Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

[trundler]

What's going on with english cricketer knighthoods?

There were only 10 knighthoods in the entire 20th century and then Sir Ian Botham in 2007, which was equally for his significant charity work as for his cricket exploits.

Now the floodgates have opened with Cook, Boycott and Strauss, while James Anderson was to be knighted this year except they were too worried Aussies would sledge him while he still played lol

Does that mean Sir Stuart Broad is next, or will it be Sir Ben Stokes?

England have a culture of rewarding mediocrity. It's why they haven't had an ATG cricketer in 40+ years now.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Sir Ricky Gervais

(srs about this one, get it done Queen)

 

[Nintendo]

Sir moeen ali

 

[aussie tragic]

Sir Paul Collingwood

Collingwood already got an MBE for doing nothing in one 2005 ashes test, surely that's enough praise from the Queen

 

[Tom Flint]

Collingwood already got an MBE for doing nothing in one 2005 ashes test, surely that's enough praise from the Queen

Thanks for letting me know??

 

[TheJediBrah]

They should give an MBE to whoever came up with the murray mints plan. Most extensive and successful ball tampering (and cheating in general) regime in the history of cricket and got away with it completely.

 

[Line and Length]

Which cricketers from countries no longer awarding knighthoods would have been given the honour? From Australia Dennis Lillee, Glenn McGrath, Ricky Ponting and Alan Border would be contenders. I'm not sure about Shane Warne.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Warne would have been knighted by England if he had a bit more British DNA in him, rather than reality where he's left plenty of his DNA in Britain (if stories are to be believed he pulled like crazy)

 

[aussie tragic]

They should give an MBE to whoever came up with the murray mints plan. Most extensive and successful ball tampering (and cheating in general) regime in the history of cricket and got away with it completely.

They did, they gave OBE's to captain Vaughan and coach Fletcher and MBE's to the other 11 players

 

[harsh.ag]

They should give an MBE to whoever came up with the murray mints plan. Most extensive and successful ball tampering (and cheating in general) regime in the history of cricket and got away with it completely.

"I was firmly established as the man in charge of looking after the ball when we were fielding," Trescothik was quoted as saying by The Australian in his autobiography.

"It was my job to keep the shine on the new ball for as long as possible with a bit of spit and a lot of polish. And through trial and error I finally settled on type of spit for the task at hand," he added.

During the 2005 Ashes, the English pacers ability to reverse the ball early in the innings led to the downfall of the Australian top order. Jones and Flintoff regularly swung the ball in the first 20 overs, which ultimately played a vital role in England's triumph over Australia.

Trescothick, who retired from international cricket earlier this year, wrote that he experimented with mints until he found the right brand.

"It had been common knowledge in county cricket for some time that certain sweets produced saliva which, when applied to the ball for cleaning purposes, enabled it to keep its shine for longer and therefore its swing. "I had a go at Murray Mints and found they worked a treat," he said.

That's Marcus Trescothick, MBE.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Every one of those players should be retroactively removed from the record books and all results with those players involved changed to forfeits

 

[Daemon]

Every one of those players should be retroactively removed from the record books and all results with those players involved changed to forfeits

Probably wouldn't change too many results that

 

[GoodAreasShane]

If I remember correctly it was Asif Din of Wawrickshire that first used mints for tampering systematically. He preferred some extra strong subcontinental variety, but the typically lily livered English found them unpalatable, so after a fair bit of trial and error it was decided Murray Mints were the weapon of choice

 

[Starfighter]

Back in the day wicketkeepers acting like... well... wicketkeepers was considered noteworthy

 

[Burgey]

Not sure I necessarily agree here. Conditions will only worsen

 

[Starfighter]

So, in light of Williamson becoming the first person to score 238 in a test match, does anyone know what the lowest score that's never been made is? No one's ever scored 229 but I was wondering if there was lower.

 

[Chewie]

229 is the lowest, 155 in ODIs and 112 in T20Is

 

[mr_mister]

Belinda Clarke owns the number 229

 

[SeamUp]

 

[Starfighter]

If I remember correctly it was Asif Din of Wawrickshire that first used mints for tampering systematically. He preferred some extra strong subcontinental variety, but the typically lily livered English found them unpalatable, so after a fair bit of trial and error it was decided Murray Mints were the weapon of choice

Speaking of Asif Din, let's see somebody falling over...