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    Best and Worst Chris Cairns moments

    Dunno, mid or early 20's. If you were late 20's you'd know what I'm saying is true.
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    World Series Cricket memories

    I do believe that was two years later, in the almost as excellent 1982/3 world series. It was thew second final where we got thumped by something like a ton and a half, with Cairns's 50 (with 6 6's) the only thing to chear about:( Well 'Chapelli' always was a bit of a w*nker. But what he did...
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    Why is Bowden allowed to umpire?

    Well, in my opinion he's pretty shocking. Did you see that last Adelaide test between Aus and SAf? I was cringing by the end. It bothers me! It might bother you too if you went abroad. Nah, Warne & co.... as much as we might not want to admit it... were usually in the right.
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    Best and Worst Chris Cairns moments

    Do you play club cricket Voltman? If you do, ask some of your older clubmates what they think...
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    Why is Bowden allowed to umpire?

    Billy Bowden is an embarassment. Not just because of his inability, but even more because of his clownish antics. New Zealanders shouldn't be allowed to umpire? Hmmm... It is true that we suffer a reputation for atrocious umpiring, in fact I don't know of a single international Umpire from here...
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    The ICC Will Ruin 20-20 for Everyone

    I'm glad someone else thinks that.
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    Best and Worst Chris Cairns moments

    Nope, it was a punch that put Parore's test career on the sideline. The team management told the press that it was a bouncer (which remains the 'official version of events), but the truth got out eventually amonst the general public. After all, Cairns never bowled THAT quickly, did he? Feel...
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    World Series Cricket memories

    Perhaps, but it was a risk that paid huge dividends in the end. A genius.:p
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    Get rid of cricket's minnows - Ponting

    You get to play test cricket if you can do what Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe did and establish the infrastructure required to produce a team capable of playing test Cricket. Staging Test Cricket fixtures involves considerable turnover of money to start with... And in any case, would a 'second tier'...
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    Get rid of cricket's minnows - Ponting

    Forcing a draw out of the top teams is a real accomplishment. And how were draws ever more common?
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    Get rid of cricket's minnows - Ponting

    On what basis? I recall Zimbabwe playing competetive cricket, and could have gotten even a win with some luck. Big difference to Bangladesh. I mean they gave Engalnd a good run for their money. Sri Lanka had some really classy performers like de Mel (or whatever his name was). Where are the...
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    Abdul Qadir vs. Saqlain Mushtaq

    Saqlain mustaq was one of the best off-spinners of the modern era. Alot of subtle variations in flight and turn, and extremely accurate and intelligent. Always effective, even without the Doosra! But He wasn't the turner of test matches I remember leg-spinner Abul Qadir was. Qadir was easily...
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    Best and Worst Chris Cairns moments

    This is a tough one, there were so many golden C. Cairns moments. Regrettably there were also plenty of appalling ones, especially early in his career. BEST: For me it was when he straight-drove Shane Warne for 6 at the WACA in the opening test of our ill-fated 1993/4 tour of Aus. It was early...
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    World Series Cricket memories

    Maybe it was just my age at the time, but I enjoyed those old Benson and Hedges world series games more than the current VB series (which I still consider tops in any case). For anyone in NZ the 1980/81 series will allways be remembered as the time an interest cricket hit the average kiwi...
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    The ICC Will Ruin 20-20 for Everyone

    In my opinion... Any game of 20/Twenty is the game being over-played. The only special 20/Twenty occasion is when the ICC burn the written proposal that resulted in its creation and ceremoniously flush its ashes down the lavatory.
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    Wow I actually remember this happening!

    Thats a bit of an understatement...
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    Get rid of cricket's minnows - Ponting

    It's a legacy of sport within the old British Empire. It proves which country plays the better Cricket. It's intended in the purest spirit of competition, and the 5 or 3 full-scheduled games is a good way of gauging which country is in better shape at the time. Cricket isn't the only sport...
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    Get rid of cricket's minnows - Ponting

    Top Cat, I'm not meaning to be rude or abrasive when I say this... ...but... ...from previous discussions and this comment, I get the feeling you believethe ICC and the Cricketing world shoulg be charitous to Bangladesh. Why should they be? You cant help anyone who can't help themselves.
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    Get rid of cricket's minnows - Ponting

    Pakistan were world beaters 10-15 years ago. They won the world cup in 1991/2 and graced the Cricket fields of the world with the Worlds best pace attack and an exciting, high-quality batting lineup. Between 1992 and 1997 they would have seldom been out of the top 3 test teams (ignore those...
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    Get rid of cricket's minnows - Ponting

    The effect wasn't at all economic, believe it or not NZ came out the war financially in better shape (!). The effect was social. NZ had a large enlistment in the armed forces, which gutted the sporting community. Military service and playing first class cricket were not simultaneously possible...

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