Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

[vcs]

Meh. Still not a patch on Rising Pune Supergiants, who in their second season, took the extremely critical and considered decision of removing the last 's' from their name to become Rising Pune Supergiant,

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

The Dhaka Premier League team Gazi Tank has been renamed to Legends of Rupganj

say what you like about Bangladeshi cricket (which people do here on a very regular basis), they know how to make badass club names

Gazi Tank was a good name.

Some team in Pakistan is called 'Pipeline'

 

[trundler]

That's Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited to you.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Oh, I just remembered when I was watching one of the BPL games in the past season, there was a commercial on a range of Gazi products. Stoves, tyres, waterpumps, etc.

They pronounced Gazi as 'Gajjie'

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

That's Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited to you.

Even ****ing better!

 

[Magrat Garlick]

That's Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited to you.

famously playing the infrastructure derby against Water and Power Development Authority

 

[trundler]

Well, the good thing of having a top cricket captain as your PM is that he's determined to make the domestic structure less of an atrocity. Imran thinks there should only be teams representing the provinces.

 

[Daemon]

How did corporate teams end up becoming so big. Would make for an interesting article.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

I like the old homegrown players that plays for the local teams...and not get 'traded'

But it's an unpopular opinion since one team would be dominating the comps.

But they did make it into a franchise four-day competition in the Caribbean a few years ago...and guess what?

Guyana Jaguars have won the title five years in a row.

 

[_Ed_]

This is outstanding.

https://twitter.com/TheCricketerMag/status/1119512318017200128

 

[srbhkshk]

famously playing the infrastructure derby against Water and Power Development Authority

Could make a killer tri-series between them and Railways from Ranji.

 

[Starfighter]

I could've sworn that the QeA trophy already had a railways team. Apparently not.

Noting that Aizaz Cheema has lead the wickets in the last two seasons. Been a while since he had an international career.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

I could've sworn that the QeA trophy already had a railways team. Apparently not.

Noting that Aizaz Cheema has lead the wickets in the last two seasons. Been a while since he had an international career.

Pakistan Railways (usually known simply as Railways) were a Pakistani first-class cricket side who played in the Patron's Trophy and Quaid-i-Azam Trophy from 1953-54 to 1995-96.

presumably by that time the railways were so unpopular that even sponsoring cricket couldn't save them

 

[andmark]

Village cricket is becoming my favourite form of watching cricket. The freedom to roam is part of it. If you want to sit by the sightscreens for that perfect view, you can. If you want to sit under some trees for shade, you can. And then there's the actual cricket. Watching people who aren't professionals with perfectly chiselled actions means you get to learn a lot about good technique, and you appreciate good players even more. Lastly you get to meet some of the people who allow cricket to keep on ticking. There's one fella the father and I know that without people like him, the game would grind to a halt. It's seriously underrated.

 

[Starfighter]

If you want to sit by the sightscreens for that perfect view, you can.

Not in my experience. No one has objection to waving trees on a windy day or the light at 7 pm as a background, but a human? Panic stations.

 

[mr_mister]

3 famous English underachievers got their highest test scores in the same 3 test series between India-England in 1993

Graeme Hick, 178
Chris Lewis, 117
and Neil Fairbrother, 83

Talk about a false dawn. It was mostly a pretty rapid descent for them in tests afterwards.

Funnily enough another what if case, Vinod Kambli got 224 in the final test of this series before making 227 in his next test innings a month later.

 

[trundler]

Village cricket is becoming my favourite form of watching cricket. The freedom to roam is part of it. If you want to sit by the sightscreens for that perfect view, you can. If you want to sit under some trees for shade, you can. And then there's the actual cricket. Watching people who aren't professionals with perfectly chiselled actions means you get to learn a lot about good technique, and you appreciate good players even more. Lastly you get to meet some of the people who allow cricket to keep on ticking. There's one fella the father and I know that without people like him, the game would grind to a halt. It's seriously underrated.

This is what I find most enchanting about old footage. The freedom to move about. You see people picnicking, throwing the ball back after 4s and generally having a more free experience. Glad that village cricket has retained that carefree aspect.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

I demand (request) that vraces be done on bowlers taking wickets.

Tired of the run gluttony.

 

[Burgey]

Terrible piece by Kimber, denigrating the very nation and game which gives him a comfortable living. **** bloke.

The ugly Australian: the evolution of a cricket species | The Cricket Monthly | ESPN Cricinfo

 

[Starfighter]

If Australian cricket culture is worse than say, South Africa's when it comes to gamesmanship and arsery then it passed me by. And we already knew that Lehmann was a racist ****.