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  1. Slow Love™

    Battle of the Cricketers

    Imran. Obviously right in the upper echelon of cricketers, full stop. I guess second-round may not necessarily be an unreasonable place for Davidson's progress to be ended, but boy some of the Aussies have copped horror matchups in the early rounds. Benaud will probably surpass players like...
  2. Slow Love™

    Cricinfo classics

    LOL, I particularly liked the double hoo in this one.
  3. Slow Love™

    ***Official*** Super Series

    I dunno how much this would be a factor though - the umpires are the ones in control of whether they refer to the third umpire for assistance. If players want to use it as a deliberate time-wasting measure, it ought to be as actionable as it would be without the technology. And outside of...
  4. Slow Love™

    ***Official*** Super Series

    And Chris Gayle just replaced Gibbs in the ODI squad... http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/superseries/content/story/220004.html
  5. Slow Love™

    ***Official*** Super Series

    I just read that Simon Taufel will be standing in the Super Test with Rudi Koertzen. I guess it's impossible to assure "neutral" umpires in such a contest. :o
  6. Slow Love™

    ***Official*** Super Series

    Did they use side-on alone? Or front-on footage also? I was curious as to how hard the time cost might have been - as in how often it was called for, and how much it broke up play.
  7. Slow Love™

    ***Official*** Super Series

    :nono: Not on, mate.
  8. Slow Love™

    Pathan has come of age!

    Very interesting article. I agree completely BTW that these two-test series between established (ie non-minnow) test nations has to stop. There should be a three-test minimum criteria for a standard series. One of the interesting things about all this though, is the extent to which some...
  9. Slow Love™

    Chappell Wants Ganguly Out - Emails BCCI.

    Like some have said previously - there's no real problem with getting rid of Ganguly - he's been asking for it for some time. But Chappell has handled all this fairly poorly, IMO. This bulldust about his comments being intended to "motivate" Ganguly come across as dishonest and hollow. I hope...
  10. Slow Love™

    Battle of the Cricketers

    Oh yeah.... I actually voted for Willis in that one (and a real one, too - not a pity vote, I liked the way he played the game). Somehow I'd gotten it into my head that Pollock's path up to this point had been tighter.
  11. Slow Love™

    Freddie claims he was shot at in Delhi....

    Somehow, I don't have any trouble imagining that C_C might have had shots fired in his general direction at some stage, though... :p
  12. Slow Love™

    Super Series

    Can we get some updated squads? :) We've still got Tendulkar and Hayden listed, as well as Hogg, Kasper and Gillespie - and no Bracken, Tait or Hopes (or Inzy)...
  13. Slow Love™

    "Langerveld, and SA fans (All the billions of you!) this one's for you"

    This might be completely off-base, but weren't their some rumors of friction between those in the SAF team who were real Cronje devotees, and Klusener? And there were those strange comments Smith gave about him in England (I think it was when they were touring England, anyway)... While his...
  14. Slow Love™

    Battle of the Cricketers

    Headley, by a fair margin. I've expressed my doubts about Pollock in a previous battle (that he must have friggin' won, dammit)....
  15. Slow Love™

    ***Official*** Super Series

    Well, everyone can see the same things that the replays show them now. The reason that public confidence is dropping is because the average viewer has much better tools at his disposal to evaluate the correctness of a decision than the umpire does. So, somewhat unfairly, this results in the...
  16. Slow Love™

    ***Official*** Super Series

    Yup - although if true (sometimes these stories have the look of old wives tales in that they rarely get corroborated) it could mean that the methods used for this particular aid need to be tightened up. BTW, greg, I didn't know that technology was used for LBW decision-making in the Champions...
  17. Slow Love™

    Martyn dropped from test squad

    You are right, and IMO, MacGill has always copped an unfair bagging on this forum (so much so that it's become something of a meaningless mantra). And although I realise you are only talking about the roles they occupy (rather than their relative skills), MacGill is streets ahead of Giles in...
  18. Slow Love™

    ***Official*** Super Series

    BTW, I meant to raise this earlier and forgot (and apologies if somebody has already brought it up), but has anybody heard about this? Umpires to get video help on lbw decisions in Super Series Sounds like they are going to use technology (in the sense of replays, at least) to help resolve...
  19. Slow Love™

    ***Official*** Super Series

    I hadn't heard this - has he converted?
  20. Slow Love™

    Pathan has come of age!

    LOL, you are probably right, mate - it's not the first time I've been corrected on it by folks that probably interact with him a lot more. I think it's because I have had one or two rational conversations with wah, and vandemataram has almost seemed like an automaton in his relentless...

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