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PY

PY

International Coach
Josh said:
Whatever.
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Top quality retort. :happy:

Lee has a better strike rate and is way more dangerous but they have similar records so comparison is fair IMOUO (in my obviously un-biased opinion). :p
 
Mister Wright

Mister Wright

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Dammit! It is so unfair. Adelaide get two huge innings from Lara and we get a dud decision in Brisbane, and we also missed out on Tendulkar two years ago from a dodgy decision. Hopefully we get Vaughan next year.
 
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UncleTheOne

U19 Captain
Mister Wright said:
Dammit! It is so unfair. Adelaide get two huge innings from Lara and we get a dud decision in Brisbane, and we also missed out on Tendulkar two years ago from a dodgy decision. Hopefully we get Vaughan next year.
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Elegant Vaughan in full flow or a couple of hours of KP and Freddie on the rampage?
 
Mr Mxyzptlk

Mr Mxyzptlk

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This is what happens when people write off a great player due to lack of form. It was extremely stupid that people were making statements suggesting that Lara is past it, when he scored 4 hundreds in 5 Tests earlier in this year. He now has 1000+ runs this year, and has scored 196, 176, 130, 153, 202*. Such short memories...

2003 - 1344 @ 74.66; 5 hundreds; 5 fifties
2004 - 1178 @ 58.90; 3 hundreds; 4 fifties
2005 - 1069* @ 71.26; 5 hundreds; 0 fifties

Over the last 3 years, Brian Lara has played 56 innings and has been unbeaten 3 times. In those 56 innings he has scored 13 hundreds to just 9 fifties - a conversion rate of 59%. With almost a hudred every 4 innings.

An average of 67.75.
Brian Lara is essentially as good, if not better, than he has ever been.
 
Jono

Jono

Virat Kohli (c)
Mister Wright said:
Dammit! It is so unfair. Adelaide get two huge innings from Lara and we get a dud decision in Brisbane, and we also missed out on Tendulkar two years ago from a dodgy decision. Hopefully we get Vaughan next year.
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Haha I feel for you Gabba folk. Missing out on Sachin and Lara. You also often have to settle for getting the 3rd VB Series final which often isn't necessary because its a 3-0 clean sweep.

I didn't even know Lara had a double ton. After channel 9 cut to the news, he was just over 150. Then during the score update he was 171* and I thought that was stumps. I went out, came back to check cricinfo for the India v SA scores and he's got 200 :-O :cool:
 
Jono

Jono

Virat Kohli (c)
Mr Mxyzptlk said:
This is what happens when people write off a great player due to lack of form. It was extremely stupid that people were making statements suggesting that Lara is past it, when he scored 4 hundreds in 5 Tests earlier in this year. He now has 1000+ runs this year, and has scored 196, 176, 130, 153, 202*. Such short memories...

2003 - 1344 @ 74.66; 5 hundreds; 5 fifties
2004 - 1178 @ 58.90; 3 hundreds; 4 fifties
2005 - 1069* @ 71.26; 5 hundreds; 0 fifties

Over the last 3 years, Brian Lara has played 56 innings and has been unbeaten 3 times. In those 56 innings he has scored 13 hundreds to just 9 fifties - a conversion rate of 59%. With almost a hudred every 4 innings.

An average of 67.75.
Brian Lara is essentially as good, if not better, than he has ever been.
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Its best to ignore knee-jerk reactions from absolute idiots like Mark Waugh. I laughed when he was criticising Lara's technique the other day on a Australian cricket show called Inside Cricket. He's not even in the same ballpark when comparing them in tests.
 
Adamc

Adamc

Cricketer Of The Year
Mr Mxyzptlk said:
This is what happens when people write off a great player due to lack of form. It was extremely stupid that people were making statements suggesting that Lara is past it, when he scored 4 hundreds in 5 Tests earlier in this year. He now has 1000+ runs this year, and has scored 196, 176, 130, 153, 202*. Such short memories...

2003 - 1344 @ 74.66; 5 hundreds; 5 fifties
2004 - 1178 @ 58.90; 3 hundreds; 4 fifties
2005 - 1069* @ 71.26; 5 hundreds; 0 fifties

Over the last 3 years, Brian Lara has played 56 innings and has been unbeaten 3 times. In those 56 innings he has scored 13 hundreds to just 9 fifties - a conversion rate of 59%. With almost a hudred every 4 innings.

An average of 67.75.
Brian Lara is essentially as good, if not better, than he has ever been.
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I think it's just inevitable that people are going to say he's past it when he goes a few matches without a century. Even today, when he had passed his century, the commentators were questioning whether he still had the ability to make big hundreds...obviously ignoring the fact that he scored 400* just last year.

And to those who criticise his technique - you're about 15 years and 11,000 runs too late.
 
Son Of Coco

Son Of Coco

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It's wonderful to see Lara get some runs, and a big double hundred at that! I missed most of the last session too, but I'll be watching tomorrow to see if he can keep it going.
 
Pratters

Pratters

Cricket, Lovely Cricket
Adamc said:
His first spell (might've been two spells) was 9-?-29-3, not particularly expensive. Anyway, Beleg's point is far more important - it's a Test match, so economy is pretty much irrelevant if he's taking wickets (which he was in his first spell).
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In test matches economy rate is irrelevent when you keep taking wickets. But you dont do that against stronger teams and you let the pressure off - also putting pressure on the other bowlers as runs are coming easily from one end.

Also I thought that was two spells combining into 9 overs. If that is not the case, the first portion of the spell when I made my initial comment when Lee had conceded more than 4 an over.
 
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