Saeed Anwar lucky?

[Lillian Thomson]

Let me help you out on this one. When someone says "fortune favours the brave", they do not actually mean that there is a conscious mind up there somewhere making a deliberate decision. Likewise if we say that "Lady Luck is smiling on him" we do not actually think that there is a lady, smiling or otherwise.

These are things we call "figures of speech". And before you challenge that, no, they're not really figures either.

I'm aware they're just figures of speech, but nonetheless they're inaccurate. If being brave is affecting something (and I don't feel it does - apart maybe from the fact the "brave"r you are, the more opportunities you're going to get to get lucky) then what it's affecting isn't luck.

So hence, I don't feel being brave (ie, playing strokes) makes you more likely to get catches dropped or stumpings missed off you.

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[Richard]

indeed

Nonsense manufacturing in the mouths of others never did get anyone very far.

 

[Swervy]

Nonsense spouting out of my mouth never did get me very far.

again...indeed

 

[Richard]

Normally repetition isn't neccessary but...

Nonsense manufacturing in the mouths of others never did get anyone very far.

 

[nightprowler10]

Lawl at this thread tbh. I remember the times I used to argue with people in CC over little things as well, luckily I was over all that by the time Richard made his comeback.

 

[zaremba]

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