Over-rated things in cricket

[jonbrooks]

Brendon McCullum

 

[wiff]

statistics

 

[Migara]

Cricket writers

 

[Hooksey]

Chuckers with 100s of wickets to their name.

 

[ohnoitsyou]

Clover

 

[Hooksey]

Clover

Ever smoked it?

 

[Migara]

Human eye

 

[Muloghonto]

ability to bat on seaming wickets.

 

[Prince EWS]

The importance of doing well against the best team(s).

 

[Furball]

The importance of doing well against the best team(s).

Nah, disagree. Their record against Australia, for me, is what really sets apart Lara and Tendulkar from their contemporaries.

 

[Prince EWS]

It wouldn't be over-rated if no-one disagreed.

 

[GIMH]

EWS and his anti-Flintoff agenda, despicable

 

[Hooksey]

Would sure like to see them faster.

England bowled only 26 in a session in one of the Ashes Tests.

 

[Dan]

Was umpiring today, and the team bowling second bowled 18 overs in about 100 minutes.

In fairness they took 10 wickets, the batsmen were taking every bit of their 3 minutes to get out there because they weren't padded up in time (and were rather clueless), one kid came out without a helmet so I sent him to go get one, and a bat got snapped clean in half ala Messrs Carberry and Wright.

 

[ohnoitsyou]

Modern bowling allrounders not named cairns or pollock

 

[Maximas]

Was umpiring today, and the team bowling second bowled 18 overs in about 100 minutes.

In fairness they took 10 wickets, the batsmen were taking every bit of their 3 minutes to get out there because they weren't padded up in time (and were rather clueless), one kid came out without a helmet so I sent him to go get one, and a bat got snapped clean in half ala Messrs Carberry and Wright.

yeah that's pretty bad, once in a 75 over game I played we actually had to slow down because the rules state you must bowl 20 overs or something similar in the last hour, and if you go into the last hour having bowled more than 55 overs you still have to bowl 20. Mind you, our opening bowlers bowled pretty much all day off about 5 steps