Why don't fifties remain fifties?

[ohnoitsyou]

I don't find the dropped catches stat of much value. At elite level, guys hardly ever "drop" a catch. Apart from the complete nuffie fielders. And everyone already knows who they are. Anytime a "catch" goes to ground, it's usually an incredibly difficult chance involving diving and/or running backwards.

Guess Pakistan just isn't at the elite level then.

 

[Daemon]

Great thread. We then wouldn't have ridiculous situations like the celebration of de Kock's maiden ODI 50 when he already had 5 100s to his name.

 

[Red]

Guess Pakistan just isn't at the elite level then.

TBF I rarely watch cricket that doesn't involve Australia. Can hardly recall an Australian dropping a catch that looked easily catchable in recent memory. No doubt I'm wrong, but it'd be pretty rare. Maybe Hayden and Warne dropped a couple at 1st.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Haha it's not that I disagree with that principle mate. We had a poster here who took it a bit further though

Try this: http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/21850-first-chance-average.html

Is this the good old days of CW posters talk about? Glad I wasn't here because that thread is bat**** insane.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Great thread. We then wouldn't have ridiculous situations like the celebration of de Kock's maiden ODI 50 when he already had 5 100s to his name.

Yeah, de Kock situation was what irked me enough to make a thread.

 

[GIMH]

Is this the good old days of CW posters talk about? Glad I wasn't here because that thread is bat**** insane.

It's one poster versus the rest, as was often the case when Richard was around. Same has happened with a few other posters over time too. Hardly indicative of the overall quality of CW at that point

 

[OverratedSanity]

Yeah, yeah just kidding.

That thread though. Took me a while to realise he was dead serious about it

 

[Spark]

TBF I rarely watch cricket that doesn't involve Australia. Can hardly recall an Australian dropping a catch that looked easily catchable in recent memory. No doubt I'm wrong, but it'd be pretty rare. Maybe Hayden and Warne dropped a couple at 1st.

There was a period from 2008-2011 when we dropped heaps. Basically until Clarke got settled in the slips and Watson stopped being incompetent.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Lyth got his debut fifty today.

Only lasted a couple of hours though because he unfortunately got to 100. Should get his first fifty soon and hope he isn't getting too down on himself that he hasn't got one yet.

 

[weldone]

I don't like this convention either.

 

[Jono]

Lyth got his debut fifty today.

Only lasted a couple of hours though because he unfortunately got to 100. Should get his first fifty soon and hope he isn't getting too down on himself that he hasn't got one yet.

 

[Goughy]

Shouldn't chanceless innings be rated higher? I would think so.

Because being chanceless or not doesnt change the actual runs produced and innings should be judged within the context of a game rather than what might have been.

 

[Goughy]

Oh, and 50s measure completed innings from 50 to 99 rather than 50+ scores. Therefore no issue.

 

[Jono]

If that's the case, OverratedSanity's point still stands in that its awkward that commentators will state that it is Lynch's maiden 50, and yet he won't have one on the record books.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

The fact that commentators talk bollox doesn't alter the fact that a century overrides a 50.

 

[GIMH]

If that's the case, OverratedSanity's point still stands in that its awkward that commentators will state that it is Lynch's maiden 50, and yet he won't have one on the record books.

Who gives a ****

 

[Furball]

If that's the case, OverratedSanity's point still stands in that its awkward that commentators will state that it is Lynch's maiden 50, and yet he won't have one on the record books.

waaaaaah

 

[Jono]

Who gives a ****

OverratedSanity obviously.

I was just saying what Goughy said doesn't alter OS's point. I don't care, but I get what he means.

 

[GIMH]

OverratedSanity obviously.

I was just saying what Goughy said doesn't alter OS's point. I don't care, but I get what he means.

Who gives a ****

 

[Jono]

Alright I tried, you're on your own OS.