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  1. SpofforthLohman

    You know what really grinds my cricketing gears?

    That was given not out bud ....... ????........ I didn't hear the 20 year old say he caught it either. Must have been one of his first games for Australia. That looks like Border trying to pull a fast one to me too, AB is a legend and being a hard ass is one of the traits that made him one. I...
  2. SpofforthLohman

    You know what really grinds my cricketing gears?

    Well how was I to know what Lara might do a dozen years ahead of time ?.... Lara had just started in tests and i suppose his position was not yet safe as it always is for all newcomers, maybe he thought he could get dropped, Later on it is a one man team and he is it and he should have been...
  3. SpofforthLohman

    You know what really grinds my cricketing gears?

    And you do realise that the Lara non-walk pre-dates that incident by several years ?
  4. SpofforthLohman

    You know what really grinds my cricketing gears?

    Pretty sure the only time I talked about both at the same time was just in reference to the unlikely moment when a 200 and a 199 was made in the same test. The thing about the Sydney innings was not about Waugh at all.
  5. SpofforthLohman

    You know what really grinds my cricketing gears?

    Now I just watched it... next time put a video up that I can see instead of that white haze... anyway as i said I remember it, Waugh collides heavily with the ground and has no idea if he caught it or not.... end of story, he asked the question, the umpire gave him out... blame the umpire for...
  6. SpofforthLohman

    You know what really grinds my cricketing gears?

    I saw that game when it was on tv... how the frigging hell can you say if he could have known if he made the catch,, for christs sake are the Windies still crying tears over that crap ?...... I am using memory and have not watched your clip cos I saw it all a hundred times. Waugh was a fair...
  7. SpofforthLohman

    You know what really grinds my cricketing gears?

    Well ...it was for me, I stayed up all through the wee hours listening to it on radio and it's still the only 199 I ever witnessed albeit the last half of the innings was on radio... somehow it happening on radio amplified it a bit. I did shake it off in the belief that oh well he is Steve Waugh...
  8. SpofforthLohman

    You know what really grinds my cricketing gears?

    Put it this way, to those who didn't care that Lara stayed despite being obviously out caught or those who didn't watch it live or saw the replays they showed a couple of times they think of that innings as a 277 not out... I don't see 277 N.O.... I saw... B. Lara out caught for bugger...
  9. SpofforthLohman

    You know what really grinds my cricketing gears?

    He stayed put at the crease knowing full well he had just been caught by a very obvious thick edge and the idiot umpire didn't give him out. lara had scored less than 10 runs at the time, everyone at the time knew Lara was out, the edge was thick and it was caught very very wide of the wicket...
  10. SpofforthLohman

    Spineless pathetic bastards...

    I remember whne Johnson first exploded onto the scene and if I remember correctly he terrorised the South African's but the English press were totally unconvinced and for a long time they seemed to be proven right. I expected Johnson to destroy England on that tour but he just did not rise to...
  11. SpofforthLohman

    Spineless pathetic bastards...

    Then be thankful it isn't Thommo, he was much quicker at his prime. I do realise that Johnsons pace is not usual these days, he is quick but Thommo was on his own level.
  12. SpofforthLohman

    Which batsman has faced the most number of ATG bowlers?

    Same for Steve Waugh, he had the two best bowlers in the world in his team but I am sure Waugh faced a lot more of Ambrose than Tendulkar did, not sure how Sachin went against him when he did but he must have been young that's for sure,I do think Waugh faced so many great bowlers he must be a...
  13. SpofforthLohman

    Wisden names All Time World XI

    Excellent read, thanks mate.
  14. SpofforthLohman

    Wisden names All Time World XI

    I just started reading your article, seems very good. I wanted to make a comment on something you said about Faulkner, it was the mention of the farcical triangular series. It reminds me of my favorite incident in all cricket history. Those 6 greats that did not go on that tour after the cricket...
  15. SpofforthLohman

    Wisden names All Time World XI

    Yes I always find that I just can't fit 14 players into a 11 man team and the middle order does get crowded. Once I just picked a team with Bradman and ten allrounders, and you know what ?... I came up with a basically unbeatable team. Best way around this is to name a ground the match would be...
  16. SpofforthLohman

    Wisden names All Time World XI

    He was a better cricketer than my pop but that is not to say pop wasn't a very handy cricketer himself. As for Ritchie, I don't know him, we never met so I haven't had the chance to ask him why. Then again he would have been a kid when Miller was hitting his prime. There are many others who...
  17. SpofforthLohman

    Wisden names All Time World XI

    Yes he seems very underrated here for some reason.
  18. SpofforthLohman

    *Official* Second Test at the Adelaide Oval

    They were so bad England beat them .... hehehehehehee
  19. SpofforthLohman

    *Official* Second Test at the Adelaide Oval

    I am with you there. I was so ashamed of our team that I didn't even watch a ball bowled after the 3rd test. I had totally written them off as a one man team and a bowling attack England would make 600 plus against every innings of the series. I am glad Johnson came back and proved me wrong. It...
  20. SpofforthLohman

    You know what really grinds my cricketing gears?

    It isn't hate, I just have a bit less respect for him for that occasion in Sydney. I wanted Waugh to bat on and on, I think he was incredibly unlucky to get out at 199 because it had been a brilliant innings as Lara's was. We were always going to beat the Windies there so I was hoping Waugh...

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