[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Tiste Simeon, on 13 June 2024 - 07:48 AM, said:

So I've tried to be good open minded father. I've always thought I'd support my kids no matter their choices or lifestyles.

But my son is now getting keen on cricket and I'm just not sure I can deal with it.

Oh sorry I thought this was the messing with my groove thread!

As an evolution of cricket, there should be a sport called locust---in which, during the boring parts of cricket, the players all sing, shriek, and have as much sex and devour as much as they can, only to go back to playing cricket (i.e., hibernating deep underground) whenever someone actually spanks one of their balls, and they all race after the flying ball (as if it were their lost last testicle or something...).

[Tiste Simeon]

Azath Vitr (D, on 15 June 2024 - 04:47 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 13 June 2024 - 07:48 AM, said:

So I've tried to be good open minded father. I've always thought I'd support my kids no matter their choices or lifestyles.

But my son is now getting keen on cricket and I'm just not sure I can deal with it.

Oh sorry I thought this was the messing with my groove thread!

As an evolution of cricket, there should be a sport called locust---in which, during the boring parts of cricket, the players all sing, shriek, and have as much sex and devour as much as they can, only to go back to playing cricket (i.e., hibernating deep underground) whenever someone actually spanks one of their balls, and they all race after the flying ball (as if it were their lost last testicle or something...).

See, I'd watch THAT...

[Tsundoku]

You're a weird cat AVD ...

Scotland made heaps of runs against us 180 - plus we dropped 6 catches! Yuck, terrible fielding.
Ah well, it's win-win really because if we lose, Scotland go through at the expense of England. And wouldn't that just be a shame?

Not that we would deliberately lose, but it's been fun watching the conspiracy theories run through England after Josh Hazlewood's offhand comments. Talk about living rent-free in English heads ...

[Tsundoku]

Phew, The Great Escape!

Ah well, sorry Scotland, you had a red-hot go and gave us a real scare. Unlike England.

[Tsundoku]

Blerg. Well played Afghanistan, but geez we batted like absolute shite.

Hopefully recover against India, but it's a tall order.

[Tsundoku]

Yup, as expected we went to shit against India. Although only one made runs (Rohit), it was more than enough.

Ah well, looks like Afghanistan will go through if (when) they beat Bangladesh. Only takes one bad game at the serious end of the tournament and it's all over.

[Tsundoku]

Well, Bangladesh gave themselves a good shot then stuffed it.

Not too fond of Trott and Naib's cheating slowing the game down at the end. Surely there should be some sort of punishment from the ICC, especially since it's not India?

On Afghanistan, while I am generally a supporter of theirs and a big fan of Rashid Khan since day one in the Big Bash League here years ago, does anyone else (I'm flattering myself others read this thread ) think it odd that the Saffers couldn't play international cricket for decades because they had a non-inclusive society, but Afghanistan is allowed to?

[Tsundoku]

Well, OK.

The semis were both absolutely horrific slaughters. Poor AFG capitulated for 56 against SA and SA sleepwalked it in a few overs.
And England got completely outclassed by India. I've been trying to contain my schadenfreude since then.

And the final - quite a match. India winners by 7 after SA needed 30 from 30. This won't do wonders for their long-held "choker" tag. Any decent sports psychologists in SA are going to making big bikkies over the next few years. At least.

And that's it for this T20 WC. Count on there being a LOT of new faces in the major teams by the time the next one rolls around in ... 2 years.

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 30 June 2024 - 07:12 AM

[Tsundoku]

Holy fucking shit, what an absolute annihilation!

‘Criminal’: Cricket insanity as world records obliterated
The cricketing world has been rocked by the biggest massacre the sport has ever seen with uncomfortable scenes unfolding.

https://www.news.com...35f4caeb44ac88f

Cricket records have been blown to pieces as Zimbabwe bashed a ridiculous total of 4-344 in their T20 World Cup qualification match against Gambia on Wednesday night.

The insane total is a new record in International T20 cricket and the batting barrage also smashed several other records.

Sikandar Raza stole the show at the Ruaraka Sports Club Ground in Nairobi with an innings of 133 not out from 43 deliveries.

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The T20 World Cup Africa Sub Regional Qualifying match turned into a bloodbath, with Zimbabwe’s innings even more brutal than the previous record score of 3-314 set by Nepal against Mongolia in Hangzhou last year.

It was a total mismatch between the Test-playing nation and country that only began playing cricket in 2017 and is ranked 95 in the world.

Raza, who came in at the fall of the second wicket in the seventh over, hit a total of seven fours and 15 sixes in his innings.

He reached his century off 33 balls which equals Namibia’s Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton as the second-fastest in T20I cricket.

It remains six balls slower than Sahil Chauhan’s 27-ball hundred for Estonia against Cyprus in June.

Raza’s total of 15 sixes was the equal-fourth most maximums struck in an IT20.

Australian opener Aaron Finch holds the record for highest individual score in T20Is with 172 against Zimbabwe in Harare in 2018.

Zimbabwe claimed a second record when they bowled out Gambia for just 54 in 14.4 overs to complete a 290-run victory, the biggest ever in a T20 international.

Zimbabwe cricket commentator Adam Theofilatos wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter: “For what Zimbabwe has done today, they are likely to be reported to the ICC, not the International Cricket Council, the International Criminal Court”.

The bowler that suffered the most pain was Musa Jorbateh, who went for 93 runs from four overs. His effort in the 17th over of the innings went for 35 runs.

Five bowlers all conceded more than 50 runs.

The records broken, include:

— Most sixes in a T20 innings (27)

— Biggest winning margin in an IT20 (290 runs).

— Most boundaries by a team in a T20 innings (57)

Zimbabwe’s victory guarantees they will advance into the final round of Africa qualifying for the 2026 World Cup.

Gambia is still looking for its first win in the Africa sub-regional qualifying series, having given walkovers to their opponents Rwanda and Seychelles in the first two games, while Zimbabwe have already picked up four from four.

[Tsundoku]

Congritulations Unnzudd. We couldn't do it so good on you.

New Zealand beat India in Test series, snap epic cricket winning streak
The Kiwis are celebrating after New Zealand stunned India in a Test series, breaking their winning streak in an extremely rare feat.

https://www.news.com...36f0def240d5b58