FUCK OFF

FUCK OFF

sibeen said:

FUCK OFF

FUCK OFF

In an unmistakeable sign of the season, the cry of the Australian Cricket Fan (iratus spectator) is again heard throughout the land.

sibeen said:

FUCK OFF

FUCK OFF

Oh, is that what they’re calling the Syndey to Hobart these days.

Onya Labs

3/58

Ha

4/58

FUCK OFF

FUCK OFF

Looks like Andoo Comanche is in the front through the heads.

mollwollfumble said:

Looks like Andoo Comanche is in the front through the heads.

Closely followed by Hamilton Island Wild Oats.

Then some distance back to Caro, Moneypenny and Quest.

FUCK OFF

sibeen said:

FUCK OFF

now that’s a tradition here on the forum.

hi sibeen , hope you and the family had a good’n of a christmas this year!

monkey skipper said:

sibeen said:

FUCK OFF

now that’s a tradition here on the forum.

hi sibeen , hope you and the family had a good’n of a christmas this year!

Very good, monkey. Didn’t finish till quite late.

You and yours?

sibeen said:

monkey skipper said:

sibeen said:

FUCK OFF

now that’s a tradition here on the forum.

hi sibeen , hope you and the family had a good’n of a christmas this year!

Very good, monkey. Didn’t finish till quite late.

You and yours?

Gathering with family and extended family on Christmas eve with the grandkids and then a quiet christmas day at home (thank goodness)

Gorne for 189

Green take 5/27

Ian said:

Gorne for 189

Green take 5/27

A good day in the field, and bowling. Congrats to Cameron Green.

Warner off to a start. We’ll see where that heads tomorrow. I hope he can keep it up. Labs is in to replace Usman K, who didn’t get a start.

https://www.news.com.au/sport/sports-life/champions/aussies-spend-boxing-day-trashing-bradman/news-story/4cac652ff2df1b147cd6114388415c45

Link

Bogsnorkler said:

https://www.news.com.au/sport/sports-life/champions/aussies-spend-boxing-day-trashing-bradman/news-story/4cac652ff2df1b147cd6114388415c45

Link

Jaysus, you don’t have to do much to get called a right wing nutjob by Phillip Adams.

sibeen said:

Bogsnorkler said:

https://www.news.com.au/sport/sports-life/champions/aussies-spend-boxing-day-trashing-bradman/news-story/4cac652ff2df1b147cd6114388415c45

Link

Jaysus, you don’t have to do much to get called a right wing nutjob by Phillip Adams.

I had a chuckle at that. I also thought the dons less than perfect life was pretty well know anyway.

Bogsnorkler said:

sibeen said:

Bogsnorkler said:

https://www.news.com.au/sport/sports-life/champions/aussies-spend-boxing-day-trashing-bradman/news-story/4cac652ff2df1b147cd6114388415c45

Link

Jaysus, you don’t have to do much to get called a right wing nutjob by Phillip Adams.

I had a chuckle at that. I also thought the dons less than perfect life was pretty well know anyway.

Yep, there’s been reams written about what a cunt he was.

Bogsnorkler said:

sibeen said:

Bogsnorkler said:

https://www.news.com.au/sport/sports-life/champions/aussies-spend-boxing-day-trashing-bradman/news-story/4cac652ff2df1b147cd6114388415c45

Link

Jaysus, you don’t have to do much to get called a right wing nutjob by Phillip Adams.

I had a chuckle at that. I also thought the dons less than perfect life was pretty well know anyway.

If he hadn’t been handy with a bat, no-one would have wanted to know him.

captain_spalding said:

Bogsnorkler said:

sibeen said:

Jaysus, you don’t have to do much to get called a right wing nutjob by Phillip Adams.

I had a chuckle at that. I also thought the dons less than perfect life was pretty well know anyway.

If he hadn’t been handy with a bat, no-one would have wanted to know him.

