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Just point him toward November 2
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Ashes series starts today

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West Indies playing India in Ft Lauderdale today and tomorrow
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Baloney wrote: Thu Aug 01, 2019 7:25 am Ashes series starts today

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What a test match in England.
Chasing 359 in the 4th inning, England wins by a wicket.
In the final overs with Australia needing 1 wicket to win the match and retain Ashes, there were drop catches, missed run out, bad review, wrong umpire decision all led to Leach getting a single and letting Stokes hit a four to end the match.

Last 10 overs they scored 76 runs on the last wicket.

now the series is 1-1-1 with 2 tests to go.
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That was just incredible, what a summer Stokes is having.
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Not gonna lie, the test matches are just too damn long. Give me ODIs or T20s any day.
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brian wrote: Mon Aug 26, 2019 4:18 pm Not gonna lie, the test matches are just too damn long. Give me ODIs or T20s any day.
Test matches have their own unique strategy.
Just treat it like a best of 5 baseball series.
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brian wrote: Mon Aug 26, 2019 4:18 pm Not gonna lie, the test matches are just too damn long. Give me ODIs or T20s any day.
Going to be yet another format next year, 100 ball cricket with 10 ball overs. Complete nonsense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100-ball_cricket
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Baloney wrote: Tue Aug 27, 2019 8:27 am
brian wrote: Mon Aug 26, 2019 4:18 pm Not gonna lie, the test matches are just too damn long. Give me ODIs or T20s any day.
Going to be yet another format next year, 100 ball cricket with 10 ball overs. Complete nonsense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100-ball_cricket
Not sure how that's "better" or vastly different than T20. It's easy to tell why T20 is so popular for the big domestic leagues in Australia, India and even the T20 league in England is a fairly big deal, though nothing as big as the IPL. Being able to finish a game in about three or so hours is critical for TV even in countries with better attention spans than the US. I don't get the advantage of 100 balls vs. 120 though.
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Saw T20 in St Kitts a few years back. Was fun to watch live. Carib T20 league is pretty competitive and could see T20 doing well in the States.

There was/is talk of bringing it to the US but haven’t heard much buzz in the past year.
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brian wrote: Tue Aug 27, 2019 9:15 am
Baloney wrote: Tue Aug 27, 2019 8:27 am
brian wrote: Mon Aug 26, 2019 4:18 pm Not gonna lie, the test matches are just too damn long. Give me ODIs or T20s any day.
Going to be yet another format next year, 100 ball cricket with 10 ball overs. Complete nonsense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100-ball_cricket
Not sure how that's "better" or vastly different than T20. It's easy to tell why T20 is so popular for the big domestic leagues in Australia, India and even the T20 league in England is a fairly big deal, though nothing as big as the IPL. Being able to finish a game in about three or so hours is critical for TV even in countries with better attention spans than the US. I don't get the advantage of 100 balls vs. 120 though.
Lost on me, seems like tinkering for tinkerings sake, guess T16⅔ isn't all that catchy as a brand.
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Cricket is trying to get into the Olympics and I think they prefer a shorter game.
100 balls ensures the game will be less than 3 hours and is preferable to women as well.
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I mean, that's just too easy.
You know what you need? A lyrical sucker punch to the face.
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degenerasian wrote: Tue Aug 27, 2019 10:01 am Cricket is trying to get into the Olympics and I think they prefer a shorter game.
100 balls ensures the game will be less than 3 hours and is preferable to women as well.
Be a problem for the Windies, players would have to represent their home island
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Baloney wrote: Tue Aug 27, 2019 11:28 am
degenerasian wrote: Tue Aug 27, 2019 10:01 am Cricket is trying to get into the Olympics and I think they prefer a shorter game.
100 balls ensures the game will be less than 3 hours and is preferable to women as well.
Be a problem for the Windies, players would have to represent their home island
Yes, and the Scots would have to play for GB.
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degenerasian wrote: Tue Aug 27, 2019 12:26 pm
Baloney wrote: Tue Aug 27, 2019 11:28 am
degenerasian wrote: Tue Aug 27, 2019 10:01 am Cricket is trying to get into the Olympics and I think they prefer a shorter game.
100 balls ensures the game will be less than 3 hours and is preferable to women as well.
Be a problem for the Windies, players would have to represent their home island
Yes, and the Scots would have to play for GB.
Douglas Jardine was Scottish and played for England, as Captain was responsible for the infamous "Bodyline Series" in Australia
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Steve Smith is going to win the Ashes single handedly

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Ha! Now they got him out but it's a no ball.
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I don't know why Australia declared. I would make Archer bowl until his arm falls off.
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Was watching the Afghanistan v Bangladesh before I came to work, because the start of the Ashes game was delayed, Afghanistan are in a good position to win that test.
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This test match is now nuts.
Australia is now the one batting for a draw.
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Baloney wrote: Thu Sep 05, 2019 8:05 am Steve Smith is going to win the Ashes single handedly
Yup.
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England will need another miracle tomorrow
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Smith doing what Smith does, again.
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And it's goodnight from me and goodnight from him, will be missed.

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degenerasian wrote: Sun Jul 14, 2019 1:35 pm Come on. Play another superover
They will next time

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Great catch by New Zealand's Mitchell Santner during the England-NZ test match:

ETA: Can't embed the video because ESPN sucks, but the video can be found at:

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On field microphones

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Fun ODI going on now on ESPN+ for those interested. West Indies chasing 274 from Sri Lanka and right at the RRR.
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Windies chasing this like it's nothing.
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degenerasian wrote: Fri Mar 12, 2021 3:15 pm Windies chasing this like it's nothing.
Need 90 in 90 and hard to see how they don’t do it. Sri Lanka only took two wickets from Windies in their previous ODI.
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I didn’t count on the Windies forgetting how to bat after the 30th end.
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That 18 runs in the 48th over made things interesting.
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Should be fine. They slowed down and Sri Lanka kept taking wickets but they'll make it in the end.
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That was tense. Good game.
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Windies have to chase 274 two days after barely successfully chasing 273. Sri Lanka put up 89 runs in the last 10 overs including their #8 batsman Hasaranga putting up the highest total for a #8 in Sri Lankan ODI history (80).
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brian wrote: Sun Mar 14, 2021 12:25 pm Windies have to chase 274 two days after barely successfully chasing 273. Sri Lanka put up 89 runs in the last 10 overs including their #8 batsman Hasaranga putting up the highest total for a #8 in Sri Lankan ODI history (80).
Windies doing good so far. Only 2 wickets fallen just over the halfway point.
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That's an expensive fish tank

Jofra Archer could lose £800,000 IPL deal as England fast bowler undergoes surgery after 'cutting his hand when he dropped a fish tank in the bath while he was trying to clean it' before January's tour of India

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