The Cricket Thread

Posted: **15 Jan 2006, 12:54pm**

plasticman wrote:

20/20 im a fan of that style of cricket, anyone who says its shit is a blind cunt...its fucking entertaining and i like to be entertained

totally agreed its a fresh change to tha game n i rekon will take off next summer fully. everyone loves seeing big hits n with 20/20 u get a fair bit of it seeing as batsmen r trying to slog the ball every bowl.

im a fan enough said now its time to chill sum beers n get ready for todays match

Posted: **15 Jan 2006, 1:32pm**

Test Match cricket is the only true cricket, everything else is Mickey Mouse.

20/20 please

I have played more credible cricket in the backyward with a mop and roll of duct tape.

Posted: **15 Jan 2006, 3:08pm**

Aussies r gettin spanked

6/71 off 18 overs

Posted: **15 Jan 2006, 5:30pm**

Bushwick Bill wrote:

20/20 please

I have played more credible cricket in the backyward with a mop and roll of duct tape.

I think your missing the point of Twenty20...from my view i see it as a fast, intense and entertaining game that gets the crowd really amped, and puts a more light-hearted spin on the game of cricket.

Posted: **15 Jan 2006, 10:08pm**

South Africa Wins

Posted: **15 Jan 2006, 10:10pm**

what a game 1st time in ages i sat thru the last 10 overs

Posted: **16 Jan 2006, 12:38am**

orchie wrote:

Bushwick Bill wrote:

20/20 please

I have played more credible cricket in the backyward with a mop and roll of duct tape.

I think your missing the point of Twenty20...from my view i see it as a fast, intense and entertaining game that gets the crowd really amped, and puts a more light-hearted spin on the game of cricket.

Hardly. Its just cricket for people with short attention spans and who are easy to please with *OOOO THERES A BRIGHT SHINY THING* entertainment of little substance.

Posted: **16 Jan 2006, 9:12am**

Bushwick Bill wrote:

orchie wrote:

Bushwick Bill wrote:

20/20 please

I have played more credible cricket in the backyward with a mop and roll of duct tape.

I think your missing the point of Twenty20...from my view i see it as a fast, intense and entertaining game that gets the crowd really amped, and puts a more light-hearted spin on the game of cricket.

Hardly. Its just cricket for people with short attention spans and who are easy to please with *OOOO THERES A BRIGHT SHINY THING* entertainment of little substance.

i like the big hitting and the fast pace of the game, but to me you lose a whole aspect of cricket with 20/20 - the bowling.
there is niegh on anything a bowler can do to become an integral part of the game. i love watching top class bowling as i do the batting but it doesnt matter if you're bowling good line and length, late swing, etc cause they'll just get smacked around

Posted: **16 Jan 2006, 9:47am**

I cant really see what any bowler could possibly gain from playing in these games.

When I witnessed an Australia A player last year step away on his "free hit" and let the ball hit the stumps so he could run byes I lost what small amount of interest I had in this form of the game.

Posted: **16 Jan 2006, 3:27pm**

del wrote:

Bushwick Bill wrote:

orchie wrote:

Bushwick Bill wrote:

20/20 please

I have played more credible cricket in the backyward with a mop and roll of duct tape.

I think your missing the point of Twenty20...from my view i see it as a fast, intense and entertaining game that gets the crowd really amped, and puts a more light-hearted spin on the game of cricket.

Hardly. Its just cricket for people with short attention spans and who are easy to please with *OOOO THERES A BRIGHT SHINY THING* entertainment of little substance.

i like the big hitting and the fast pace of the game, but to me you lose a whole aspect of cricket with 20/20 - the bowling.
there is niegh on anything a bowler can do to become an integral part of the game. i love watching top class bowling as i do the batting but it doesnt matter if you're bowling good line and length, late swing, etc cause they'll just get smacked around

i can understand what your saying, Twenty20 isn't like a real one-day match, but it's not supposed to be either. if you can try to see past that fact, you'd probably enjoy watching it a whole lot more.

Posted: **16 Jan 2006, 3:29pm**

TWENT20 is bollocks and to a lesser extent one day cricket is bollocks takes away alot of the thinking and tactics behind cricket. it's all just a money making scam.

Posted: **16 Jan 2006, 3:33pm**

If it wasnt for one day cricket the sport would be a mere shell of what it is today.

I love the one-dayers and 20/20.

Not sure that the 20/20 should be included in international stats tho, they are a bit mickey mouse- but still wicked to watch

Posted: **16 Jan 2006, 4:00pm**

how good was hussey's catch and symonds run out on sunday?!!

pity we lost - but good to see lee stand up and make a 50

Posted: **16 Jan 2006, 4:05pm**

del wrote:

how good was hussey's catch and symonds run out on sunday?!!

pity we lost - but good to see lee stand up and make a 50

i think it's good that we lost not that i'd wanna see us lose the finals but it's good to know that there is a bit of competition.

