Is this a record partnership?

[marc71178]

Sometimes these things weren't recorded in those days.

That's funny.

On more than one occasion I've used that line saying that I don't believe reports of games of yesteryear concentrated so much on dropped catches as they preferred to report on good things, and you said that it wasn't true.

Now you're using it...

 

[raju]

Do you have good hard statistical data to back up such as claim?

Of course he does. Why should he share it? Do your own careful research before insinuating that he makes it up.

 

[Craig]

Funny how this has turned into a thread about chanceless innings.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Funny how this has turned into a thread about chanceless innings.

Everything turns into a thread about chanceless innings..

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Or mating habits of the mongoose.

 

[marc71178]

In a minute we'll have Halsey and Armadillo in here having a childish playground tittle tattle and then it'll be a complete thread!

 

[Jono]

Oh Richard's gone on about it again. Damn.

 

[Richard]

That's funny.

On more than one occasion I've used that line saying that I don't believe reports of games of yesteryear concentrated so much on dropped catches as they preferred to report on good things, and you said that it wasn't true.

Now you're using it...

What I was saying was things like sources, authors etc. weren't recorded in those days.
You have once again simply attempted to twist words. That comment did not even come close to meaning "cricket matters weren't recorded in those days".

 

[Richard]

so your sources are generally based on anecdotal evidence of games say 30, 40, 50 years ago.....could they not be open to exaggeration as well (with reference to your comment that people exaggerate the past, from about a week or so back).

Do you have good hard statistical data to back up such as claim?

No, I haven't bothered to count the number of dropped catches I've heard have happened. Nor have I attempted to find a report on every innings played in order to find the first-chance average of a certain batsman.
I never said it was purely people of the past who are given to exaggeration, meanwhile. If you look you'll see that I gave an example of myself exaggerating something I was watching. Some people say things that are patently not true all the time.

 

[marc71178]

What I was saying was things like sources, authors etc. weren't recorded in those days.
You have once again simply attempted to twist words.

Acutally, it was a misinterpretation of your post, not a wilful twisting of what you said.

 

[Richard]

Maybe - still, a very convenient one. :P

 

[marc71178]

No, a truly genuine misinterpretation - you have admitted before that occasionally you don't get what you mean exactly down there (not that you're alone in that by a long chalk)

 

[Richard]

Occasionally?
Here's one such occasion:

Maybe - still, a very convenient one. :P

I didn't mean I still genuinely suspected you of trying to twist my words - just that it mirrored a situation that's happened before.

 

[marc71178]

ROFLMAO!

 

[Swervy]

ROFLMAO!

hey look these two are having a bit of a laugh,,,,could it be love

 

[Craig]

hey look these two are having a bit of a laugh,,,,could it be love

:wow: :O :wow:

 

[Richard]

**** off! :P

 

[Swervy]

**** off! :P

see Richard has gone all shy now...maybe all these disagreements on here have just been little lovers tiffs...awww bless

 

[Richard]

Might I repeat myself.
:!(

 

[Tom Halsey]

Depends on when the dropped catch was as to how well they played.
Like it or not, but for it some part of the innings would not have happened.

Just noticed this thread.

Richard, big innings are very rarely faultless.