Long term bets..

[Prince EWS]

Done.

dug it up out of the other thread, sneaky ****

 

[Spikey]

seems pretty safe tbf

 

[NUFAN]

dug it up out of the other thread, sneaky ****

Just to clarify, I'm not actually going to accept the bet. Hadn't thought enough about the next batch of emerging cricketers-turn commentators.

 

[Prince EWS]

Just to clarify, I'm not actually going to accept the bet. Hadn't thought enough about the next batch of emerging cricketers-turn commentators.

Seems to get on extremely well with the other Fox Sports commentators and obviously speaks well enough on the mic judging from today, so if the current lot are still there when he retires (which lets face it is extremely likely) and he wants a go at it, I reckon Blewy and Fleming will put in a good word.

 

[Prince EWS]

Thought I'd put this one out there while he's in the doldrums a bit so I might get a bite - $10 on Virat Kohli being ranked #1 in the ICC Test batting rankings at some stage during his career.

 

[Hurricane]

@Kippax Hamish Rutherford to open the batting for NZ in the next world cup and to average >30 in the tournament.

 

[Flem274*]

Make it 35!

Here's one I'm going to tempt the blindly optimistic with: Jesse Ryder will never play international cricket for New Zealand again.

 

[Daemon]

Thought I'd put this one out there while he's in the doldrums a bit so I might get a bite - $10 on Virat Kohli being ranked #1 in the ICC Test batting rankings at some stage during his career.

I'll take this.

Will claim my $10 in ~15 years time

 

[Jono]

You may as well pay PEWS now. He's a lock for #1 at some point in his career.

 

[Kippax]

@Kippax Hamish Rutherford to open the batting for NZ in the next world cup and to average >30 in the tournament.

Haha yeah I'm wary of minnow bashing here, the game he gets could be the Nepalese at Seddon Park for all I know. Against top 8s, with guys who can bowl back of a length at 140, he won't average >30. Teams with good SLA as well.

Hamish Rutherford, "Witness the ****ness" - YouTube

 

[Hurricane]

Haha yeah I'm wary of minnow bashing here, the game he gets could be the Nepalese at Seddon Park for all I know. Against top 8s, with guys who can bowl back of a length at 140, he won't average >30. Teams with good SLA as well.

Hamish Rutherford, "Witness the ****ness" - YouTube

Alright I'll exclude minnows from the equation - winner gets the other person's avatar for a month. Deal?

 

[Kippax]

More than that tbf. You can pay the $26.45 (or whatever it is in March 2015) Sky Sport basic package to help Kippax join Phlegm and Albi in freeloading during the later stages of the tournament. I will direct debit you the same.

 

[Spikey]

- George Bailey will average more then Sarwan in Test Cricket (Bailey must play a test).

really been a roller-coaster ride this one

 

[wellAlbidarned]

Finn will finish with a test bowling average over 30

Cummins will play less than 40 tests in his career

Broad will still be a **** at the end of his career

 

[honestbharani]

Finn will finish with a test bowling average over 30

Cummins will play less than 40 tests in his career

Broad will still be a **** at the end of his career

Not liking fast bowlers, are we?

 

[wellAlbidarned]

Not liking fast bowlers, are we?

I realllllyyyy want to be wrong about the cummins one. Except when he's playing NZ, then he needs to get injured asap.

Finn doesn't seem to have developed any kind of backup plan for when he's not getting wickets. Just runs up and bangs it in. Again, happy to be proven wrong

Broad gonna broad.

These are just the first predictions I could think of.

 

[hendrix]

Finn has somehow managed to pick up his wickets for under 30 so far, and that's with being as terrible on occasion as he has been.

I think he'll be dropped before his average goes above 30. Tremlett will come back and do well.

 

[Burgey]

J Silk. 5000+ test runs at > 45.00.

 

[Furball]

Shane Watson will never average above 45 with the bat in Test cricket.
Ricky Ponting will end his Test career having scored 40 Test hundreds.
Kevin Pietersen will become the first Englishman to cross the 10,000 run mark in Tests.

Might as well have the first one.
****ing India.
Not sure whether he'll play long enough.

 

[GIMH]

Even if he does play long enough, Cook will beat him.