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  1. Slow Love™

    Ponting and Buchanan Critise Flintoff's Captaincy

    So a bit of a non-starter then... :p
  2. Slow Love™

    Mark Benson another anti india umpire ?

    ZING! Look, if that's related to what anybody else said, that just made me feel awkward, and this isn't about me elevating myself. I mean, seriously though, mate, have a think about your position. I'm all ears if we're talking about someone who exhibits an observable pattern of behaviour when...
  3. Slow Love™

    Ponting and Buchanan Critise Flintoff's Captaincy

    Did you forget a link here?
  4. Slow Love™

    Slowness and Adverts

    Now that I know that roughly between 5.00pm and 6.00pm the scripts are running, I expect it to be bad around that time. Other than that, yeah, it's been quite good, apart from the odd time it just doesn't seem to connect, as mentioned by other posters. But those times are far less frequent...
  5. Slow Love™

    How many Tests is the Right number for a series?

    For practicality's sake, yeah, I'd go for 4. I could live without the 5 test series - they're good for real epic series, but you don't get that the vast majority of the time. Even numbers don't matter in test cricket, 'cause drawn series are easy enough with 5 anyway - then you have the...
  6. Slow Love™

    Who Is Martin Crowe ?

    He (Crowe) probably is - he's been unhappy about Murali's action forever though, so I don't think he's talking about anything specific that he's just seen lately. At least it didn't seem that way when I listened to the speech (which actually focussed more on other issues aside from this one)...
  7. Slow Love™

    Who's the better keeper Healy or Gilchrist ?

    Healy was incredibly unlucky to be followed by a player like Gilchrist. He was very highly regarded during his career as a gloveman, and people really wondered how his successor would fare, keeping to Warne on a regular basis. He was considered more than handy with the bat, too, and had a...
  8. Slow Love™

    Who Is Martin Crowe ?

    Did you mean to quote me? I know the thread is in reaction to Crowe's remarks, but my comments were general.
  9. Slow Love™

    Mark Benson another anti india umpire ?

    OK, you guys are embarrassing me now, and I think the rest of the forum must be about ready to beat the crap out of me. :p
  10. Slow Love™

    Tait or Johnson?

    Bwahahahaha! "I know I'm different, I'm not Indian...... I'll even learn some Hiiiiinnnnddiiiiii...." A bit more convincing in his attraction to the older woman, IMO. Oh, and Johnson over Tait.
  11. Slow Love™

    Who Is Martin Crowe ?

    Probably the purely aesthetic solution, which is whatever the umpire thinks, we'll go with. So if the action "looks bad", you're probably screwed, even if you should happen to have a lower (or comparable) level of straightening to another bowler who attracts no attention. I don't like this...
  12. Slow Love™

    Why do Aussies hate murili?

    I don't think all Aussies hate Murali. In fact, many like him. There's a wide variance of views - from ignorance "he's never chucked" (wrong) to "I've seen how bent his arm is" (irrelevant) to he may have chucked but doesn't anymore, or OK, everybody broke the old rules, but he chucks more...
  13. Slow Love™

    Will Shane Warne make a comeback post retirement ?

    I don't think so, though I suspect you're onto something re: Buchanan. Didn't Steve Waugh have very little patience with him too? Of course, as captain, he was more capable of putting him back in his place (and I think he did, once or twice). From what he said on the cricket show the other...
  14. Slow Love™

    Who Is Martin Crowe ?

    Not that I disagree with your overall point, but in the interests of fair debate, according to the science, you CAN pick up a throw with the naked eye, providing it's over the 15 degree flexion mark. That's why bowlers like Shabbir and Shoaib Malik were able to be reported, and in their initial...
  15. Slow Love™

    Whos the best Umpire?

    Wow, love for Rudi? It's amazing how perceptions can differ. I do wish he'd grow his beard back and wear the cool dark glasses again, though. He may have still been crap, but damn, he looked good.
  16. Slow Love™

    Mark Benson another anti india umpire ?

    You know, I think a lot of people live in a degree of denial about racism, and are of the opinion that anybody that claims to be impacted by it has a victim mentality, or they're looking to be favored, and can't handle things not going their way. I find it very frustrating at times, because...
  17. Slow Love™

    Comparing the series

    Yeah, it's always gonna be part of the reason, but some folks seem to treat it as all the reason, when I genuinely do think that sometimes sides are rusty, low on confidence walking in, or just out of form for various reasons, and they perform below their best. It happens, and I think you can...
  18. Slow Love™

    ***Official*** India in South Africa

    I had thought that the problem was that a few of them weren't functioning - didn't realise it was all of them.
  19. Slow Love™

    ***Official*** India in South Africa

    How odd. Did the situation with the floodlights improve? 'Cause otherwise, even though it is a stupid decision by the umps, Smith only has himself to blame for accepting the light before.
  20. Slow Love™

    Adam Gilchrist's 6s

    The article linked to from this piece in that "related" box on the right - The Joy of Six (Oh, those hilarious cricinfo headline writers) - is a pretty good read. Gilchrist talks about copping some flak from an Aussie under-17s coach for hitting too many boundaries, as well as his favorite six...

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