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You know what really grinds my cricketing gears?
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Furball
Evil Scotsman
100% positive. NRR is the total number of runs scored, divided by your total overs faced, minues the total number of runs conceded, divided by overs bowled.
If you bowl a team out or are bowled out, then for the purposes of NRR, it is assumed you've used your full compliment of overs.
Magrat Garlick
Rather Mad Witch
GF is correct.
By extension, a thing that grinds my gears is that a win by 300 runs counts way more in NRR than a win by 10 wickets in 30-odd overs.
By extension, a thing that grinds my gears is that a win by 300 runs counts way more in NRR than a win by 10 wickets in 30-odd overs.
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You do know about NRR beforehand, though. If you finish a chase with ten wickets in hand in a situation where NRR might be important, you probably should have kicked on a bit earlier.
But yeah, NRR in general is a bit crap. It just kinda does the job and no one really can be bothered thinking of a better way of distinguishing between two teams on the same number of points.
What's still grinding my cricketing gears is batsmen not going for one more unlikely run at the end of the first innings. They did it in the WC semi-finals ffs. What the **** have you got to lose? International fielders miss ridiculously easy run-out chances far more often than you would expect them to.
But yeah, NRR in general is a bit crap. It just kinda does the job and no one really can be bothered thinking of a better way of distinguishing between two teams on the same number of points.
What's still grinding my cricketing gears is batsmen not going for one more unlikely run at the end of the first innings. They did it in the WC semi-finals ffs. What the **** have you got to lose? International fielders miss ridiculously easy run-out chances far more often than you would expect them to.
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
It's not, but there's always been a (pretty strong IMO) argument to suggest it should be, so all games are counted equally. If you smash a team by a big margin, it's always a lot more beneficial to have batted first because 50 overs counts for a greater percentage of your NRR than 25 overs or whatever you need to chase a small target. Using a sum of net run rates rather than an overall net run rate would remove that problem.
Jono
Virat Kohli (c)
Bonus point system?
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
A bonus point system doesn't distinguish between two teams on the same number of points; it just makes it a slightly less likely occurrence.
Magrat Garlick
Rather Mad Witch
Duckworth/Lewis.
BoyBrumby
Englishman
Is that a suggestion for the NRR issue or an apropos-of-nothing gear grind?
SamSawnoff
U19 Vice-Captain
Cheerleading commentators. Most of them seem to think their job is to pump up the tyres of whoever appears on screen at any moment during a game.
When did commentating become about PR? There must have been a moment in time when the change happened.
When did commentating become about PR? There must have been a moment in time when the change happened.
BoyBrumby
Englishman
The rise of pay tv, IMHO.
Although, it must be said, Sky (as evil and heartless a corporation as one could wish for) has a cricket team admirably free of cheerleaders. Only really Bumble fits the bill and he does it in an ironic way (I think).
BoyBrumby
Englishman
DBAC. RGDW is wonderfully world weary. Any praise prised from him is well-merited.
Best deployed as a summariser rather than a comm tho; he can get a bit Leonard Cohen after a while.
SamSawnoff
U19 Vice-Captain
Also that he never made a bad decision in his life on the field. He doesn't sound world-weary so much as bitter.
Botham is pretty unbearable, I don't know what you'd call him apart from a cheerleader.
I like Bumble, he tries a bit too hard to be funny, but he sometimes is actually very funny and he's very likeable.
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PhoenixFire
International Coach
Ian Botham is a ****ing idiot, basically.
SamSawnoff
U19 Vice-Captain
I'll see you a Botham and raise you a Healy. Dear God, the pair of them should be banned.
Bad commentary would make cricket watching unbearable if not for the volume control.
But I'll stop now.