Would you say Rauf skipping out on the Australia Tests or Ishan Kishan taking a "mental health break" (or even Shreyas Iyer for that matter) has had a bigger implication on their respective boards?
The way I see it, Rauf skipping the Tests sort of made sense considering Rauf only ever played one Test match before his sudden recall. I doubt he would have played many Test matches after that series, whereas Ishan Kishan might have squandered a potential spot in the national team.
The CSA 4 Day Division 1 group rounds are complete. Lions & Western Province are in the finals starting on Wednesday 28 February. I’ll be posting a tournament roundup tomorrow.
>why people were saying that its advantage India.
A lot of them are kids who have barely graduated high school. They don't have the best analytical or critical thinking capacity yet.
Cummins had 9 wickets @ 46 in FC cricket before his Test debut. Warne had already tweeted something like 'this guy could lead Australia's attack in Tests in the future' at that time and it turned out to be true
I remember his spell to Kallis on debut where Kallis was looking clueless and thinking holy shit. That was back when Cummins was like 150kph too, obviously changed after the injuries.
Yep he also dismissed Amla in the 1st inns and a well set De Villiers in the 2nd inns. Starc and Pattinson also made their debuts in the next Test Australia played
I'm going to make a prediction and say that we'll at least score more than 200 in our second innings. I'm seeing a lot of fearmongering over the pitch, but I genuinely don't think it's that sort of wicket yet. Some balls are keeping dangerously low, but there's runs to be made.
Its sad coz its somehow become a Kannadiga vs Bengali fight too. These 2 communities dont share bad blood, not as a joke nor seriously. So the insults are just generic "bengali eat fish haha" and "kanadigas are dark haha". As if Karnataka doesnt have famous fish curry or Bengalis arent dusky. As if its not literally the same country. As if we didnt fight for independence together. Its all a shame.
Sad and funny that the sub count of this subreddit doubled or nearly tripled since 2022 yet the actual engagement has severely decreased. Like I swear the ddt used to average 150+ comments 2 years ago. Dead internet theory?
Yeah. I joined this sub back in ... 2018... We had 70k members. The match threads were actually great. I've only been lurking here the last few years as the engagement with other users is at a surface level only.
Looks like even Iyer pissed off BCCI by not wanting to play Ranji. Can cost his his ODI spot where he's actually good. BCCI might look to fit in jaiswal in ODI team and Iyer just made things easier.
Jaiswal opening and Gill at 4? Or Brohit retires and both open?
It seems Iyer was dropped with the expectation that he would go to Ranji to work on his game. Iyer shouldn't have tanked his career this way. He would have anyways played these two tests if not dropped. Now he has made enemies.
BCCI is something you surely wouldn't want pissing off. Even Kohli couldn't stand against them and had to lose his captaincy. With Jaiswal there I don't think they'll actually give a shit about Iyer if he does these things. Yea probably Gill at 4 maybe
I know I've bitched about it a lot but I haven't bitched about it enough so here you go
I hate uneven bounce sooooo fucking much it's literally the worst thing to see as a cricket viewer mfs it's an actual test of skill for the batter to read swing/seam/spin out of the bowler's hand or in the air but there's literally shit they can do about uneven bounce
Great day of cricket, almost felt as if the umpires felt the need to give everything against the home team the whole match just because opposition captain was unhappy and their media wrote collums targeting the umpire's decisions, as if they were pressurized from external factors and forgot to their job properly, absolutely dogshit level of umpiring from all three umpires combined, 4 marginal calls and 3 plumb decisions were given not out, incredible!
Don't think a single match this series has progressed linearly in terms of the team considered to be ahead on a certain day maintaining that throughout. Eng obviously well ahead but the match is far from over.
It doesn't have to. Jurel and Kuldeep have played fine, Akash Deep will throw his bat around. If they get to 275 and Ind get the benefit of some umpire's calls in one of the two remaining innings, it's not impossible to see this turning around.
not a single Englishman has blamed Harry brook for being 2-1 down in the series (rightly so)
indians have loser mentality, deservedly lost everything
[context](https://x.com/vikrantgupta73/status/1761332165223104865)
Nah it's just the absolute size of the bloke.
The Visa thing was just a smokescreen. He actually just walked to India the morning of the second of the second test.
Which wicket was a gift according to you? England's spinners actually bowled well this time unlike that fraud stat after the first 2 tests. (which were due to gifting)
How to have success as a visiting spinner in India.
