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Recent content by Shady Slim

  1. Shady Slim

    The biggest spinner of the cricket ball?

    unironic credit to the mods for keeping this thread open because this and this are two of the best posts i've ever seen on this forum re first murali and second more generally throwing
  2. Shady Slim

    Rugby league draft! Second edition

    cronk partners with thursty in the halves
  3. Shady Slim

    The biggest spinner of the cricket ball?

    this is all true. this is the best post in the thread.
  4. Shady Slim

    The biggest spinner of the cricket ball?

    no uh before the mid 1990s or so the test for chucking was literally whether or not the umpire vibed that the guy was throwing it. it was not x degrees as to extension, bend, hyperextension, congenital defect, none of that factored - the test until the mid 1990s testing wave was done was solely...
  5. Shady Slim

    Rugby league draft! Second edition

    i can't say no to thursty at this point
  6. Shady Slim

    The biggest spinner of the cricket ball?

    no it wasn't because the test for throwing was whether the umpire with his human eye vibed it as throw
  7. Shady Slim

    The biggest spinner of the cricket ball?

    you've failed to establish why people should care about the greats of old throwing bc when they were playing they weren't throwing per the metrics that were used at the time and if you want to talk about it, like rtb said you can make your own thread 😃
  8. Shady Slim

    The biggest spinner of the cricket ball?

    nobody cares if WG Grace threw it because when he played the test for chucking was "based on the umpire's vibe does he look like he's throwing it", degree thresholds were only brought in near around the turn of the century, are you just being this thick on purpose or
  9. Shady Slim

    The biggest spinner of the cricket ball?

    maybe i'm just dense (well we all know that), but is this not because it's widely acknowledged by everyone with more than four brain cells that ajmal threw it while the murali thing is seen as "conjectural", and so there's naturally debate about whether he threw it?
  10. Shady Slim

    The biggest spinner of the cricket ball?

    have you ever considered that it might feel a bit rich to cast the racist die at burger of all people when we have proper eugenicists and eugenicist adjacent people on the forum as much as i love sledger i’d hardly say the posting in this thread is like what sledger said about pakistan
  11. Shady Slim

    The biggest spinner of the cricket ball?

    (fwiw it's a no)
  12. Shady Slim

    *Official* 2022 New Zealand Tour of England, Ireland, Scotland & Netherlands

    straight into the coffers of jeff bezos, not going to look good on your shadyscore
  13. Shady Slim

    The biggest spinner of the cricket ball?

    lol implying i read the post after yours before replying
  14. Shady Slim

    The biggest spinner of the cricket ball?

    hey buddy i'm not the one defending jeffrey epstein here that's a you problem not a me problem imho
  15. Shady Slim

    The biggest spinner of the cricket ball?

    to clarify you're the epstein defender
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