Post subject: Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread
Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 8:49 pm
MSH
Club Owner
Joined: Mar 03 2004 Posts: 5308 Location: On a hill above Mold, North Wales
Ordsall Quays Red wrote:And ours...although calling them "batsmen" is taking things a bit too far at the minute. On a pitch on which Rikki effing Clarke got an unbeaten century, our mob can barely muster 50 between them. Division 2 and the chumps in there would be too good for us at this rate.
As it stands at the moment though there are, quite shockingly, two teams worse than us, so we're staying up!
One are Worcs who are not doing well against Sussex, the other are Durham who aren't playing...
Post subject: Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread
Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 9:29 am
Ordsall Quays Red
International Chairman
Joined: Apr 23 2002 Posts: 3882 Location: In the midst of Manchester's Steak Diane belt
MSH wrote:As it stands at the moment though there are, quite shockingly, two teams worse than us, so we're staying up!
One are Worcs who are not doing well against Sussex, the other are Durham who aren't playing...
Very true and Worcestershire, minus Richardson are going to struggle even more. Can't see Durham staying down there too long though and they always hump us twice a season too.
We seriously need to get a draw out of this if possible to try and get a little bit of momentum back. Unlike last season the bowlers aren't quite dragging us out of the mire as yet.
Post subject: Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread
Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 3:08 pm
sanjunien
Player Coach
Joined: Mar 28 2010 Posts: 5506 Location: Albi, France
duke street 10 wrote:Seeing Clive Lloyd sat on the sofa as a pundit of ITV4's IPL coverage you realise how far the Windies have fallen as a test nation.
I remember their opening 5 batsmen in the "blackwash" series v England in 84?...Greenidge,Haynes,Gomes,Lloyd & Richards.
The bowlers were equally frightening
Michael Holding - probably the finest bowling action of all time ?
the finest WI team I was lucky enough to see - with Hall,Griifths & Gibbs bowling
top seven batsmen
Hunte Carew Kanhai Butcher Nurse Sobers Holford
top seven England team
Boycott Milburn Graveney Barrington Cowdrey Parks D'Oliviera
Post subject: Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread
Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 4:42 pm
duke street 10
Player Coach
Joined: Oct 25 2009 Posts: 1918
sanjunien wrote:Michael Holding - probably the finest bowling action of all time ?
the finest WI team I was lucky enough to see - with Hall,Griifths & Gibbs bowling
top seven batsmen
Hunte Carew Kanhai Butcher Nurse Sobers Holford
top seven England team
Boycott Milburn Graveney Barrington Cowdrey Parks D'Oliviera
awesome !
I can just about remember Holding playing for the Windies in the late 70's, i know he served Derbyshire well after. Wasn't his nickname "whispering death"?
Post subject: Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread
Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 9:51 am
Andy Gilder
International Board Member
Joined: Apr 03 2003 Posts: 28186 Location: A world of my own ...
When your best player CBA putting on the international jersey and would rather go play evening league slog-a-thons for mega money instead, you know you're screwed as a cricketing nation.
Unless there is root and branch reform of WI cricket from top to bottom, I can't ever see them challenging the top nations again.
"As you travel through life don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things" - George Carlin
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