Posted: **16 Jan 2006, 4:53pm**

yeah we got smoked

gilly was unlucky to chomp that one back on his stumps tho. LMAO at the footage of the bogan family after it.

Posted: **16 Jan 2006, 6:34pm**

that was gilly's family, shatters em

Posted: **16 Jan 2006, 9:04pm**

Posted: **7 Feb 2006, 2:11pm**

ponting was a well deserved winner last night. such a good player.

shatters symonds, would have been one day cricketer of the year.
funny how they were up on stage making light of the drinking exploits of past teams the same night too.
oh well, his own fault though.

and warney - champion. they said it was only his second time up on stage though? suprising. thought his date was a bit young too

just checked baggygreen.com too and apparantly boof wasnt even close to jaques in the state player of the year. he had 75, boof with 35 and bevan with 11.

Posted: **7 Feb 2006, 4:28pm**

7/146 they are rooted now

Posted: **7 Feb 2006, 4:30pm**

make that 8/147 yep rooted

Posted: **12 Feb 2006, 5:36pm**

Ponting and Symonds have saved us i reckon!

didnt expect us to make over 250 but fuckn 368

Posted: **12 Feb 2006, 6:01pm**

solace wrote:

Ponting and Symonds have saved us i reckon!

didnt expect us to make over 250 but fuckn 368

i got my money on symonds for next aussie captin

Posted: **12 Feb 2006, 6:48pm**

CATASTROPHIC wrote:

i got my money on symonds for next aussie captin

no way mate! as good of a player he is he likes his piss too much... the board of selectors are fuddy duddies who want the icon family man to captain the team... i reckon gilly has a good chance

Posted: **12 Feb 2006, 8:21pm**

gilly only getting older and IMO not really getting any better ( not taking away from the mans talents )

the public seem to love symonds because he is like a new warne he can play and he isnt so " perfect role model"

i dont think lee could be captin because he is always guna have injury problems being a fast bowler

who else could be inline ?

Posted: **12 Feb 2006, 10:07pm**

did adelaide oval sell out on friday nite???

if it didnt bye bye to us ever gettin a final again

Posted: **12 Feb 2006, 10:29pm**

solace wrote:

CATASTROPHIC wrote:

i got my money on symonds for next aussie captin

no way mate! as good of a player he is he likes his piss too much... the board of selectors are fuddy duddies who want the icon family man to captain the team... i reckon gilly has a good chance

not gonna happen... Symonds is 30 and Gilly is 34. Ponting will stay captain for 5-6 more year, break almost every batting record there is, then someone like michael clark will get the nod. Thats if he can stay in the team. By the time clark reaches 30 he would've played for australia 6-7 years.

today's batting performance was mightily entertaining

Posted: **13 Feb 2006, 1:03am**

richie wrote:

not gonna happen... Symonds is 30 and Gilly is 34. Ponting will stay captain for 5-6 more year, break almost every batting record there is

richie wrote:

then someone like michael clark will get the nod. Thats if he can stay in the team. By the time clark reaches 30 he would've played for australia 6-7 years.

hasnt really lived up to his stella entry into the team but still i guess has been pretty solid... he certainly is the acc's little protege

Posted: **13 Feb 2006, 12:09pm**

solace wrote:

CATASTROPHIC wrote:

i got my money on symonds for next aussie captin

no way mate! as good of a player he is he likes his piss too much... the board of selectors are fuddy duddies who want the icon family man to captain the team... i reckon gilly has a good chance

not to mention he is one of the stupidest people in the history of sport

Posted: **13 Feb 2006, 12:33pm**

solace wrote:

no way mate! as good of a player he is he likes his piss too much... the board of selectors are fuddy duddies who want the icon family man to captain the team... i reckon gilly has a good chance

remember ponting had a few issues when he went out a while ago...hasnt he been in the news and shit for cheating on his wife and fighting??

Posted: **13 Feb 2006, 6:20pm**

plasticman wrote:

solace wrote:

no way mate! as good of a player he is he likes his piss too much... the board of selectors are fuddy duddies who want the icon family man to captain the team... i reckon gilly has a good chance

remember ponting had a few issues when he went out a while ago...hasnt he been in the news and shit for cheating on his wife and fighting??

Ponting? nah!

maybe back in 99 when he was usually found to be excessively drunk on tour but he got dropped from the squad for such antics and since has been a near role model for australian youth.

maybe your thinking of Warne? or Symonds who lost the Alan Border medal due to drunken antics on the ashes tour