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    #602
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    Bumrah has a hat-Trick. Batsmen, 2, 3 and 4. The hat-trick ball was an LBW, Bumrah wasn't too interested but Kohli reviewed anyway and succeeded.

    Windies 14/4, 402 runs behind :pac:


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    #603
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    22/5 Bumrah again, 5 wickets


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    #604
    cosatron
    Registered Users Posts: 2,004 ✭✭✭cosatron


    Christ west indies spin option is a big unit. he got some nice turn and held up an end but I wouldn't be putting him out on the boundary when fielding.


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    #605
    Royale with Cheese
    Registered Users Posts: 8,982 ✭✭✭Royale with Cheese


    Afghanistan doing pretty well so far in their test in Bangladesh.


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    #606
    Portsalon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 702 ✭✭✭Portsalon


    Malinga is ripping through the Kiwis in a T20 game!

    Currently 3 overs 1 maiden, 5 for 5! Including 4 in 4 balls!

    https://www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/scorecard/ECKO46278


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    #607
    Mysterypunter
    Registered Users Posts: 2,806 ✭✭✭Mysterypunter


    Abdul Qadir died. Fantastic leg spinner, sad news. Pakistan have produced some wizards down the years, he was the best of all.


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    #608
    Portsalon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 702 ✭✭✭Portsalon


    Mysterypunter wrote: »
    Abdul Qadir died. Fantastic leg spinner, sad news. Pakistan have produced some wizards down the years, he was the best of all.

    Wasn't he the one with a withered arm through childhood polio who could make the ball do amazing things?


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    #609
    Mysterypunter
    Registered Users Posts: 2,806 ✭✭✭Mysterypunter


    Portsalon wrote: »
    Wasn't he the one with a withered arm through childhood polio who could make the ball do amazing things?

    I didn't think it was so I looked it up, it was Bhagwat Chandrasekhar of India, that man is still on the go, 74 years young


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    #610
    riffmongous
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,625 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    Bangladesh on course to win, only 4 wickets needed


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    #611
    Hammer Archer
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 11,386 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hammer Archer


    Sorry if this isn't the best thread for this question, but just wondering if anyone had any experience in getting tickets to England test games? Thinking of getting the father in law tickets to a 5-day test next year for his 70th. Eyeing up one of the Pakistan test matches in August (Lords/Trent Bridge/Old Trafford) but not sure really how much it might be.


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    #612
    riffmongous
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    Well Afghanistan got their first test win this morning, fair play to them.


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    #613
    riffmongous
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,625 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    Hammer Archer wrote: »
    Sorry if this isn't the best thread for this question, but just wondering if anyone had any experience in getting tickets to England test games? Thinking of getting the father in law tickets to a 5-day test next year for his 70th. Eyeing up one of the Pakistan test matches in August (Lords/Trent Bridge/Old Trafford) but not sure really how much it might be.

    Try the Ashes thread maybe


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    #614
    axe2grind
    Registered Users Posts: 577 ✭✭✭axe2grind


    riffmongous wrote: »
    Well Afghanistan got their first test win this morning, fair play to them.
    Delighted the weather didn't rob them. They only had 18ov to get 4 wickets after rain prevented play for most of day. Got Shakib first ball of resumption and got last wicket with only about 3 overs left and light starting to fade.

    Rashid 11 wickets and a 50 in the match, only 3rd captain to take 10 and score 50.
    Really surprised than Alan Border was one of the other 2!


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    #615
    Mysterypunter
    Registered Users Posts: 2,806 ✭✭✭Mysterypunter


    axe2grind wrote: »
    Delighted the weather didn't rob them. They only had 18ov to get 4 wickets after rain prevented play for most of day. Got Shakib first ball of resumption and got last wicket with only about 3 overs left and light starting to fade.

    Rashid 11 wickets and a 50 in the match, only 3rd captain to take 10 and score 50.
    Really surprised than Alan Border was one of the other 2!

    It is their second, they beat Ireland as well. Border took 7 in an innings against West Indies a few years ago, was a handy spinner. Desmond Haynes played brilliantly in that match. I'm sure he got a hundred. Afghans were nearly robbed by the weather, but got Shakhib first ball after the resumption, and won in the nick of time.


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    #616
    TrueDub
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 2,638 Mod ✭✭✭✭TrueDub


    Hammer Archer wrote: »
    Sorry if this isn't the best thread for this question, but just wondering if anyone had any experience in getting tickets to England test games? Thinking of getting the father in law tickets to a 5-day test next year for his 70th. Eyeing up one of the Pakistan test matches in August (Lords/Trent Bridge/Old Trafford) but not sure really how much it might be.

    Tickets for Lords are sold in a ballot - you go to their website and register, then apply to join the ballot. You'll either be lucky or unlucky.

    Not sure about the other grounds, you'd need to check their websites, I'd reckon.

    Lord's is probably a gentler experience than the other grounds, it's a bit more sedate.