Much like Warnie. If it weren’t for his magic ability with a cricket ball, he’d be a casual brickie’s labourer wasting his time and money at the TAB.

sibeen said:

Bogsnorkler said:

sibeen said:

Jaysus, you don’t have to do much to get called a right wing nutjob by Phillip Adams.

I had a chuckle at that. I also thought the dons less than perfect life was pretty well know anyway.

Yep, there’s been reams written about what a cunt he was.

He was the leading establishment figure of the day when players pushed for fair pay and all that. Leading to WSC and rebel tournaments.

First 5 boats at the moment.

Commanche 2017
Commanche
Law connect
Blackjack
Wild oats

Only the first five are south of all NSW.

Two boats of the fleet of 109 have retired.

FUCK

sibeen said:

FUCK

The reveille of the cricketing army is sounded.

mollwollfumble said:

First 5 boats at the moment.

Commanche 2017
Commanche
Law connect
Blackjack
Wild oats

Only the first five are south of all NSW.

Two boats of the fleet of 109 have retired.

The order of the first five hasn’t changed.

The first two are now east of the Tasmanian mainland.

The last boat, Salt Lines, is already south of Bateman’s Bay.

That’s weird, Comanche 2017, running first, isn’t listed on the list of placings.
Ohhh, the penny drops. Commanche 2017 isn’t in the race at all. It’s only marked on the tracker map as the all time fastest yacht.

So top five placings are actually
Commanche
Law connect
Blackjack
Wild oats
Willow

On handicap (irc div 0), top places are
Alive
Willow
Moneypenny

Well done, Mr Warner.

Ton up :)

100 for Davy Warner.

.. and I’m back off to the shed .

Hey. Leave our spidercam alone!

Why cricket and America are made for each other
The world’s second-most-popular sport and biggest sports market are about to meet

Dec 20th 2022 | GRAND PRAIRIE, MORRISVILLE AND STATEN ISLAND

By the middle of September, half a diamond was all that remained of the infield at the AirHogs baseball stadium in Grand Prairie, Texas. The artificial turf was being carted away. The pitcher’s mound was a crater. The dugout had been dug out. The stadium’s tenant, a minor-league team of the same name, disbanded in 2020, a victim of the pandemic.

But on that Sunday the Dallas-Fort Worth area, of which Grand Prairie is part, thrummed with sports. In the car park across the road, souped-up cars were doing timed laps around a traffic-cone circuit. By lunchtime the nearby Olive Garden, a chain restaurant where a $25 meal supplies a day’s calories, was full of diners in jerseys signalling their support for the Texas Rangers, a baseball team. At BoomerJack’s Grill and Bar that evening, half the acreage on the dozens of flat screens was given over to the Dallas Cowboys’ first game of the American football season.

That afternoon, northwest of Dallas, a dozen multimillionaires gathered at a 2,500-acre ranch. Horses bobbed in their stalls before the main house. At the back, manicured gardens were framed by rows of trees receding into the distance. Inside, around a Putinesque conference table, the men discussed their plans to bring a new sport to this sports-saturated country. When the AirHogs stadium reopens in the spring it will be the first home of Major League Cricket (mlc).

All the men were of Indian descent. They and their partners, who include the ceos of Microsoft and Adobe, have put in $44m and committed another $76m to start the league. As owners of the first six franchises—in Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, dc—they are betting that conditions are right to turn cricket, long seen as a baffling foreign game, into an American pursuit. The first season will run from July 13th to 30th.

Most Americans may not take cricket seriously—and most of the cricketing world does not take America seriously—but in 2024 the country will co-host (with the West Indies) a cricket World Cup, qualifying the American team automatically. usa Cricket, the governing body in America, wants to include cricket at the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. The world’s biggest sports market and second-most popular sport are about to discover what they really think of each other.

