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Burnwinter

Tim wrote:
I love cricket because I was brought up with the game and played it loads as a kid, but I can understand that it's not for everyone.

Cricket is probably one of the finest examples of a sport that's also a vital plank of culture, and it's pretty hard to enjoy the one aspect without an appreciation of the other.

For example, I'm looking forward to popping a few beers with my dad watching the Boxing Day test on my beach holiday in the middle of nowhere this summer, then we'll go down to the beach and play a bit of cricket as a family.

Tim wrote:
I'll give you a sport that has really grown on me and that's Rugby League, especially (pretty much exclusively tbh) the NRL. It's a brilliantly athletic, skillful and surprisingly tactical sport, non-stop for 80 minutes. And the way the salary cap works means that a team can go from one of the worst in the competition to winning the grand final within a year or two. State of Origin is superb too.

Have you taken much interest in Australian Rules, Tim? It definitely qualifies as a brilliantly athletic, skilful, tactical, non-stop sport. I think it'd be very popular if it wasn't so ghettoised by history.

Probably requires more variation of skills with different parts of the body than the vast majority of sports. The last few finals series of the AFL have been superb entertainment.

Bold Tone

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/251916/what-you-mean-it-aint-real

Bosscielny

Tim wrote:
I love cricket because I was brought up with the game and played it loads as a kid, but I can understand that it's not for everyone.

I'll give you a sport that has really grown on me and that's Rugby League, especially (pretty much exclusively tbh) the NRL. It's a brilliantly athletic, skillful and surprisingly tactical sport, non-stop for 80 minutes. And the way the salary cap works means that a team can go from one of the worst in the competition to winning the grand final within a year or two. State of Origin is superb too.

RL is fckn awesome. Unless you support Parramatta...which unfortunately I do.

Timbob

Parramatta might be turning things around a bit, no? Obviously can't get any worse, but Ricky Stuart as coach, Izzy Falou, Will Hopoate and maybe Gareth Hock are all good signings.

Bosscielny

Never been sold on Sticky aye, he'll get them playing with passion which has been missing for years, but i don't actually rate him that highly as a coach. Can't be as bad as that fckwit countryman of mine that we had last year though I guess.

Hoppa is still a year away and the other two haven't been confirmed yet have they? But you're right, we can't be any worse than we were last year. As long as the chosen one players 20+ games i'll be happy.

You support anyone?

Armor

I like rugby union but have never really got into rugby league. I can't stand cricket. I 'm a sport nut but if that was all that was on i'd just watch a tv show or something instead.

Burnwinter wrote:
Have you taken much interest in Australian Rules, Tim? It definitely qualifies as a brilliantly athletic, skilful, tactical, non-stop sport. I think it'd be very popular if it wasn't so ghettoised by history.

Probably requires more variation of skills with different parts of the body than the vast majority of sports. The last few finals series of the AFL have been superb entertainment.

Lost interest in it lately but used to watch it a few years back. I used love watching the compromise rules which was just pure violence at times 😆

Bold Tone

I watch Rugby Union internationals but not the club matches and the reverse for Rugby League as the skill and fitness levels are unreal. Not to mention the brutality although they are not a patch on Aussie rules. Why do they have "Rules" in the name when it is clearly Rugby with no rules at all. Any number of people all over the pitch which has no shape at all with lines with no clear meaning to anyone (but Australians, i suppose), kicking, slapping, elbowing, stepping on opponents faces, no pads or helmets,

asajoseph

I watched a couple of Aussie Rules matches earlier in the year and absolutely loved it.

Bold Tone

It is most definitely entertaining

Burnwinter

Michael Clarke is having a crazy purple patch at the moment. Currently sitting on 178 against South Africa, with a strike rate of 88.

Burnwinter

Just became the first batsman to score four double hundreds in a calendar year ...

FantasticMrFox

Incredible form he's in, of the current lot Clarke has always been one my favourite Aussie players. Enjoyed watching Pontings wicket, his feet were all over the place.

South Africa looked so deflated, woke up at 3am to watch us get hammered. Pitch looks quite flat, will be interesting to see how SA respond. Australia will have so much time to bowl SA out. Big problem SA have is that the top order don't score fast enough. When players like Warner/Sehwag get going it gives the team such an advantage.

Burnwinter

I have never particularly liked Michael Clarke, but it's hard not to warm to someone playing this well. And scoring nearly 500 in a day of Test cricket is absolute carnage.

Kallis's injury is a big blow.

Kallis walked off the field midway through his fourth over and his involvement in the rest of the series is now in considerable doubt.

He is unlikely to bowl again in the match while changes to the laws mean he will not be able to use a runner if he bats.

I wasn't aware he would be denied a runner.

FantasticMrFox

Burnwinter wrote:
I have never particularly liked Michael Clarke.

Why not?

They changed the rule on runners last year sometime. There was an incident where Strauss denied Smith a runner and there was big fallout after that.

Losing Philander before the game started was a big blow, Kleinveldt is shit.

Burnwinter

I still feel Clarke elects to play too far down the order.

Plus I'm a bit anti-New South Wales (they always get lots of players selected), plus Clarke had personal issues with players I liked such as Simon Katich, plus he seemed to be a media whore with too many off-field distractions as a younger man, plus I've just generally been off cricket since Steve Waugh retired! 😉

But I stand corrected at the moment.

FantasticMrFox

Just finished "Out of my comfort zone". Thoroughly enjoyed it.

Burnwinter

Yeah, my dad tells me it's excellent - been meaning to read it. 🙂

invisibleman18

Ponting should have been pentioned off after the last Ashes. Surprising really because Australia have always been ruthless in the past at dropping legends (Steve Waugh for instance) when they were no longer up to it. You wouldn't thought an Australian captain to have survived losing 3 Ashes series.

Why would Kallis not be allowed a runner by the way? I'd always understood you were allowed a runner if you got injured during the match but not if it was a pre-existing injury you came into the match with. Has the law change abolished the runner or is it due to the amount of time he has been off the field?

Bold Tone

Thing is Ponting was usually the best player on the pitch during those Ashes losses.

FantasticMrFox

invisibleman18 wrote:
Why would Kallis not be allowed a runner by the way? I'd always understood you were allowed a runner if you got injured during the match but not if it was a pre-existing injury you came into the match with. Has the law change abolished the runner or is it due to the amount of time he has been off the field?

Yeah, runners have been done away with. http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci-icc/content/story/520924.html

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