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  1. Matt79

    Ashes Predictions

    We might have had a thread on this already, but now the hour is nigh, so time to go on the record again. 5-0 Australia Top runscorer - Shane Watson, just from Ricky Ponting. Trott for the Poms. Top wicket taker - Mitchell Johnson. Swann for the Poms. Dumpings - Marcus North...
  2. Matt79

    Last bowling slot in my all-time XI

    So, with Murali retiring, my prejudice against including active players in my alltime XI becomes moot and I'm shoe-horning him in. It's led me to a bit of a reshuffle of that XI. Currently undecided on the final make up of the bowling attack, have three options that seem near equally good...
  3. Matt79

    *Official* Australia in India 2010

    Still a couple of months away, but conversation starting in a number of threads already, and anticipation building. Mod to sticky please. TBA vs Australians (Mohali) - Sep 25-27 1st Test - Mohali - Oct 1-5 2nd Test - Bangalore - Oct 9-13 1st ODI - Kochi - Oct 17 2nd ODI - Visakhapatnam -...
  4. Matt79

    Problems logging in?

    Just wondering whether anyone else is having problems logging in at the moment. For some reason I can't log in from my iPhone. It shows the logging in screen, but then when it returns me to the forum, I'm not logged in. I've played with all the options on my phone (I think) re cookies, pop ups...
  5. Matt79

    Future for international cricket as we know it?

    Will say at the outset that this is not intended to be another thread that either a) aims to sledge the BCCI, or any national board in particular, or b) wants to propose a new format to tests, test championships or some form of hybrid between tests/odis or odis/t20. I want to talk about the...
  6. Matt79

    Smith blasts ex-players/selectors via Twitter

    Love how Twitter apparently means that there's no longer any requirement to act professionally re: keeping things in house! Fat Grey's come out swinging in response to criticism of his team: "Find it amazing that kepler can sit and say should have picked a younger squad when he was 1 of the...
  7. Matt79

    The next Kallis?

    According to Mickey Arthur, it's Mitch Marsh. Glad that Mickey clarified he didn't want to get ahead of himself! :) Silly comment IMO - Kallis is actually 'the old Watson'.
  8. Matt79

    Random Country Draft Poll

    A poll as to who's XI from the Random Country Draft is the best. People were asked to compile their XI, with each round the player being drawn from a country at random. Participants did not get advanced notification of which countries would be drawn, so had to balance selecting the best...
  9. Matt79

    Different measurements of bowlers

    From a post made in the Lillee vs Garner thread, I was talking about how wickets per match (wpm) or strike rate can be a valuable alternative/addition to straight bowling average when seeking to quantify a bowler's quality and importance. Strike rate is easy enough to retrieve from Statsguru...
  10. Matt79

    Random country draft

    I'm on holidays for the next week and a bit, sooooo, have time to do one of these. As an idea to differentiate it from previous drafts, the twist in this one would be that each round a country is randomly selected. Will require a good knowledge/ability to research and make for some interesting...
  11. Matt79

    Who's the better lower order batsman?

    Johnson or Hauritz? Johnson's batting seems to have reverted back towards the guy's mean. He's a good number 8, but not really an allrounder. Hauritz has been killing it in the lower order however.
  12. Matt79

    Appreciating good techniques

    An idea I was tossig around. Cricket conversation in general, and certainly on here, makes regular reference to the strength or weakness of a player's techniques. I suspect I can't be the only one here with a less than encyclopedic knowledge of what exactly, in technical detail, constitutes a...
  13. Matt79

    Welcome to Cricket Web - Cricket Chat

    Hi newcomers to the site, and welcome to the best forum for the discussion of cricket on the web. We hope you have a look around and find that you enjoy the forum here as much as we all do. James has a 'read me first' on the main index page that is well worth a quick look. Beyond that...
  14. Matt79

    Winter Olympics vs Commonwealth Games

    Two events with major delusions of grandeur as to their importance vis a vis their status as global sporting events IMO. Discuss and vote
  15. Matt79

    Gundappa Viswanath

    Inspired partly by Burgey's great article on Border the other day, I'd love to hear the recollections of those here who got to see Gundappa Viswanath in action. I admit I'd never heard of him until a week or two ago when I stumbled on to his profile on Cricinfo. Sounds like a great batsman and...
  16. Matt79

    Favourite shot?

    To see someone execute perfectly. For me, its the pull shot, when someone absolutely nails it. Even though it went straight to Bravo, Ponting's pull shot was my favourite shot of the summer so far. Second, would be the lofted straight drive, right over the bowler's head.
  17. Matt79

    Referral System claims its first victim

    http://www.cricinfo.com/ausvwi09/content/current/story/438322.html was against it before they brought it in, and on what we've seen so far, it's definitely a step for the worse for cricket. One less umpire on the elite panel and again the ICC utterly shaft their own on field proxies.
  18. Matt79

    Congratulations to CW's "own" Peter McGlashan

    Not only a blogger extrordinaire on the best cricket site on the web, he's now a record-breaker. Well done. :clap:
  19. Matt79

    Mark Waugh

    Reckon he's a bit underrated round these parts. Probably played on a year too long in the end, with hindsight, and I think that's affected how he's seen. Was a massively important player in tests and ODIs for a long time, after waiting more than 100 FC matches to get a Test. Probably the best...
  20. Matt79

    Hussey retiring?

    There's a rumour being aired on radio in Melbourne at the moment that Mike Hussey is expected to make an announcement imminently announcing he will be retiring. At this stage, could be crap obviously, but could also see him announcing he'll pull the plug at the conclusion of the coming Aussie...

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