/cric/

excellent OP

also currys vs kiwis hype thread

>>74805179
thanks pete

/cric/ is life

morning lads

How many first class international /cric/ers has your town/city produced
> Wagga Wagga
> 3

>>74810981
>he doesn't live in a state capital and have too many players to count

>>74811015
t. Chapman Xìngmíng

What's a /cric/ approved CK 2 start

>>74810981
Half the WA side play in my club

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>>74811650

>3 guys named M***********.
>White man's sport.

Pick one.

>>74813354
cricket is an international sport

I can understand why this would confuse you

>>74813195
Durham

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Is this /cric/ approved?

Warner is a confirmed homebabby.
>http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/video_audio/1087917.html

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>If Australia could choose a venue for a deciding Test in India, it would likely be Dharamsala.

>Following a 210-over stint in the field during India’s only innings in the heat at Ranchi, the climate at Dharamsala will be a relief.

>The pitch may also be to Australia’s liking.

>This domestic season in India, the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium has hosted three Ranji Trophy matches, India’s four-day equivalent of the Sheffield Shield.

>The first match was a high-scoring affair, with scores of 524, 480 and 1-114.

>The next two saw scores of 205, 105, 214 and 271, followed by innings of 217, 164, 293 and 114.

>Of most interest to Steve Smith, however, will be the style of bowler who claimed the wickets: of the 99 wickets to fall to bowlers, 89 were claimed by pace.

Khawaja
Renshaw
Spud*
SMarsh
HandSCUM
Maxwell
+Wade
Cummins
SOK
Hazlewood
Bird

>>74814183
>Khawaja

>>74814189
literally cannot do worse than the LHB Tim Southee

>>74814137
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJNsKqm1Xqc

>>74813195
The game im playing now is a Gujarat start. Sent my heir to Socotra to convert to Norostorian. Then I got the heresy and converted to Messalianism (elite religion) and am now in the process of converting the subcontinent to that.

>>74810981
Don't know about FC, but we've produced 1 (one) international in my town

>>74814285
t. Phil Hughes' brother

>>74814329
vintage

>>74814003

Yeah lad. Pretty good depiction of "This is what lefties actually believe"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaZtOIsgBqQ

>>74814183
the groundsmen will literally be putting craters in the pitch as we speak, two spinners is sensible

>>74814363
if you ever got a job you'd know most work places do this through lucky numbers or dip or something, except you have one winner not 8/10 winners wtf is wrong with you

new CK 2 dlc is underwhelming

>>74814283
>Messalianism
wew

don't think I've ever seen that in game

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what was going on here?

>>74814363
that's literally what the lottery is m8

>>74814452
Looks like Saha is trying to give Smith a gobbie

Pissrat has the lowest average of any player batsman or bowler who can bat a bit this series

>>74814419
>don't think I've ever seen that in game
It's basically Orthodox crossed with Zoroastrianism

>>74814293
Close mate. I'm Joe Menies uncle.

Installed gyprock at Hughesies parents house though. AMA

>>74814436
>i have a greater knowledge of cricket than you
>i have played prestigious and world class Sydney 1st grade cricket and am therefore better at our sport than you
>i have a better and higher paying job than you
>i have a better hairline than you
Kek, imagine being you

>>74814582
Knowledge of the sport requires more than an autistic mental backlog of statistics, otherwise Zaltzman would probably know more than anyone.

I have a transcendent knowledge of fast bowling. Reminder that the greater "spin" ""bowler"" of all time was literally a pace bowler.

>>74814582
Autistic reciting of statistics is not knowledge of the game.

>>74814631
>you probably think maths isnt the goat major
he LITERALLY failed maths because it was "too hard" and did humanities in high school

>>74814631
>you probably think maths isnt the goat major
degrees in theoretical science are worth less than the paper they are written on.

>tfw comfortably the most intelligent /cric/ poster

>>74814639
I was actually elite at maths. I dropped it because it wasn't required for my career path.

It would be like teaching Alan Donald to bowl a doosra; a complete waste of time.

>>74814665
you ARE lying
you ARE on record as saying that you weren't good at maths and found it too hard

>Starc said his foot fracture was not as serious as the one that kept him out of much of the 2015-16 season. "The foot is okay. It's not snapped in half like the one 18 months go," he said. "It's the same foot, so I did the third metatarsal the last time, this is the fourth. Nice fracture. It's not displaced though.

