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  1. neville cardus

    West Indies vs Pakistan in UAE 2016

    Thanks. Do you make or assemble these highlights yourself? I ask because I've been flirting with the idea of archiving or curating or preserving footage of old Test Matches -- in their entirety where possible. For a sport so zealous of its heritage and its letters, cricket seems pretty blasé...
  2. neville cardus

    West Indies vs Pakistan in UAE 2016

    I know, right? How do we make this happen? I say we pester him about it on Twitter or something. He's by far my favourite commentator on the circuit today.
  3. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    I'll just steal my brother's copy. ;-)
  4. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    Is it?
  5. neville cardus

    West Indies vs Pakistan in UAE 2016

    You're a man after my own heart.
  6. neville cardus

    West Indies vs Pakistan in UAE 2016

    Can't remember the last time I saw an all-run four. (Must remember to chalk this up as evidence for my theory that, quite apart from bigger bats and flatter wickets, the modern game is blighted by shorter boundaries.)
  7. neville cardus

    West Indies vs Pakistan in UAE 2016

    Cheap, that, and not terribly helpful or interesting. The whole point of this online-forum business is to argue and discuss, not simply to assert.
  8. neville cardus

    West Indies vs Pakistan in UAE 2016

    I don't think there's a cricketer I root for more than Shannon Gabriel. Imagine what he'd be capable of if he enjoyed some half-decent support, and if he weren't forced, home and away, to bang it in for hours upon hours on lifeless featherbeds.
  9. neville cardus

    Innovation

    I was talking in general terms about the scoop, not just Dilshan's version. That's why I specifically included the reverse scoop. You forget that I also mentioned Ryan Campbell.
  10. neville cardus

    Innovation

    I admitted this freely. I'll let that slide, but do watch your manners. You wouldn't speak like that if we were face to face; you have no reason to do so online. His team's strike-rate isn't in question. And the wide can't be attributed to the stroke -- even if we assume (which no-one but...
  11. neville cardus

    Innovation

    I need a bigger sample size to confirm this, but so far the balls he wastes playing that stroke actually tend to bring his strike-rate down.
  12. neville cardus

    Innovation

    Well, even Jos Buttler seems to miss the majority of his. (See the posts referenced in the OP.) And he's supposed to be one of the better exponents.
  13. neville cardus

    Innovation

    As I said earlier, though, very few players seem willing to scoop. There are only 1.26 per innings, or 2.52 per match, in my expanding database.
  14. neville cardus

    Innovation

    Such as? This sounds suspiciously like the argument that sustains Michael Bay's career.
  15. neville cardus

    Innovation

    Eh? The whole point is to be bad?
  16. neville cardus

    Innovation

    But I'll keep updating my database to see if things improve.
  17. neville cardus

    Innovation

    So much of what people find entertaining in short-form cricket is really just bad cricket. The scoop excites to no end, but it doesn't seem terribly effective.
  18. neville cardus

    Innovation

    Well, I don't know that any of that deserves the term "innovation," which implies something new and unanticipated. The things you describe are precisely what one would expect from such a condensed form of the game.
  19. neville cardus

    Innovation

    And bigger bats. There are people who affect to find this explanation unconvincing, but it's extraordinary how often even a mishit travels the distance now. I don't know if or how often you watch extended archival footage, but just the other day I saw Gower toe-end one to midwicket and wring his...
  20. neville cardus

    Innovation

    Challenged to increase my sample size, I set about collecting data for every subsequent T20I. So far, fourteen scoops have yielded just twelve runs (at 5.14 an over) and given up one wicket. Factor in ODIs, and the picture becomes rather worse. Just as remarkable as my findings to date about...

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