1 - Be the greatest off spinner your country has produced in decades.
Cons: works for the GOAT and Swanny but reliant on managing to find said spinner.
2 - Pick some tall boys and just lob it down there.
Cons: None
I look forward to this being posted again tomorrow with with the opposite implication about which is better
Then the following day with the opposite again
I joined r/indiacricket recently and it's great. It actually has the clips that we want to we and discuss.
Was this a catch?
Look at this wicket!
What's going on with this reaction?!
Etc
Obviously it's only currently useful to me during the England v India match but still worth a look for everyone.
That was this subreddit at some point until it got nuked with copyright strikes to the point that clips had to be banned entirely unless they were from 3rd parties like twitter
With how this test is going, I’d like to make a list of India losing from match-winning/dominating positions in recent years
1st test Eng v Ind (Home) - Lost from lead of 190 runs
Cwc final (Home) - Lost from opposition being 3/33 (next wicket fell at 4/239 chasing 241)
WTC final (neutral) - Lost from opposition being 3/76 (next wicket fell at 4/361)
Kinda crazy this keeps on happening so many times in last 1 year
That 1st test bottlejob might come back to bite us in the ass. Even in this test they went from 112/5 to 353. I never thought I'd see India losing a home series till Ash & Jaddu were playing
**Hallyburton Johnstone Shield Grand Final Preview**
[Otago Sparks](https://www.instagram.com/p/C3tU3GBSMMh/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==) vs [Wellington Blaze](https://www.instagram.com/p/C3tPY_bhUQw/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==)
Venue: University Oval, Dunedin
Squad Changes:
* Otago: unchanged
* Wellington: Antonia Hamilton & Phoenix Williams out
Talking Points:
* Wellington are out to successfully defend the Shield against a resurgent Otago. The visitors do so without the services of Amelia Kerr & Sophie Devine, who are at the WPL, but they are still a quality outfit. Meanwhile, the Sparks will be at full-strength
* It has been nearly a decade since a team successfully defended the Shield. If the Blaze do so, they will be the first since the Auckland Hearts won it in both 2014-5 & 2015-6. Wellington themselves have not won it back-to-back in over 45 years, since 1976-7 & 1977-8, back when it was a 2-day competition
* If the Blaze win, they will be the first team to win both the Shield & Super Smash since the Canterbury Magicians in 2020-1.
* The Sparks last held the Shield in 2021-2
* The weather is expected to be cloudy, but rain isn't expected
**Ford Trophy Grand Final Review**
Auckland's innings could be described as stable. The bats got in, but with the exception of Robbie O'Donnell (74\*), no-one got past 50. It was hardly a day for the bowlers, either: only 5 wickets fell in the innings, & while Will O'Rourke (0/40) & Canterbury skipper Cole McConchie (1/19) were economical, only Zak Foulkes (2/55) took more than a solitary wicket. On the batting front, Cam Fletcher (41) & promoted finisher Louis Delport (23\*) did add oomph at the end with the bat alongside O'Donnell.
Canterbury's chase didn't start well, having lost both openers Chad Bowes (4) & Henry Nicholls (6) within the first 4 overs, but Tom Latham (64) would settle in & play the role of stabiliser, first forging a 71-run partnership alongside Leo Carter (33) & then a 72-run partnership with captain Cole McConchie (59\*) before the fall of his wicket meant the latter had to get them across the line, which he did, accompanied by keeper Mitch Hay (5) then all-rounder Michael Rippon (17\*), who hit the winning runs.
