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Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread
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God I enjoyed that video and read @Burgey
You're right about the Viv alpha thing, I've never seen a bloke walk onto a sporting field and loom as large as Viv did just by his posture, demeanour and pure presence. My fave cricketer in my lifetime by a long mile.
I'd actually never heard of Spencer either, and it's a hell of a thing for Viv to say that he was the quickest. Viv spent the late 70s, 80s and early 90s facing Marshall, Holding, Roberts, Garner, Croft and Ambrose in the nets, and he faced Lillee and Thommo on the field.
You can sort of see Viv thinking "**** man, I might be past this", but he's never gonna let some kid know on field. And that cross bat against serious pace where he just wants to dominate. Man. And Viv, no helmet, ever.
Imagine if Spencer had've developed further, kept fit and stayed on the park. Spencer and McGrath would've been a nightmare pairing.
You're right about the Viv alpha thing, I've never seen a bloke walk onto a sporting field and loom as large as Viv did just by his posture, demeanour and pure presence. My fave cricketer in my lifetime by a long mile.
I'd actually never heard of Spencer either, and it's a hell of a thing for Viv to say that he was the quickest. Viv spent the late 70s, 80s and early 90s facing Marshall, Holding, Roberts, Garner, Croft and Ambrose in the nets, and he faced Lillee and Thommo on the field.
You can sort of see Viv thinking "**** man, I might be past this", but he's never gonna let some kid know on field. And that cross bat against serious pace where he just wants to dominate. Man. And Viv, no helmet, ever.
Imagine if Spencer had've developed further, kept fit and stayed on the park. Spencer and McGrath would've been a nightmare pairing.
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The Cranberries being the soundtrack for this is so bizarre
stephen
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Really interesting read, thanks Burgey.
Geez he looked quick in that video. I swear the keeper looked like he wasn't ready for the ball when it reached him.
In today's game he would have been workload managed from juniors and in theory may have actually ended up with a serious test career, or at least T20 career. One of the big what ifs.
Geez he looked quick in that video. I swear the keeper looked like he wasn't ready for the ball when it reached him.
In today's game he would have been workload managed from juniors and in theory may have actually ended up with a serious test career, or at least T20 career. One of the big what ifs.
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Interesting to read that after his career finished they prescribed him nandrolone and it fixed a lot of issues with his back.
There was an athlete a few years ago who had a testosterone(?) deficiency and got an exemption to have it prescribed to a level which boosted his level to the not al range. I can’t recall the sport, but Spencer’s case makes me wonder if he’d been prescribed the steroid for purely medical reasons while he was still playing and been open about it, would he have been able to play without serving a ban?
There was an athlete a few years ago who had a testosterone(?) deficiency and got an exemption to have it prescribed to a level which boosted his level to the not al range. I can’t recall the sport, but Spencer’s case makes me wonder if he’d been prescribed the steroid for purely medical reasons while he was still playing and been open about it, would he have been able to play without serving a ban?
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I played against Cracker in high school. He was already playing first grade. Safe to say I wasn’t.
I opened the batting. We played on synthetic decks. It was the mid-80s & no one wore lids because if you did you got laughed at by your mates. He was very, very fast. It wasn’t much fun.
At all. Was better when he was on your team.
PS: he was called cracker because he did penis tricks, not because of his pace. As in crack a fat.
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Chubb
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Dean du Plessis, the blind cricket commentator, has a podcast where he interviews current and former Zimbabwe players. If you can work through the somewhat stilted Zimbo style there are some interesting nuggets and insights. The most recent episode where he interviews Vusi Sibanda and learns about some of the discrimination he suffered is particularly good. I used to make fun of Vusi but grew to appreciate his talent and it’s good to see he has a job in cricket in Canberra.
honestbharani
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Definite someone from Fox reading CW, right?
Cricket Australia news: Duncan Spencer, Ricky Ponting, Viv Richards, Brett Lee, the fastest bowler you’ve never heard of
Thirty-six wickets in 16 first-class matches across 13 years.
www.foxsports.com.au
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Nah, that's the article Burgey initially postedDefinite someone from Fox reading CW, right?
Cricket Australia news: Duncan Spencer, Ricky Ponting, Viv Richards, Brett Lee, the fastest bowler you’ve never heard of
Thirty-six wickets in 16 first-class matches across 13 years.www.foxsports.com.au
honestbharani
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? to myself
stephen
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Makes the deal even more of a joke. Ten would have been way better for everyone other than the greedy arseholes on the CA board.
Starfighter
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Good chance of it being entirely on Fox imo.
stephen
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That would be a (not unwarranted) disaster. One of the other two will pick it up for peanuts though surely. CA would not risk killing the golden goose like that. No FTA = dead sport. 5 tests per season, mostly before the new year, 3 before the holidays won't be enough to sustain the national sport long term. Interest will die and the sport will die with it.
honestbharani
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TIL that IPL already had a boundary countback farce 5 years before the 2019 WC final..
1 Instance of teams tying for runs in a Super Over. In the Royals versus KKR game in 2014, both teams scored 11, however, Royals won the game as they had hit more boundaries.
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1 Instance of teams tying for runs in a Super Over. In the Royals versus KKR game in 2014, both teams scored 11, however, Royals won the game as they had hit more boundaries.
Who is the only bowler to bowl two Super Overs in the IPL and win both games?
And what's the fewest runs conceded in an IPL Super Over?
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Azeem Rafiq was 'on brink of suicide' after experiencing racism at Yorkshire
Ex-player says he 'lost faith in humanity' after claiming racist behaviour was ignored by club
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ImpatientLime
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do keepers make good slip fielders?
Starfighter
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They already put the limited overs and part of the Big Bash on pay tv because they could pay themselves bonuses for a sghly bigger deal. Do you think they care? The idea of long-term thinking is absolutely dead in today's world.