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Recent content by Гурин

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    Phillip Hughes CW support banner at Melbourne and Sydney Test match

    When it will be possible, I'd like to contribute to the Phillip banner aswell. Another thing, could we do something similar for Abbott? Maybe with just a simple banner for a Shield Game, something like 'Stay strong mate, we're with you', even if he's not playing, to show him that the...
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    Vale Phillip Hughes

    I still remember how we discussed him in 2009, my first year of playing cricket. His performance in SA came out of the blue, and my english captain was complaining about the fact that Middlesex signed him up for the CC. I still remember this exchange between us: "We're getting him used to...
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    Change your avatar to Phil Hughes to show CW's support

    Honestly speaking I can't get my head around the fact that professional cricketers use pretty much the same pieces of plastic as us amateurs who never face anything faster than 65-70 mph (and the fact that they don't protect below the ears still scares me). Just look at what hockey goalies or...
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    Change your avatar to Phil Hughes to show CW's support

    Absolutely terrible news, I hope he'll be fine again. And spare a thought for poor Abbott, he's not fighting for his life, but he's gonna be a destroyed man. Wasn't there some kiwi bowler in the '70s who never recovered from something similar and never bowled fast again in his life? Really, I...
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    Senanayake banned

    Wait wait wait, I need this to be clarified once and for all: So if I lock my elbow in a brace at a 45° angle (even better, in a brace which allows a 7,5° of flexibility either way), my deliveries would be legit? Just like that? I think I'm going to bowl some mean offspin pretty soon...
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    Group B First Round - Zimbabwe, Ireland, UAE, Netherlands

    Was the HK game played at night? I'm guessing how used are these players at playing under floodlights. By the way, Peter Borren: "I thought we were probably 20 short." I know it's just PR, but this must be one of the most abused cliches whenever a side has a bad innings. ODIs or T20s, it's...
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    India, Australia, England attempt to take control of Cricket

    I see. Interesting to know that there are no public stadiums in India (unless there are but have some kind of a lease contract to BCCI). Still, there could be ways to work around that (drop-in pitches); on the other side I won't speculate about what would all the players do by the end of their...
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    India, Australia, England attempt to take control of Cricket

    "and every single state or international level cricket venue in India is a BCCI private property" That's interesting. So where were ICL games played? Didn't the ICL won a trial against BCCI because BCCI was booking the stadiums to prevent their games, or I'm possibly not remembering it right...
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    India, Australia, England attempt to take control of Cricket

    Interesting paradox there: what would then be stopping BCCI (and their two falsely equal muppets) to create/recognize boards in those other 4-5 countries they might be interested to? A little dumping (like offering a boost in salary, something like x3) and I'm sure that more than a few...
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    India, Australia, England attempt to take control of Cricket

    Ehh, you know, profits gonna profit... :)
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    India, Australia, England attempt to take control of Cricket

    Actually, I was wondering about the possibility of a split or the ICC setting up teams in those three countries, so that we would have something like an "ECB England" and "ICC England". I think in the end it would end pretty much like it did in darts, with the PDC getting a vast majority of the...
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    Biff v. Chanders - Who's the Better 'Ugly' Player?

    But maybe his problem is batting with the west indian tail... and not only because of the mugs they've got down their order. I was quite surprised this summer by the way he played and behaved in Derby, shielding the tail and avoiding those catastrophic runouts that we commonly see when he...
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    The importance of a well rounded record

    The biggest problem with this approach is that is based on some arbitrary limit deemed as 'good enough', over which everything is considered practically the same. A player averaging 60 at home and 40 away would be considered worse than somebody averaging 50 at home and 50 away, as if their...
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    ***Official*** New Zealand in England series 2013

    Yep, expecially in ODIs, where a spinner is limited to 20% of the total overs, while there are pitches where you'd bowl him from start to finish. So there's no reason really why it could be accetable (if legal) to bowl an offie for 20 overs on the trot but not two of them under current rules...
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    New feature - Win Probability

    'Win probability added' has been around for sometime already in baseball, is a good descriptive tool (altough not so good from a predictive point of view, but who cares), it's great that somebody started to calculate it in cricket. Then there are also the win shares, but it's a bit more...
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