Greatest influence on Cricket by a non Test player

[Lillian Thomson]

Your response, whatever it may be, would be a useful factor in helping me to decide whether you are at all worth taking seriously, or if insipid, mulish and tediously haughty comments are truly your forte.

To be honest Nev I don't think any further evidence is required on that front.

 

[Craig]

Hahaha. More details?

Such examples are if you hit straight down the ground then there was 'Max' zones or whatever it was called whereby all scoring shots were worth double, so for example: 1 run = 2, 2 = 4, or 4 = 8 or a 6 = 12.

So you could at easily score 20 to 30 runs in that area if you were clever enough. And IIRC there was two innings apiece as well, but don't take that one for fact.

Cricket Max

If some people think T20 is bad, then this was worse and I don't think any serious cricket lover would take it that seriously, if that at all.

 

[TheLad]

Another vote here for Henry Holroyd, or Lord Sheffield. His contribution in the form of a donation to colonial cricket at the time was a great starting point to create a wonderful competition which has survived the test of time in creating fantastic cricketers.

 

[wpdavid]

Christina Willes

Bah, you beat me to it.

 

[Richard]

This is not a thread open to much authentic debate (at least not of the sort that one might encounter over at the Don-v.-Doc skirmish), but I'd be very interested to see you elaborate on that contention, providing a few reasons for it. Your response, whatever it may be, would be a useful factor in helping me to decide whether you are at all worth taking seriously, or if insipid, mulish and tediously haughty comments are truly your forte.

Latter.

 

[BhupinderSingh]

Darell Hair.

 

[Shaggy Alfresco]

Phillip of Macedon

 

[Goughy]

Necker, Sieyès and other leaders of the 1789 French Revolution that caused the cancellation of an organised tour by a cricket team from England. Thus preventing the continental spread of the game.

 

[slugger]

2 things stopped the sport from spreading in the USA.. 1. the civil war... it was easier to chuck a ball around baseball style cause any mound of dirt would do.. whilst cricket required a carefully prepared pitches.. 2 prior to the civil war england would tour the country mainly the east coast and just destroy their teams... talk about kicking a man when hes down.... they got sick of the himulation and just started their own thing.. grid iron probaby developed the same way i suspect...

 

[Flem274*]

This is not a thread open to much authentic debate (at least not of the sort that one might encounter over at the Don-v.-Doc skirmish), but I'd be very interested to see you elaborate on that contention, providing a few reasons for it. Your response, whatever it may be, would be a useful factor in helping me to decide whether you are at all worth taking seriously, or if insipid, mulish and tediously haughty comments are truly your forte.

To be honest Nev I don't think any further evidence is required on that front.

Latter.

AWTA with LT and The Rich here