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***Official*** Big Bash League 2017/18

Prince EWS

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Steketee's gather/action seems to get more Flintoffesque every time I watch him play. It's almost to the point where it has to be deliberate -- it's too idiosyncratic to be a coincidence IMO.
 

Spikey

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some of these stats are getting a bit too anal. "white only averages 17 against the heat" ok whatever?
 

Starfighter

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Steketee's gather/action seems to get more Flintoffesque every time I watch him play. It's almost to the point where it has to be deliberate -- it's too idiosyncratic to be a coincidence IMO.
Looks pretty much the same as when I first saw him IMO. The resemblance was striking though.
 

Prince EWS

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some of these stats are getting a bit too anal. "white only averages 17 against the heat" ok whatever?
Haha yeah it's classic stathead really. Some of them are really interesting and provide good insight, but some of them are just completely useless coincidences, and sadly it's usually the latter that the appointed "stats commentators" seem to ****ing love.
 

Gnske

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Looks pretty much the same as when I first saw him IMO. The resemblance was striking though.
Doesn't have that gusto though, or that lean back.

Or that annoying spot in his hair that gave Flintoff power for one whole series.
 

Prince EWS

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Doesn't have that gusto though, or that lean back.

Or that annoying spot in his hair that gave Flintoff power for one whole series.
Yeah I think it's the lean back that's been getting more Flintoffesque as time has gone on. He's always had the arms/windup going, but the lean back is getting closer as well.
 

Zinzan

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BTW, what's with Gilchrist's sickening sycophantic commentary about McCullum?

He had a crap game with the bat and his team got smashed, yet Gilly repeatedly talked him up as a genius all night.

Makes James Brayshaw & Michael Slater seem like neutral commentators by comparison.
 

SteveNZ

Cricketer Of The Year
BTW, what's with Gilchrist's sickening sycophantic commentary about McCullum?

He had a crap game with the bat and his team got smashed, yet Gilly repeatedly talked him up as a genius all night.

Makes James Brayshaw & Michael Slater seem like neutral commentators by comparison.
He is a genius, in a cricket sense. One off night shouldn't change it.
 

TheJediBrah

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BTW, what's with Gilchrist's sickening sycophantic commentary about McCullum?

He had a crap game with the bat and his team got smashed, yet Gilly repeatedly talked him up as a genius all night.

Makes James Brayshaw & Michael Slater seem like neutral commentators by comparison.
Gilly's just a super nice guy, and obviously loves McCullum (who doesn't though)
 

Zinzan

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He is a genius, in a cricket sense. One off night shouldn't change it.
That's fine, so save the praise for when he & the team he's captaining are actually do well, like the 1st game, I had no problem with the Gilly love then.

But last night, he had an off-night, and so did his side, so the sycophant level should have been down a notch.
 

GoodAreasShane

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I always cringe when I hear McCullum talked up as some sort of paragon of sportsmanship and virtue. Just look at how he got the NZ captaincy in the first place, Ross Taylor was being systematically undermined for most of his leadership stint.
 

Zinzan

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I always cringe when I hear McCullum talked up as some sort of paragon of sportsmanship and virtue. Just look at how he got the NZ captaincy in the first place, Ross Taylor was being systematically undermined for most of his leadership stint.
To be fair on him, not sure much blame for that debacle can be pinned on McCullum. Hesson & NZC far more so for the diabolical communication and manner in which it was done, and Taylor himself from the point of view that he wasn't up to the captaincy mark.
 

Gnske

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Wasn't it McCullum though that said Taylor never had the gumption or some gobbilty gook to be captain? That or he complained that Ross looked bored the entire time with it.
 

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