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  1. Lions81

    Best vs Rest

    Sure, anything is debatable. They debated for hundreds of years whether the Sun traveled around the Earth or not or whether the Earth was flat. But this debate has the same merits as those ones. First, there's the simple matter of averages. Boucher's is a tidy 30.85, and Gilchrist's is a...
  2. Lions81

    Who do you support? Ind/Pak

    Lol.
  3. Lions81

    **Official** England in The West Indies

    Ah, the English look fully focused and intent on losing this match. This is the exact same pitch which took their own bowlers 3 days to extract 5 wickets on.
  4. Lions81

    *Official* India in Pakistan Thread

    The problem I have with tooextracool's categorization of the pitches is that he seems to decide what kind of pitch it is based on how the Indians do. If they score 705 runs, it's a flat pitch. If they get bundled out for 287, the pitch seams about. Make a decision beforehand I say. But of course...
  5. Lions81

    20/20 overs match

    True, it's sad that some players won't be able to play anymore, you have to figure overall the restructuring's fantastic for the long-term viability of cricket in South Africa. Having more teams with less money to go around isn't that fun and will quickly lead to bankruptcies and general...
  6. Lions81

    **Official** England in The West Indies

    I'm not downgrading it at all! 380 is 380, more than most teams score.
  7. Lions81

    Best vs Rest

    Well I had placed a sort of quota on players from each team. Australia clearly have a lot of deserving players, but I felt since the ROW side would have six teams, and that each team deserves at least one selection, that Australia could have no more than 4, and since Gilchrist is the world's...
  8. Lions81

    **Official** England in The West Indies

    Well despite whatever kind of pitch it may be, it's never easy batting under the weight of knowing you've already given up 751 runs. Teams don't even score 751 runs using up both of their innings, and maybe even give them a third innings and they'd struggle to make that, so that score really is...
  9. Lions81

    Best vs Rest

    Honestly, I don't like this Australia vs. Rest of the World business. Let's stick with Asia vs. Rest of the World, as I think that's far more entertaining. Imagine an ODI or even a Test match with these two competing teams: Asia XI: Sanath Jaysuriya Virender Sehwag Rahul Dravid Sachin Tendulkar...
  10. Lions81

    Target 400

    Aside from the obvious choices to break Lara's 400 (Smith, Hayden, Sehwag, Agarkar), one possibility who comes to mind is Nathan Astle. He scored a double century in less than that many balls if I recall correctly, or at least had a greater than 100% strike rate. Maybe he's dropped off since...
  11. Lions81

    High time ICC have a check on the umpires

    :D
  12. Lions81

    **Official** England in The West Indies

    Congratulations to Lara! It's really a magnificent feat to score 400 runs in a whole test series, let alone one innings and to be not out at the end is another amazing thing! This innings really removes any doubt I had as to who is the best batsman in the world.
  13. Lions81

    **Official** England in The West Indies

    I'm sure Nasser Hussain won't want to see it happen again in front of his eyes either.
  14. Lions81

    What attracted you to cricket?

    Don't worry, some of those "Japanese" words aren't even real words, such as suredo or negatteru. So Gaijin-san means to say something that he realizes that this should be controlled or that this sort of thing must be controlled but his English translation of Japanese is not too good. Well...
  15. Lions81

    High time ICC have a check on the umpires

    That doesn't matter if it's being supervised by a TV umpire.
  16. Lions81

    The Game Now versus Yesteryear

    I think in our nostalgia of the past, we try to compare players from our era to players of the past. Bradman versus Tendulkar, Lillee and Holding versus Akhtar and Lee. Fans do this in many other sports too, such as baseball, (american) football, etc. But really, is this fair? If I were to...
  17. Lions81

    Chokers in the game today!

    Well this could be a whole other thread. Well I suppose it should be.
  18. Lions81

    Chokers in the game today!

    Oh I see what you're saying now. No, I think Tendulkar is one of those national icons that really transcends regional identity. So someone from Chennai is equally as likely to like or dislike him than someone in Delhi! Although I suppose since he is from Mumbai, he will be more popular there...
  19. Lions81

    *Official* India in Pakistan Thread

    Thank you! That's funny stuff. Too bad Kumble was made to look like a fool!
  20. Lions81

    High time ICC have a check on the umpires

    Haha, fair enough. But I still don't see what is wrong with allowing the umpire Hawkeye as a tool to help him/her make a decision. Imagine this scenario: the bowler is running in to the batsmen, 50,000 spectators are screaming at the top of the lungs, the ball pitches, the fielding team is in...

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