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  1. Craig

    Who should replace Peter Siddle for the Tour of New Zealand?

    News came in on Fox Sports during the NSW v QLD Ford Ranger Cup game that Peter Siddle will miss the tour of New Zealand with stress fractures in his back. So if given carte blanche, who would you pick to replace him in the Test team? Clint McKay would seem like the first cab off the rank, but...
  2. Craig

    Ball tampering, does every team do it?

    Afridi thinks so when he got busted for it. I guess Afridi is in the loop somewhat compared to us armchair critics, and he would know all the tricks of the trade, from the very subtle to the not so subtle where Afridi tried to eat the cricket ball.
  3. Craig

    What is an acceptable, or even good, strike rate for batsmen in ODIs?

    And what do you classify as poor? Obviously it varies if the pitch is flat, how many wickets lost, quality (or lack thereof) of bowling, stage of the innings (batting PP, last 10 overs) etc. For me on a good batting wicket with wickets in hand, then the batsmen should at least have a strike...
  4. Craig

    UDRS in ODIs

    Reading Cricinfo last night during the live feed of the Australia - Pakistan ODI at Adelaide Oval, and after some of the shockers that Butt and Kamran Akmal copped, some of the people suggested that the UDRS be adopted in ODIs. I personally see the biggest concern being the time lost for...
  5. Craig

    Worst team to tour Australia

    Since 1999/00, and I won't include the tours of Zimbabwe and Bangladesh, not that I don't consider them to be worthy of Test status, but really nobody could expect much out of them anyway. Also it is Tests only. I always considered the West Indies team that toured in 00/01 to be a shocking...
  6. Craig

    2006 u/19 World Cup - Where are they now?

    Just looking at the 2006 U/19 World Cup, and seeing the players and seeing how many have gone on, and some who haven't made it: ICC u/19 CWC Squads - kaputa.com Australia: Jack McNamara (vic_othdox) still posts on here and part of the crack team of mods on this site. David Warner has played...
  7. Craig

    Surprise cricketer/s of 2010

    Can be anyone of any format. Not the established players, but those who are in line to debut, just starting out, or are ready for their breakout year (age doesn't matter too much) as a Test, ODI, or even T20. I guess a good example would be Shane Watson when 2009 was his breakout year in the...
  8. Craig

    Mitchell Johnson bowling over the wicket to right handed batsmen

    Firstly I'm no fast bowling or batting expert, so spare me from the lions please :p The reason for the thread is that it is interesting watching Johnson bowl over the wicket to right handed batsmen in the recent Test series against Pakistan, and he gets a lot of them out caught behind, and...
  9. Craig

    My team of the decade

    So with the year and the decade just about out, I came up with my team of the decade. I may not be a cricket writer or a former international, but I have been around this site for a very long time (too long :ph34r: ), watched a fair bit of cricket lately, and over the years so I came up with my...
  10. Craig

    Most angry cricketers

    This thread has got me thinking, who are some the most angriest cricketers ever to have played the game? I started to think about after reading the late Sylvester Clarke's biography on cricinfo, where in a Test in Multan, Clarke had been peppered with oranges and other objects, so Clarke turns...
  11. Craig

    Do New Zealand have the worst luck with fast bowlers?

    It seems that way. Anytime we get anybody good or decent, or even very promising they get struck down by an injury, and then are riddled with injuries for the rest of the career. As a result New Zealand never got the best out of Dion Nash, Shayne O'Connor, Chris Cairns (as a bowler), and Geoff...
  12. Craig

    Martin Crowe's idea

    Basically Martin Crowe yeasterday came up with this theory, that with the umpire review system, that eventually it will make the game more honest, about the idea of bringing back home umpires for Test matches, but only those that have earnt it. So umpires that have proven themselves (like Simon...
  13. Craig

    Craziest brain snaps in sport

    I was thinking about it the other day, some of the craziet brain snaps in world sport. Be it on the playing field, in training, an act of foul play or a player, coach, or official going on a rant or just losing the plot. For mine some of them include: Eric Cantona karate kicking a Crystal...
  14. Craig

    What has happened to Sadagoppan Ramesh?

    Had a look on his profile and it said he hasn't played FC cricket for over two years and List A for over one year and never played T20 (even with ICL). So has he retired or has form been so bad they haven't picked him?
  15. Craig

    Highlights of the Ashes

    What were your highlights of the just finished Ashes series? For me: Fred's bowling at Lord's, which was simply breath taking. England's bowling effort at Edgbatson in the first session of the second day where they took 7 wickets. I know there was some dodgy umpiring, but England did bowl...
  16. Craig

    Is the Draft a restraint of trade?

    Something me and a friend of mine have been talking about, whether or not in sport, if the draft is a restraint of trade. It basically came about as we were talking about how 170 rugby league players were able to take action in the High Court and it was ruled in their favour as "an unreasonable...
  17. Craig

    Caption this: Kumar Sangakkara and Jeetan Patel

  18. Craig

    Ravi Bopara - another pretender?

    Yes IMO. Either England need to find another number 3 and punt Bopara down to find 5 or ship him back off to Essex to find his technique to see if he can perform other then against the West Indies. Nothing about him looks like he could be Test standard anytime soon.
  19. Craig

    BCCI rejects 'whereabouts' testing

    Full story Plenty of other sports have it.
  20. Craig

    Usain Bolt's Olympic 100m win

    Do you think he did it clean or was he jacked on drugs? I think it up because of the story that five Jamaican sprinters test positive which has also brought up some interesting debate on another forum I visit (and yes I have posted in that thread, my username is pretty obvious). And I'll use...

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