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    #617
    Mysterypunter
    Registered Users Posts: 2,806 ✭✭✭Mysterypunter


    I was reading that Vikram Rathour is the new India batting coach, how is that even possible, that chap toured England about 15 years ago and was comfortably the worst test player I have ever seen, he had no shots, and couldn't hit it off the square, he averaged about 5, and was lucky to. What are top class batsmen going to learn from him?


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    #618
    Mysterypunter
    Registered Users Posts: 2,806 ✭✭✭Mysterypunter


    Hamilton Mazsakadza of Zimbabwe retired after a match winning 71 against Afghanistan in a t20 international. The eldest of 3 brother's who represented his country


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    #619
    Strumms
    Registered Users Posts: 24,807 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Mysterypunter wrote: »
    I was reading that Vikram Rathour is the new India batting coach, how is that even possible, that chap toured England about 15 years ago and was comfortably the worst test player I have ever seen, he had no shots, and couldn't hit it off the square, he averaged about 5, and was lucky to. What are top class batsmen going to learn from him?

    6 tests, averaged 13. :eek:

    But take a sportsman like Jose Mourinho, won just about everything in football as a manager, no international caps as a player , not even 100 first club team games as a player and he played for teams you won’t have heard of yet incredibly successful.

    As a manager a Winner. Not as of late but a winner generally.

    Rather could just have the gift of being great at working with players, educating them, developing them..


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    #620
    VillaMad
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    Shakib Al-Hasan was banned from all forms of cricket by the ICC yesterday for 2 years, with 1 year suspended. He was approached by bookies on 3 occasions and failed to report it. Nobody else to blame but himself.

    Being the captain and greatest ever player from Bangaldesh, it's an awful blow to the cricket mad country.

    Mohammad Ashraful, was banned for spot fixing in 2013. Lessons were not learned.


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    Mysterypunter
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    So many T20s and ODIs on at the moment, but the thing I have noticed is that the bullying Aussies have gone soft. After years of sledging and intimidation, they have players banned for homophobic outbursts, and players talking about mental health issues. Their own culture has changed, but it must be confusing to be an Aussie cricketer. Years of fake toughness and bull**** count against my sympathy levels for them.


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    Strumms
    Registered Users Posts: 24,807 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Mysterypunter wrote: »
    So many T20s and ODIs on at the moment, but the thing I have noticed is that the bullying Aussies have gone soft. After years of sledging and intimidation, they have players banned for homophobic outbursts, and players talking about mental health issues. Their own culture has changed, but it must be confusing to be an Aussie cricketer. Years of fake toughness and bull**** count against my sympathy levels for them.

    Yes I’d agree... like most bullies though they are quick to dish it out but don’t take to it well when they are on the receiving end they tend to have bouts of crocodile tears. I was absolutely always shouting for the English or whomever was playing them..


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    Strumms
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    English really fûcking up what was a great start to their first innings now...throwing wickets away.... it was looking like 400 would not be an unreasonable probability but now just limping towards 300 with 3 wickets remaining.


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    Slim Charles
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    Strumms wrote: »
    English really fûcking up what was a great start to their first innings now...throwing wickets away.... it was looking like 400 would not be an unreasonable probability but now just limping towards 300 with 3 wickets remaining.






    Customary collapse, yet still 209 runs ahead now and Williamson out of the picture.


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    #625
    Doodah7
    Registered Users Posts: 3,721 ✭✭✭Doodah7


    Good proper Test Match between these two. Every run earned and every wicket a prize! I reckon England will be 100 or so ahead after the First Innings at the end of Day 3. It will be their match to lose from there.


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    #626
    Strumms
    Registered Users Posts: 24,807 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Good test so far, crucial session now in determining the result...a couple of quick wickets and with runs on the board England will be firmly in the driving seat... New Zealand can bat for an hour or more, no wickets down they will be on course to get close to Englands 353..


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    Strumms
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    English bowlers bowling quite accurately and very economically but not really creating any chances yet. Kiwi’s seemingly happy to tip away, defensively.


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    #628
    Tom Mann Centuria
    Registered Users Posts: 10,909 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    Root is a poor captain.

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



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    #629
    VillaMad
    Registered Users Posts: 1,157 ✭✭✭VillaMad


    58 runs for New Zealand off 30 overs in that session with no wickets. Awful to watch.


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    #630
    Tom Mann Centuria
    Registered Users Posts: 10,909 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    VillaMad wrote: »
    58 runs for New Zealand off 30 overs in that session with no wickets. Awful to watch.

    Not a good advert for test cricket unfortunately. Could spark into life though.....

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



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    #631
    Strumms
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    English bowlers look to be all out of ideas... NZ batsman having an easy time of it...playing very conservatively though, three of the English bowlers with economy rates below 3, broad 1.94 which after that many overs is unheard of in the game... not at all getting close to taking a wicket.


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