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  1. Slow Love™

    Best and worst cricket journalists

    Roebuck has always been a bit funny on the chucking issue, he's like the antithesis of the Murali "haters" in that he seems to see chuckers everywhere (including Flintoff - would he have similar comments to make about him?). His comment about Lee is fairly wretched, as Lee was given one of the...
  2. Slow Love™

    Ashraf puts Malcom back in his place

    Speed's "place" is surely screaming inside a barrell going over Victoria Falls, so I don't know that it can be claimed that Ashraf's quite achieved that. I'm not really sure about how subjudice works in this context, where the facts of the case aren't really being disputed (or don't seem to...
  3. Slow Love™

    Best and worst cricket journalists

    That's really just a dry report though. I seem to recall you producing something you'd written in the past - maybe at Casson's encouragement - a couple of years ago at Off-Topic that was pretty good... (Weird to think I've been around these forums for about three years, give or take the odd...
  4. Slow Love™

    Forum Demographics MK II

    Hahaha, nominated.
  5. Slow Love™

    CW awards 18-25 Feb.

    TBF I've copped a few on slow weeks. :p
  6. Slow Love™

    Ponting's solution: Bat second

    *hangs self* Your avatar is strangely fitting, BTW.
  7. Slow Love™

    Ponting's solution: Bat second

    Sorry, I'd read "dismissed as poor" as just saying they were bad bowlers, period. I'm probably stating the obvious, but you can be highly idiosyncratic in your definitions. This aside, apart from Lewis and White, I don't think all the rest have been very, very poor to date, these chases aside...
  8. Slow Love™

    CW awards 18-25 Feb.

    Hahaha, indeed. Thanks for my award, and congrats to all winners.
  9. Slow Love™

    Ponting's solution: Bat second

    Yeah, but Ponting probably didn't have India in mind when it came to winning the toss and bowling first.
  10. Slow Love™

    Ponting's solution: Bat second

    For crying out loud, Richard, if you're gonna debate something, at least read the posts properly. There's a big difference between dismissing these bowlers as poor, and denying that they were poor in those games. I've no argument that Lewis and White are poor period, but Lewis is long gone and...
  11. Slow Love™

    Best and worst cricket journalists

    Yeah, I really liked Varma's 23 Yards blog, and the stuff he was doing in Wicket to Wicket. He seems to be relegated to audio domestic reports at cricinfo now, is he still the Indian managing editor? Either way, most of his writing time these days seems to be spent at his general blog, India...
  12. Slow Love™

    Ponting's solution: Bat second

    Haha, I guess I'm not ready to dismiss these bowlers as poor yet. I don't know that I'd say there's only one possible explanation for it - I acknowledged the opposition's nothing to lose attitude in an earlier post, but these guys seem to demonstrably wilt once the target being chased starts...
  13. Slow Love™

    Who will the first to break Anwar's 194?

    I think that Gayle or Herschelle would be among the top contenders, on their day.
  14. Slow Love™

    Best and worst cricket journalists

    Mike Coward Simon Barnes Amit Varma Tim DeLisle Neil Manthorp Osman Samiuddin are probably my favorites, off the top of my head. Roebuck is a bit of a special case - I find he's an arse a lot of the time, and his writing style has gotten real old on me, but for some reason I still care what he...
  15. Slow Love™

    Ponting's solution: Bat second

    I would think exactly the same in normal circumstances. Getting a big total on the board ought to obviously give the bowlers the best confidence to defend it. I'm just speculating on why this is something of a recurring phenomena to this team, and I lean towards something psychological because...
  16. Slow Love™

    Ponting's solution: Bat second

    Well, a few things worth noting: 1) According to the original post ('cause I haven't seen this quoted elsewhere up to this stage), Ponting said "We're going to come up against some small grounds in the WC, so the consideration of batting second in odi cricket is something to think about,"...
  17. Slow Love™

    Males banned from watching the women world cup qualifiers in Pakistan

    Haha, I was gonna specify Western Bulldogs (AFL), but then I realised it worked on multiple levels.
  18. Slow Love™

    Males banned from watching the women world cup qualifiers in Pakistan

    :laugh: I'll take Bulldogs supporters for $1,000, Alex.
  19. Slow Love™

    Shane Watson

    He's been talking up his looks too? Deep down he must know. My credibility on this front has taken a bit of a beating in recent times though, it has to be said.
  20. Slow Love™

    Ponting's solution: Bat second

    Just thinking about this some more... I think opposition teams are benefitting in some cases from a "nothing to lose" attitude that comes from the kind of RR you have to maintain chasing a big target against the best team in the world - and with that maybe you lose a bit of the pressure the...

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