Over-rated things in cricket

[fredfertang]

If the world had not been black and white in the 30s Larwood would have bowled at 110 mph

 

[hendrix]

39)Lara's ability to win matches
40)Dravid's "perfect" technique and him being the best thing ever against swing bowling
41)Kallis' batting in general
42)Gavaskar being a master against the great west Indian bowlers
43) The "pitches were roads in the 2000s" theory
44) Kane Williamson's potential
45) The ability to swing the ball both ways

Agree on most of these apart from the Kallis one tbh.

Williamson is highly unlikely to be anything other than a good batsman. Which in NZ context is a great batsman, but he's generally going to be overrated because of how elegantly he plays his shots. I actually think he'll be a better ODI batsman than Test batsman.

Swinging the ball both ways is awesome when it's done well but it's not a necessary skill and often gets in the way of good bowling plans and execution. Jimmy Anderson does it well. Shane Watson sometimes produces a good one-two. Zaheer Khan was good at it. But Steyn has never bowled an in swinger and he's miles better than all of those blokes.

 

[MrPrez]

39)Lara's ability to win matches
40)Dravid's "perfect" technique and him being the best thing ever against swing bowling
41)Kallis' batting in general
42)Gavaskar being a master against the great west Indian bowlers
43) The "pitches were roads in the 2000s" theory
44) Kane Williamson's potential
45) The ability to swing the ball both ways

Sanity.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Yup, I'm a firm believer that if you absolutely perfect your stock ball, whichever way it swings, you'll get plenty of wickets. So many yours we see commentators saying a bowler's talent is amazing because he swings it both ways. It helps sure, but I'd much rather prefer a perfect stock ball than a decent inswinger and outswinger

 

[Red]

I can swing it both ways so it's not overrated, it's a massively important skilz.

 

[benchmark00]

Monk in swinging both ways shocker.

 

[Red]

Always keep your mates close...

 

[Spark]

ABC commentary team. They aren't that good you'd turn down the tv and listen to the radio.

I beg to differ - though that might be to do with c9.

 

[Jono]

Has already beaten his top score. So...

That's not a record, just his PB.

 

[watson]

Larwood was measured at 96mph actually. But that was done a few years back by guys using never to be under estimated modern technology.

mph is a ridiculous measurement so we can we please stick to kph so that we all have a real idea as to how fast something is travelling? Also, the person that decided that 1760 yards should equal 1 mile must have been on drugs. After all, how is that different to 1759, 1761, or some other random number?

mph is over-rated

 

[African Monkey]

44) Kane Williamson's potential

Couldn't agree more on this. He's not a bad player but the public and media over here make him out as if he's one of the best players in the world at times.

 

[Shri]

That's not a record, just his PB.

Anything that is 'recorded' by statisticians is a record, ****.

 

[the big bambino]

mph is a ridiculous measurement so we can we please stick to kph so that we all have a real idea as to how fast something is travelling? Also, the person that decided that 1760 yards should equal 1 mile must have been on drugs. After all, how is that different to 1759, 1761, or some other random number?

mph is over-rated

Kind of think metric v imperial is like the roundheads and cavaliers part 2. The oiks have won again.

 

[YorksLanka]

The thought that morals and doing the right thing trump money in cricket. As shown by our cricket board who have now sold their souls to the greedy three for a piece of silver..disgusted.

 

[Shri]

At least they are honest about their reasons. Better than PCB.

 

[Spark]

mph is a ridiculous measurement so we can we please stick to kph so that we all have a real idea as to how fast something is travelling? Also, the person that decided that 1760 yards should equal 1 mile must have been on drugs. After all, how is that different to 1759, 1761, or some other random number?

mph is over-rated

kph is a ridiculous measurement so can we please stick to fractions of the speed of light so that we all have a real idea as to how fast something is travelling? Also, the person that decided that the distance travelled by light in 1/299792458 seconds should equal 1 metre must have been on drugs. After all, how is that different to 1/299792459, 1/299792457, or some other random number?

Sorry, but units snobbery when there is actually no inherent advantage to any one system of units over another in context really, really irritates me.

 

[Shri]

so can we please stick to fractions of the speed of light so that we all have a real idea as to how fast something is travelling?

Saying this as a mod or what?

 

[Daemon]

Spark how long is your dick in light years?

 

[Spark]

Saying this as a mod or what?

It'd make speed gun readings more interesting.

EDIT: Or we could make life even easier and do it in units of Mitchell Johnson.

 

[Shri]

Spark how long is your dick in light years?

1 light year = 3.72461748 × 1017 inches.