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  1. Ike

    Special Request of any members living in the West Indies

    I've been trying to find flags (3' x 5', with 2 grommets) for Windwards Cricket and Leewards Cricket. (The first for myself, the second for my son who's also a big cricket fan.) However, there appear to be no online stores that sell these flags. Can anyone living in the Windies tell me if these...
  2. Ike

    Poll: Should Smith have allowed Voges to get his triple century?

    There's a fair bit of discussion of this question in the Official thread, but the question fascinates me, and I think it's worth a poll.
  3. Ike

    Women's Big Bash League 2015-16

    Wow, two great matches to start off the WBBL, and not even a thread here. I was hoping there'd be an official one, and stickied. Oh well. Heck, this is by default the biggest and best women's tournament ever, with all the best Aussie players and most of the best of the rest of the world. I...
  4. Ike

    Big Bang: any source of who's absent from each team?

    I'm setting up my first Big Bang line up (I play all the competitions these days), and one big problem, especially since I can't be up at 3am (US time), is, who is absent from the teams in the BB? When I see Hazlewood, I know he's in the Test of course, but is Pieterson actually going to play...
  5. Ike

    Start of the tough ones: pitches

    Time to start asking a few questions on what I think of as 'tough' topics: ones that are probably complex and subtle (among other things). Later I'll get to bowling and batting, but let's start with pitches. From watching a lot of cricket lately, and from one day of actually playing it, however...
  6. Ike

    Best Cricket Movies?

    In the US, baseball has a great tradition of baseball movies. Some are wonderful, quite a few are modest or downright lousy. I suspect the same is true for cricket, so I'm asking all you knowledgeable folks, what are the best cricket movies? I thought of this because one movie, Fire In Babylon...
  7. Ike

    Start of a new set of questions

    Having watched another 6 months of cricket, and keeping up on my reading, I have a slew of new questions. I'll post of few of them here. 1. Still fascinated by fielding position names. I've noticed that commentators often refer to silly point, but never to 'silly leg'. It's always short leg...
  8. Ike

    My first time playing cricket, sort of. Prequel to more questions.

    Hello all. I haven't posted for months, but not for lack of appreciation of this forum. I've been watching lots of live streaming cricket, mostly on ESPN3 here in the States, and reading a lot more (about 2/3s through The Essential Wisden; about 1/2 through MCC's Cricket Umpiring and Scoring...
  9. Ike

    Fielders' positions nomenclature

    (Note: if there is already a thread on this somewhere, please direct me to it. It may answer many of my questions already, and I don't want to be repetitive.) This topic has come up peripherally in a couple of other threads I've been involved in (I'm new to cricket and new to the forum), and...
  10. Ike

    Field positions and offense vs defense in cricket, with baseball compare and contrast

    This quote is from another thread (I hope it works), because it was recommended that the topic be moved: Let me also add two other quotes from the Welcome to Cricket Web thread: I learned a lot from these responses, and I thank you all. All this arose when I was asking about fieldsmen (I...
  11. Ike

    Cricket and Baseball, Introductory question: Who is cricket's "Babe Ruth"?

    I'm new to the forum (which I very much appreciate!) and I've been warned not to go around saying aspects of cricket should be changed to be more like baseballl (heaven forbid! that would truly be sacrilege). But I love baseball, being a Yank and having followed baseball for over 60 years now...
  12. Ike

    A newbie's question: who gets which points?

    I've just started playing fantasy cricket (and only starting following cricket at all a few months ago in my 67th year, once I could see matches on the internet, here in the U.S.). I'm sure my question is already answered somewhere, but I can't find it in the points summary tab nor in the FAQ...

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