Group C - New Zealand, England, Kenya, Canada

[Richard]

Damien? Ricky? John?

It's Ricky Martin - and I was talking about our esteemed Martyn Corrin - AKA GIMH.

AND VETTORI BOWLING NO-BALLS NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bloody ridiculous.

 

[GIMH]

Sounding too much like Martyn these days.

Almost brown-nosed-knome-esque.

eh and eh?

 

[GIMH]

It's Ricky Martin - and I was talking about our esteemed Martyn Corrin - AKA GIMH.

AND VETTORI BOWLING NO-BALLS NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bloody ridiculous.

Spinners should be banned from bowling for the rest of the match if they bowl a no-ball tbh, it's inexcusable

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

AND VETTORI BOWLING NO-BALLS NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bloody ridiculous.

tbh, its not a new thing. Luca has always bowled too many NB's for a spinner

 

[Richard]

Yip. too true. Especially with the Larsen and Harris 'dibbly dobbly" combo.

Vettori a much better ODI bowler these days.

Haha, calling Harris and especially Larsen "dibbly-dobbly" is about as harsh at it comes.

Both were very, very high-class slow seamers (don't know how fast Larsen was - might have been medium, might have been medium-fast - but Harris was slow-medium) and top ODI bowlers.

 

[Richard]

tbh, its not a new thing. Luca has always bowled too many NB's for a spinner

I know, it's so, so bloody annoying. He's not even the only one.

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

Haha, calling Harris and especially Larsen "dibbly-dobbly" is about as harsh at it comes.

Both were very, very high-class slow seamers (don't know how fast Larsen was - might have been medium, might have been medium-fast - but Harris was slow-medium) and top ODI bowlers.

Yeah, but they were, what was known back then, as the NZ 'dibbly dobbly's'.

 

[wpdavid]

It's Ricky Martin - and I was talking about our esteemed Martyn Corrin - AKA GIMH.

Yeah, I know about Ricky M - it was a lame attempt at humour.
Didn't know about GIMH though.

 

[wpdavid]

Spinners should be banned from bowling for the rest of the match if they bowl a no-ball tbh, it's inexcusable

Wides too, which is something that's always annoyed me about Dalrymple.

 

[GIMH]

Yeah, I know about Ricky M - it was a lame attempt at humour.
Didn't know about GIMH though.

Still wanting to know why you were sounding too much like me?

 

[Richard]

Spinners should be banned from bowling for the rest of the match if they bowl a no-ball tbh, it's inexcusable

Should never, ever happen - it's a head-in-hands instance whenever any spinner bowls one for me.

 

[wpdavid]

Still wanting to know why you were sounding too much like me?

I hadn't got that far yet.

 

[Loony BoB]

I've seen it happen when the bowler's foot skids over the line, and I'm okay with that. Can't expect the ground to always work to your favour. These no balls are legit, I take it, though - given your reaction.

 

[Richard]

eh and eh?

Still wanting to know why you were sounding too much like me?

OK, OK, patience patience!!!

I though David was sounding rather like you in his semi-cynical comments about our awfulness.

Thought you'd take it as a compliment, too!

And d'you remember that furore about Langer being called a brown-nose-knome on CricInfo a couple of years ago?

 

[pup11]

KP and Colly doing a good job atm.

 

[Richard]

I've seen it happen when the bowler's foot skids over the line, and I'm okay with that. Can't expect the ground to always work to your favour. These no balls are legit, I take it, though - given your reaction.

Spinners should just never get anywhere near the popping-crease - it's inexcusable.

They should bowl with their feet a good yard behind it if neccessary.

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

Spinners should just never get anywhere near the popping-crease - it's inexcusable.

They should bowl with their feet a good yard behind it if neccessary.

Yard? How many metres is that?

 

[Richard]

About 0.6 IIRR.

Should probably talk more 30 or 40cm behind, though.

Dunno why I said yards, TBH, I always talk in metric normally.

 

[Loony BoB]

3 feet / 91.4cm

Wouldn't put 'em a yard back from the line. Gives the batsmen too much time to see the ball, given they're bowling so slow, it'd make a big difference.

 

[Richard]

Spinners only bowl at 50mph or so, batsmen have plenty of time.

Maybe a yard's a bit of an exaggeration but they should certainly get a good 30 or 40cm back.