*Official* India Tour of Australia 2018/19

[Burgey]

Alpha males who are relatively short :

Viv Richards
Richie Benaud
Virat Kohli
Real AB
Murali

Beta Males who are tall

Tom Moody
Nilesh Kulkarni
Graeme Hick
Mohammad Irfan
Peter Fulton

Location: India.

How on Dog's earth could anyone regard Murali as Alpha? Top of the pops as a bowler, yes. Alpha? No.

 

[Burgey]

think we are gonna miss Pandya here, team balance always looks a bit ****ed without him.

I'm interested to see whether they kick off with Ashwin or Jadeja. Could see Jadeja doing a bit more of a job here tying up an end, but think Ashwin is probably a bigger wicket taking threat as he's a bigger turner of the ball. Plus, he does all the press conferences.

I love the few weeks leading up to the opening test. Trying to work out who'll play (more fraught this time than usual), who you predict will or won't perform, which visiting players you're looking forward to seeing etc etc.It's a n exciting time tbh.

 

[jimmy101]

Understandable you'd forget tbh.

To be fair I wasn't even aware of the tour in the first place :-)

 

[h_hurricane]

Location: India.

How on Dog's earth could anyone regard Murali as Alpha? Top of the pops as a bowler, yes. Alpha? No.

A tall Beta tried to mess with his career in 1995. He couldn't. Went on to become the highest wicket taker ever in both ODIs and tests ( 1300 + wickets !). As alpha as they come.

 

[Burgey]

 

[srbhkshk]

I'm interested to see whether they kick off with Ashwin or Jadeja. Could see Jadeja doing a bit more of a job here tying up an end, but think Ashwin is probably a bigger wicket taking threat as he's a bigger turner of the ball. Plus, he does all the press conferences.

I love the few weeks leading up to the opening test. Trying to work out who'll play (more fraught this time than usual), who you predict will or won't perform, which visiting players you're looking forward to seeing etc etc.It's a n exciting time tbh.

Yeah, Ashwin vs Jadeja is pretty interesting, If Pandya was playing we could have possibly gone for the left field choice - and played Kuldeep as possibly the best wicket taking option. Now that he isn't I am favoring Jadeja on recent form and Ashwin stinking up the past two away tours.

 

[the big bambino]

Such a soft spoken, agreeable guy in a team full of aggressive alpha males.

When talking about the Indian team these are euphemisms for wimp and arseholes.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Yeah, Ashwin vs Jadeja is pretty interesting, If Pandya was playing we could have possibly gone for the left field choice - and played Kuldeep as possibly the best wicket taking option. Now that he isn't I am favoring Jadeja on recent form and Ashwin stinking up the past two away tours.

Ashwin would be less frustrating overseas if he was just rubbish all the time instead of looking excellent in one spell and stinking it up the rest of the series.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Alpha males who are relatively short :

Viv Richards
Richie Benaud
Virat Kohli
Real AB
Murali

Beta Males who are tall

Tom Moody
Nilesh Kulkarni
Graeme Hick
Mohammad Irfan
Peter Fulton

excellent post

edit: do have to agree with Burgey re. Murali though. Can't say I see many alpha characteristics in him, still a cool guy

 

[jimmy101]

re: Murali. It's all in his eyes, the alpha is there.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

did I log into puaforums by accident? nuke this ****ing thread already

 

[cnerd123]

Murali more of an alpha male than any current Aussie cricketers tbqh

 

[TheJediBrah]

did I log into puaforums by accident? nuke this ****ing thread already

such a beta thing to say

 

[jimmy101]

If anything tomorrow is going to be D-day.

 

[Gnske]

There's short people, then there's midgets under 5'8. It's really quite simple.

This thread needs to get the terminology figured out before the boring cricket starts tomorrow.

 

[TheJediBrah]

I walked past a 5'8 guy the other day on the street. Gave me a really uncomfortable feeling for some reason. They shouldn't be able to interact with us in civilised society.

 

[Flem274*]

spose it's the logical end point for the two most beta nations in the world to obsess over alpha males in their little thread. next you'll be comparing your 5cm massive threats.

I walked past a 5'8 guy the other day on the street. Gave me a really uncomfortable feeling for some reason. They shouldn't be able to interact with us in civilised society.

that was just your erection

 

[GotSpin]

Here comes Flem again. Dispensing his wisdom in an Australian thread

 

[ImpatientLime]

admit it, most of you ****s post on /cric/

 

[the big bambino]

Here comes Flem again. Dispensing his wisdom in an Australian thread

Small country syndrome.