>"I don't need a boot fortunately. I'm still in the gym getting myself ready for when I do come back whenever that might be. I see the specialist on Thursday and hopefully get a clearer picture then. But the Champions Trophy is clearly not out of the picture."

On track for an elite pace attack v England lads

>>74814668
Never happened.
>please let me tell you about you

>>74814674
It's all in the archive mate

>>74814681
No it isn't.

>>74814685
Yes it is.

>>74814687
You are lying, on the internet.

I'd unironically drop Warner for games outside of South Africa and Australia

>>74814693
He is 30yo and has had two tours of everywhere now. He isn't going to learn new tricks at this point.

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AMA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcWD_CroKhc

>>74814719
how much do you weigh?

>>74814742
72 kg

>>74814719
How much?

>>74814719
~175

>>74814797
for >>74814792

>>74814802
why did you buy it?

>>74814811
Everyone needs a hobby

>>74814815
I mean what aspect of the hobby. Do you intend to make dioramas or is your focus more on the wargaming side of it.

>>74814835
wargaming

Anyone know where to get a rainbird jersey?

>>74814871
yeah

>>74814887
Yeah?

Porterfield is a pretty shit captain lads. Should've brought O'Brien back on about 10 overs ago. Might've gotten them out for less than 180

>>74814980
Yeah

>>74814992
yeah he's elite though

>>74814994
Nice. can you tell where?

>>74815012
Yeah

>>74814996
Was elite mate. Was

>>74815018
Nah

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reminder straffo will never recover from this

>>74815018
Cool. Thanks.

made a post
>>117737938

>>74815374
ah fuck i typed out /sp/ kyk
>>>/pol/117737938

>>74814329
maangaaaaa

>>74815036
what a post #thirsty

>>74815377
Jesus Christ they aren't the smartest on that board
>Vote for the one they causes the most liberal butthurt xD

Bill Leak was never convicted under 18C nor was he ever stopped from publishing his vile work

straffo now has one like on his pinned tweet from january

progress!

>>74815377
decent

>100 posts in 17 hours
pretty POOr POOmunity

ol queenie kicked the bucket lads

>>74815612
he died of aids years ago

Reminder that Kohli is not in the big 4 anymore

Reminder the world's best test bowler is a part timer who's completely shit outside of India

tfw lof bf%, trim and sexy

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>pissrat's average has dropped out of the 50s

>>74815554
There's your opening boys. Pretend to be a girl online and get retards to donate to you.

>>74815649
did you ever get a reply to your PM mate?

beyond >>74815539 of course

Reminder that if you take out one stat padding innings where he dawdled to 180 on a road where Warner got a hundred before lunch, Renshaw averages 30 in test cricket

Reminder that Starc is NOT an allrounder.

Reminder that hating Kohli is indicative of reddit, casualness, and people who think it's >our team

Reminder that people who are contrarian for the sake of being contrarian are intellectual lightweights.

>>74815654
yeah he just said he was going to post it on all the forums because it was hilarious.

I think at this stage I figured out he is too oblivious of his own failings for it to actualy matter. I mean there's no difference between what he does and what other internet justice warriors do. It's just that no one responds to him, making his lack of social skills painfully obvious to everyone but him.

>>74815701
>"But only Kohli is the arrogant one. You never see Australians act like that."
>Frontpage of cricinfo RIGHT now is Starc talking shit about India

Now watch the (you)s I get from people who think that shit talkings just part of the game (if Australia does it)

>>74815710
This.

The same plebs probably want Mundine dead too.

>>74815764
I would LOVE to hear you defend that cunt Mundine

Reminder that if you genuinely think Kohli would be universally loved by Australians if he was Australian, you may be clinically retarded. Australians, especially the media, love nothing more than criticising our own. Ponting and Clarke were lucky if they had more people who liked them than disliked them in Australia. Kohli would be copping it worse than Tomic and Kyrgios ever have.

>>74815770
truthy

even waugh had people that fucking despised him

>>74815767
He's a showman. Even as a 40+ year old he managed to draw in a big crowd for that last fight because everyone wanted to see his head getting knocked off. If it was Green vs anyone else, no one would have cared.

Even his politically charged statements aren't bad. He just has an opinion. Nothing worse than all the 'FUG NIGGERS' shit you see on /pol/

>>74815787
Do you think "9/11 was justified" wasn't bad?

