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Fensy · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:15 pm **Posts:** 6475

How stupid must the West Indian management team feel now rolfl

LeicesterPoolie · **Joined:** Sat Aug 19, 2006 5:48 pm **Posts:** 1278

a right kiwi prick stpid

Warwick Hunt · **Posted:** Fri Mar 20, 2009 11:00 pm

What an absolute joke. They should have just got on with it - this is a ground with floodlights right around the ground and they go off for bad light.

Spiff · **Posted:** Sat Mar 21, 2009 12:48 am

LeicesterPoolie wrote:

a right kiwi prick stpid

John Dyson is Australian (He got a hundred in the 1st Innings in the Headingley '81 "Botham" test)

Which, if anything makes things better. Just a pity it wasn't proper cricket.

Spiff · **Posted:** Sat Mar 21, 2009 1:27 pm

MadJohn wrote:

This morning's Grauniad had a piece with Allan Lamb to talk about the World Cup semi-final between England and South Africa in 1992. SA were chasing well and needed 22 off the last 13 balls to win. It had been spitting with rain for a while and the ball was a bit slippy. Lamb was in Gooch's ear telling him to complain to the umpires. So he did. They went off for a short rain break and, when they returned, the Africans faced a revised target of 21. From one ball :laugh:

Lamb was nearby when the South African batsman Brian McMillan walked back out. "I'd give this a good hit if I were you..." :laugh:

That was the most ridiculous rain rule evr applied to cricket. In a rain break, you subtracted the opposition's lowest-scoring overs, to reach a revised figure.

So if you got 275 in 50 overs & it rained & the chasing side lost five overs, the new target would be 275-the five lowest scoring overs.

In theory it could be the same target, just in 5 fewer overs. Hence the McMillan farce. Duckworth-Lewis might be a mathematical nightmare to understand, but at least it is reasonably fair

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER · **Joined:** Sat May 19, 2007 11:00 am **Posts:** 20758

I cant think of anything more dull than going to a cricket match.

Obafemi Obsession · **Posted:** Sat Mar 21, 2009 1:44 pm

MadJohn wrote:

This morning's Grauniad had a piece with Allan Lamb to talk about the World Cup semi-final between England and South Africa in 1992. SA were chasing well and needed 22 off the last 13 balls to win. It had been spitting with rain for a while and the ball was a bit slippy. Lamb was in Gooch's ear telling him to complain to the umpires. So he did. They went off for a short rain break and, when they returned, the Africans faced a revised target of 21. From one ball :laugh:

Lamb was nearby when the South African batsman Brian McMillan walked back out. "I'd give this a good hit if I were you..." :laugh:

Edit: 1982 of course, not 1992 :uhoh:

What's the Grauniad?

Obafemi Obsession · **Posted:** Sat Mar 21, 2009 1:45 pm

Tree_With_Hamster wrote:

I cant think of anything more dull than going to a cricket match.

I can. Going to a Tree with Hamster house-warming party.

TalbotAvenger · **Posted:** Sat Mar 21, 2009 11:28 pm

MadJohn wrote:

Obafemi Obsession wrote:

What's the Grauniad?

Private Eye's nickname for a popular daily newspaper, so given because of that newspaper's reputation for a somewhat casual approach to spelling and proof reading.

Isn't that the Hartelpool Mial?

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