Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

[SillyCowCorner1]

I think I've just witnessed the fastest stumping in cricket

 

[M0rphin3]

I get trying to get more people to enjoy the game, but WTF and it's WAY more confusing than anything. Let's assume someone does understand this (which seems more complicated anyway), they'll surely have a difficult time understanding the actual cricket, which anyway has a bunch of different set of rules. Just stupid ass **** tbh.

 

[honestbharani]

It is the easiest way to alienate your existing fan base, for sure. I mean, its one thing to have a 16 over competition instead of a T20 but the way they are baseballing cricket here was pathetic to watch tbh.

 

[TheJediBrah]

It is the easiest way to alienate your existing fan base, for sure.

Just like star wars. Kill off your favourite characters (normal cricket) and replace them with new ones that no one likes (the 100)

 

[Starfighter]

I get trying to get more people to enjoy the game, but WTF and it's WAY more confusing than anything. Let's assume someone does understand this (which seems more complicated anyway), they'll surely have a difficult time understanding the actual cricket, which anyway has a bunch of different set of rules. Just stupid ass **** tbh.

I looked at the scorecard on crapinfo and my eyes just glazed over when reading the little information button that explained the changes of ends and things like that.

So bloody stupid. Actual cricket is so much easier to understand.

 

[honestbharani]

 

[Magrat Garlick]

give the man an Olympic gold for trolling

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

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That’s a lot of Singh’s.

Is Punjab the powerhouse of Indian hockey?

 

[stephen]

Jackson Bird has the lowest shield bowing average (21.35) by far of all shield bowlers to have taken 250+ wickets. The next lowest average for a bowler with 250+ shield wickets is Andy Bichel, who had a shield average of 23.24.

Again, proving my point that he's been hard done by. This generation's Andy Bichel.

 

[Aritro]

He's a gun.

 

[Starfighter]

Some might be tempted to say that the often lush Hobart wicket has helped him a bit. Shield Gabba pitches were often pretty green in Bichel's day too, so make of it what you will.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Goes missing on flat wickets. But I guess a lot of bowlers do. If Bird was English he might have 300 Test wickets

 

[GoodAreasShane]

I do certainly rate Bird, but you have to say the calibre of domestic batting is a looooong way off where it was in the golden era Bichel played in

Would be one of the first picked in a current era best of the Shield team though

 

[TheJediBrah]

I do certainly rate Bird, but you have to say the calibre of domestic batting is a looooong way off where it was in the golden era Bichel played in

More than outweighed by the flat wickets though

 

[stephen]

Yeah it's just that his bowling stats stand out like a sore thumb. Not even Lillee averaged under 23. You have to go back as far a Davidson and Lindwall to find shield bowlers who averaged under 22 and took a lot of wickets.

Bird really only went missing in that one MCG test where Cook scored his double on what had to be one of the flattest decks you will ever see. Deserved way more chances than he has had, particularly when Starc has been garbage for long periods.

 

[Burgey]

Goes missing on flat wickets. But I guess a lot of bowlers do. If Bird was English he might have 300 Test wickets

Would have more than Anderson, thats for sure

 

[Immenso]

Click on the cricinfo stats page for Ireland test averages- current players. Is sad.

No player meets the conditions to populate that page anymore. Has ticked over 2 years since their last test.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Yeah it's just that his bowling stats stand out like a sore thumb. Not even Lillee averaged under 23. You have to go back as far a Davidson and Lindwall to find shield bowlers who averaged under 22 and took a lot of wickets.

Bird really only went missing in that one MCG test where Cook scored his double on what had to be one of the flattest decks you will ever see. Deserved way more chances than he has had, particularly when Starc has been garbage for long periods.

As starfighter mentioned though, there have been some very spicy Hobart wickets in his time that might have driven down that average. This was during the peak Luke Butterworth (FC bowling average of 24) and James Faulkner (FC bowling average of 24.8) years.

 

[Flem274*]

jackson bird is a test standard bowler but he's not better than the quartet.

 

[honestbharani]

With all the bio bubbles and mental health issues going around in cricket at the moment, it would be good to have a psychology degree holder with any side, I guess.

Juggling psychology and cricket, Calvin Harrison continues 'unbelievable' journey

Allrounder may have got a platform to perform through the Hundred, but his development comes from a university and county system

www.espncricinfo.com

Also, nice of Matt Roller to accept facts.

Like so many tales about promising English cricketers, Harrison's story starts in South Africa.

Of course, it does.