Among cricket fans and pub-quizzers, this fact is settled: the first cricket international ever was played between the United States and Canada in Manhattan in 1844 (Canada won). Those of a nerdier bent also know that cricket was popular in antebellum America. The first recorded mention comes from Georgia in 1737, notes Tom Melville in “The Tented Field”, a history of cricket in America. Baseball “remained in a distant second place until after the civil war,” writes John Thorn, the official historian of Major League Baseball, in “Baseball in the Garden of Eden”.

Various reasons have been set forth for cricket’s decline after the civil war. One is that baseball was more conducive to battlefield conditions—it did not need a smooth batting surface. Another is that baseball was, then, a much shorter game. But above all, as Mr Melville writes, “Cricket failed in America because it never established an American character.”

What, though, gave baseball its American character? Scholars agree the sport originated in England; there are references to “base ball” from at least the mid-18th century. In 1905 Albert Spalding, an American baseball pitcher and businessman, set up a commission to investigate the game’s origins. Spalding had “a yearning for grand national stories to match the burning patriotism of the day”, writes Beth Hise in “Swinging Away: How Cricket and Baseball Connect”. The commission returned with the perfect—if bogus—story of Abner Doubleday, a civil-war hero who supposedly laid out baseball’s rules in 1839 in Cooperstown, New York, home today to the baseball hall of fame.

The creators of this origin story “were not mere liars and blowhards”, writes Mr Thorn. They “were trying to create a national mythology from baseball, which they identified as America’s secular religion”. Via email, he elaborates: cricket’s popularity faded “as America’s fervour for the Union coincided with the rise of professionalism in baseball and accompanying superior quality of play. The lower and middle classes embraced baseball, leaving cricket to the upper class, which had time to play and observe” the days-long matches. Cricket was consigned to society’s margins, as a sport fit for toffs and perhaps migrants.

Take me out to the ball games
Today, the conversion of the AirHogs baseball stadium is symbolic of larger trends within the world’s two major bat-and-ball sports. “America’s national pastime” has been declining in popularity for decades, according to Gallup, a pollster. Though 34% of Americans surveyed in 1937 named baseball as their favourite sport, by 2017, the last time Gallup asked the question, just 9% chose it, barely more than the 7% who picked soccer. The main problem is that baseball games have become longer and duller. In 1937 an average major-league game ran for about two hours. The average game now drags on for more than three hours. Yet average runs per game have remained about the same: between eight and ten, according to Baseball Reference, a sports site.

One culprit is time-wasting by pitchers and batters. Another is statistical-analysis-led strategy, which has robbed the game of some of its most exciting, if inefficient, tactics such as stealing bases. The chief problem is stubborn traditionalism. Changes that have irked fans and officials include radio commentary, stadium floodlighting and electronic decisions on strikes. That makes it difficult for baseball authorities to innovate.

No such malady afflicts cricket, whose legions of South Asian fans make it the world’s most-watched sport after soccer. As baseball started its long decline, cricket was entering a period of growth and dynamism. In 1971 England were touring Australia for a terrifically dull series of tests—the traditional, five-day version of the game. When the third test was washed out, the teams agreed to play a one-day match. Some 46,000 fans showed up, compared with 42,000 over five days of the first test. (Australia won.)

Cricket tours embraced “one-day internationals” (odis) as a regular feature. By 1975 the International Cricket Council had launched an odi World Cup. In the late 1970s a rogue American-inspired league, “World Series Cricket”, introduced yet more innovations, such as floodlights, colourful uniforms to replace white flannel, and white balls to replace red ones. For a sport thought of by non-fans as a bastion of obscure tradition, cricket has proved remarkably adaptable.

Still, even odis were a whole day long. By the 21st century that seemed a bit much. In the early 2000s the English cricket board introduced a shorter form, known as Twenty20 (t20), which took just three hours. It was an instant success.

That was just the beginning of t20’s rise. In 2008 the Indian cricket board launched the Indian Premier League (ipl), a tournament of city- or state-based franchises. It borrowed heavily from American sports leagues, even importing cheerleaders from American football. As Tim Wigmore, a British sports journalist, put it in his book about t20, “The ipl marked the Americanification of Indian cricket: sport as an international event, with the best players from the world over, but with an Indian team always winning.”

