Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

[GoodAreasShane]

Looks like the Warbster hasn't changed one bit since his days running Supercars.

Muppet

 

[duffer]

They already put the limited overs and part of the Big Bash on pay tv because they could pay themselves bonuses for a sghly bigger deal. Do you think they care? The idea of long-term thinking is absolutely dead in today's world.

Yeah, they had their own monetary target and hit it at all costs. The good of the game wasn't a factor. Cunnies, the lot of them.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Graham Onions has retired aged 37 due to a back injury. Above average County bowler. Was part of an England Ashes win, which puts him one up on a few more famous predecessors.

 

[Burgey]

Was a solid contributor. Hope he has a long and happy retirement

 

[Burgey]

************Official IPL 2020******

Question is: Why is Dhoni's room bigger?

www.cricketweb.net

 

[fredfertang]

Mitch Claydon apparently in bother for applying hand sanitiser to the ball - I had wondered when that one would happen

 

[Daemon]

Who is the real Mohammad Amir?

The teenage sensation from 2010? The more workmanlike post-ban bowler? An intelligent loner? Let's visit the various worlds he has lived in

www.thecricketmonthly.com

Part II is a great read.

Love these stories of cricketers who come from nowhere and have been through more than what most of us can comprehend.

Though of course in this case that only makes his subsequent mistakes even more disappointing.

 

[Chubb]

Austria Women vs. Mali Women would be a good match IMO

Full Scorecard of GER Women vs Austria Wmn 2nd T20I 2020 - Score Report | ESPNcricinfo.com

Complete Scorecard of GER Women vs Austria Wmn 2nd T20I 2020, Germany Women in Austria only on ESPNcricinfo.com. Find the complete scorecard of GER Women vs Austria Wmn 2nd T20I Online

www.espncricinfo.com

GER Women beat AUT Women, GER Women won by 10 wickets (with 71 balls remaining)

GER-W 54 vs AUT-W 55/0 - GER Women won by 10 wickets (with 71 balls remaining) in Lower Austria, GER-W v AUT-W 2020, August 13, 2020

www.espncricinfo.com

TIL Jim Laker's wife was Austrian. She met him in North Africa after fleeing Vienna before the war, and didn't know much about cricket. The evening he took 19-90 she had to take a lot of phone calls and asked him "Jim, did you do something good today?".

 

[Lillian Thomson]

The ECB making 62 people redundant and blaming covid-19.

Covid impact forces ECB to cut 62 jobs

The England and Wales Cricket Board is to cut 62 jobs as a result of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[honestbharani]

What % is that of their payroll workforce?

 

[Daemon]

The ECB making 62 people redundant and blaming covid-19.

Covid impact forces ECB to cut 62 jobs

The England and Wales Cricket Board is to cut 62 jobs as a result of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

www.bbc.co.uk

Well it is kinda Covid's fault.

The ECB seem to have done a pretty good job organising so many series in these times with so many constraints.

 

[mr_mister]

Mitch Claydon apparently in bother for applying hand sanitiser to the ball - I had wondered when that one would happen

the trick is to put a huge glob of it on your whites where you rub the ball onto. he's a noob

 

[weeman27bob]

What % is that of their payroll workforce?

Looking at the financial statements for the year ended 31 Jan 2020, they averaged 379 employees so about 16%

There's 39 cricketers who they employ who you imagine aren't losing their jobs, so about 18% excluding them

 

[honestbharani]

That is a sizeable cut even though I would assume they did pretty well to get as much cricket staged as they did this season.

 

[aussie tragic]

Had a good laugh at Botham running Boycott out on purpose in a 1978 test vs NZ

You'd think a new young player doing this to his captain would end his career, shows how special Botham was

'I've run you out, you ****'

The nadir of Geoff Boycott's brief time as England captain came when he was deliberately run out by one of his own side

www.espncricinfo.com

 

[honestbharani]

shows how special Botham was

Shows how special Boycott was, tbh.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

I didn't actually see this run out until it appeared on YouTube a few years ago. I often wondered if the story had been embroidered a bit. But there's no doubt it's a suicidal run and he makes sure they cross.

 

[h_hurricane]

White lightning at his best. Test cricket at its best !

 

[Line and Length]

I recall reading somewhere that Boycott remembered all of his dismissals and refused to play the shots that led to them again. Didn't leave him with too many scoring strokes.

 

[Starfighter]

In South Africa in the eighties spinners were still flighting the ball properly.