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How do you rate all-rounders? For a start, there are different views on what an all-rounder is. If there isn’t agreement there, it’s hard…
In the first Test against New Zealand, David Warner joined Ricky Ponting as the only Australian to score hundreds in both innings of a…
It has been noted that the South Africans were the first visiting team since the 1992/3 West Indians to win a second successive series…
The not particularly evocatively named Mr Price Kings Park, Durban. The not overly fan-friendly time of 3:10 am, Sunday eighth July. One of those…
In all of the debates about Australian cricket selections lately, one almost constant has been the criticism of Brad Haddin, with calls for him…
Three-quarters of the way through pool play at the Rugby World Cup and it’s hard to find anyone with a good word to say…
The 2000th cricket Test match has just begun between England and India at Lords. Some are querying whether it is really the 2000th Test,…
[caption id="attachment_16689" caption="Australia\'s bowler Simon Katich, third from right, with teammates, celebrates. AP Photo/Themba Hadebe"][/caption] Simon Katich was – and deserves the opportunity to…
It’s been popular on The Roar to talk about the relative weakness of the Australian conference in the Super Rugby competition in 2011. The…
In the hand-wringing that has (quite appropriately) followed the Ashes series, one snippet is worth noting – discounting the Perth match (which starts to…
There have been a couple of articles recently on The Roar regarding the haka. It’s been a popular bone of contention – how do…
Posts on The Roar in recent weeks have discussed selecting all-time World, West Indies, India v Australia and West Indies regional teams. Some of…
Unlike the totally even-handed Raiders home crowd!
Fogarty off with suspected bicep tear as Raiders night goes from bad to worse in Broncos blowout
Robbo, I don’t know the story with this bloke, but sometimes a club regular gets preferred over a rep player and that’s not a new thing. Way back I was playing 2nd grade in Brisbane and we’d had a good season. In the first semi we played Brothers and they fielded Tony Darcy, current Wallaby, in the front row. Chris Handy, a Wallaby the year before and a bloke called DannyTighe were preferred as props in first grade. Tighe never got a rep jersey so far as I know and wouldn’t have done too well in a skinfold test or a shuttle run I suspect. But he was huge and strong and could dominate most club props, and Brothers had plenty of other blokes to do the running around. Anyway, forward a couple of weeks and we got to the GF, again against Brothers. This time Darcy was up in first grade – and it was Handy, not Tighe, who was dropped to 2nds. Brothers won (both 2nd and 1st grade) incidentally, due in no small part to strong scrums and (in seconds anyway) a couple of missed tackles by yours turly.
Five things we learned: One area Gordon must fix to convince Wallabies boss, ABs bruiser should be on notice
Have to ask re the final ODI – in a dead rubber against a seriously overmatched opponent who has form in getting out for around 100 – when most of your batters have had only one hit in the series and bowling first means most of them won’t get a second, why wouldn’t you bat first?
Ruthless Aussies thrash Bangladesh by eight wickets, secure ODI series clean sweep
Doc, similarly a close follower of cricket for 50 plus years (in Qld) and never heard the term. It’s an outright win, whether you won or trailed on the first innings. I thought googling “reverse outright” supported this – the first page of results, interspersed with reverse mortgage pieces, shows a handful of news reports using the term, but these all seem to be Victorian and recent. However, the second page of results does include one for a Brisbane club result (involving the Gold Coast club). I can only think that this term is a relatively recent invention.
Incredible drama as Victorian Premier Cricket club go full Bazball, win grand final with all time run chase for 70-year first
And they persist with not opening with Mooney (and wh noitt picking Harris or Jonassen). Bizarre.
New golden girl stars as Aussies spared Bangladesh blushes by King onslaught, horrific run out
It’s the Scottish play that’s unlucky I thought? According to Blackadder anyway.
Aussie star out of IPL after breaking leg in 'freak accident' at training
It feels odd to be agreeing with Fitler, but yes. And if you just go bolt upright into the tackle (of someone who has just passed) you’ve made no effort to avoid that contact.