>>74815778
>I'm going to prove your point by bringing up an example that directly contradicts it

>>74815770
Would he be universally loved? No. Would he have his supporters? Obviously

>>74815797
>Australians, especially the media, love nothing more than criticising our own
explain how citing waugh as an example of someone that was criticised "directly contradicts" that
You don't think everyone worshipped him do you?

>>74815791
where did he say it was justified?

>>74815801
Everyone? No. But by and large he was clearly very popular. If Virat was Australian he'd get the same treatment

>>74815800
He'd have as many detractors as supporters.

My Grandma, a massive Test Cricket fan, passed away today.

I just wanted to write some things about her.
Back in the 60s and 70s, when my dad was away at school or at Uni, she would sit in front of the Radio and score. On a BIG piece of paper. Like, she would score properly. Just so that my dad and uncle (who played 2nd Div for Karnataka), would come back home and could still follow the day's play.
She was a great fan of proper, fearsome, fast bowling and she LOVED Andy Roberts, Michael Holding, Wes Hall, Gary Sobers, Sunny Gavaskar, Dennis Lillee, Imran Khan, Ian Botham. And Kapil Dev. Oh how she loved Kapil Dev.
We had a small driveway to the our garage and we used to play together.
In 1992, my uncle bought me my first cricket bat. Made out of Tamarind wood, for like Rs 20. We used to play with a rubber ball. I once broke her bangles and the glass pieces cut into her veins. That fucking bat....that fucking bat, with a Death's Head sticker, 25 years old, is still in our old house, and it still has faint blood marks on it. My uncle, back then, said not to wash it, because it is a mark of the sport.
I still have it.
RIP Grandma. If India wins this series, this Border-Gavaskar Trophy, is in your name.

>>74815811
t. underage

Waugh wasn't popular at the start or end of his career

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>>74815832
>she LOVED Andy Roberts, Michael Holding, Wes Hall, Gary Sobers

>>74815836
That was because of his form not his behaviour you jizzstain

>>74815854
no it was his behaviour at the end, you're just too young to remember it

>>74815870
Yeah, everyone remembers Waugh getting booed after that Century off the last ball in Sydney

>>74815880
Ponting got a standing ovation after getting out on 8 and by your own admission there were people that didn't like him

How come so many people seem to be getting around this whole Netflix craze, I mean if you'd ask me, I'm generally more of a dvd kind of guy anyway. The buffering seems to bug me... and plus, my parents still burn movies to disc. At least every few months anyway.
Tonight I'll be heading home and staying in for the night, might even grab a Barista Brothers iced coffee from the service station on the way home, mostly because my weeks pay just went in and I like to treat myself. I've become pretty fond with the flavour of this brand of milk but it's really the texture that sells me. Ice Break doesn't even cut it anymore. Might even try the iced chocolate next week (heard good things).
Last week an Ice Cube song came on NOVA when I was on the way home and that really topped things off, I'm generally not a big rap music fan but after a bit of caffeine I feel as if I listen to music with more of an open mind, but hey, that's just me. My mate says the same thing too.
I go out most weekends though, usually because I can't check in on facebook at my house, Aldi mobile data goes pretty quickly and I'm not keen on a wifi plan because my cousin had a bad experience with Dodo.
Internet that flies (lmao not).
Yes I've been out to cloud nine before, and no I didn't enjoy it. Not much room to move and plus I sweat easily, I'd rather be at a comfortable temp when I'm doing the nae nae.

Speaking of ice cube, does anyone happen to have "Straight outta Compton" on DVD? I still haven't seen it and I feel as if I haven't quite yet missed the boat on that one.

>>74815890
That was Ponting's final test in a long career.

Also, I'm the guy arguing that Ponting and Waugh got an easy pass; you're thinking of a different poster

Reminder that Gavaskar once scored 36 off 174 in an ODI and no one knows what the fuck he was doing to this day.

>>74815921
Wasn't it a sticky wicket and that's what finally caused them to mandate covered pitches in ODIs?

Reminder Shiv fucking Chanderpaul scored a century of 69 balls against Australia

>>74815928
Misbah did better

>>74815936
Misbah wasn't famous for being the brown boycott

>smith is the 5th highest rated batsman of all time

kek

KEK

>>74815944
I was talking about Smith with my old man last night and I'd like to hear /cric/'s thoughts on him.

Obviously he's fucking good, but where does he rank among the greats from Australia?

