Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

[indiaholic]

AFAIK its 6 months minimum.

 

[_Ed_]

Has anyone heard any further news on this? October's been and gone.
ICC delays decision on two-year World T20 cycle | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo

 

[Daemon]

Chris Gayle enjoys New Year carnival with VERY raunchy dance | Daily Mail Online

The original Gayle thread was locked (fun reading) so this goes here I suppose

 

[Shri]

Pakistan minister tweets 'well played Green ****s' to congratulate cricket team, faces backlash | Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis

 

[vcs]

Surprised that got through the filter.

 

[Johnners]

Heh.

 

[Victor Ian]

I'm getting older so it could be my eyes, or it could be watching cricket in HD after years of LD, but I have noticed a few shots where the ball seems to curve off the bat. For instance, one of the Aussies just then pulled the ball square, but it curved a bit and went slightly behind square in the end. Or was that just an optical illusion? Can hitting the ball cause it to have a lot of spin so it gets drift and spin and swing and ****?

 

[vic_orthdox]

Yeah, happens a fair bit. Remember listening to Dean Jones speak (a lot about himself, of course) but said that when hitting towards the leg side off a spinner, he'd actually aim it at the fielder because the ball should swing away from them.

 

[Adders]

Yeah a lot of spin can get imparted to the ball off the bat. You may not have noticed the "swing" before but Im sure you would have seen plenty of fielders looking like muppets when they missjudge the bounce and the ball turns away from them. Same thing.

 

[AndrewB]

Funnily enough I was reading about that in an old cricket book ("Cricket North & South" by TCF Prittie) only the other day:

"Every position in the field demands special as well as general qualities. Having kept wicket for most of schooldays, I learnt the truth of this when I went up to Oxford... I dropped one or two catches [in the slips] and transferred to deep third-man.

I spent one terrible afternoon there. Although I had watched plenty of cricket, I had no idea of the tremendous curve of the ball from right to left when it finally arrives down at deep third-man. Frequently I failed to get a hand to it at all.

I went to mid-wicket, and was alarmed to find that the ball, although generally coming straight, now occasionally curved the opposite way, from left to right. I returned, thank goodness, to the slips and comparative sanity."

 

[indiaholic]

Mohammad Sami has played 36 tests but he did that under 7 different captains. Is this some sort of a record?

 

[AndrewB]

George Headley had 9 captains (including himself) in 22 Tests. (That includes a series where the WI had a different captain for each Tests due to inter-island rivalries).

 

[Shady Slim]

real talk a high catch comes your way and it's straight to you and you're perfectly set under it do you go cup or reverse cup

there is a right answer here

 

[Burgey]

Fingers pointing up for mine

 

[Shady Slim]

ding

 

[Daemon]

Yeah defs. You're forced to watch it all the way into your hands, also gives you time to catch the rebound should there be one.

 

[Shady Slim]

think you also look lazy and inept if you drop on cup too

 

[Shri]

I have never dropped a skier but I didn't have anyone teach me how to catch. I have been missing keys thrown at me gently recently and haven't played in years so I don't know.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Just rediscovered this video.

 

[Shri]

Yeah, his hairline is receding slowly.