01-07-2011, 01:46 PM | #161 |
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01-07-2011, 02:00 PM | #162 |
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Nice 'stache on KP right there.
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01-08-2011, 12:54 AM | #163 |
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Since this is the only cricket thread in here: Anyone here looking up the IPL auctions? It's going crazy. Eoin Morgan is predicted to be a hotcake.
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01-09-2011, 08:00 AM | #164 |
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Can't believe some of the guys who didn't sell, Tremlett for example
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01-09-2011, 03:52 PM | #165 |
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Brian Lara, Chris Gayle and Saurav Ganguly
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01-09-2011, 03:56 PM | #166 |
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Source
Ponting to be appointed as “Hawk-Eye” for ICC World Cup Dubai, UAE. ICC has decided to appoint Australian captain Ricky Ponting as special and exclusive “Hawk-Eye” – currently a computerized system used to track the movement of a ball and extrapolate its likely path – for all the matches of the 2011 Cricket World Cup. The decision was taken after Ponting showed tremendous talent in declaring English batsman Kevin Pietersen out during the Melbourne test match of the Ashes series even though the ground and video umpires thought otherwise. “We have to give it to him,” ICC CEO Haroon Lorgat said, “Ponting’s vision is clearly better than the complex computer systems we have been using. I hope he can come up with his own version of that screwed-up Duckworth-Lewis method as well.” Ponting declaring Pietersen out Sources in ICC (not Sharad Pawar, even though Faking News loves him) inform that the committee is confident of Ponting taking up the job as there is high probability of him being rendered jobless after the Ashes. “We have had talks with Cricket Australia. Their contract with Ponting is not an issue. In fact they see it as the perfect alibi for getting rid of him,” said our source. An online poll carried by Faking News revealed that most Australians favored Ponting as “Hawk-Eye” than captain of their national cricket team. “Go for it Ponting!” tweeted former Australian spinner Shane Warne. “That’s our only way we can get one-up over the English guys,” said Mark, an Austrlian cricket lover. The Hawk-Eye technology is currently owned by an English company Hawk-Eye Innovations Ltd. It’s not yet clear if Ricky Ponting would be made to stand on ground or act as the third umpire during the matches by virtue of being the Hawk-Eye. Since Ponting has no “official” status or experience of umpiring in international matches earlier, the ICC might have to accommodate Ponting as some special “machinery”. “Umpires would need to come up with new signal to refer a disputed decision to Ponting i.e. the Hawk-Eye as opposed to referring to the third umpire by making a television in the air,” said an ICC source. ICC is reported to be finalizing a “Pontingface” as the official “signal” by a ground umpire, which would mean that a decision has been referred to the Hawk-Eye. |
01-09-2011, 11:05 PM | #167 |
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01-09-2011, 11:09 PM | #168 |
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All this international cricket has made me want to go down to Grace Road again, maybe when Leics play India in the summer, might even be more than 50 people there unlike when I went to the day-night vs Hampshire.
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01-10-2011, 07:49 AM | #169 |
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There are a lot of Indians over there, that always leads to a good crowd even if it is a warm up match.
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01-10-2011, 07:51 AM | #170 |
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We DO need a better system than the fucked up D/L one though.
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01-12-2011, 08:12 PM | #171 |
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Yeah, the D/L method makes no sense.
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01-12-2011, 08:58 PM | #172 |
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I just realized nearly everyone here is on the same rep level. What a bunch of nerds.
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01-12-2011, 09:07 PM | #173 |
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01-12-2011, 11:07 PM | #174 |
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I see that and raise you:
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01-12-2011, 11:14 PM | #175 |
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It exists. |
01-12-2011, 11:17 PM | #176 |
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I did not know that. Now if they had a women's cricket team, I would actually be interested.
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01-13-2011, 05:16 AM | #177 |
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Only Lesbians play womens cricket
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02-06-2011, 07:12 PM | #178 |
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Australia will win
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02-06-2011, 09:44 PM | #179 |
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Zimbabwe vs Australia is going to take place in my city and guess who I am going to cheer for
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02-09-2011, 08:43 PM | #183 |
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Why doesnt TPWW have a 2011 F1 thread already? Poor Kubica |
02-13-2011, 10:58 AM | #184 |
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INDIA WINS! INDIA WINS!
OH MY GOD! |
02-13-2011, 12:17 PM | #185 |
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Sri Lanka are my pick.
NZ are hopeless right now. |
02-13-2011, 06:50 PM | #186 |
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I did not expect India to win that match. Poor pitch helped the spinners though.
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02-14-2011, 06:44 PM | #187 |
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Kind of want to watch England destroy/struggle to beat Canada, bet the warm up matches aren't streamable though.
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02-15-2011, 11:15 AM | #188 |
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02-16-2011, 12:12 AM | #189 |
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ROFL@England. 90/4 right now after 22 overs.
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02-16-2011, 02:12 AM | #190 |
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Australia lose yet another warm up game. I hope some new team wins this year. Or even India
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02-16-2011, 07:48 AM | #191 |
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Our ODI team is crap right now...
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02-16-2011, 09:17 AM | #192 |
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Mahindra Singh Dhoni is on fire
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02-22-2011, 08:34 AM | #193 |
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I pity the English.
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02-22-2011, 04:17 PM | #194 |
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We're used to it, makes the Ashes wins more satisfying.
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02-23-2011, 12:02 AM | #195 |
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Just watched the Netherlands' innings on the highlights. Bloody awful.
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02-23-2011, 04:25 AM | #196 |
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I was told by a friend that Bangladesh defeated New Zealand in an ODI series
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02-23-2011, 04:43 AM | #197 |
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Yeah, we are rubbish at the moment, have one 1 game out of our last 16 before the world cup. Beating us right now is no big achievement.
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02-27-2011, 12:07 PM | #198 |
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Well, that was nerve-wracking.
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02-27-2011, 12:09 PM | #199 |
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fuckiing hell. been watching the football mainly but kept switching to this and saw the end, amazing.
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02-27-2011, 12:30 PM | #200 |
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Kinda pissed we didnt win but then I was all but ready to close the stream around the 40 over mark.
Still shocked at the last 9 overs. |