>>74815948
3rd behind ponting and bradpadder

Personally I think he's better than Border, Miller and Waugh, and if he keeps on going he'll eclipse Ponting

>>74815948
Clarke tier

>>74815955
yeah those were my thoughts

>>74815960
these aren't my thoughts

>>74815948
too early to say in comparison to guys like ponting and greg chappell

if he continues this form he will go past them but it's a very difficult thing to maintain

>>74815948
Top tier batsman. (behind Bradman, obviously)
Shit tier captain.

>>74815948
2nd best after Bradman if he retired with a record that resembles what it does now. Massive if though. Ponting averaged 59-60 after more than 110 tests and finished at 51.

>>74815964
how long do you think his form has to continue for?
keeping in mind he hasn't lost form for quite a few years now

There are people here right now who think averaging 60 for a few years on roads around the world in an era where there's a dozen players at any giving moment averaging at least 50, is more impressive than averaging over 50 in an era where the WI were destroying everyone and you were literally the only non WI player to maintain a 50 average and you did it for 15 years.

And because you're 15 and have no idea who I'm talking about, the Allan Border medal used to be a player

>>74815975
several years at least

ponting averaged 60 after over 100 tests

>>74815977
t. Allan Border

Reminder that if a right handed spinner bowls a standard ball to a right handed batsman and it spins towards the off side, then he is a leg spinner.

If it spins towards the leg side, he is an off spinner.

If you cannot see how this makes sense you are a casual

Reminder that if you're on a boat and the wind is blowing you North, it is a Southerly.

If you cannot see how this makes sense you are knot a sailor

>>74816104
I'm a sailor

Players from Australia's """"""golden era"""""" who wouldn't make a top tier test side today:

- Greg Blewett
- Matthew Elliott
- Mark Waugh for his last 50 tests
- Mark Taylor throughout his entire captaincy
- Andy Bichel
- Michael Kasprowicz

thinking I might just give up this semester lads

>>74816130
Damien MarTYn?
Damien Fleming?
Stuart Lawless?

now I don't consider myself a racist or an islamophobe (one of my favourite cricket teams is pakistan) but I refuse to play as any muslim nation in CK2

>>74816416
Martyn was elite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZBLa7e5_4Y
could have played at first drop in almost any other team

Fleming was alright, just had a bad run with injuries

>>74816416
Fleming could probably make it as a 3rd seamer for most test sides today.

Martyn would make it today, at least for his peak 5 years or so

Law never played a 2nd test

Anyone that voluntarily left a side with guys like Mike Hussey, Darren Lehmann and Brad Hodge waiting in the wing can't be considered trash

Fuck that Australian side was good. If everyone was fit there literally wasn't a weak link in the lineup.

>>74816483
The first part was in reference to Martyn if that wasn't clear

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On the subject of Damien Martyn, let's talk about people who did nothing wrong

>>74816130
what did m waugh average over his last 50? seemed like every time someone would call for him to be dropped he'd make a century, his only real problem was he never converted them to big centuries

he would walk into the australian team right now and I suppose >we would be considered "top tier"

kasper's cutters wouldbe handy in india too

>>74816491
>its ok to break the law, but only when its because of my ideological beliefs

>>74816506
Can't tell you the last 50, but his 21st century average was 38.68 which was more or less after his 100th test

>>74816512
prove her wrong oh wait you can't

>>74816521
37.5 in his last 55 tests

>>74816527
prove me wrong, oh wait you can't

>>74816536
how'd you do that?

couldn't find any useful filters on statsguru

>>74816521
>>74816536
meh still think he plays in this side

this is a selection panel that keeps picking shaun marsh because of how great he looks

>>74816551
miss the last game mate? or the one before that? or the sri lankan series? or the south african one?

ignoring his 2011/12 """performance""" the guy has a good record

>>74816545
i did the sums

>>74816558
elite

>>74805166
This is like a 6/10

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>>74816652
Will Namibia ever be good at cricket?

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>>74816652
Sune is perfection

>>74816557
The one where he failed in one innings and got a good half century in the other, same as the match before it? Yeah.

I don't think Smarsh haters are arguing he's complete shit. The consensus seems to be he's a decent player but nothing exceptional. He'll regularly get you a useful 50, and every now and then shit out a hundred. Sometimes the stats oversimplify things, sometimes they sum up the story pretty much spot on. High 30s is pretty much what I'd expect a player like Smarsh to average

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Cuckbourne on suicide watch

>>74816506
I can remember being a kid in the mid 90s and his average at the time was about 46 (better than Steve's at the same time), and that was about half way through his career.

