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IR Bell pretty little fifties thread
- Thread starter Chin Music
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Chin Music
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Alyssa Healy and Mitch Starc?
Prince EWS
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It's from another forum so maybe I'm missing something, but it does seem to literally be a place to post when someone scores between 50 and 99, regardless of the context or if the player is known for not converting. I don't really get it.
Chin Music
State Vice-Captain
It was essentially taking the p*ss somewhat out of Ian Bell fans, who got a bit incredulous that we got rather unhappy when said batter got out carelessly when passing 50 for much of his career. It is rather anglocentric because from the late part of 2015 for around 5 years or so, it was such a regular feature of the mainline batting lineup to be incapable of tonning up. It became a 247 forum joke and the thread sort of stemmed from there and Bell was seen as perhaps the chief stereotypical contributor of non-converted 50s that often had quite a lot of panache about them.
Try not to overthink it
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Bijed
International Regular
I don't care too much about it as a metric anyway, but it's pretty awesome that he's got his 100s/50s ratio below 1:2 - not that it's a particularly great ratio still, but I'm pretty sure he was like 13:50 or something at one point
Yes, since the start of 2021 he's been 14/11, so has improved from 17/50, ie only converting 1 in 4 to 1 in 3.
Chin Music
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It has been a noteworthy statistic. Just for recollection, we started this thread because of how chronic the England team were from late 2015 until the end of the India tour in 2016. There had been an obvious trend there since the break up of the side that had been good/very good between 2019 and 2013. However, it reached some real incompetent depths. That was at least partly down to the inability of the leading player (Root) to score centuries at anything like the rate you would expect of a high class batsman.
Chin Music
State Vice-Captain
Ollie Robinson gets a rather welcome entry for England.
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
The explanation will be given when you provide a Rootometer
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Howe_zat
Audio File
That explains an observation (England had a batting issue) and not at all why you posted about Jaiswal.
Observation. Could be if England set up a big lead tomorrow and go on to win, Jaiswal's bad luck stopping him score a ton when well set might be a critical difference compared to Root, whose century held the England innings together.
Red_Ink_Squid
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I think I can clarify a little.
The first tied Test was played between the West Indies and Australia. The match was played at the Brisbane Cricket Ground, known as "the Gabba", in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, between 9 and 14 December 1960.
West Indies 1st innings
After a disastrous start of 65–3, Garfield Sobers made a rapid 132 in 174 minutes. Alan Davidson took 5–135. West Indies were all out for 453 runs.
Australia 1st innings
Norm O'Neill made 181 in 401 minutes. Australia were all out for 505, a lead of 52.
West Indies 2nd innings
Alan Davidson took 6–87 and West Indies made 284, setting Australia a target of 233 runs to win.
Australia 2nd innings
Davidson and Australian captain Richie Benaud set an Australian 7th-wicket partnership record of 134 in matches against the West Indies.
Last over
Wes Hall was bowling, with the clock showing 5:56 pm. Australia stood at 227–7, needing six runs to win from the 8-ball over (the standard for tests in Australia at the time) with three wickets in hand.
- 1st ball: Wally Grout, facing, was hit on the thigh. Benaud called him through for a single to take strike. Five runs were needed to win from seven balls.
- 2nd ball: Benaud attempted a hook shot but was caught behind by wicket-keeper Gerry Alexander. The score was 228–8.
- 3rd ball: The new batsman, Ian Meckiff, cut to mid-off. No run. Still five runs to win from five balls.
- 4th ball: The ball flew down leg-side without making contact with Meckiff's bat. Grout called him through for a bye. Alexander threw the ball to the bowler's end to try to run out Meckiff, but his throw missed and Meckiff made his ground. Four runs to win from four balls.
- 5th ball: Grout fended a bouncer to square leg, where Rohan Kanhai was ready to take the catch. Hall also attempted to take the catch in his follow-through, resulting in a fielding mix-up which allowed Meckiff and Grout take a single and the catch was not taken. Three runs to win from three balls.
- 6th ball: Meckiff swung desperately and sent the ball towards the mid-wicket boundary. The batsmen ran two runs as Conrad Hunte scooped the ball up just inside the fence. The batsmen attempted a third run for victory but Hunte's return was flat and true, straight into the gloves of Alexander, who whipped off the bails before Grout could get home. The teams were tied. Australia were on 232–9, requiring one run to win with one wicket in hand and two balls remaining.
- 7th ball: The new batsman, Lindsay Kline, pushed the ball to square leg and set off for a single. Joe Solomon scooped up the ball and, with one stump to aim for from 12 metres out, threw the ball in and hit the stumps, running Meckiff out by a few inches.