This format spread, spawning the Caribbean Premier League, Australia’s Big Bash and more. It is this model that the backers of mlc are adopting, reimporting to America what ipl adapted from it. Cricket and baseball have met in the middle on length, but cricket now provides far more action per minute. The average t20 sees between 250 and 400 runs.

Much else has changed in the century and a half since cricket fell out of favour with Americans, not least the meaning of “Americans”. In 1920 the United States was 89.7% white, 9.9% black and rigidly segregated. Major League Baseball did not see its first black player until 1947. Today white and black people together make up only 73% of the population, and people with American passports speak every major language. Baseball’s biggest star is Ohtani Shohei, a Japanese phenomenon so intent on playing in America that he sacrificed enormous sums to move. The promise of America—in many ways the whole point of America—is that anybody can be American.

To an underappreciated degree, America has kept that promise. In 2019 there were 5.5m South Asians in America, up from 2.2m in 2000 (and just 2,507 in 1920). Indians account for 4.6m, of whom 68% were born outside America. Migrants from cricket-loving former British colonies in the Caribbean—Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago—number another million.

“Every summer the parks of this city are taken over by hundreds of cricketers, but somehow nobody notices. It’s like we’re invisible,” says an Indian origin Trinidadian character in “Netherland”, a novel set in New York’s cricket-playing milieu in the early 2000s. Of course, he adds, “That’s nothing new, for those of us who are black or brown.” usa Cricket, which is responsible for developing the sport and selecting the national team, reckons that 200,000 people play cricket across 400 local leagues. Most are indeed black or brown. Today the American men’s, women’s and under-19s’ national teams are composed entirely of American South Asians and West Indians (and one Briton). Five players on the men’s squad share the Gujarati surname Patel. “I used to play for teams where everyone would pray to Allah…And then another team where everyone would be like, ‘Our Lord, Jesus Christ’,” says Joseph O’Neill, the author of “Netherland”. Many American clubs, he says, are formed on the basis of origin. Some are all-Jamaican. Others are made up of people from a specific village in India or Sri Lanka.

If passion for cricket is one defining characteristic of Indians in America, another is financial success. The median annual household income for Indian-Americans in 2019 was $119,000, nearly double the national average. Indians are vastly over-represented in Silicon Valley. A few have become wealthy beyond their dreams. And yet something is still missing.

At the ranch outside Dallas, the millionaires were hosted by Anurag Jain, who owns the Dallas team along with Ross Perot Jr, a billionaire. As a 14-year-old in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Mr Jain says, he was a “really good” fast-bowler and hoped to play professionally. But one day “My father sat me down and said, ‘You know, son, your cricket-playing days are done. I need you to think about being an engineer or a doctor.’” He chose engineering, moved to America for an mba and succeeded fabulously. But “There was a seed inside me that was unfulfilled.”

Another investor is Satya Nadella, the Indian-born ceo of Microsoft, who was not present that day. As a young man he was a spin bowler whose dream “was to attend a small college, play cricket for Hyderabad, and eventually work for a bank,” he wrote in his book, “Hit Refresh”. A few years after he became ceo, Microsoft announced plans to build a world-class cricket oval on its campus. “When we heard there are a bunch of guys who are thinking about mlc, we thought that there is an opportunity for us to bring the game that we love to this country,” says S. Somasegar, Mr Nadella’s partner in the Seattle franchise.

The potential rewards are enticing. mlc reckons the domestic television and streaming audience could be as large as 5m. (The founders started and sold a cricket pay-tv channel and streaming service called Willow tv.) The league’s backers also hope to persuade India’s vast audience to tune in, and are in negotiations with global broadcasters. There will be lots of merch, too.