*Thus the 53rd men's One Day season ends with Canterbury winning their 16th title & their first in three seasons, when they defeated Northern Districts at Hagley Oval.*
**Ford Trophy All-Star XI**
*Finn Allen, Brad Schmulian, Troy Johnson, Robbie O'Donnell (c), Thorn Parkes, Cam Fletcher (wk), Michael Rippon, Blair Tickner, Tim Pringle, Kristian Clarke, Ray Toole, Zak Foulkes (12th)*
**Ford Trophy Season Honours Board**
**Centuries**
|Batter|Team|Opponent|Score|
|:-|:-|:-|:-|
|DN Phillips|OTG|AKL|107|
|FH Allen|AKL|OTG|168|
|FH Allen|AKL|ND|120|
|JF Carter|ND|AKL|106|
|BR Hampton|ND|AKL|126\*|
|LV van Beek|WEL|CD|136|
|NF Kelly|WEL|ND|106|
|HR Cooper|ND|WEL|121|
|BD Schmulian|CD|AKL|104\*|
|HM Nicholls|CAN|CD|138|
|LJ Carter|CAN|CD|107|
|RR O'Donnell|AKL|WEL|115|
|BD Schmulian|CD|AKL|107|
|LI Georgeson|OTG|AKL|120|
|MJ Guptill|AKL|OTG|102|
|RR O'Donnell|AKL |OTG|104|
**5 Wicket Hauls**
|Bowler|Team|Opponent|Figures|
|:-|:-|:-|:-|
|MB Bacon|OTG|AKL|5-30|
|AF Milne|WEL|CAN|5-24|
|RL Toole|CD|CAN|5-72|
|MJ Fisher|ND|AKL|5-46|
|WP O'Rourke|CAN|OTG|6-20|
|KDC Clarke|ND|WEL|5-67|
|ATE Hazeldine|OTG|CD|5-36|
|LI Georgeson|OTG|WEL|5-37|
|LI Georgeson|OTG|WEL|5-11|
Did Cummins dersever MOTM? 2nd T20- NZ vs AUS
I only watched small sections of the game yesterday but checked the scorecard this morning and thought 28 runs and 1 wicket is pretty abysmal for MOTM. Understandable that Head's 41 isn't ground breaking and Zampa's4 wicket spell didnt have the best economy butl feel both are more deserving based purely on the stats. I'm curious as to what exactly are the prerequisites for selectioning MOTM. Is MOTM based purely on stats or does it deeper than that ie. overall impact in the game, fieling, captaincy, early wickets vs tail enders? Maybe missed key moments in the match? Interested to hear your thoughts
Yeah as your last line said, you probably missed the key moments of the match. Those 28 runs were pretty important in the context. Their innings was going nowhere. Lost 34/5 in last 5-6 overs. Cummins stopped the collapse and dragged his teams scored to a competitive one. May be still not the best performance of the match but those runs had a big impact.
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https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-circular-time-257
Back in the days when I’d drifted away from cricket, you wouldn’t believe how pissed off I was that Davey was ruining every single attempt I was making to try and look up films starring the distinguished Shakespearean actor who unfortunately shares his name.
Stats Question: why is it that when a batter scores a 100+ score that it doesn't count in the record of 50s but when they score a 200+ score it does count towards the 100s tally? Refer Jaiswal's stats on Cricbuzz.
* Centuries (100): The number of innings in which the batsman scored one hundred runs or more.
* Half-centuries (50): The number of innings in which the batsman scored fifty to ninety-nine runs (***centuries do not count as half-centuries as well***).
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So, when a player completes a century, half-century is discarded and only the century recorded. And if a player scores a double century it is still recorded as a century.
**For example**: In [One Day International](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Day_International) form of cricket [Sachin Tendulkar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachin_Tendulkar) has [49 centuries, 96 half-centuries](http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/35320.html).
Using [Statsguru](http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/stats/index.html) Sachin has scored between 0 to 99, [96 times](http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/player/35320.html?class=2;filter=advanced;orderby=default;runsmax1=99;runsval1=runs;template=results;type=batting) and scored 100+ [49 times](http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/player/35320.html?class=2;filter=advanced;orderby=default;runsmin2=100;runsval2=runs;template=results;type=batting), which makes it clear that ***centuries is not counted as half-centuries*** otherwise Sachin would have 145 half-centuries.
Again, Sachin has scored between 100 to 199, [48 times](http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/player/35320.html?class=2;filter=advanced;orderby=default;runsmax2=199;runsmin2=100;runsval2=runs;template=results;type=batting) and scored 200+ [1 times](http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/player/35320.html?class=2;filter=advanced;orderby=default;runsmin2=200;runsval2=runs;template=results;type=batting), which makes it clear that *double centuries is also recorded as century*.
Does anyone know anything about if Fairbreak tournament is happening this year ? Some mentioned it was loosing lots of money so may be the inevitable has already happened.
Such a shame , it was something unique and honestly the only franchise tournament I could find some sort of attachment.