'Duty to bend' debate over Walsh hit overshadows 'absolute genius' Cleary torturing Broncos in statement Panthers win
Cricinfo saying his retirement is effective immediately, as he wasn’t going to be selected to play in the tests against Australia. Either way, good luck to him. Someone who seemed to make the most of every last bit of his ability.
Wagner's last opera: NZ veteran to call it quits after Australia series
Doesn’t Root’s innings strongly support what the Bazball critics were saying?
Root silences Bazball critics while returning to form with ton as England keep comeback series win hopes alive
It would have to be a very particular set of circumstances for that to happen in Test cricket – essentially a recreation of a T20 chase the circumstances of which made such a retirement a sound tactic. While agreeing it’s a gamble, I don’t see a big problem for the batting team in ordering one of the batters in a T20 to retire out.
It's not against the rules, but it's highly suspect... Will 'tactical' batter retirements be T20 cricket's next big thing?
Quite possibly so, but the comment on Vaughan still stands!
'Never heard more crap in my life': Haddin hits back at Atherton's claim Stokes intimidated Aussies in '13 Ashes
It’s generally a sound rule of thumb to not take much notice of anything Vaughan says.
'Never heard more crap in my life': Haddin hits back at Atherton's claim Stokes intimidated Aussies in '13 Ashes
8 ball overs in Australia in 1970-71 and 1976-77 also – although you may have factored that in and adjusted the figures accordingly. No rest days in tests and back to back tests now does make a difference though.
Bailey defends decision to recall veteran ahead of young guns as Aussies reveal Test squad for New Zealand tour
The work experience kid did well considering.
Green makes most of promotion but questions remain over best spot as Bartlett's burst propels Aussies to victory
A bit of a head-scratcher – but I think she’s possibly been a bit of a victim of some chopping and changing in the team. In calendar year 2023 (which I assume is the relevant period) she and Australia played 8 series (counting the Ashes as 1 series, but the Indian tour as 3, since that’s the way they were played and how stats are given for them) plus a 1 off Test v India. In 3 of the 8 series she was pushed down the order (bizarrely some may say) and did little. She also had one poor series when opening, against WI in the T20s last October. Maybe topping the averages and aggregates at the T20 world cup, and being at least 2nd in both measures in the other 2 limited over series, the Ashes and the India Test doesn’t overcome those 4 unproductive series.
'I thought I was done and dusted': Tears flow after emotional Marsh wins surprise AB Medal as Ash snares women's top gong
Unfortunately for him, Brown is 30, and has never played FC cricket. Warner was 23 when he made his T20 international debut (and his subsequent FC debut) and waited almost another 3 years before his Test debut. Brown could play T20 internationals but Test cricket must be unlikely.
Can't beat the Heat! Neser's relay catch stunner sums up brilliant Brisbane's second BBL title as Sixers smashed
Doc, I have a solid stockpile of shirts from when I was heavily involved in a rugby club in Laos, of all places, and we sold them to raise money for tours – which generated more shirts. The shirts gradually move from the “good” category to the “work around the yard” and then to the “use as rags” (although the latter 2 can be pretty hard to distinguish from each other). As things stand, I may well need to buy some more shirts in 15 or 20 years.
West Indies playing for their future as a legitimate Test nation with memory fading of long lost Calypso glory days
A few years ago we hosted my son’s 21st birthday party at home. I was busy with last minute cleaning up and other preparations, wearing my usual sartorial choice – old footy shorts and t-shirt. Some of the guests started arriving, most dressed pretty much the same way I was. I was a little surprised, thinking you’d usually dress a bit better than that for a 21st but kept that thought to myself. More arrived, many dressed similarly. It was only when my son (and daughters) came downstairs for the party dressed in shorts and t-shirts borrowed from me that I found out that the dress code for the party had been set as “dress like your father”. The moral, Rowdy, is that you’ll probably find that you may not be in fashion, but a fair proportion of people on here will be dressed much the same as you much of the time.
