Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

[mr_mister]

Cmon guys insale whatever the hell that means

I'd be annoyed too if I got dropped after 246 even if it took 600 balls

 

[Lillian Thomson]

If any opener other than Cook could bat that long today they'd get a 10 year contract.

 

[cnerd123]

Entire batting lineups struggle to last 600 balls these days

 

[Bijed]

From Wikipedia:

"Also during Insole's time Geoffrey Boycott was dropped, in 1967 after having scored 246 not out. Boycott admitted to still feeling aggrieved about this over 40 years later, while commenting on the third Test between New Zealand and England at Napier on 24 March 2008 and again during the Test Match Special commentary of England against the West Indies at Edgbaston on 7 June 2012, where he said that Insole "should have spelt his name with an A!"

Ansole? Ainsole? Insola?

Ansole sounds like asshole, maybe?

 

[TheJediBrah]

Ansole sounds like asshole, maybe?

Oh Bijed

 

[Red]

Why is it impossible to watch full coverage of old matches anywhere? I understand the footage is copyrighted by the broadcasters but it's not like they are showing old matches anyway so what do they have to gain by blocking people from uploading/downloading full coverage of old games?

For example if someone really wants to watch a whole ODI from 10 or 20 years ago they basically can't. The footage is just gone.

What is the deal with that?

AFL have had "name a game" for a while now where you can buy individual AFL games on DVD.

I would definitely buy box sets of some ODI/test series if they were available. Love chilling out watching old cricket on the Cricket in the 50s/60s/70s DVDs. Plenty of series thru the 80s/90s/00s that I'd buy.

Guessing it's somewhat difficult because cricket games are so long, and they have to fit on DVD.

 

[Daemon]

Sorry

 

[Victor Ian]

How come drs says 'wickets'. shouldn't that be 'wicket'?

 

[TheJediBrah]

How come drs says 'wickets'. shouldn't that be 'wicket'?

People use the term "wickets" and "wicket" interchangeably

eg. "It's hitting the wickets" is acceptable

 

[Spikey]

https://www.foxsports.com.au/?nk=f44b750da9546084f4d317f2d2fd4940-1502271960

I'm thinking of a creating thread regrading all the times Zing bails haven't come off. Anyone got some submissions?

 

[Daemon]

Best one yet

 

[ankitj]

The great Indian beard quiz - ESPN Cricinfo

 

[vcs]

9/11 - Are you the Indian team's Unofficial Beard Trimmer?

A little embarrassed by that result TBH

 

[honestbharani]

From all your Hardik jokes, you should be glad they didn't suggest something else and left it at Beard Trimmer.

 

[Bijed]

Don't recall this happening on the old cricinfo, but it looks like the code that makes certain words bold, like FOUR, in the commentary, also grabs part of players' names



Lets see how many different examples of this we can find

 

[OverratedSanity]

Don't recall this happening on the old cricinfo, but it looks like the code that makes certain words bold, like FOUR, in the commentary, also grabs part of players' names

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Lets see how many different examples of this we can find

That is so stupid

 

[G.I.Joe]

Don't recall this happening on the old cricinfo, but it looks like the code that makes certain words bold, like FOUR, in the commentary, also grabs part of players' names

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Lets see how many different examples of this we can find

It's grabbing the 'out' in Southee. I think it's poor coding running a basic Ctrl-F to highlight instances of all pre-defined trigger events when any one of the trigger events occurs.

 

[honestbharani]

If they are doing that, it should highlight or bold those words when they occur elsewhere on the commentary too, right?

 

[Bijed]

It's grabbing the 'out' in Southee. I think it's poor coding running a basic Ctrl-F to highlight instances of all pre-defined trigger events when any one of the trigger events occurs.

Yeah, that's what I surmised was going on. Doesn't seem to affect actual typed commentary, see ball 3.4 below



where the bolding of each occurrence of the word 'four' is correct (unless it automatically picked up both and they corrected it manually).

I guess after every ball, the commentator clicks a button with the outcome of the delivery and the software generates "<bowler> to <batsmen>, <outcome>," and then runs the search to bold things as appropriate, then they type the rest and manually put things in bold as the see fit. But is there any reason why they couldn't just make FOUR or OUT or whatever be in bold by default and not need to search for keywords?

 

[honestbharani]

See, even in that bit, out is not bolded in the word outside.