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Cricket's Great Myths

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subshakerz

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What are some of the common sayings or thoughts in cricket circles that you think are mythical and without reality?

The one I remember is that Steve Waugh ended the dead rubber test losses by Mark Taylor's team. It's just totally untrue since he lost end tests in WI, SA and the Ashes 2003.

Another one common here is that Imran as a top bowler didn't deliver the goods as a bat. Very common but statistically untrue.
 
Starfighter

Starfighter

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On a serious note, the exalted status that legspin holds in cricket (outside of England), especially in Australia. At mid-grade club level I don't think I've seen a more effective match-losing strategy than putting a legspinner on.

The Sean said:
That Greg Chappell ordered the underarm delivery because he was afraid of losing the match.
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Well what did he do it for then? Granted, NZ's no.10 hitting a six was rather unlikely, but I've never seen an alternative explanation.
 
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RossTaylorsBox

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Virender Sehwag plays every ball without being distracted by the game situation.

Daniel Vettori will spin us to victory in the 4th innings.

Chaminda Vaas didn't need to tamper with the ball.
 
The Sean

The Sean

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Starfighter said:
Well what did he do it for then? Granted, NZ's no.10 hitting a six was rather unlikely, but I've never seen an alternative explanation.
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It's gone into cricket lore that NZ needed six to win and Chappell stopped them. But that's wrong - NZ needed seven to win. Six would have tied the game.

And that was the problem. By Chappell's own admission in hindsight, he was mentally exhausted and not fit to be captain. The last thing he wanted was another game of cricket that summer which, if it had been a tie, would have happened because they would have had to come back the next day and do it all again.

I'm not defending him - it was a cowardly decision. But he wasn't trying to avoid losing the game. He was trying to avoid replaying it.
 
Starfighter

Starfighter

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Migara said:
Shane Warne resurrected the art of leg spin
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I've tackled this one before but here goes - the only notable legspinner aside from flashes in the pan like Siva and Hirwani to come out of Asia post-Chandra was Qadir, who received massive effusive praise beyond his actual returns. Legspin was kept alive no more there than it was in Australia by Hohns, Holland and Sleep. Kumble did not break through until after Warne and Mushtaq took even longer.
 
wpdavid

wpdavid

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subshakerz said:
Why wasnt Boycott there?
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Bearing in mind he'd already dropped out during England's home tests in the summer of 1974, it clearly preceded the Ashes tour. Some combination of not coping with having Denness as captain, wanting to concentrate on captaining Yorkshire in case their poor results without him meant him losing the job, and not coping with being Solkar's bunny. As for the 1974/75 Ashes, all we knew of Thomson that he'd taken 0 for 100 in his one previous test and Lillee had missed much of the previous year through injury, so we didn't even know whether he would play in the series.
 
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