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>>74816699
>#Godisgood

d r o p p e d

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You are a casual if you cannot identify this cricketer

>>74816729
big boy shaun

NEW DELHI: Former Australia captain Michael Clarke has said that India skipper Virat Kohli should not be "bothered" by a couple of Australian journalists who are trying to "tarnish his image".

Australia's 'Daily Telegraph' in its report had compared Kohli to the US President Donald Trump.

"Just like President Trump, Kohli decided to blame the media as a means of trying to hide the egg smeared right across his face," the report stated to Kohli's allegations about Australian team disrespecting physio Patrick Farhart.

However Clarke firmly supported the feisty Indian captain.
"Comparing Virat Kohli with Donald Trump - what a load of s*** is that. What Virat did, even Smith would have. Bear in mind, I love Kohli and the Australian public love him. I always somehow find an Australian in him the way he plays and I absolutely love how he accepts challenges. It's just two or three reporters who are trying to tarnish him but Virat shouldn't be bothered," Clarke told India Today news channel on Wednesday.

Clarke said even Steve Smith won't be bothered by what Australian media is writing.
"I don't think even Steve Smith would bother about what the Australian media is saying. In fact both the captains would be telling their teams to concentrate on how to win in Dharamsala.

"It is more like the Ashes 2005 we played where every Test was life and death and the players gave it all on the field. But off the field, both teams remained friends. It is only befitting of the way this series has been played that it will be decided in the last Test."

>Stuart Broad, who averages 16 with the bat this decade, and has scored 1 half century since 2011, is in the top 10 ALL ROUNDERS right now
>Jadeja, who takes 2 wickets per test @ more than 40 when he plays outside India, is the NUMBER ONE bowler
>There are people here RIGHT NOW who take these rankings seriously

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remember when he was going to be elite?

could still be good at pyjamas I

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>country kid
>aussie legend

is this false advertisement lads?

>>74816807
Like Shaun, his problem is mostly mental in my learned opinion

He also has shit footwork against spin, but that's tertiary at this point.

>>74816816
Looks the same

>sledge crickets for years when the team was on top
>other team starts sledging
>waaahhhh they're afraid of losing to us

just woke up

>>74816667
population is too low. We have at most like 10,000 cricket players at school level

>>74817030
>t. in the name field

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPMCzuxu7pU&list=PLZqsyBiYZFQ3N-gQJCtlTWlMzqcP6yUrt

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rip injamam ul huq

pls come to /hoc/ and liven up our thread lads we need your help

Lads

Playing the shield final in Alice Springs is absolute bullshit. You should have it somewhere where the teams can play the way that took them to the final in the first place, not some shitty meme wicket

>>74823978
Gucci is shit Tbh

What did you get

>>74810981

From quick memory, at least 3. Moses Henriques, who from all accounts is an absolute shitcunt (mate played 1st Grade with him for a while, had said he's an absolute fuckwit), and Steve Smith, who everyone should know. Also Stuart Clark.

On top of that, have had quite a few internationals play for the local 1st Grade team, either before or after going international. Guys like Glenn McGrath and Phil Jacques.

Also, Ricky Ponting moved here too while he was still playing. Chatted to him a couple of times while playin golf down at the local golf club. Fuck he's a decent golfer too, plays off like a 1 or 2 handicap, and can absolutely bomb a ball off the tee.

>>74824295
I watched an amateur golf tournament with Ponting in it just after he retired and he was excellent. Commentators said he could go pro if he wanted to.

Guess some people are born to play sports

I once met Ponting at the Qantas Club in Melbourne. Got a photo but it looked shit since I was a good foot taller than him.

>>74823978
>Better hide my name
>But uncover the part which makes me sound the whitest

Word is Dharamsala is going to be a seamer's pitch lads

>>74824388
why would I not want to sound white
lad you are confused

>>74824325

Yep, that's how he got into the Club here, usually a 5 year waiting list, but since he hits off a 1 handicap, the club had a clause that allowed him to get straight in.

Me and my old man had him playing a round behind us one day, just a fun muck around, and he was consistently hitting 270-280 metre drives off the tee.

>>74824535
Either you would hide your whole name, or you would not give af and reveal it all. Revealing but a portion implies the rest is Habibi

>>74824942
We already know what he looks like mate
He also contacted danny on facebook

Cartwright will be elite if he gives up on bowling

I don't value the opinion of anyone who reads cricket.com.au

>/afl/ dead
>/wog/ on BSA life support
>/nrl/ on life support
>muscular /cric/ STILL generating interesting topics of conversation, elite memes and muscular insights despite no games being on

>>74824581
what's your handicap mate?

