The Cricket Thread.

[rupertramjet]

Good article on the BBC Website, their journalism is far superior to their television! BUT! Can anyone enlighten me as to who Amy Lofthouse is?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/40992990

[effCup]

Originally Posted by rupertramjet

who Amy Lofthouse is?

A sports journalist, often/previously for the Guardian (cf. google).

I somehow doubt she's any relation of Amy Winehouse? /shrug/

[rosestone]

Originally Posted by CalumH

Surely not, that's what deep midwicket's for isn't it... 'Skip, I'm gonna have a rolly if that's ok..?', 'Alright, deep midwicket then'...! Perfectly well accepted in my part o'the world.

And then you can guarantee that the b*****d batsman would hit the ball straight down your throat as soon as you'd lit up. I used to go out to field with a cigarette behind my ear, it was a running joke when I played in my early 20s.

I used to have a smoke at half-time playing football too, and I had a teammate called 'Big Merv' (no relation), who would have a smoke and neck a beer at half-time, at around 11am. We were a highly professional outfit.

[judy84]

I used to smoke whilst umpiring....but it was schoolboy cricket on Sat mornings, feeling hungover.

[DB83]

Thinking of that Viv Richards incident, can anyone recall any occasion when Richards was playing and Rob Bailey was the umpire

[countjimmoriarty]

Originally Posted by DB83

Thinking of that Viv Richards incident, can anyone recall any occasion when Richards was playing and Rob Bailey was the umpire

I'm pretty sure that the incident you're thinking of was in a Test Match somewhere in the West Indies in the days before neutral umpires. IIRC, it was right at the end of a day's play, and the Windies went up for a catch behind that at first the umpire did not give. Viv led the fielders in a huge, intimidating appeal and run at the local umpire, who then changed his mind and gave it out. Can't be sure, but Rob Bailey may have been the batsman on his only England tour.

[Roger Allott]

Originally Posted by DB83

Thinking of that Viv Richards incident, can anyone recall any occasion when Richards was playing and Rob Bailey was the umpire

Bailey's first 1st class match as umpire was in 2006. Viv's last 1st class match as a player was in 1993. So I'd say that the combination you suggest has almost certainly never happened.

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[DB83]

Originally Posted by Roger Allott

Bailey's first 1st class match as umpire was in 2006. Viv's last 1st class match as a player was in 1993. So I'd say that the combination you suggest has almost certainly never happened.

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Thanks for the relevant dates. My perverse SOH could just imagine Rob Bailey giving Viv Richards out caught behind (even in some friendly-non-firstclass/charity game) with a wicked grin.

[CalumH]

Originally Posted by rosestone

And then you can guarantee that the b*****d batsman would hit the ball straight down your throat as soon as you'd lit up. I used to go out to field with a cigarette behind my ear, it was a running joke when I played in my early 20s.

I used to have a smoke at half-time playing football too, and I had a teammate called 'Big Merv' (no relation), who would have a smoke and neck a beer at half-time, at around 11am. We were a highly professional outfit.

A few year's back I had an Aussie friend in London who would fly back each year for an annual game (well, Christmas, actually, but that was incidental, he was always more excited about the annual game), in which the rules were that catches, run-outs & stumpings didn't count if you didn't have your beer in one hand while taking the catch etc with the other and managed not to spill any. If you visibly spilled you're beer, that's not out!

... At the beginning of the day that is, by the sound of things shortly after lunch everyone, ump included, would be too plastered to tell.

[CalumH]

Originally Posted by DB83

NP. But the only weak joke at the moment is The Windies Test side.

Regrettably so. But I for one hope that their rebranding as 'Windies' is part of a programme to get them back up to something closer to the Windies of the 80s. Purely because trouncings aren't exciting, and I, personally, just want to watch a good game - (I daresay it will be abhorent to some I'm sure, but) I love cricket much more than I love any association with any side, national or otherwise - & I really, really wish that there's another Joel Garner etc in training somewhere... we've seen Bolt on the track, but he's retired now, when do we get to see the next Big Bird, Windies...? C'mon!

... of course, I think they launched their rebranding rather too early - ... always hire your bowling/batting coaches before you hire your management college kid!!