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Official Cricket Thread
- Thread starter crazy monkey
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Landy828 listen to this man. Fire up TuneIn or some other way to get Radio Five Live Sports Extra and bask in the glory of Test Match Special.
Sky Sports has the best TV commentary in the world but it's not a patch on TMS.
How do I know how many outs/wickets have happened???
Is that the second number....the 0 on the score area?
I'll see if I can get it going.
Is that the second number....the 0 on the score area?
I'll see if I can get it going.
Rain coming.
It would be the most English of outcomes if Australia nick this thanks to the poxy weather.
It would be the most English of outcomes if Australia nick this thanks to the poxy weather.
That would still take a miraculous collapse or massive decline in run-rate before stoppage. England are likely miles ahead of D/L.
I wish it was just the standard Sky Cricket team. They are superior to TMS. Isa Guha, Nasser, Athers, David Lloyd are brilliant. The Aussies they've brought in for the world cup are dogshit, except Mel Jones.
Yes.
When you watch cricket that is played in Australia then it is reversed on the scoreboard, wickets first and then followed by runs, but ignore that because Australia is a backwards nation full of backwards people.
Yeah outs/wickets is the 0. 10 is all out. If you do try TMS, syncing it up is the hard bit.
No rain outside my window (I'm down the road from the stadium) and I'm off to the nets in 90 minutes so it better not rain :@
If England get to 20 overs before the rain, a result can be called. If it rains before 20 overs and the rest of the day gets washed out they have to come back tomorrow.
There's a reserve day too. I think they'll sneak in 4 overs over 1.3 days
We need the run rate of a 5-day game and we have 10 wickets in hand. It's all good.
Apparently D/L par right now is 38
Edit: For Landy's benefit: Cricket is very British, so being very British, there are rules about matches that are rained off. The Duckworth-Lewis Method is basically a complicated algorithm used to determine what scores are equivalent in different states of the game, so if the match ended right now and they had to find a result based on Duckworth-Lewis, England would win handily because they have more than 38 runs.
Looks like we might have a wicket here, which would increase the D/L par target.
Edit: For Landy's benefit: Cricket is very British, so being very British, there are rules about matches that are rained off. The Duckworth-Lewis Method is basically a complicated algorithm used to determine what scores are equivalent in different states of the game, so if the match ended right now and they had to find a result based on Duckworth-Lewis, England would win handily because they have more than 38 runs.
Looks like we might have a wicket here, which would increase the D/L par target.
That shot was insane. this is amazing batting.
I am team England now.
Well, as someone who knows nothing about cricket..but is learning today. My low knowledge self would assume 124-0 (basically no outs/wickets) with only 224 to reach...seems like an obvious win coming.
