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Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

Shri

Mr. Glass
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Panauti In Uttar Pradesh

If you feel lady luck has never been on your side, then there’s actually a haven for you in Uttar Pradesh. The state has a village called Panauti in Karwi district. Housing around 341 families, Panauti might be your answer to finally finding your lucky charm or lucky abode
 

GoodAreasShane

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Hard to make any impact when you aren't selected.

Siddle should have never played that Oval test. I do have a bit more time for bananaman than most here, but that was a horrendous selection
 

Starfighter

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No . You have described most of the Asian fast bowlers like Srinath, Vaas etc
I've long had a feeling that players can have a 'home advantage' in even seemingly unfavourable conditions. Like how non-Asian spinners do worse in Asia, or how Kapil was successful on the bare West Indian pitches that rather resembled his home pitches yet was bad in seemingly favourable England. The whole 'oh fast bowler x was so disadvantaged by home pitches in Asia' - well maybe if they'd learned their cricket on the overseas pitches, but otherwise not necessarily (especially funny when players have a worse away record).
 
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GoodAreasShane

Cricketer Of The Year
Just to clarify my previous comment, I would probably not have picked Starc at the Oval, Patt0 was my preference. But certainly not Siddle, considering Mitch Marsh was coming into the team (he bowled bloody well that test fwiw) it looked pretty clear that someone with more firepower would be a better bet

Just a selection entirely devoid of any logic or reason
 

Nintendo

Cricketer Of The Year
Just to clarify my previous comment, I would probably not have picked Starc at the Oval, Patt0 was my preference. But certainly not Siddle, considering Mitch Marsh was coming into the team (he bowled bloody well that test fwiw) it looked pretty clear that someone with more firepower would be a better bet

Just a selection entirely devoid of any logic or reason
Yeah it's like "Let's bring in a guy who averages mid 20's with the bat because cummins is tired, but let's also bring in a workhorse bowler over a strike bowler, and ohh, while where at it let's ****ing bat second with a lineup that's failed all series bar 2 players while where an extra batsmen down." Who would have thought that would happen, huh?
 

GoodAreasShane

Cricketer Of The Year
Yeah it's like "Let's bring in a guy who averages mid 20's with the bat because cummins is tired, but let's also bring in a workhorse bowler over a strike bowler, and ohh, while where at it let's ****ing bat second with a lineup that's failed all series bar 2 players while where an extra batsmen down." Who would have thought that would happen, huh?
No disagreement whatsoever on this one. It just didn't seem like there was any coherent line of thought behind any of the decision making
 

Starfighter

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
No disagreement whatsoever on this one. It just didn't seem like there was any coherent line of thought behind any of the decision making
I feel like the decision to bowl first in that test is the kind of thing I'll still grumble about in a couple of decades' time. After what had happened there the previous time it was just incredible.
 

Burgey

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Amazing

This is precisely how i envisage CNerd's games in the HK league.
 

Gob

International Coach
Got this idea from the butcher/bairstoe thread

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Anyone know why this particular brand of helmet went out of use? This was very common around 06 and looked like the safest up to that point
 

Starfighter

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A better question is: what happened to Albion helmets in general? They were the brand when I started playing in 2010 (might even still have the Greg Chappell Cricket Centre catalogue with them) but not too many years later they've completely disappeared.
 

Daemon

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A better question is: what happened to Albion helmets in general? They were the brand when I started playing in 2010 (might even still have the Greg Chappell Cricket Centre catalogue with them) but not too many years later they've completely disappeared.
I still have mine from about 2012. They're still around I think?
 

Daemon

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Was just thinking of 2nd XIs and wondering who's got the best.

Australia's is actually surprisingly strong imo, got a bunch of washed up internationals who are at the very least close to if not test quality. Not sure where to start with NZ because I don't really know any of their backup players.

Australia

Khawaja
SMarsh
Wade
Handscomb
Head
MMarsh
Paine +
Pattinson
Abbott
Swepson
Richardson

India

Gill
Shaw
Vihari
Agarwal
SKY
Sundar
Rahane
Saha +
Axar
Yadav
Ishant/Siraj/Shami/Thakur/Ashwin depending on who sits out

England

Sibley
Duckett or something idk
Crawley
Lawrence
Buttler
Billings
Moeen
Curran
Overton
Wood
Leach
 

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