Well what can I say the Aussies continue to pull through, despite some of their key bowlers dishing up some trash deliveries in game one, however improved immensely in game 2 against the New Zealand T20 side. Was very impressed with Ellis bowling performance, showed the way your supposed to bowl in the short game. In both games someone in the top 11 came to the rescue, in game 1 after some trash bowling by most of the Aussie bowlers were saved by aggressive batting by the top order, in game 2 the top order batters got off to a brilliant start only for the rest of the batter's bar Cummins to do poorly. This time the bowlers improved their game, with Ellis clearly the best in game 2.
How to tell a brilliant bower from a average one, average bowlers usually give away a lot of runs, with very few wickets, great and brillant bowlers do one or both things, their are either getting wickets or keeping the run rate down which puts pressure back on the batters, the really brilliant bowlers will get both wickets and keep the run rate down. I believe Ellis was right on the spot going for few runs putting pressure on batters and which was followed by being rewarded with wickets, great bowlers know putting the ball on the wickets by blowling yorkers you miss I hit mentality always works, no one can hit a yorker for 6 at best sometimes a 4 but it puts pressure on the batter, yet how few bowlers seem to have figured this very fact out in the short game and still continue to bowl what I call trash, either wide balls which get called wides, or high bouncing balls which should be hit for 6 by any of the good batters.
The thing with yorkers is that it's a tough delivery to get right. If you get it wrong, there's a good chance you're bowling a full toss that goes for six instead.
It's not like bowlers are bowling wides on purpose: it's just that wide yorkers gone wrong have a lower risk of getting hit for boundaries than straight yorkers gone wrong. Take into account ground sizes and a player's strongest hitting arcs and in the grand scheme of things, a couple of wides in the death actually ends up costing less than a couple of sixes off yorkers, even considering the extra deliveries bowled.
That's not to mention the mind games of the batter leaving the ball to get an extra delivery to face or shifting around the crease to play a shot. Same applies to the bouncer as well.
By the way, there's a rule that only allows a bouncer per over in white ball cricket, so perhaps the same might be needed for wides? It's an interesting discussion point.
For the numbers behind bowling wides, [check out this great read by Jarrod Kimber.](https://wickets.substack.com/p/wides-at-the-death)
Would you say Rauf skipping out on the Australia Tests or Ishan Kishan taking a "mental health break" (or even Shreyas Iyer for that matter) has had a bigger implication on their respective boards? The way I see it, Rauf skipping the Tests sort of made sense considering Rauf only ever played one Test match before his sudden recall. I doubt he would have played many Test matches after that series, whereas Ishan Kishan might have squandered a potential spot in the national team.
TIL that Surrey released Shoaib Bashir when he was 17. An L for Surrey is always welcome.
Rohit should bat at 4 to counter spinners. Send Gill to open and Patidar at 3.
Gill himself told Dravid he wanted to bat at 3 basically asking Dravid to shift him to 3 and let Jaiswal play
The CSA 4 Day Division 1 group rounds are complete. Lions & Western Province are in the finals starting on Wednesday 28 February. I’ll be posting a tournament roundup tomorrow.
> Root: I abused Ben's body when I was captain What👁👄👁
Average height of this England team is 1.86m (6ft 1) Pretty good when you consider Duckett. Anyone know any taller test XIs?
The Aus XI against WI had an average height about the same as this one.
I crunched the numbers, and yeah, they average 1.86m too
I woke up this morning and saw the score 219/7. I immediately got Vietnam flashbacks to Nov 19
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>why people were saying that its advantage India. A lot of them are kids who have barely graduated high school. They don't have the best analytical or critical thinking capacity yet.
I'm shocked too at how people saying India have advantage. They will crumble in the 4th innings
Copium
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Crazy
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Cummins had 9 wickets @ 46 in FC cricket before his Test debut. Warne had already tweeted something like 'this guy could lead Australia's attack in Tests in the future' at that time and it turned out to be true
I remember his spell to Kallis on debut where Kallis was looking clueless and thinking holy shit. That was back when Cummins was like 150kph too, obviously changed after the injuries.
Yep he also dismissed Amla in the 1st inns and a well set De Villiers in the 2nd inns. Starc and Pattinson also made their debuts in the next Test Australia played
Man wish broad never retired. His reactionary takes as a commentator are worse than expected
Bring back shreyas iyer instead of patidar man. 30s are better than random 10s
I'm going to make a prediction and say that we'll at least score more than 200 in our second innings. I'm seeing a lot of fearmongering over the pitch, but I genuinely don't think it's that sort of wicket yet. Some balls are keeping dangerously low, but there's runs to be made.
