The Roar
The Roar

The Roar

JGK

Roar Guru

Joined February 2013

24.9k

Views

32

Published

9.1k

Comments

Cricket nut. Red V. Man U.

Published

Comments
JGK
Roar Guru
JGK
Roar Guru

Cricket's all-time alphabetical 'R' Team

With the pairs of Richards (and sons) and Russells, as well as other high quality players, the ‘R’ Team is perhaps best described as ‘light heavyweight”’– strong and powerful but just below a few of the others. Still, this is a very strong team.

Cricket
19
2013
Cricket's all-time alphabetical 'R' Team
JGK
Roar Guru
JGK
Roar Guru

Cricket's All Time K Team

With some of the composite teams coming up, we are now past the half way mark of this marathon. To date, the B Team and the H Team are the stand outs and it’s fair to say that they won’t be challenged by the K Team.

Cricket
33
2013
Cricket's All Time K Team
Older Submissions

Well yes but a 401* makes him immortal.

Spoilers: The cricketing saga (Part 2)

View Comment
Cricket
 
Today

Laird did of course make a WSC ton against the West Indies after which, as legend has it, Viv himself came into the dressing room and said “Man, I wish I could bat like that”.

As compliments go, that’s probably the equivalent of a 300!

Spoilers: The cricketing saga (Part 2)

View Comment
Cricket
 
Today

. He was supposed to make his test debut against WI in 1984, but a finger injury forced him out

Some might call that good luck.

Spoilers: The cricketing saga (Part 2)

View Comment
Cricket
 
Today

Yep. If he makes that run he probably plays another test.

Spoilers: The cricketing saga (Part 2)

View Comment
Cricket
 
Today

1956, not 1961.
1961 was Richie’s round the wicket heroics.

Spoilers: The cricketing saga (Part 2)

View Comment
Cricket
 
Today

Sorry, my mistake – I had a min runs in the innings filter on.

Warne’s top scored 6 times in total including 5 from 8 downwards in the batting order.

Spoilers: The cricketing saga (Part 2)

View Comment
Cricket
 
Today

At Old Trafford 2005 he batted at 7.
But you’re right about 1997.

Spoilers: The cricketing saga (Part 2)

View Comment
Cricket
 
Today

I make it that Warne did it twice (batting 8 or below). Vettori did it 9 times!

Spoilers: The cricketing saga (Part 2)

View Comment
Cricket
 
Today

Yep, that was my thought at the time but to be fair, he should call it as he sees it.

Spoilers: The cricketing saga (Part 2)

View Comment
Cricket
 
Today

Clarke’s decision, at least, was particularly stupid as they won with over a day to spare.

He gets to 401* and he has a cricketing immortality. As it is, he’s just one of a number of very very good batsmen from the era.

Spoilers: The cricketing saga (Part 2)

View Comment
Cricket
 
Today

Dammit – here comes the PTSD again!

Spoilers: The cricketing saga (Part 2)

View Comment
Cricket
 
Today

Or Paine declaring on Warner with the World Record in sight…

Spoilers: The cricketing saga (Part 2)

View Comment
Cricket
 
Today

Mine was Billy Bowden not giving Ohja out when Johnson had him stone motherless plumb in the first test in India in 2010. Aust would have won by 5 runs (and not lost the series), instead India won by a wicket due to yet another VVS gem.

Spoilers: The cricketing saga (Part 2)

View Comment
Cricket
 
Today

Great series.

I understand that Thorpe’s selfishness in that innings p1ssed off a number of his teammates. And rightly so.

Spoilers: The cricketing saga (Part 2)

View Comment
Cricket
 
Today

Yes, it is a very interesting topic. Clearly the best fielders have all the anticipation etc PLUS the speed to go with it.

Lies and damn lies: Cricket’s debatable statistics

View Comment
Cricket
 
2d

For those wanting to know Sanga batsman only stats by opponent:
Inn NO runs Ave
Australia 11 0 679 61.73
Bangladesh 15 2 1612 124.00
England 18 0 852 47.33
India 19 1 1032 57.33
New Zealand 18 3 821 54.73
Pakistan 37 5 2228 69.63
South Africa 21 0 1251 59.57
West Indies 9 1 442 55.25
Zimbabwe 2 0 281 140.50
Total 150 12 9198 66.65
Needless to day, they are pretty special.

Lies and damn lies: Cricket’s debatable statistics

View Comment
Cricket
 
2d

That was some innings – was sawn off at the end as well.

Lies and damn lies: Cricket’s debatable statistics

View Comment
Cricket
 
2d

Great link. Clearly they think that running catches deserve higher ratings. I suspect that has something to do with how they benchmark the speed of the “average” fielder in determining the probability of the catch being made. If that’s the case then quite obviously faster outfielders are going to make notionally harder catches because they effectively have a head start.

For instance, Billy Hamilton, who was on that clip, has near olympic sprinting level speed so he’s always going to make running catches look easy.

Of all those catches, the Jackie Bradley Jr one looked the best.

Lies and damn lies: Cricket’s debatable statistics

View Comment
Cricket
 
2d

To be clear, I am separating catching with ground fielding (which is predominantly about stopping runs). I totally agree that catching is more important in red ball cricket because wickets are the limiting factor (as opposed to deliveries in white ball cricket). That said, catching in T20s is almost an entirely different skill to catching in Tests as it is more reliant on outfield catches rather than close to the wicket catches.

I do disagree re the size and shape of the fields. Yes, baseball has some quirks at the fence but the game is still focussed between first and third base. It’s like playing cricket where bowlers have to aim at the stumps and batsmen can only hit between cover and mid wicket. The permutations on any one ball are orders larger in cricket than in baseball.

Lies and damn lies: Cricket’s debatable statistics

View Comment
Cricket
 
2d

It is a lot easier to do in baseball with the smaller fields and limited fair territory, a known strike zone and fairly static fielding positions and roles.

Plus, over a 5 day Test good fielding (as opposed to catching) has less of an impact on an overall result than in a baseball game (or even a T20).

That said, I agree that great fielding is under appreciated, particularly in T20s.

Lies and damn lies: Cricket’s debatable statistics

View Comment
Cricket
 
2d

There was a guy called Steve Smith who struggled to get a game in that period.

Lies and damn lies: Cricket’s debatable statistics

View Comment
Cricket
 
2d

Maybe if you score the 50s, there is no need for a deciding test.

Lies and damn lies: Cricket’s debatable statistics

View Comment
Cricket
 
2d

Sobers was one of the rare beasts that had both.

Sadly he played a couple of years too long chasing the runs WR and then 8000 Test runs.

Lies and damn lies: Cricket’s debatable statistics

View Comment
Cricket
 
2d

That’s going to make for some sorry reading. He should have retired at the same time as Warney! He would have had 9000+ runs at 59.
Or after the 2008 tour of the West Indies when he had 10000 at 58.

Lies and damn lies: Cricket’s debatable statistics

View Comment
Cricket
 
2d

What if you are so incompetent that you don’t even get a hand on it?

Lies and damn lies: Cricket’s debatable statistics

View Comment
Cricket
 
2d
Older Comments