>>74825589
>pretty sure I killed epl

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>>74825714
>wogball

reckon I've got a pretty elite AFL dream team this year lads

non league meme split the whole open quotation marks scene close quotation marks

reckon my life is going to spiral out of control in two weeks

has anyone picked up on my new gimmick?

where did trini bro go i miss him

>>74825866
Nah you'll have to work on it mate

https://www.triplem.com.au/sport/afl/news/virat-kohli-is-a-richmond-supporter-and-hes-averaging-9-this-series

based /mmm/ lads

A bloke in my lecture today had the rhodesian flag on his laptop lads

Is he a secret racist?

>>74826794
Beat South Africa in the U19 world cup

>>74827496
Zimbabwe had an okay side. The West Indies had to meme to beat them.

Dunno if Namibia has gotten worse, I think the associate standard has risen and they're stayed static.

>>74825688

Just a casual player mate. If I did play on the reg, would probably be around 24-25. Usually hit around 95 or so each round.

And that usually includes a couple of wipes every now and then. If I played more often, could definitely get <20 handicap. Usually get a couple of pars and birdies each round, but they're voided by the 7 and 8s I'll score.

Keen as to play more though hey, it's just getting the time away from work and kids to have the time to play.

>>74816431
>>74816467
Langer, Slats, Hayden, Gilchrist, Gillespie were GOAT.

People like Martyn, Hodge, Katich, McGill, Tait

..all MEH

OK Slater was a bit hit and miss but i loved his style.

>>74828778
MacGill was elite
Martyn was elite
Katich was almost elite
Hodge was good

Prove me wrong. All of them were unlucky in the era they were born in barring Katich who was unlucky enough to not get on with Clarke.

They would all walk into any other side back then and probably any side right now.

Reminder true cricket fans will be watching the shield final instead of a shitty international """"test""""

>>74829144
Yeah just make a cricket.com.au link and you can stream all shield games

Meme idea for that glowing brain shit

India vs Australia

New Zealand vs South Africa

Afghanistan vs Ireland

South Australia v Victoria

I think this has potential to gain some major traction on facebook

>>74829376
I'm wasted on this ""community""

Tipping Victoria in a "close one"
Tipping Australia in a "blowout"
Tipping Ireland in a "close one"
Tipping Sri Lanka in a "blowout"

>>74815955
>forgetting Greg Chappell
>thinking Statpadting AKA Ricky Homebabby was better than Best Chappell
Supreme casual detected

>>74815958
Miller was a bowling allrounder you utter casual

Reminder Greg Chappell is a sexual predator
Reminder he has fiddled with the entire Queensland team and continues to fiddle with the younger players

Ponting was a marginally less stupid version of David Warner. He statpadded at home against a bunch of shit teams and ruthlessly exposed in India time and again.

>>74830233
Because he didn't give enough of a fuck about batting. If Australia were winning he would literally get himself out.

In terms of raw talent most players at the time said he was second only to Bradman

>>74830243
>>74830233
t. Reality Check

>>74816506
Ponting averaged like 35 in his last 68 Tests

On his 100th Test match when he got the dual centuries his average was above 50.

>>74830253
>>74816506
above 60 i mean, obviously

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>>74816816

>>74816862
Uh no, unlike Shaun, Mitch's problems are mostly technical

He is literally only slightly less limited as a batsman than Mitchell Johnson. He has no wrists. He cannot work a single. He has made no improvement in these areas at all since he debuted.

>>74830262
Never got to progress too far from this Tbh

>>74830245
Who cares. Greatness is measured by outcomes, not by intangibles like natural talent.

Miller was the GOAT allrounder, a great bowler and a good batsman.

>Slater and Gordon shareholders are losing hope of recovering money from their investments in the struggling law firm, with many small investors facing losses in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

>Kim and Nick, who do not want their full names to be used, have lost a total of almost $500,000 investing in Slater and Gordon.

>Kim alone lost around $450,000.

>"I made the mistake of putting all my money into that share - so I've learnt a few lessons along the way," Kim said.