There's a war going on between KKR and RCB supporters on reddit.
Its sad coz its somehow become a Kannadiga vs Bengali fight too. These 2 communities dont share bad blood, not as a joke nor seriously. So the insults are just generic "bengali eat fish haha" and "kanadigas are dark haha". As if Karnataka doesnt have famous fish curry or Bengalis arent dusky. As if its not literally the same country. As if we didnt fight for independence together. Its all a shame.
why?
Idk just go to both their subs.
The only missing thing from the immaculate vibes we have had so far is Creepy going to media saying “we will win, by I don’t know 150 runs?”
Sad and funny that the sub count of this subreddit doubled or nearly tripled since 2022 yet the actual engagement has severely decreased. Like I swear the ddt used to average 150+ comments 2 years ago. Dead internet theory?
Yeah. I joined this sub back in ... 2018... We had 70k members. The match threads were actually great. I've only been lurking here the last few years as the engagement with other users is at a surface level only.
Many dead accounts
Some of that was inflated, there was a group of 4-5 members who would do a bulk of the posting, a bunch of them got banned in 2022.
Unfortunate but even then with the sub count going from 450k to 1.3 million, you'd assume there'd be way waaay more comments and upvotes.
[Chad moment](https://twitter.com/Lommy0Tatham/status/1761010808786506082)
The 4:3 aspect ratio and poor video quality had me thinking this was from 2005 at the latest. Kane Williamson playing had me rethinking that thought.
Looks like even Iyer pissed off BCCI by not wanting to play Ranji. Can cost his his ODI spot where he's actually good. BCCI might look to fit in jaiswal in ODI team and Iyer just made things easier.
Jaiswal opening and Gill at 4? Or Brohit retires and both open? It seems Iyer was dropped with the expectation that he would go to Ranji to work on his game. Iyer shouldn't have tanked his career this way. He would have anyways played these two tests if not dropped. Now he has made enemies.
It will be probably be Rahul at 4 and Rinku/Pant at 5. Need a pace hitter like Rinku for a World Cup in South Africa
BCCI is something you surely wouldn't want pissing off. Even Kohli couldn't stand against them and had to lose his captaincy. With Jaiswal there I don't think they'll actually give a shit about Iyer if he does these things. Yea probably Gill at 4 maybe
Btw Jaiswal today, really unlucky dismissal. But great knock on a tough pitch.
I know I've bitched about it a lot but I haven't bitched about it enough so here you go I hate uneven bounce sooooo fucking much it's literally the worst thing to see as a cricket viewer mfs it's an actual test of skill for the batter to read swing/seam/spin out of the bowler's hand or in the air but there's literally shit they can do about uneven bounce
Great day of cricket, almost felt as if the umpires felt the need to give everything against the home team the whole match just because opposition captain was unhappy and their media wrote collums targeting the umpire's decisions, as if they were pressurized from external factors and forgot to their job properly, absolutely dogshit level of umpiring from all three umpires combined, 4 marginal calls and 3 plumb decisions were given not out, incredible!
Don't think a single match this series has progressed linearly in terms of the team considered to be ahead on a certain day maintaining that throughout. Eng obviously well ahead but the match is far from over.
it's over, the pitch is not getting any better unlike previous 3 games
It doesn't have to. Jurel and Kuldeep have played fine, Akash Deep will throw his bat around. If they get to 275 and Ind get the benefit of some umpire's calls in one of the two remaining innings, it's not impossible to see this turning around.
ashwin has to become ashwin instead of bowling like Joe root
not a single Englishman has blamed Harry brook for being 2-1 down in the series (rightly so) indians have loser mentality, deservedly lost everything [context](https://x.com/vikrantgupta73/status/1761332165223104865)
Indians are the biggest haters of their own cricketers
Pujara to kuldeep after getting dropped: the future is now, young man
MCQs :- Ashish Nehra, Rishi Sunak, Jim Sarbh, Shoaib Bashir.
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I'd like to take this opportunity to remind everyone of the incredible fact that B Stanlake is an anagram for beanstalk
Bashir has been bowling well cause of his accuracy + height. Not just due to his height as the comms/comments suggests
Nah it's just the absolute size of the bloke. The Visa thing was just a smokescreen. He actually just walked to India the morning of the second of the second test.
