*Official* England in South Africa Thread

[Langeveldt]

And once, in Australia, when poor Symcox was fielding, they threw a dead chicken at him.

Sticks and stones eh

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Seems Pieterson's put in the fastest 100 ever in an ODI

Fastest by an Englishmen* but only the 9th fastest of all time (level with Sehwags fastest ever).



[SIZE=-2]*oooooo i can see the smoke coming from Langeveldt keys already[/SIZE]

 

[twctopcat]

Fastest by an Englishmen* but only the 9th fastest of all time (level with Sehwags fastest ever).

Only ! Pretty good achievement in my book!

 

[Langeveldt]

Shahid Afridi's 37 ball 100 against Sri Lanka must have just been incredible...

 

[twctopcat]

Shahid Afridi's 37 ball 100 against Sri Lanka must have just been incredible...

Yeah it is, so many sixes over long on, unbelievable hitting.

 

[Blaze]

the fact that England are now ranked 7th just goes to show how closely bunched that middle pack are...each one of those teams could easily be ranked 3rd soon enough

NZ and Sri Lanka are clearly the two best ODI sides after AUS IMO.

4-8 are all closely bunched though..

 

[tooextracool]

NZ and Sri Lanka are clearly the two best ODI sides after AUS IMO.

4-8 are all closely bunched though..

how the hell is SL clearly better than everyone else?
as far as i remember they are still rubbish away from home in ODIs.

 

[Richard]

Under the 4.5 limit.

The limit of what can possibly ever be anything vaguely resembling good.
4.41-an-over, while less than 4.5-an-over, is still very poor.

 

[tooextracool]

so why is that even the limit then if anything less than that is still poor? basically it all comes down to whether or not you like the player and if he has a successful domestic record.

 

[Richard]

Strauss doesn't like no4

Don't disagree with the rest of the post but must take issue with this: Strauss has batted at four in 22 out of his 27 ODIs - including the part when he was most successful. Until this tour everyone was saying he should bat four because he batted well with Flintoff a couple of times.

 

[Pinkline Jones]

Richard you're about as close to a "Cricketing God" as Verne Troyer is of being brought off the Bench for the Chicago Bulls' next NBL game. For your information Richard, Strauss was a music composer not a cricketer you dill. Now please specify, do you wish to discuss Richard or Johann?

 

[Hit4Six]

how the hell is SL clearly better than everyone else?
as far as i remember they are still rubbish away from home in ODIs.

which teams DO u like?

 

[Neil Pickup]

which teams DO u like?

That's got nothing to do with anything - Sri Lanka have a dismal, dismal away record.

 

[marc71178]

To think there were people arguing that they should be 3rd
ranked ?

All that shows is how close the middle ranked sides are.

 

[marc71178]

4.41-an-over, while less than 4.5-an-over, is still very poor.

No, it is not - because the game doesn't potter along at 4-4.2 an over any more.

 

[Richard]

Richard you're about as close to a "Cricketing God" as ... BLAH BLAH BLAH

And of course I put that slogan under my name, didn't I?
Take it out with James if you really want to.

 

[Richard]

No, it is not - because the game doesn't potter along at 4-4.2 an over any more.

Because the bowlers aren't good enough at present to keep it down to that.

 

[Richard]

so why is that even the limit then if anything less than that is still poor? basically it all comes down to whether or not you like the player and if he has a successful domestic record.

Nope, not at all.
Anything under 4.2-an-over is very good - anything over 4.5 can never, ever be good regardless of anything. If you're going at 4.45, for instance, while bowling at the death regularly it's still just about acceptible.

 

[Tom Halsey]

Anything under 4.5 in todays World is very good. You've got to go over 5 rpo to get into 'very poor'.

 

[Richard]

Seems weird having so long with no English cricket now considering how jam packed the calendar normally is

It does - it's one of these things like Global warming - when you think about it it's great that we've got such a long break - but it gets boring when you're just contemplating it casually.