***Official*** India in Australia 2011/12

[Jayzamann]

Just in case you couldn't tell how laid back and sassy this type of cricket is, they're not wearing ties in the comms.

Outrageous!

 

[Spikey]

Can't wait until spinners are banned from bowling in the powerplay.



I'm not joking. This is a serious suggestion.


ps I am not a crackpot.

 

[Jayzamann]

Wow. That Moneyball rating was interesting. Brett Lee right up there amongst the best seamers in the world - along with Lasith Malinga. Insightful work from The Crew.

Daresay there's something incredibly arbitrary about how some of those numbers came to be. Pinchasalt.

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

how did they calculate it kiwininja

With an abacus.

 

[Spikey]

Just in case you couldn't tell how laid back and sassy this type of cricket is, they're not wearing ties in the comms.

Outrageous!

Another suggestion: Commentators in T20 matches most be aged over 50

 

[Prince EWS]

Can't wait until spinners are banned from bowling in the powerplay.



I'm not joking. This is a serious suggestion.


ps I am not a crackpot.

I can't wait until the commentators realise a spinner opens the bowling at least 40% of the time in modern T20, and doesn't call it a "big call" when it happens.

 

[DingDong]

Lol @ the Moneyball ratings thing. Totally missed how that team in "Moneyball" was actually put together - by selecting players statistically good at specific tasks that were under-valued or could be used to in roles in combination with other things to get the team to target goals.

All the Nine stats team have done there is give conventional stats different weightings to give us a number out of 100. In fact it's the exact sort of stat that the Moneyball principle tried to get away from. And I reckon their fielding ratings were entirely subjective too.

yes that doesn't make much sense if it was a random number assigned to each player

 

[Prince EWS]

Daresay there's something incredibly arbitrary about how some of those numbers came to be. Pinchasalt.

Daresay there's something incredibly sarcastic about how Heath made that post.

 

[Spikey]

yes that doesn't make much sense if it was a random number assigned to each player

No it wasn't.


They went through the team, ranked the players from best to worst, and then assigned a random number

 

[Prince EWS]

yes that doesn't make much sense if it was a random number assigned to each player

Oh it wasn't a random number; it was just a weighted system to rate players out of 100 using conventional statistics. Which is absolutely fine, but it's not analogous to Moneyball at all.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Daresay there's something incredibly arbitrary about how some of those numbers came to be. Pinchasalt.

No. Lasith Malinga is my benchmark against which the quality of every seamer is measured. He's the 100 percenter in my book.

Granted that book's run of 10,000 copies was rapidly pulped and recycled as bog roll, but I still have a copy on my Hard Drive.

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

Can't wait for the ball to hit spider-cam or it's wires.

 

[Spikey]

if only they had a 2nd slip instead of 1st

 

[BoyBrumby]

Lol. Dominic Cork confirms that the new Oz captain acquired the nickname "Toby" whilst he had his stint in Scotland, after the Northants stalwart.

Also "surprised" at his call up.

Wade's bat has big edges, eh?

 

[Jayzamann]

Wade's handsome in a Tom Hardy sorta way.

Spider cam was in front of the regular camera angle at the start of PK's over. Naff.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Lol. What do you call that? Amazing shot.

 

[benchmark00]

Holy ****.

Yeah we've seen that shot heaps, but not THAT straight and pure. That is straight up ****ed up.

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

Dancers? Is this the ****ing IPL?

Was that a KFC Maximum?

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

Holy ****.

Yeah we've seen that shot heaps, but not THAT straight and pure. That is straight up ****ed up.

That happens all the time in NZ domestic cricket.

/notimpressed

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Lol. Dominic Cork confirms that the new Oz captain acquired the nickname "Toby" whilst he had his stint in Scotland, after the Northants stalwart.?

This just caused me to look up David Ripley (sadly by first searching for Stuart Ripley ) and was amazed to see he was still playing for Northants 2nd XI... Which then led me to this guy... Surely related to the mega-star that was Steve??