Message Board Archives

...in these situations.

I am convinced Raggs played some cricket:

Good going Raggs. Many here can't see past their noses.

I have been on several teams which have employed this strategy above.

But, many airheads here have not played any competitive cricket and can't think pass their noses. It simply shows how shallow they are and most of those airheads don't deserve my time.

But this mb is populated with many asses who are not worth my time.

And yes..." I don't criticize Russell" but yet, there is a big bold thread I started about him.

...deliberate maliciousness.

Anything to get at discourtesty... I will continue to pour scorn mercilessly on some of the uneducated asses here.

Thank you Walco and Discourse...

Thank you Raggs as well. Your perspective is refreshing and I am sure opened many eyes and heads here.

No one will ever say "wickets don't matter" and for any poster to suggest this is diliberately disengenious at best...but there are many binary thinkers here.

This why I love to ridicule and belittle those asses.

Clive Lloyd - Geoff Boycott , tournament 1979 ODI World Cup finals.

In reply to Raggs

There you go.

There are times when you would want to deliberately slow down the game to break the momentum" as it were.

I notice the one minute timing to be in position for the next over would now negate this strategy.

Thinking posters and cricketers should be the prevailing state of affairs.

.................................

As a side note: Shai Hope stated publicly that his slow scoring rate has been expressed in certain quarters and that he is doing someting about it.

Some posters would rather malicioulsy view my critique as a personal attack on the cricketer. And mind you, a cricketer I lobbied hard to be in West Indies colours.

In reply to Courtesy

Let me ask you a question, who in this England team would present a catch and you would drop it to keep them at the crease? Absolutely none, because they will go on to win the game.

You know if you ain't bowl out this England side while chasing, you more times than not, lose the game right, regardless of how many 'stingy' bowlers you have in the team?

Thing is, all facets work together for the better outcome. It's good to have 'stingy' bowlers and bowlers who blow out batsmen at the expense of a few extra runs. Some men, you cannot contain once they in a mood, so you have to 'out' them. Sometimes, stingy bowlers make men get out. All have their moments. On some pitches, Stingy bowlers are easy pickings.

In reply to jen

Why are you are being specific? Don't be like the other posters. Where in this thread was I being specific? Every game and every situation must be assessed in its own way.

Man stay outta this for your sake.

Yep, publicly stated.

...and as I said some time ago. The coach and management recognized the error and immediately remedied it by sending Hope down the order to play his natural game. A testament to the critique.

Anyway, back to the salient issue. Isn't it obvious why bowlers' avg/SR becomes less significant the shorter the game becomes? Apart from a few here, the rest of the cricketing world rarely discusses averages in t20 unless it's a talking point. It's all about econ, even more so with the advent of 100 balls.

...and yes wickets help, including run-outs.

In reply to Discourse

Thank you Sah.

Who in their right mind will posit that "wickets don't matter?"

But the thread in question reeks of maliciousness and poor attempt to gain my attention.

I have been ignoring the ass for a long time now.

In reply to Courtesy

all these threads are related to the view on Joseph's game two performance.

In reply to camos

Lol, just as they did belaboring the issue with Hope when the issue was not primarily about him, but the strategy/plan of using him.
Can't see how that was lost on some.

In reply to camos

yall have short short memories man jeez
it is sometimes too tedious

Joseph has been leaking runs, hidden from the powerplays, etc all thru 2023

he is the number 1 bowler as many have agreed but he has to be protected by neophytes

that is how i interpret the threads anyway

let me leave you with a question

how many leading bowlers in the world are unable to / or are hidden from powerplay overs?

You have prempted my plans. I was going the start a thread of his 2023 T20 stats with detailed analysis.

This thread was a set up destined to move in that direction.

His econ rate is over 10. What accounts for this...inside the power play or not.

This bespeaks of a mediocre declining trend which no serious team should tolerate.

Ah well!!...

In reply to doosra

What’s the big issue with bowling outside the power play in a T20 game???

Especially in the Caribbean with slow shitty pitches with hardly any swing!!!

The faster they come the faster they go!!!

Logically wouldn’t you want your enforcer to have a proper field to bowl too???

In reply to doosra

Not all bowlers can bowl in the power play, not all bowlers can bowl in the final over, it is the duty of good skipper to figure these things out!

In reply to WIfan26

man i am here enjoying all the different explanations...

In reply to camos

Where did I didn't hear this before???

In reply to doosra

That's the idea.

In reply to doosra



It’s times like these we missed Dukes with his proper explanations lol

Man disappeared like the Avatar when Hetmyer needed him the most lol

In reply to WIfan26 be prepared for Dukes return when Hetty makes that 50!

In reply to Courtesy

You may wish to doublecheck Joseph's Econ which I am seeing is 8.03 and not >10, before you check what accounts for it.

Joseph's Econ

In reply to Headley

according to cricinfo his overall ecn is 8.55 and for 2023 it's just over 10

In reply to doosra

I am enjoying the various opinions and the unluckiest poster in the world comes along to say he was thinking that and about to say the very same thing.
Second place everytime, so uncanny.
Lots of lovable characters on hay

What a rubbish thread, the author is showing he has no knowledge of cricket.