Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

[ankitj]

Super pleased to see that CW doesn't have an official IPL sticky thread. This thread will be appropriate for IPL discussion. ESPNCricinfo on the other hand is littered with previews of IPL teams. I suspect half the ESPNCrincinfo employees hate to write those articles but have to because it's job.

 

[ankitj]

Super pleased to see that CW doesn't have an official IPL sticky thread. This thread will be appropriate for IPL discussion. ESPNCricinfo on the other hand is littered with previews of IPL teams. I suspect half the ESPNCrincinfo employees hate to write those articles but have to because it's job.

On second thoughts, IPL is not cricket related stuff.

 

[Daemon]

If the IPL were much shorter and less gaudy it'd be awesome imo.

 

[ankitj]

If the IPL were much shorter and less gaudy it'd be awesome imo.

Yes. 2 weeks max. That's how long a world t20 lasts.

 

[vcs]

4-6 weeks of not having to watch cricket, yay. **** the IPL.

 

[andmark]

I've just been playing some ancient version of an A Question of Sport board game. My eternal respect to anyone who would've gotten this question right: "Who played at Wembley in the 1987 [FA] Cup Final (football) and at Old Trafford the following week in the Texaco Cricket international?"

 

[AndrewB]

Since there wasn't an ODI at Old Trafford in 1987 I'm wondering if this is a trick question...

 

[andmark]

The question says there was a cricket match there.

 

[marc71178]

I've just been playing some ancient version of an A Question of Sport board game. My eternal respect to anyone who would've gotten this question right: "Who played at Wembley in the 1987 [FA] Cup Final (football) and at Old Trafford the following week in the Texaco Cricket international?"

I know big Oggy was a cricketer...

 

[andmark]

I know big Oggy was a cricketer...

No cigar.

 

[Howe_zat]

There was a test match there, google reveals, but it was a month later than the FA cup final.

The first ODI, which was the week after the cup final, was at the Oval.

 

[andmark]

Whatever the actual events, the answer the question gave was the Band of the Coldstream Guards.

 

[AndrewB]

I wondered if it might be pre-match entertainment, but with there being no ODI at Old Trafford that year I also wondered if it might be something like the Women's FA Cup, or U-21 or something.

Plus the only reference to music on the Wiki page for the 1987 FA Cup final was a reference to Chas and Dave releasing a single

 

[andmark]

I'm confused about it now as well. Ah well, I blame the BBC

 

[ankitj]

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1459765767487518

 

[Bolo]

Rules question from an ipl game. The bowler bowled a ball about half a meter outside the guide lines. Batsman played a cut? and was given out caught behind on a bottom edge. He reviewed. Decision overturned. The commentators were querying why this was not a wide.

Can this be called a wide and should it be?

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Rules question from an ipl game. The bowler bowled a ball about half a meter outside the guide lines. Batsman played a cut? and was given out caught behind on a bottom edge. He reviewed. Decision overturned. The commentators were querying why this was not a wide.

Can this be called a wide and should it be?

It's off-side, and it seemed like he was able to get to the ball to attempt the cut, so no wide.

 

[Bolo]

It's off-side, and it seemed like he was able to get to the ball to attempt the cut, so no wide.

Yes, he got to the ball. But with a full arm and bat extension and walking across (I assume he was walking before the delivery, but I'm not sure). I'm not sure how much of ability to reach the ball is a defining characteristic in calling a wide though? Example a batsman has time to walk across and hit a wide from a spinner, but if its outside the guidelines it will still be called wide.

Also, is it even legal to call an overturned catch a wide?

 

[harsh.ag]

Yeah, it's basically the whole process lacking in completeness. Third umpire should be able to call it wide too (or provide an option to the on-field umpire to call it a wide if he wishes to).

 

[Bijed]

Also, is it even legal to call an overturned catch a wide?

Unless my memory is playing tricks on me, this happened off a (leg-side) wide in one of the matches I saw in the West Indies. I'll see if I can dig it up

Edit: Got it

Bishoo to Stokes, 1 wide, flighted, spinning down the leg side as Stokes flicks at it... Hope goes up for the catch, and up goes Oxenford's finger, too! There's an immediate signal for a review, though, and although there was a sound, there was also clear daylight between bat and ball. So the decision is overturned and it's called wide, too