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*Official* West Indies Tour of England 2020

TestMatch

TestMatch

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I always feel his double century in South Africa is underrated. Some hostile bowling earl on in that innings.

I hope this rain goes. I need my Kraigg Brathwaite fix.
 
SillyCowCorner1

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TestMatch said:
I always feel his double century in South Africa is underrated. Some hostile bowling earl on in that innings.

I hope this rain goes. I need my Kraigg Brathwaite fix.
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That 213, he said that it was his greatest knock because of where his head was prior to that game.


Against SA, are your referring to that game where he took 29 off Robin Peterson?
 
trundler

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Picture this:

A little water leaks under the covers. God mode Broad turns up. 8/65. West Indies rolled over in a session.
 
TestMatch

TestMatch

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SillyCowCorner1 said:
That 213, he said that it was his greatest knock because of where his head was prior to that game.


Against SA, are your referring to that game where he took 29 off Robin Peterson?
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Yeah, his 202. The video keeps disappearing from youtube. I used to enjoy re-watching it. Ntini was hostile and had Lara confused for a few hours, but he weathers the storm and launches some funny onslaughts.
 
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Bijed

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Teja. said:
https://www.espn.com/cricket/story/_/id/29490668/drs-got-overhaul

This article hits so many of the notes that explain why chappelli’s opinions are so uniquely terrible imo.
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I don't know what he's arguing in some parts. Liek the bit about 50/50 decisions - saving reviews for howlers rather than close ones has always been good resource management (even if it wouldn't be a factor in an ideal world) but he seems to think it's actually a bad thing if you do overturn a close but wrong decision?

I also chuckled slightly at "The three reviews per innings looked suspiciously like replicating the number used by tennis." Is that what he's been worried about all along: that the ICC is actually a puppet of the ITF secretly trying to turn cricket into tennis?

This paragraph annoyed me too:

This brings us to another questionable part of the DRS. "The umpire is always right and you don't argue with his decision" used to be the first lesson a young cricketer was taught. This admirable exercise in discipline and self-control is now not applicable as the introduction of DRS is encouraging a form of player dissent.
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I've got no tolerance for actual dissent, but the mindset that using the review system in any way constitutes this is utterly mired in the past. If any actual umpires feel this way then they need to rethink too imo. I can't blame umpires for feeling embarssed etc if they have to overturn a lot of decisions where actually they weren't far wrong, but viewing the mere usage of the system as an affront is the wrong attitude.
 
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Howe_zat

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That article is just a ramble. He gets close to having some kind of point (for example, about why it’s a problem for him that there’s tactical use of drs) and then it veers off into another not-really-related point before he’s explained his opinion at all. Just a really bad piece of writing.
 
Starfighter

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Considering how many overturned decisions there were in the first test I'd say that it's working pretty well actually.
 
honestbharani

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Chappelli, unlike wine, is getting worse with age. Guess the only good thing is it took him this long to descend to these levels and we were spared of it actually happening in the comm box.
 
wpdavid

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When Sam Curran struck his latest six on Friday, it got be wondering what percentage of his test runs have come that way. As his 711 test runs include 18 maximums, the answer is 15%. And I'm going to suggest that's a record for anyone who's made, say, 500 test runs or more until anyone can prove otherwise.
 
Bijed

Bijed

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wpdavid said:
When Sam Curran struck his latest six on Friday, it got be wondering what percentage of his test runs have come that way. As his 711 test runs include 18 maximums, the answer is 15%. And I'm going to suggest that's a record for anyone who's made, say, 500 test runs or more until anyone can prove otherwise.
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I'm going with Tim Southee: 72 sixes = 432 runs out of 1668 total, so just under 26%
 
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