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

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[NapLajoieonSteroids]

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

Trivial question: why does Australia wear yellow uniforms?

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“Canary Yellow? That’s Australian Gold my friend and don’t you forget it.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_ ... _Australia

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.

[Miss_Faucie_Fishtits]

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Taylor Swift? She a baller too??..... good form....'>......

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she bowls a wicked chinaman.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-arm_unorthodox_spin

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NASA decodes swing bowling, its more complicated than I suspected.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-08/ ... /103418492

[NapLajoieonSteroids]

That's a cool article.

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.

[NapLajoieonSteroids]

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

As a direct result of the incident, underarm bowling was banned by the International Cricket Council as "not within the spirit of the game".

they needed a "home run" to win, so we rolled the ball along the ground, underarm, to make it impossible.

was super pathetic but funny because it was against the kiwis