How fucking stupid could someone be to put all their capitol in one stock
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-23/slater-and-gordon-investors-lose-hope-of-recovering-money/8379948

>>74827576
Na, we got worse. Less interest in cricket than 10 years back and more of an interest in individual sports like running or karate

>>74830398
That's shit then, always a shame to see cricket die off in a region. Happens a bit too much these days, especially in Africa

>>74830346
Slater and Gordon deserve everything they got

>>74830460
>cricket will die off in Zimbabwe in our lifetime

Mixed feelings about that one

>>74830460
Its because politics interferes and its too white

>>74830568
care to elaborate on that? Genuinely curious since I know absolutely nothing about Namibian cricket

Baseball is 100 percent superior to Crickshit

>>74830664
muscular truth missiles

don't think I'll ever post here again lads

Oye whats the good word mates?

Vegemite sandwichs are fucking awful

>>74830717
it's meant to go on toast

>>74830679
You better see that you do, cunt

>>74830662
its basically the same as South Africa where there needs to be X amount of blacks and atleast 8/10 youth players must be from poor black communities etc

/rug/ rules /cric/ drools

>>74831802
trip on proxy off

>>74831933
trip on proxy off

*farts*

>Pissrat might miss the final test

KEK, you CANNOT make this shit up

Marmite > Vegishite
Nesquik > Milo
Chavs > Wogs
Thames > Yarra
Swing > Spin


May < Gillard
Cameron <<<<< Big Tone

>>74833504
>May < Gillard
that makes me feel bad for you guys, may must be awful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyXt5dPEfeQ

>>74834003
literally u wot m8 the band

fucking love them Tbh, can't make out a word he says but it's funny regardless

good morning /cric/ pls come to /hoc/

no one here knows who invented reverse bat besides me

>>74835772
>>74831802
>>74830664
irrelevant sports

>3 days old thread
>15 posters
>not even close to the bump limit

Nice community you guys got here

>>74838163
>>74838163
>>74838163
wow you guys gonna let hoc get away with this?

>>74815646
Virat gives Aussies a taste of their own medicine, and they can't handle it.

>>74838282
/cric/ is literally dead when it isn't England vs Australia or an Australian home series.

Or if Straffo uploads some new shit to his twitter.

It's pretty sad desu

>>74839371
>>74838282
/afl/ and /nrl/ were both on last night for the first time this year with no Australian match for /cric/. Not surprising.

Just placed all my bets on the match. I am a big shot doing 50c-$2 on a few outcomes just for fun. Anyone want to see my predictions?

>>74805166
why are cricket girls so qt? also how different is womens/mens cricket? anything like baseball/softball?

Reminder there are ZERO circumstances in which Smith will declare during this test

>>74841165
The game is the indentical in M/W, but for boundaries which are smaller in W.

Just woke up

>>74840473
no

>>74844553
OK no problem friend.

dead poomunity

>>74840473
yeah let's see them

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>>74844948
mostly go off recent form and statsguru

>>74845139
>Handsomb century
wew

>>74845139
Cummins is paying essentially 10 to 1 for most wickets?

>>74845209
He's gotta have a bit of confidence back from the last innings, it's unlikely but it's a good wildcard imo.

>>74845335
Lyon and O'Keeffe seem stacked right now from the first two games, pushing cummins out to higher odds. Seems decent enough on form and rumours it'll be a seamers pitch.

>>74830268
>Uh

Why don't I like girls lads

>>74846518
Based statsmessiah

>>74845139
Jesus you get some good returns on Smith there

How do I land an elite legspinfu like Sune lads

>>74846603
we're talking literally hundreds of cents.

I reckon Australia could win this lads

>>74846802
All relative mate not everyone wastes their money on memes like gambling

>>74846832
fair. I like to think of it purchasing futures in cricket indices.

>South Africa will have no white people in your lifetime
http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/bury-them-alive-white-south-africans-fear-for-their-future-as-horrific-farm-attacks-escalate/news-story/3a63389a1b0066b6b0b77522c06d6476

Feels good tbqh. Let that country rot

Was muh stolen generation the worst thing that Australia did?
That's not necessarily a bad thing if the abo parents were neglecting their kids.

>>74848099
It wasn't motivated by any malice, but it has had horrible repercussions.

The Tasmanian aboriginals getting wiped out was probably worse, although that was partially in defence.

Compared to other countries, Australia hasn't been that bad. Most of the shit that was done was out of a genuine belief that it was the right thing to do.

Ireland lads

Can one of the indians tell me about Shreyas Iyer?

Afghanistan VS Ireland 5th ODI is being streamed on youtube
no english though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olPpW96H6UI

>>74848562
he's a gun m8

will play 100 tests for india

>>74848787
I specifically asked for a reply from an Indian lad

>>74848813
>there aren't any indians in australia

>>74848836
Not on /cric/

Did the rabbit proof fence stop there from being another emu war?