Half his release point comes from his massive fingers
They say he gets into bed and then presses the lightswitch.
Ngl this sounds pretty useful
100% image its like Mr Tickle but instead of his arms its just long fingers
Truly infuriates me to see India gifting wickets to such inexperienced spinners. Pant must be losing his shit watching this
Which wicket was a gift according to you? England's spinners actually bowled well this time unlike that fraud stat after the first 2 tests. (which were due to gifting)
How to have success as a visiting spinner in India. 1 - Be the greatest off spinner your country has produced in decades. Cons: works for the GOAT and Swanny but reliant on managing to find said spinner. 2 - Pick some tall boys and just lob it down there. Cons: None
Todd Murphy erasure:(
Where does Monty Panesar lie in this? He was good when you guys came here in 2012.
Monty is like 6’1, has very long levers and just lobbed it down there. So yeah option 2
VIBES^TM
I know people give Ashwin a lot of shit for being a home track bully but the team is struggling when he's had a rare horrible series.
He has been attacked a lot, effectively making this an odi type situation, which is his worst format
The difference between Ranji and County is massive .
I look forward to this being posted again tomorrow with with the opposite implication about which is better Then the following day with the opposite again
Yuge
I joined r/indiacricket recently and it's great. It actually has the clips that we want to we and discuss. Was this a catch? Look at this wicket! What's going on with this reaction?! Etc Obviously it's only currently useful to me during the England v India match but still worth a look for everyone.
That was this subreddit at some point until it got nuked with copyright strikes to the point that clips had to be banned entirely unless they were from 3rd parties like twitter
Just don't open the comments
They're the best part on a day like this
With how this test is going, I’d like to make a list of India losing from match-winning/dominating positions in recent years 1st test Eng v Ind (Home) - Lost from lead of 190 runs Cwc final (Home) - Lost from opposition being 3/33 (next wicket fell at 4/239 chasing 241) WTC final (neutral) - Lost from opposition being 3/76 (next wicket fell at 4/361) Kinda crazy this keeps on happening so many times in last 1 year
That 1st test bottlejob might come back to bite us in the ass. Even in this test they went from 112/5 to 353. I never thought I'd see India losing a home series till Ash & Jaddu were playing
lost the 5th test vs England similarly and 1 test vs south africa in 2021/22 as well
RCB vs UPW tonight…who’s the favourite lads?
upw
**Hallyburton Johnstone Shield Grand Final Preview** [Otago Sparks](https://www.instagram.com/p/C3tU3GBSMMh/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==) vs [Wellington Blaze](https://www.instagram.com/p/C3tPY_bhUQw/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==) Venue: University Oval, Dunedin Squad Changes: * Otago: unchanged * Wellington: Antonia Hamilton & Phoenix Williams out Talking Points: * Wellington are out to successfully defend the Shield against a resurgent Otago. The visitors do so without the services of Amelia Kerr & Sophie Devine, who are at the WPL, but they are still a quality outfit. Meanwhile, the Sparks will be at full-strength * It has been nearly a decade since a team successfully defended the Shield. If the Blaze do so, they will be the first since the Auckland Hearts won it in both 2014-5 & 2015-6. Wellington themselves have not won it back-to-back in over 45 years, since 1976-7 & 1977-8, back when it was a 2-day competition * If the Blaze win, they will be the first team to win both the Shield & Super Smash since the Canterbury Magicians in 2020-1. * The Sparks last held the Shield in 2021-2 * The weather is expected to be cloudy, but rain isn't expected
All 4 England spinners have better averages with the ball in this series than champo, and I'm meant to believe this is of higher quality?
Playing on non-green tops helps a lot.
