Player to bat for your life?

[OverratedSanity]

Lol'd at "immature emotions". Come on, Hurricane, that post has to be a joke.

 

[Hurricane]

I think my example of a batsman who didn't premeditate enough was James Neesham. I remember him getting out to a leg side strangle on a hat trick delivery. Why didn't he premeditate defence? He was facing a hattrick delivery for crying out loud in an ODI, I would have blocked it even if it had've been a full toss. But he fiddled with a poor delivery down the leg side and tried to score off it and got out. He thought I will play the ball on its merits when he walked out to bat and as a result he got out for a golden and gave the opposition a hat trick. That would not have happened to Rahul. I can guarantee without looking up his record that he never became someone's hat trick scalp.

 

[honestbharani]

Yeah but again you are being unfair if you think he will think of the hattrick over the need to score in an ODI. That is my point.

 

[Hurricane]

Yeah but again you are being unfair if you think he will think of the hattrick over the need to score in an ODI. That is my point.

Elaborate on your point.

What I am saying is that everyone should block a hat trick ball even in a pressure cooked ODI where every ball counts.

 

[smash84]

As far as I am aware, this was not said by Viv Richards.

Sunil Gavaskar's wife was asked who her favourite batsman was. She said Viv was her favourite batsman, but she'd have Miandad to bat for her life because Miandad 'plays with his heart'.

I could be wrong but i remember reading it somewhere and again in this article when i googled it

Javed Miandad: Whenever he played, ?it was war? - Sport - DAWN.COM

Viv Richards reportedly once said: “If I have to choose a batsman to bat for my life, it would be Miandad.”

 

[Daemon]

Brian Lara reportedly once said "Daemon is the best poster on CW"

 

[TestMatch]

If you want someone cautious who will play very few shots but will absolutely not give his wicket: Chanderpaul

If you want someone who takes the fight back to the enemy whilst having the potential to stay alive for a long time: Lara

If you want a batsman who symbolically represents your ideologically stance toward the injustices of global capitalism: Adam "Karl Marx" Gilchrist

 

[DriveClub]

Jesus.....what are you 8??

He can attack me, I cant attack him?

 

[mr_mister]

Elaborate on your point.

What I am saying is that everyone should block a hat trick ball even in a pressure cooked ODI where every ball counts.

I don't understand this logic. What happens if you need say, 10 runs off 4 balls to win the game? Block the hat-trick ball? I gave you a tough example to make my point

 

[smash84]

Brian Lara reportedly once said "Daemon is the best poster on CW"

and then you woke up.

But yeah i cbf looking up a more reliable narration.

 

[Hurricane]

I don't understand this logic. What happens if you need say, 10 runs off 4 balls to win the game? Block the hat-trick ball? I gave you a tough example to make my point

And this gives me a chance to use a fantastic quote I heard in Bible study a month ago. "If you take any concept and push it to its extreme limits it will break. Every concept is subject to reasonableness limits".

So 95 times out a hundred in a pressure cooked ODI you premeditate defence. Yes there willl be exceptions but even in those exceptions you will actively decide your approach to the delivery before you face up.

 

[DriveClub]

In retrospect I apologise to Hurricane but he still provoked me

 

[honestbharani]

And this gives me a chance to use a fantastic quote I heard in Bible study a month ago. "If you take any concept and push it to its extreme limits it will break. Every concept is subject to reasonableness limits".

So 95 times out a hundred in a pressure cooked ODI you premeditate defence. Yes there willl be exceptions but even in those exceptions you will actively decide your approach to the delivery before you face up.

I think whether to block the hattrick ball or not really depends on the situation and my point is that Dravid will decide based on that situation, like any other good batsman to have played this game.

 

[watson]

None of that makes any sense

Was crystal clear I thought.

 

[Hurricane]

In retrospect I apologise to Hurricane but he still provoked me

Let's move on mate. No hard feelings?
*Shakes hand*

 

[Hurricane]

like any other good batsman to have played this game.

His propensity to erring towards premeditating defence exceeds other batsman. More so than anyone else I recall seeing even TMac even though TMac was a slower batsman. TMac just had fewer shots in his cupboard.

 

[Jono]

Kohli because he loves me and he'd never let me die.

 

[DriveClub]

Let's move on mate. No hard feelings?
*Shakes hand*

*Shakes hand*

 

[Hurricane]

Was crystal clear I thought.

I certainly thought so. Deliberately provocative. But it was lucid enough.

 

[Howe_zat]

lucid enough.

usually what I aim for.