Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

[Lillian Thomson]

Kohli and Perry named players of decade

India captain Virat Kohli and Australia all-rounder Ellyse Perry are named as players of the decade by the International Cricket Council.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[SeamUp]

Often think who out of the SA players from isolation would have been sure 40-50+ test averages. I would say these 4 and Lee Irvine the almost certainties. Then debatable one's would have been Clive Rice, Henry Fotheringham and Kevin McKenzie but high 30s nonetheless. Procter maybe low -to-mid 30s like Shaun Pollock ?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1343171763774115841

Basil de Oliveira, Tony Greig & Kepler Wessels did average 40+. Lamb could have and should have ?

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Lamb was high class and could have averaged mid 40’s. But on the other hand he shouldn’t have been playing for England at all and was 28 by the time he made his debut.

 

[SeamUp]

Lamb was high class and could have averaged mid 40’s. But on the other hand he shouldn’t have been playing for England at all and was 28 by the time he made his debut.

Yeah. He was a maverick. A supreme talent. My dad had moved to Cape Town by early 70s and was playing in the club scene and he remembers many "senior" cricketers kicking up a fuss that he was picked whilst in school for Western Province. But what they didn't know was how good he was and then Peter Kirsten was same vintage (debuted a year later for WP).

 

[SeamUp]

Just read Lamb's cricinfo Profile. Last sentence did make me chuckle.

Some England cricketers are born; there was no destiny in Allan Lamb's career. Signed from Western Province as an unknown by Northamptonshire as their overseas player in 1978, he was chugging along nicely when Ken Turner, their secretary, persuaded him that South Africa were years away from returning to Test cricket and that he should invoke his English-born parents to play for England. He never lost his accent nor his attitudes: there was always the hint of the colonial chancer about him -- but Lamb was to be a fixture of the England middle order for the next decade. Small, stocky, aggressive, he had a correct technique, power in his shots and a gift for needling the bowlers. Lamb captained England in three Tests, hopelessly, but in 1995 he came close to taking Northamptonshire to their first Championship, strutting round the county grounds like Napoleon.

 

[Burgey]

The Craddock interview with Ian Meckiff on that Cricket Legends series is well worth a watch

 

[Shri]

 

[TheJediBrah]

Lol remember when Andrew McDonald played Test cricket. A few weeks before that I was lapping him around the Maribyrnong and no one else would have recognised him.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

I don’t know if Sourav Ganguly suffering a mild heart attack has been mentioned elsewhere. Wishing him a speedy recovery.

 

[cnerd123]

Yea pretty shocking news. Still young and in relatively good health. Been in the public eye a lot recently. Hope he gets well soon.

 

[Shri]

 

[honestbharani]

There is a facebook photo of his from 2011 where he looks exactly as he does today and he must have been 13 then?

 

[stephen]

Yeah his age is out by at least 3 years.

 

[Starfighter]

Interesting from CricViz

 

[Flem274*]

no starc or mcgrath?

 

[Line and Length]

Ambrose and Garner? Cameron Green would be interesting too.

 

[Starfighter]

no starc or mcgrath?

McGrath only played 6 tests in the period. Starc has a low delivery for his height as he bends his torso over extremely far. I remember in the SL series last year the TV broadcast did a comparison between him and Richardson. Starc (197 cm) bowled from 212 cm and Richardson (178 cm) bowled from 205 IIRC.

They had an older article that seems to have vanished that showed Broad and Ishant have especially low deliveries for their height.

 

[stephen]

Hazlegood

 

[Burgey]

So Haze has a very similar bowling profile to Flintofff? The latter seemed several clicks faster to me.

also, anyone read this today? Who’d have thought a Qld side led by Law and Maher would be a pack of *****?

Sledging, betrayal, genius: Shane Watson's Shield debut

Twenty years on to the day, this oral history revisits one of Australian cricket's gutsiest and most dramatic first-class entries

www.cricket.com.au

 

[Prince EWS]

So Haze has a very similar bowling profile to Flintofff? The latter seemed several clicks faster to me.

also, anyone read this today? Who’d have thought a Qld side led by Law and Maher would be a pack of ****s?

Sledging, betrayal, genius: Shane Watson's Shield debut

Twenty years on to the day, this oral history revisits one of Australian cricket's gutsiest and most dramatic first-class entries

www.cricket.com.au

Flintoff's fastest spells were definitely faster but he took a lot out of himself bowling those. Chasing leather a lot more often than Haze probably resulted in some tired low-130s spells dragging his speeds down, not to mention how often he played with an absolutely rekt ankle.

The fact that they only started measuring in 2006 when his fast bowling peak was 2004-2005 probably contributes too.