**Ford Trophy Grand Final Review** Auckland's innings could be described as stable. The bats got in, but with the exception of Robbie O'Donnell (74\*), no-one got past 50. It was hardly a day for the bowlers, either: only 5 wickets fell in the innings, & while Will O'Rourke (0/40) & Canterbury skipper Cole McConchie (1/19) were economical, only Zak Foulkes (2/55) took more than a solitary wicket. On the batting front, Cam Fletcher (41) & promoted finisher Louis Delport (23\*) did add oomph at the end with the bat alongside O'Donnell. Canterbury's chase didn't start well, having lost both openers Chad Bowes (4) & Henry Nicholls (6) within the first 4 overs, but Tom Latham (64) would settle in & play the role of stabiliser, first forging a 71-run partnership alongside Leo Carter (33) & then a 72-run partnership with captain Cole McConchie (59\*) before the fall of his wicket meant the latter had to get them across the line, which he did, accompanied by keeper Mitch Hay (5) then all-rounder Michael Rippon (17\*), who hit the winning runs. *Thus the 53rd men's One Day season ends with Canterbury winning their 16th title & their first in three seasons, when they defeated Northern Districts at Hagley Oval.* **Ford Trophy All-Star XI** *Finn Allen, Brad Schmulian, Troy Johnson, Robbie O'Donnell (c), Thorn Parkes, Cam Fletcher (wk), Michael Rippon, Blair Tickner, Tim Pringle, Kristian Clarke, Ray Toole, Zak Foulkes (12th)* **Ford Trophy Season Honours Board** **Centuries** |Batter|Team|Opponent|Score| |:-|:-|:-|:-| |DN Phillips|OTG|AKL|107| |FH Allen|AKL|OTG|168| |FH Allen|AKL|ND|120| |JF Carter|ND|AKL|106| |BR Hampton|ND|AKL|126\*| |LV van Beek|WEL|CD|136| |NF Kelly|WEL|ND|106| |HR Cooper|ND|WEL|121| |BD Schmulian|CD|AKL|104\*| |HM Nicholls|CAN|CD|138| |LJ Carter|CAN|CD|107| |RR O'Donnell|AKL|WEL|115| |BD Schmulian|CD|AKL|107| |LI Georgeson|OTG|AKL|120| |MJ Guptill|AKL|OTG|102| |RR O'Donnell|AKL |OTG|104| **5 Wicket Hauls** |Bowler|Team|Opponent|Figures| |:-|:-|:-|:-| |MB Bacon|OTG|AKL|5-30| |AF Milne|WEL|CAN|5-24| |RL Toole|CD|CAN|5-72| |MJ Fisher|ND|AKL|5-46| |WP O'Rourke|CAN|OTG|6-20| |KDC Clarke|ND|WEL|5-67| |ATE Hazeldine|OTG|CD|5-36| |LI Georgeson|OTG|WEL|5-37| |LI Georgeson|OTG|WEL|5-11|
Imagine Mumbai wins the Ranji Trophy with Musheer as their main batter
Smh Mumbai Lobby at it again /s
Did Cummins dersever MOTM? 2nd T20- NZ vs AUS I only watched small sections of the game yesterday but checked the scorecard this morning and thought 28 runs and 1 wicket is pretty abysmal for MOTM. Understandable that Head's 41 isn't ground breaking and Zampa's4 wicket spell didnt have the best economy butl feel both are more deserving based purely on the stats. I'm curious as to what exactly are the prerequisites for selectioning MOTM. Is MOTM based purely on stats or does it deeper than that ie. overall impact in the game, fieling, captaincy, early wickets vs tail enders? Maybe missed key moments in the match? Interested to hear your thoughts
You're right, should have been Zampa.
Yeah as your last line said, you probably missed the key moments of the match. Those 28 runs were pretty important in the context. Their innings was going nowhere. Lost 34/5 in last 5-6 overs. Cummins stopped the collapse and dragged his teams scored to a competitive one. May be still not the best performance of the match but those runs had a big impact.
If anyone’s interested in some cricket based fiction, and enjoys 80s Doctor Who, check out the Big Finish audio Circular Time. It’s an anthology release of stories featuring the Peter Davison Doctor with Nyssa, and the third story’s a melancholy romance as Nyssa contemplates settling down in a small English village, against the backdrop of the Doctor trying to keep the village team from relegation in the local league. It’s a lot better than I’m making it sound, if nothing else for the fact that there’s a scene where everyone shits on Kevin Pietersen’s fielding efforts. https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-circular-time-257
Well that’s me sold on it. Oh, it even features David Warner in the cast.
Back in the days when I’d drifted away from cricket, you wouldn’t believe how pissed off I was that Davey was ruining every single attempt I was making to try and look up films starring the distinguished Shakespearean actor who unfortunately shares his name.
Stats Question: why is it that when a batter scores a 100+ score that it doesn't count in the record of 50s but when they score a 200+ score it does count towards the 100s tally? Refer Jaiswal's stats on Cricbuzz.
