Cherry Picking Stats

[Adders]

Depends if they can take wickets when the sun is shining.

Does J Anderson have a personal cloud that he drags around test match venues with him?? Cos, that's a ****ing lot of wickets to take in specific weather conditions.

 

[trundler]

Does J Anderson have a personal cloud that he drags around test match venues with him?? Cos, that's a ****ing lot of wickets to take in specific weather conditions.

 

[Adders]

**** off

 

[Xix2565]

Lol while the raincloud meme is a bit old, you can't seriously pretend that England don't prepare pitches and such to help out Anderson and co's seam/swing bowling on top of everything. Cherry pick the right way, point out every home advantage players have every single time and make sure people recognise that before anything else.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Literally how cricket has been played by every team for over a hundred years

 

[Xix2565]

Doesn't excuse the hypocrisy in player evaluations though.

 

[ZK$]

you can't seriously pretend that India don't prepare pitches and such to help out Ashwin and co's spin bowling on top of everything.

I agree.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

There's only one correct way to evaluate players and it's nothing to do with stats and everything to do with who you personally think is cool.

 

[Adders]

Lol while the raincloud meme is a bit old, you can't seriously pretend that England don't prepare pitches and such to help out Anderson and co's seam/swing bowling on top of everything.

Well apparently we also doctor the weather too.

 

[honestbharani]

Does J Anderson have a personal cloud that he drags around test match venues with him?? Cos, that's a ****ing lot of wickets to take in specific weather conditions.

Private clouds are a thing in IT. Maybe Anderson was an IT guy all along.

 

[_00_deathscar]

Does J Anderson have a personal cloud that he drags around test match venues with him?? Cos, that's a ****ing lot of wickets to take in specific weather conditions.

Yes, it's called playing a **** ton of tests in England.

 

[Xix2565]

I agree.

Yeah, but you'll see far more aspersions cast on the quality of spin bowlers than seam bowlers when both are reliant on pitch preparation.

Well apparently we also doctor the weather too.

If you fail to realise seam bowling involves actual interaction with the pitch then what are you doing here? And besides, I never said that England doctors the weather, so no need to make up nonsense either.

 

[Shady Slim]

Well apparently we also doctor the weather too.

implying england has to change anything for the weather to be miserable there

 

[Shady Slim]

Yeah, but you'll see far more aspersions cast on the quality of spin bowlers than seam bowlers when both are reliant on pitch preparation.

tbh this is true, and sort of racially coded

 

[honestbharani]

tbh this is true, and sort of racially coded

Burgey to post about going to the Hague in 3........2...............

 

[Starfighter]

No, spin bowlers are significantly more conditions dependent than fast bowlers, simply due to the difference in pace.

 

[Coronis]

Cherry pick the right way, point out every home advantage players have every single time and make sure people recognise that before anything else.

My cherry picked top 10 batsmen and bowlers:

Bradman
Barrington
Hammond
Smith
Hobbs
Broad
Border
Sutcliffe
Waugh
Hutton

Barnes
Tyson
Garner
Wardle
Davidson
Ambrose
Snow
O’Reilly
McGrath
Marshall

tldr Broad should definitely be picked for England’s ATG XI and Anderson should not

 

[Xix2565]

Being more conditions based isn't an excuse for the double standards on skill evaluations. Way to go around my point.