Based Ireland lads

Ed Joyce lads

>>74848787
Yeah he's on my radar

>>74849300
Lads

Stirling lads

>>74849439
Lads

>New Zealand (probable) 1 Tom Latham, 2 Jeet Raval, 3 Kane Williamson (capt), 4 Neil Broom, 5 Henry Nicholls, 6 BJ Watling (wk), 7 James Neesham/Colin de Grandhomme/Scott Kuggeleijn, 8 Mitchell Santner, 9 Jeetan Patel, 10 Matt Henry 11 Neil Wagner
fuck that's an awful team

>>74849753
Reckon the West Indies could win that

Tipping 250 from Ireland and victory in a "close one"

>>74849905
Thanks mate think I might write him a letter. He would like that old straff.

Hey dudes America here just checking to see what's going on in this thread. Oh, a bunch of made up words? OK, great. Carry on!

*farts*

Has straffo shared his thoughts on the DRs controversy? I need to know what to think about it

Hi @PaulineHansonOz, you’re now directly channeling Hitler. When will you open your first concentration camp? #evilbitch

>>74850170
truthies

"We're so proud to represent LGBTQ voices on YouTube...that's why we're labeling all their videos Restricted Content"

>>74850170
Really tired of this comparison to hitler meme

How long till straffo'a top tweet truthy gains some traction lads?

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Does Mohammad Shahzad make your fat cabbie XI?

>>74848562
He won the Ranji trophy for Mumbai and Delhi Daredevils pay him $400000 in IPL. Must be good I guess.

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The new West Australian Government has been handed a major budget blow, with the state set to be hundreds of millions of dollars worse off due to a lower than expected GST allocation.

Treasurer Ben Wyatt admitted it would be virtually impossible to meet Labor's pre-election commitment of bringing the state budget back to surplus by 2019-20, following the revised figures from the Commonwealth Grants Commission.

WA had been expecting to get 38 cents out of every GST dollar raised in the state in 2017-18, but that has now been revised down to 34 cents.

While the 34 cent figure is an improvement on the 30 cents WA receives for 2016-17, it is still a substantial write down on Treasury's expectations.

That will leave the already cash-strapped government $241 million worse off in 2017-18 and cost the state $738 million in revenue over the next four years.

WA's position 'beyond a joke'

WA Treasury had been expecting the state budget to be $1.5 billion in the red next year, but the decision means that deficit is now likely to be even higher.

Mr Wyatt described the situation as "beyond a joke", saying the Prime Minister had shown an "abrogation of leadership" on the issue.

"This makes it very difficult to return to surplus in [2019-20] and it does create more urgency in finding recurrent savings in WA," Mr Wyatt said.

"I am horrified and furious that the Grants Commission could still think that Western Australia, in the fourth year of what is effectively a domestic recession ... has the strongest fiscal capacity of all the states.
Mr Wyatt said he had already requested a top-up payment from the Commonwealth of $226 million to make up for the low GST share.

Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison said he would consider WA's request for additional funds, but downplayed the prospect of GST distribution reform being on the horizon.

"I'm yet to see any commonality on that point across the states and territories and that is always going to be an issue," Mr Morrison.

>mfw

>India captain Virat Kohli has said he will play the fourth and deciding Test against Australia in Dharamsala only if 100% fit. Kohli, who suffered a shoulder injury during the third Test in Ranchi, said he would undergo another fitness test and take a call either on Friday night or on Saturday morning, the first day of the Test.

>On Thursday, India had called up Mumbai batsman Shreyas Iyer to the squad as cover for Kohli. Iyer arrived at the ground on Friday morning, during India's warm-ups, and batted in the nets too. Kohli - as on Thursday - did not bat in the nets, restricting himself to facing a few throwdowns.

Lmao

>>74850897
at least they're not pretending that it's anyone other than kohli's decision

there's no chance he misses

>>74850994
Dunno, India need him for the Champion's Trophy in a few months

>>74851087
>Champion's Trophy
meme tournament

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u r a fagit

>>74851228
curries take whatever silverware they can get

>>74851953
tibetan monks at the game is easily the best part of games at dharamsala

>>74851953

where to cop those sunnies? Spergwave will be making waves this winter.

>>74852030
is anyone wearing sunnies in that picture?

>>74852043

hanging off Stove's collar