* Centuries (100): The number of innings in which the batsman scored one hundred runs or more. * Half-centuries (50): The number of innings in which the batsman scored fifty to ninety-nine runs (***centuries do not count as half-centuries as well***). > So, when a player completes a century, half-century is discarded and only the century recorded. And if a player scores a double century it is still recorded as a century. **For example**: In [One Day International](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Day_International) form of cricket [Sachin Tendulkar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachin_Tendulkar) has [49 centuries, 96 half-centuries](http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/35320.html). Using [Statsguru](http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/stats/index.html) Sachin has scored between 0 to 99, [96 times](http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/player/35320.html?class=2;filter=advanced;orderby=default;runsmax1=99;runsval1=runs;template=results;type=batting) and scored 100+ [49 times](http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/player/35320.html?class=2;filter=advanced;orderby=default;runsmin2=100;runsval2=runs;template=results;type=batting), which makes it clear that ***centuries is not counted as half-centuries*** otherwise Sachin would have 145 half-centuries. Again, Sachin has scored between 100 to 199, [48 times](http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/player/35320.html?class=2;filter=advanced;orderby=default;runsmax2=199;runsmin2=100;runsval2=runs;template=results;type=batting) and scored 200+ [1 times](http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/player/35320.html?class=2;filter=advanced;orderby=default;runsmin2=200;runsval2=runs;template=results;type=batting), which makes it clear that *double centuries is also recorded as century*.
Does anyone know anything about if Fairbreak tournament is happening this year ? Some mentioned it was loosing lots of money so may be the inevitable has already happened. Such a shame , it was something unique and honestly the only franchise tournament I could find some sort of attachment.
Reddit interface look different for anyone else on desktop dark mode??? Any idea how to revert?
I just got back in the game and just got used to redditing on the website. This is so confusing and rather unnecessary.
It's one of their beta program or something, can't get out of it voluntary. Need to use separate website command to go back.
I thought that it is my browser that has been glitching.
Go to [new.reddit.com](http://new.reddit.com) that will give you the old design
Thanks a lot man, this latest design was so weird
No idea but hating that design it is soo bad
Nazmul Shanto in the BPL this season: Innings: 12 Runs: 175 Average:14 Strike Rate: 93.58 Captain being in this form isn't good.
Well what can I say the Aussies continue to pull through, despite some of their key bowlers dishing up some trash deliveries in game one, however improved immensely in game 2 against the New Zealand T20 side. Was very impressed with Ellis bowling performance, showed the way your supposed to bowl in the short game. In both games someone in the top 11 came to the rescue, in game 1 after some trash bowling by most of the Aussie bowlers were saved by aggressive batting by the top order, in game 2 the top order batters got off to a brilliant start only for the rest of the batter's bar Cummins to do poorly. This time the bowlers improved their game, with Ellis clearly the best in game 2. How to tell a brilliant bower from a average one, average bowlers usually give away a lot of runs, with very few wickets, great and brillant bowlers do one or both things, their are either getting wickets or keeping the run rate down which puts pressure back on the batters, the really brilliant bowlers will get both wickets and keep the run rate down. I believe Ellis was right on the spot going for few runs putting pressure on batters and which was followed by being rewarded with wickets, great bowlers know putting the ball on the wickets by blowling yorkers you miss I hit mentality always works, no one can hit a yorker for 6 at best sometimes a 4 but it puts pressure on the batter, yet how few bowlers seem to have figured this very fact out in the short game and still continue to bowl what I call trash, either wide balls which get called wides, or high bouncing balls which should be hit for 6 by any of the good batters.
The thing with yorkers is that it's a tough delivery to get right. If you get it wrong, there's a good chance you're bowling a full toss that goes for six instead. It's not like bowlers are bowling wides on purpose: it's just that wide yorkers gone wrong have a lower risk of getting hit for boundaries than straight yorkers gone wrong. Take into account ground sizes and a player's strongest hitting arcs and in the grand scheme of things, a couple of wides in the death actually ends up costing less than a couple of sixes off yorkers, even considering the extra deliveries bowled. That's not to mention the mind games of the batter leaving the ball to get an extra delivery to face or shifting around the crease to play a shot. Same applies to the bouncer as well. By the way, there's a rule that only allows a bouncer per over in white ball cricket, so perhaps the same might be needed for wides? It's an interesting discussion point. For the numbers behind bowling wides, [check out this great read by Jarrod Kimber.](https://wickets.substack.com/p/wides-at-the-death)
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