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Post by malicious_bloke on Aug 1, 2011 12:12:11 GMT -5
linkyIndia are currently the #1 in the ICC Test Rankings, and England have comprehensively thrashed them in both matches this summer. India really aren't playing like the world's best team right now, but then it must be hard to produce any fluency when you are being pummelled by a four man pace attack as good as the one England can field right now. Maybe when Gautam Gambhir and Zaheer Khan return to the side, India will look a better prospect, but for now they just look clearly second-best in almost every department.
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Post by ironbite on Aug 1, 2011 13:27:46 GMT -5
What's that you say? A game that makes no sense and nobody in America can even follow it? And the English invented and beat India in it?
Ironbite-AND THAT'S THAT!
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Post by Shane for Wax on Aug 1, 2011 14:32:42 GMT -5
What's that you say? A game that makes no sense and nobody in America can even follow it? And the English invented and beat India in it? Ironbite-AND THAT'S THAT! What he said. |
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Post by Rat Of Steel on Aug 1, 2011 15:59:24 GMT -5
What's that you say? A game that makes no sense and nobody in America can even follow it? And the English invented and beat India in it? Ironbite-AND THAT'S THAT! Not only that, but cricket's American counterpart at least has player positions with simple names, like First Baseman or Center Fielder. "Shortstop" is about as ambiguous as it gets. Conversely, cricket itself has players who play positions with names like "Silly Mid-On".  |
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Post by malicious_bloke on Aug 1, 2011 16:20:43 GMT -5
What's that you say? A game that makes no sense and nobody in America can even follow it? And the English invented and beat India in it? Ironbite-AND THAT'S THAT! Not only that, but cricket's American counterpart at least has player positions with simple names, like First Baseman or Center Fielder. "Shortstop" is about as ambiguous as it gets. Conversely, cricket itself has players who play positions with names like "Silly Mid-On". That might be because you have to talk to americans very slowly and placidly and put things in simple unambiguous terms lest their simple brains overheat. Besides, silly mid-on is rarely used these days, it's only a couple of paces to the left of bat-pad |
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Post by Art Vandelay on Aug 1, 2011 19:43:30 GMT -5
What's that you say? A game that makes no sense and nobody in America can even follow it? And the English invented and beat India in it? Ironbite-AND THAT'S THAT! Not only that, but cricket's American counterpart at least has player positions with simple names, like First Baseman or Center Fielder. "Shortstop" is about as ambiguous as it gets. Conversely, cricket itself has players who play positions with names like "Silly Mid-On". Let's just agree that both suck ass and leave it at that. |
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Post by davedan on Aug 1, 2011 23:20:09 GMT -5
Except cricket is awesome. And baseball sucks balls (although they are great fielders - shame about the sissy gloves).
The english team is good at the moment especially at home or on swinging pitches they are tearing it up. Dissapointing show in the world cup but one day cricket is only barely cricket anyway. I think it also shows the importance of having a bowling all rounder of the class of Broad. Where you can field a genuine 4 prong pace attack with room for a spinner in Swann.
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Post by Art Vandelay on Aug 1, 2011 23:24:21 GMT -5
Except cricket is awesome. Yeah, and Hitler was a rabbi. |
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Post by davedan on Aug 1, 2011 23:34:24 GMT -5
Let's face it if germans played cricket there would have been no holocaust.
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Post by Art Vandelay on Aug 1, 2011 23:43:38 GMT -5
Yeah, the Jews would've died of boredom long before the Nazis had a shot.
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Post by malicious_bloke on Aug 2, 2011 2:39:57 GMT -5
German cricket team, you say? And yeah, it was great to see some team members whose team place was under threat play well. Also, if India hadn't been so intransigent about using the umpire review system, they could have prevented Broad getting a hat-trick...funny how these things backfire innit?
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Post by Jack Bauer on Aug 2, 2011 3:27:18 GMT -5
You should try Jack Bauer Cricket:
The stumps can be thrown like javelins or used for stabbing like assegais.
The ball is a hand grenande sans pin, which tends to limit the slow balls.
The batsman is allowed to strike any fielder who gets too close with his bat.
The bat may be made more lethal by the addition of nine inch nails.
The outfield near the boundary is laced with antipersonnel mines.
Oh - and there are no rules.
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Post by malicious_bloke on Aug 2, 2011 3:44:09 GMT -5
The batsman is allowed to strike any fielder who gets too close with his bat. Used to be the way about 300 years ago. |
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Post by Jack Bauer on Aug 2, 2011 9:45:59 GMT -5
The batsman is allowed to strike any fielder who gets too close with his bat. Used to be the way about 300 years ago. Ah, Real Cricket - aka Full Contact Cricket (and Real Men (TM) refused to wear a box). |
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Post by CtraK on Aug 5, 2011 15:25:10 GMT -5
The bat may be made more lethal by the addition of nine inch nails. Much as I respect the works of Trent Reznor as much as the next person, there's simply no way that strapping on a copy of The Fragile will make a cricket bat any more dangerous than it already is. Also, that German cricket team formed after reunification. We should all discuss the heavy, deep significance of this. As for the actual series - I've kept tabs on it and thought, "any second now, the Indians will strike back." And with the possible exception of the 2nd Test, day 1, they just haven't. Especially weird is how MS Dhoni suddenly can't bat when there's a trillion overs left in the day, or captain a team when it (ostensibly) represents somewhere bigger than Chennai.* *to be fair, India's a friggin' huge country. |
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