Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread : Tue Feb 28, 2012 6:08 pm  

John_D wrote:

Fairbrother not as prolific or as quick-scoring as I thought he was either, but it was a different era when needing 8 off the last over was all but impossible.

And Morgan will never match McGrath's figures (waist size, for instance)

Fairbrother was ahead of his time, as i guess Bevan was too, aggressive running, lively in the field. Your average test match nowadays in like T20 compared to one day world cups back in the day (unless Sir Viv was firing on all cylinders)

Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread : Tue Feb 28, 2012 6:21 pm  

Boom from Kohli

Boom from Kohli

Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread : Tue Feb 28, 2012 10:21 pm  

Gave Malinga some jip there!

Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread : Tue Feb 28, 2012 10:24 pm  

fire in babylon if you missed it last night

fire in babylon if you missed it last night

[John_D]

Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread : Wed Feb 29, 2012 9:36 am  

flipper wrote:

Fairbrother was ahead of his time, as i guess Bevan was too, aggressive running, lively in the field.

Bevan less so, but certainly could be said to be a pioneer of modern one-day cricket - pushing into gaps, running the first one hard and clearing the front leg for some late-overs biffo. Not that he ever needed to resort to much biffo as he'd generally timed his innings to something approaching perfection. Obviously, he learned all that at Headingley...

Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread : Wed Feb 29, 2012 11:11 pm  

John_D wrote: Bevan less so, but certainly could be said to be a pioneer of modern one-day cricket - pushing into gaps, running the first one hard and clearing the front leg for some late-overs biffo. Not that he ever needed to resort to much biffo as he'd generally timed his innings to something approaching perfection. Obviously, he learned all that at Headingley... I was reading something about him the other day, just can't remember it where, but the just of it was he just loved the challenge , and just saw chasing 8 - 9 - 10 per over as an excuse to pile the pressure on the bowlers Brian Macmillan catchs Martin Guptil - in the commentary box

John_D wrote: Bevan less so, but certainly could be said to be a pioneer of modern one-day cricket - pushing into gaps, running the first one hard and clearing the front leg for some late-overs biffo. Not that he ever needed to resort to much biffo as he'd generally timed his innings to something approaching perfection. Obviously, he learned all that at Headingley... I was reading something about him the other day, just can't remember it where, but the just of it was he just loved the challenge , and just saw chasing 8 - 9 - 10 per over as an excuse to pile the pressure on the bowlers Brian Macmillan catchs Martin Guptil - in the commentary box

[John_D]

Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread : Thu Mar 01, 2012 9:32 am  

flipper wrote: I was reading something about him the other day, just can't remember it where, but the just of it was he just loved the challenge , and just saw chasing 8 - 9 - 10 per over as an excuse to pile the pressure on the bowlers Remember going to see Yorkshire v Warks in a cup quarter-final at Headingley in the mid 90s. Low scoring game and we were behind and behind and behind all the way through, but Bev and Peter Hartley scrambled us over the line with a ball to spare. Easy lolly, never in doubt. Still got it on VHS somewhere. If only I had something to play it on. flipper wrote: Brian Macmillan catchs Martin Guptil - in the commentary box My new favourite catch ever

flipper wrote: I was reading something about him the other day, just can't remember it where, but the just of it was he just loved the challenge , and just saw chasing 8 - 9 - 10 per over as an excuse to pile the pressure on the bowlers Remember going to see Yorkshire v Warks in a cup quarter-final at Headingley in the mid 90s. Low scoring game and we were behind and behind and behind all the way through, but Bev and Peter Hartley scrambled us over the line with a ball to spare. Easy lolly, never in doubt. Still got it on VHS somewhere. If only I had something to play it on. flipper wrote: Brian Macmillan catchs Martin Guptil - in the commentary box My new favourite catch ever

Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread : Thu Mar 01, 2012 1:55 pm  

John_D wrote:

My new favourite catch ever

looking at the youtube description, it's hardly what you'd call a 'straight 6' is it?

Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread : Thu Mar 01, 2012 1:58 pm  

More of a V8 turbo, although a lot of the pace had gone off the ball by the time it got to him.

Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread : Mon Mar 05, 2012 10:31 am  

Runako Morton dies

Runako Morton dies