• Welcome to the Cricket Web forums, one of the biggest forums in the world dedicated to cricket.

    You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join the Cricket Web community today!

    If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us.

Search results

  1. Slow Love™

    What if Tendulkar was an Aussie ?

    :laugh: I reckon if Tendulkar had been willing to open, he could have possibly got in and taken Geoff Marsh's spot in the test side at around the age of 18 or so...
  2. Slow Love™

    ***Official*** Tour Games

    No, I'm not that militant about people inserting an IMO (though I know some are), and I already accept it as your opinion. I just would have thought "possibly" might have flown better than "almost certainly". Both 'cause I think that Australia could have chased the 168 faster if needed, and...
  3. Slow Love™

    Caption: The Shoaib and Darryn Lifson

    Akhtar, with the Pakistan physio - must offer some possibilities.
  4. Slow Love™

    Damien Martyn Retires !!!

    Maybe, though Warne and Ponting are also very prone to react sensitively (and aggressively) to commentary coming from the press, or critical remarks coming from ex players like Greg Richie and Thommo and the like. I did notice that Martyn seemed to take Dennis Lillee's comments about the age of...
  5. Slow Love™

    ***Official*** Tour Games

    How does that work?
  6. Slow Love™

    Damien Martyn Retires !!!

    Good research. There wasn't really a place at the time, until Border retired, and by then, Bevan was staking a claim for a run in the test side. It's funny about the six years "punishment" - often something just has to be repeated enough (even by one person) for it to pass into folklore.
  7. Slow Love™

    Damien Martyn Retires !!!

    LOL, somewhere along the way, that glass house metaphor went horribly wrong. That aside, I found your post really confusing. Is what you are trying to say that the media intruded too deeply into Martyn's life, and that was behind his retirement? If so, what do you mean when you talk about...
  8. Slow Love™

    Your Favourite Moment Playing Sport

    Funnily enough, what I remember best are always the moments of frustration and/or heartbreak, but in terms of favorite moments, I guess two come to mind. Firstly, playing for my school XI, I came in at number 10, and was accompanied at the wicket by our number 11 who was a six-foot plus...
  9. Slow Love™

    Damien Martyn Retires !!!

    A bit harsh - I think he was a fair deal more consistent than that, even if he did have the odd slump. And an average of 46 tells the story of a very good player, even if you don't appreciate his flair with the bat. The description you gave reminds me of Graeme Wood's test career though - he...
  10. Slow Love™

    Prediction Thread

    Classic stoush, that one. Not sure it actually happened though.
  11. Slow Love™

    Who Should replace Martyn?

    Wow, interesting selections. You would expect that Symonds will probably play - in hindsight, as a stopgap while Watson's not available (and given the selectors' obvious obsession with the flexibility an allrounder can provide), I guess this should have been more obvious. Wasn't though, to me...
  12. Slow Love™

    Who Should replace Martyn?

    I thought I'd read that Watson definitely won't be fit for the Perth test - is that now in question? Anyway, I'd go for Jaques, particularly if Hodge is also injured.
  13. Slow Love™

    Fletcher's a joke

    Shows how rubbish this kind of thing can be. Nobody's going to rip into good old, amiable Freddy. The funny thing though is that, in spite of the fact that Panesar should obviously have been given a game by now, I do believe that his possible impact on the Ashes is being a tad hysterically...
  14. Slow Love™

    Damien Martyn Retires !!!

    It's been a pretty bad time for Martyn in recent times. Dropped (unfairly, many would say, including myself) after the Ashes, he's struggled to find that great touch he had a couple of years previous to that fateful Ashes tour, and he's succumbed again and again to that waft outside off stump...
  15. Slow Love™

    Gutless, aimless... hopeless

    Great stuff, and I agree just about completely regarding all of this. I think to an extent the Australian bowling effort was a bit underestimated, and as a result, I think Collingwood copped some pretty harsh and unfair criticism, both here and in some segments of the press.
  16. Slow Love™

    BREAKING NEWS:::: SHOIAB and ASIF ban Lifted!!!!!!

    The "PCB had this in mind as a conspiracy" angle doesn't really work, because yes, there would definitely be easier ways to resolve this without making this an issue for the worldwide press and public to observe. So I do think those kind of assumptions are generally kinda stupid. However, why...
  17. Slow Love™

    BREAKING NEWS:::: SHOIAB and ASIF ban Lifted!!!!!!

    Well, I guess my argument isn't so much about what I think the ICC will or won't do, so much as what they should do, so I guess we're in agreement on that. The ICC does obviously have governing standards and guidelines, it's just that in this case, the testing was pre-empted by the PCB's own...
  18. Slow Love™

    BREAKING NEWS:::: SHOIAB and ASIF ban Lifted!!!!!!

    Haha, already given. :p I guess it depends on what you call a technicality, but I'd say "yes". What happened was that the tribunal found that under the guidelines the PCB had in place for dealing with banned substances, they should have allowed for a defence of ignorance. When the PCB...
  19. Slow Love™

    BREAKING NEWS:::: SHOIAB and ASIF ban Lifted!!!!!!

    Part of what Warne has to do with this is that he claimed a similar defence - only it was not considered adequate for acquittal (it may have had a say in his sentencing, some of the reasoning on that was a bit cloudy). So given that the defences are similar, people may well ask why Asif and...
  20. Slow Love™

    Fletcher's a joke

    :laugh:

Top