West Indies playing for their future as a legitimate Test nation with memory fading of long lost Calypso glory days
The West Indies were a single federated political entity for a couple of years in the 1950s. I know nothing about politics there so as to be able to judge whether that is ever likely to happen again – my guess given that the tendency everywhere else seems to be for separate regions to want to break away from larger entities, rather than combine – would be no. When cricket is at the Olympics it will be a Great Britain team playing (which could include players from Northern Ireland, because as I understand it “Great Britain” or “Team GB” is used as a shorthand to cover GB (England, Wales and Scotland) and Nthn Ireland (which together form the UK) but also various other small territories which are not part of the UK. Also at the Olympics may be Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago etc – assuming in each case, and for GB, that they qualify.
This sort of break-up of the West Indies in cricket has happened before – Barbados, Jamaica and Antigua and Barbuda played as separate countries in the men’s cricket at the 1998 Comm games (along with Northern Ireland Wikipedia tells me – the Ireland that usually plays international cricket now being drawn from both Northern Ireland and the Republic – which would not happen at the Olympics as they currently work). Of course, Jamaica, Barbados etc also compete separately in every other sport at the Olympics and Comm Games, and in soccer, rugby 7s and I assume every other sport – a quick search couldn’t turn up another apart from cricket where there is a “West Indies” team. Maybe that uniqueness is a factor in the West Indies continuing as a team, like the British (there’s that word again) and Irish Lions in rugby?
West Indies playing for their future as a legitimate Test nation with memory fading of long lost Calypso glory days
An additional point (Bush sort of makes the point by suggesting having West Indians play FC cricket elsewhere) is that previously far more West Indians, both batsmen and fast bowlers, played county cricket. Changes to eligibility rules there (and the Kolpak system when that applied) would have had a big effect on WI over time.
West Indies playing for their future as a legitimate Test nation with memory fading of long lost Calypso glory days
To compare with Kallis all he needs to do is score 80 runs per test at 55 and take 1.75 wickets per test at 32. I can’t see why anyone would think making the comparison would be putting undue pressure on him.
Four sight: Callous critics need to realise 'something special' factor can turn Green into Australia's Jacques Kallis
Don’t ask about the ones she drops mind you.
Four sight: Callous critics need to realise 'something special' factor can turn Green into Australia's Jacques Kallis
Labuschagne also top-scored in 3 of the 4 innings in Melbourne and Sydney, and made first innings runs in both tests when batting wasn’t easy. You can discount the second innings in Sydney to an extent (the pressure went off around half way through) and certainly he didn’t look at his best through the series, but some credit where it’s due.
Every Aussie rated for third Test and series vs Pakistan: Warner bows out in style, but captain Cummins is king
Not sure if any have mentioned this, but Lillee also took 24 wickets at 20 in 4 games against the World XI in 1971-72. Not Tests, but definitely a Test class batting lineup on the other side (the bowling was a bit less so). That’s another season, on top of those recovering from stress fractures and written off by WSC, that he effectively missed (when approaching his first pre-back injury peak).
Pat Cummins isn't Dennis Lillee's fast-bowling equal - he's actually much better
While I sympathise with your distaste for the result and agree that at every opportunity the way in which England won should be emphasise, 2 comments – first, if one of the Kiwis hadn’t taken a dumb shy at the stumps which resulted in 4 overthrows (off Stokes), the Kiwis would have won (we can all have our own opinions as to whether that would have been a better thing); and second, the rules of the tournament which everyone signed up for (possibly without all having read them) were that in the particular set of circumstances that arose, the winning team would be the one scoring the most boundaries. Perfectly fine to think that that was a stupid rule, but that was the rule.
On Archer – just as the Kiwis losing that WC final was down to a very avoidable act by one of their players, had Root not treated Archer like a medium pace stock bowler in NZ and grossly over-bowled him, there’s a very good chance the injury that’s hobbled him ever since wouldn’t have happened. So, plenty of sympathy for Archer, not a great deal for England. You get a bowler like Archer in your side (especially when he should really have been playing for someone else) and you treat him like gold dust, or risk the consequences.
The possibiliy of Jofra Archer's career coming to an early end will rob cricket of a bowler with so much talent