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  1. the big bambino

    Jim Laker vs Clarrie Grimmett

    I was hoping you would be above that but it seems you aren't. And the second highlight is simply a lie. Clearly Indian pitches have been difficult for leg spinners and better for faster tweakers and off spinners. Just as Australian pitches were once and for many decades favorable for leggies but...
  2. the big bambino

    Jim Laker vs Clarrie Grimmett

    What am I having both ways?
  3. the big bambino

    Jim Laker vs Clarrie Grimmett

    It's incredible that you are presenting the pitch as just fine; nothing wrong with it. You are ignoring the controversy surrounding the pitches that summer so as not to upset your fanboying. A consequence of which is to dismiss Fingleton and O'Reilly as "just journos" to give yourself an excuse...
  4. the big bambino

    Jim Laker vs Clarrie Grimmett

    No one is downplaying Laker. But you are too much god polishing him to admit practically everyone who played in the match and those former test players who watched it knew it was made for him. Fingleton, O'Reilly and Harvey being particularly scathing.
  5. the big bambino

    Jim Laker vs Clarrie Grimmett

    Who cares ... apart from you?
  6. the big bambino

    Jim Laker vs Clarrie Grimmett

    Fans also have their biases too. The most amazing being the belief their favourite era is resilient to the passage of time. So for example some find the butt hurt to much to accept that teams from the 1980s would be destroyed by modern sides.
  7. the big bambino

    Jim Laker vs Clarrie Grimmett

    Purely down to opportunity imo. The natural longevity of spinners gave the pre 70s spinners enough games to stand comparison. It would only be fair to compare if all eras played similar amounts of games. Though I do think you can manufacture artificial parameters to compare players across eras...
  8. the big bambino

    Jim Laker vs Clarrie Grimmett

    Quite an odour coming from you imo. Bradmans runs would’ve been of no use outside personal aggrandisement unless bowlers remove the opposition. therefore to mention Bradman and Ponsford while ignoring Grimmett and then O’Reilly is ridiculous. (It would be fairer to credit all of them.) Lakers...
  9. the big bambino

    Jim Laker vs Clarrie Grimmett

    that’s great. My comment and reference to him still stands.
  10. the big bambino

    Jim Laker vs Clarrie Grimmett

    We’re not winning it without Grimnetts wickets in 1930 and since you’re quoting O’Reilly he reckons he credits Grimmett with his and the teams success in 34.
  11. the big bambino

    Jim Laker vs Clarrie Grimmett

    That and 34. Victor Richardson (and I'm aware of the tension) says the team couldn't have played the blind school without Grimmett.
  12. the big bambino

    Jim Laker vs Clarrie Grimmett

    would be a first for you but, alas, not even now. Grimmett for effectively winning 2 ashes series away. He also cleaned up SA, both times after that country beat England in a series - some minnow. Laker’s fame rests on THAT game, perhaps unfairly. But the pitches in the 50s definitely assisted...
  13. the big bambino

    Best ODI Spinner in the World (Right Now)

    Still fear Kuldeep most of all but been about as impressed with Santner and Zampa as I can ever recall.
  14. the big bambino

    ***Official***Match #18- Australia vs Pakistan- October 20th-Bengaluru (D/N)

    Not sure Australia’s middle order batting can be overly criticised on their performance in this game. The innings ran out of gas after the openers turbo charged it, but at 0/259 the innings wasn’t one that best suited Smith or Marnus. The former in particular didn’t seem to settle into the role...
  15. the big bambino

    ***Official***Match #18- Australia vs Pakistan- October 20th-Bengaluru (D/N)

    Kind of worried about Usama. Dropped catch and just got tonked but looks to have good flight, bounce and turn.
  16. the big bambino

    2023-24 Australian domestic cricket season

    Could be some batsmen talk themselves into it. Probably think the bowling side has or is working out their method and so try something different to keep them guessing with fatal results.
  17. the big bambino

    *Official* Match 17# India vs Bangladesh - The Pune Clash

    Put Kholi back on. I think he deserves at least an over.
  18. the big bambino

    Frequency of upsets

    Netherlands are better than club cricketers. The team last night had 263 international one day caps and some players have a fair bit of fc experience. Others like Edwards would probably be regular fc players in another circumstance. There are only 6 fc sides in Australia. I think their are 18...
  19. the big bambino

    *Official* Match 15 - South Africa v Netherlands - October 17, Dharamsala

    I know right?
  20. the big bambino

    *Official Match #13 - England v Afghanistan 15th October.

    We have to make Jonny Bairstow happy some how.

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