the world cup.
...so whoever's idea of viral marketing this was, it worked.
It's all very ridiculous but my timeline is filled with "angry" baseball fans who are now tuned into the goings on with the world cup.
...so whoever's idea of viral marketing this was, it worked.
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Back to the future . . .
The oldest international rivalry in cricket is between the USA and Canada. They first played each other in 1844.
May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.
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I did catch a bit of the "beef" on twitter, it gets tedious fast.
the american team of ex u19 expat Indians with a few west indians and south africans is doing very well.
lots of upsets so far, its been fun.
I will oficially jinx our chances by saying we have a really good team this time, hard to beat.
the american team of ex u19 expat Indians with a few west indians and south africans is doing very well.
lots of upsets so far, its been fun.
I will oficially jinx our chances by saying we have a really good team this time, hard to beat.
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It was obnoxious and I couldn't figure out why exactly it started. Just a lotta "If x player played cricket, they'd be the best player in that sport."
Punching at air and high-fives all around.
My very unknowing guess is that the dodgy, dead American pitches is throwing things off for a lot of teams.
Punching at air and high-fives all around.
My very unknowing guess is that the dodgy, dead American pitches is throwing things off for a lot of teams.