I am a CW moron !!

[SJS]

Come on Richard. Take everything in the merry making spirit of this thread

 

[Richard]

 

[SJS]

Thats better, you CW moron

 

[Richard]

 

[SJS]

Have another beer

 

[SJS]

 

[Richard]

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Let's pick a World XI.

 

[SJS]

Let's pick a World XI.

Lets decide who was better Kumble or Barnes.

I vote for Kumble because :-

1. He played when cricket is more professional
2. He played more tests
3. He took more wickets
4. South Africa are stronger in his time (as were West Indies, Pakistan, New Zealand, SriLanka, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh)
5. The wickets are easier
6. The batsmen are better
7. He bowls the googly and
8. He is faster than Barnes

AND

he scored a century in a Test match !!

 

[silentstriker]

TBH, given HawkEye is nothing more than a predictor, we can never know whether anything it predicts is right or wrong.

Well we can test it. Bowl ten thousand balls, and feed the trajectory right where the batsman would be and see how closely the actual and predicted paths matched. That's how they did it when designing.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Spinners are useless and only ever take wickets because they bowl a lot of balls.

 

[Richard]

Well we can test it. Bowl ten thousand balls, and feed the trajectory right where the batsman would be and see how closely the actual and predicted paths matched. That's how they did it when designing.

Even so, all we know is a probability.

HawkEye is totally different to Snickometer, RedZone, etc. which simply shows facts in a different way or reveals facts that can otherwise be missed.

There's no reason to suspect the probability prediction is not extremely accurate (though I find it silly when values are given to 3 SF as it can't possibly be that closely known) but that remains all it is.

 

[funnygirl]

Let's pick a World XI.

yes

Mathew Hayden
Justin Langer
Mark Waugh
Mike Hussey
Allan Border
Steve Waugh
A Gilchrist
D Lillee
Jeff Thompson
Shane warne
Glenn Mcgrath

....................bond707

 

[funnygirl]

Reverse Swing ;1) A cheating done by the Pakistani bowlers .



2) An art invented by the English .

 

[GIMH]

Yeah, noone has ever suggested that the English cheated to achieve reverse swing, good point

 

[SJS]

Its illogical to just look at Warne's record in India without going into the whole picture.

So what if his ten wickets on his first tour cost him 54 each at 100.2 per wicket.

So what again if on his second tour his ten wickets cost him 50.50 each at 91.3 balls each

(Notice the improvement !!)

His 14 wickets on his 3rd tour cost him just over 30 each at 60 balls each.

If he had not retired and gone on two more tours, he would have surely had a series with wickets under 25 each and strike rate in the 40's

By the way, dont talk to me about Lillee's bowling, just look at what happened to him in Pakistan. Hah !

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Pick your greatest ever fast bowler

SF Barnes

Was Barnes a fast bowler?

...

 

[morgieb]

Just saw this. Great thread.

Anyway....

I think Michael Atherton is a better batsman than Matthew Hayden....
...because Hayden failed when Atherton played and I refuse to believe that players get better over time.

I automatically think Andrew Symonds is a **** batsman...
...because he gave away a couple of chances in his big innings.

I think that Stuart Broad looks like a girl...
...because any people with long blond hair is obviously a girl.

More to come .

 

[morgieb]

Oh, and...

The umpires only helped Australia in 'monkeygate'....
....because any anti-Tendulkar comments is forbidden.

Sachin Tendulkar must be the best batsman ever...
...because 1 billion people say so.

 

[G.I.Joe]

Its 1.2 billion. Get your stats right ffs.