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  1. Owzat

    *Official* Australia tour of New Zealand Feb-Mar 2024

    cost Smith et al more than that.........
  2. Owzat

    Steve Smith vs Ricky Ponting

    Smith is better on (sand)paper......
  3. Owzat

    Which test team is currently the best in 2024?

    had a little "guess" before sneaking at the three England voters, nailed it that Aidan would be 11 I mean 1
  4. Owzat

    Which test team is currently the best in 2024?

    aussies should have lost to England, England are a bit too gung ho/bazballsy for their own good, great when your bowlers can keep you in the game and usually helpful conditions to eg Anderson, but seems to be unravelling many will pinpoint X, Y or Z, name and blame eg Bairstow, but fact is you...
  5. Owzat

    *Official* England in India 2023/24 #CryMoreTour

    take the HS of each and every 1-7 for England and only Crawley comes out with more than 22 average..... (low to mid 30s for Crawley) point is the batting was in the main poor, three centurions who showed no consistency and Pope scored something like 119 runs outside of his 196 which itself was...
  6. Owzat

    *Official* England in India 2023/24 #CryMoreTour

    and maybe if he thought about flight or guile he'd have taken more wickets and conceded less runs....
  7. Owzat

    Hawkeye founder on 'umpires call' debate

    honestly don't think it matters in football, cricket, whatever sport, how accurate a decision or review system is as long as it isn't obviously wrong and stays given wrong (or reversed to obviously wrong) AND the players accept the decision and system problem with VAR is fans, players and...
  8. Owzat

    Hawkeye founder on 'umpires call' debate

    I seem to recall some decade or two ago when it came in that someone said/reported that they tested it bowling at unguarded stumps and it wasn't infallible ie would predict not hitting and hit or vice versa... be very hard to find now, but unless someone just said it and no substance then I'm...
  9. Owzat

    *Official* England in India 2023/24 #CryMoreTour

    down under so likeliest results are AUS 4-0, AUS 5-0, AUS 3-1....
  10. Owzat

    *Official* England in India 2023/24 #CryMoreTour

    the problem is they perhaps began believing their own hype, first day declaration when the batting was still going well (Root/Robinson) for the sake of FOUR overs instead of putting on more of a total was just ridiculous I'd blame that more for England's failing to win than the rain, close Test...
  11. Owzat

    Hole in bottom of bat?

    I've got the reverse problem, bat in the bottom of a hole, can anyone help? :D
  12. Owzat

    Hole in bottom of bat?

    must be a new thing mind, don't recall having owned or seen a bat with a hole in it - has been a few years, and not many bats (owned) mind you'd think for the cost of them the hole would be small and filled but hey ho Flint, or maybe it fell out or they forgot
  13. Owzat

    Hole in bottom of bat?

    as was oft said on a 60s crime fighting duo show, "hole-y bat-hole batman/batter, this sure does go fast"
  14. Owzat

    Steve Waugh - the overrated test captain

    in Tests won 41 out of 57, only lost 9, but being in charge of the aussies at that time gives most a rather big advantage (of player ability) always feel captaincy is an overrated aspect of certainly Test cricket, niche field placements that pay off once in a while get plenty of kudos when they...
  15. Owzat

    *Official* England in India 2023/24 #CryMoreTour

    "almighty fluke" or India to drop him on 104 (?) which ultimately cost them 90 runs from just him and made the target trickier than it needed to be bottom line is England won when someone made a big score, were competitive when someone else made a hundred, similar issues to down under when...
  16. Owzat

    *Official* Australia tour of New Zealand Feb-Mar 2024

    highlights the low regard aussies have for lesser nations, none vs Ireland, Afghanistan and only 9 COMBINED against zimmers and deshis don't exactly hold lanka in much esteem, 26 Tests in 30 years is terrible for what was for a fair chunk a decent Test side
  17. Owzat

    *Official* England in India 2023/24 #CryMoreTour

    Because Ireland is not a real country [/RICHARD] shouldn't that be Tests against England shouldn't count as England isn't a country.... (UK is, Repubteam of Ireland is, much like West Indies is a conglomerate) then again is it required for them to be a country or just given Test status....
  18. Owzat

    *Official* England in India 2023/24 #CryMoreTour

    so Michael Yawn is saying this is on for par, not sure how you can conclude anything about par with one side yet to bat, comparing England batting with India in India is a fool's errand, and early help in the wicket seen off it is possible to score runs/stay in
  19. Owzat

    *Official* England in India 2023/24 #CryMoreTour

    at present it struggles to be even a debate, yet debated it gets. At which point since some false accusations and consideration of my stance fallacious, I'll duck out as I'm fuelling a debate I loathe.... (and not actually debating it, just pointing out the weakness of arguments in the keeper's...
  20. Owzat

    *Official* England in India 2023/24 #CryMoreTour

    tripe, I didn't once suggest Bairstow should keep I merely pointed out that in the ridiculous debate so many arguments are made at the importance of wicket keeping find me one post I've EVER said Bairstow should keep, in batting form he's lucky to be in the side at all so the "verbal diarrhoea"...

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