Venky Mysore, ceo of the Knight Riders, which owns teams of that name in Abu Dhabi, Kolkata and Trinidad and Tobago, says that millions of Indians watch the Caribbean Premier League when his Trinbago Knight Riders play. The Los Angeles Knight Riders will be his fourth team. The real opportunity is “to get the average American fan into it,” says Mr Mysore. “And that’s a bigger challenge.” A further hurdle is presented by usa Cricket, which is currently in financial distress because of a covid-afflicted series with Ireland in 2021. More worrying still is that usa Cricket is a relatively new body (it replaced an older, scandal-plagued entity called United States of America Cricket Association). mlc has a commercial agreement with usa Cricket to develop and promote the domestic league.

So how do a bunch of techies and businessmen intend to take on the ghost of Abner Doubleday? Their answer is technocratic. mlc isn’t just six major league teams, but also includes Minor League Cricket, a development league with 26 teams, including in places like Sacramento and St Louis. Moreover, mlc is investing in cricket academies to train youngsters and to encourage schools to adopt the sport—a way into the hearts of the American middle class, as field-tested by soccer. mlc will also need to invest in building cricket ovals. Soccer can use American football fields. But there are few cricket grounds in America, and most have lousy batting surfaces and outfields with the wrong grass.

Few, but not none. Around 15 years ago Morrisville, a town of about 30,000 in North Carolina’s Raleigh-Durham metropolis, planned to build four baseball diamonds. But cricket was catching on in town, helped by the fact that over a quarter of residents were Asian (today that’s nearly half). “So we designed it as a proper cricket venue and set it up,” importing clay from Indiana and a pitch curator from New Zealand, says Mark Stohlman, then mayor of Morrisville. Mr Stohlman himself became a convert; he is now a batsman in the local league. At the end of August the ground hosted the minor league finals, in which the Seattle Thunderbolts (mostly Indians and a sprinkling of South Africans) beat Atlanta Fire (Indians and West Indians) by ten runs.

Pitcher perfect
This points to one way for cricket to become an American sport: just by being more visible. More grounds mean more matches, which mean more players like Mr Stohlman. “This is a long-term play, it has to start with investing in infrastructure, investing in players,” says Vijay Srinivasan, one of mlc’s founders. “We know this is not going to happen overnight.”

But there is another way to look at it. Perhaps American cricket does not even need a Doubleday narrative. After all, there are millions of cricket-mad South Asians and West Indians who are as American as any baseball fan. Their presence is a powerful enough incentive to lure the mlc investors. The new league, in turn, is already attracting people who would never otherwise have come to America.

The English sport is imbued with the ideals upon which America was founded

People like Unmukt Chand, who led India’s under-19 team to a world cup victory, but in 2021 accepted a multi-year contract with the Silicon Valley team. Or Liam Plunkett, an English cricketer, who can now live closer to his American-born wife’s family by playing for Philadelphia. Cricketers go to England, Australia or India, too, but for a season, not for a lifetime. “There’s opportunities here,” says Shadley van Schalkwyk, a South African cricketer in Seattle. “Once you get over a few hurdles in the usa, there is a better finish line.”

Seen that way, it matters less whether 330m people think of cricket as American. By providing opportunity, the prospect of prosperity and, above all, a better future for migrants, the English sport is already imbued with the ideals upon which America was founded. “I cannot be the first to wonder if what we see, when we see men in white take to a cricket field, is men imagining an environment of justice,” writes Mr O’Neill in “Netherland”. For a lot of this planet’s people, that is what America represents, too.

https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2022/12/20/why-cricket-and-america-are-made-for-each-other?

First four yachts are in. Was there any doubt.

Following those, still to arrive are

Stefan racing
Willow
Alive
URM
Moneypenny

Stefan racing has really surged forward, I hadn’t noticed it on previous listings.

Handicap on IRC div 0 standings.

Moneypenny
No limit
Alive
URM
Willow

For overall handicap look out for
Celestial and Mistral.

mollwollfumble said:

First four yachts are in. Was there any doubt.

Following those, still to arrive are

Stefan racing
Willow
Alive
URM
Moneypenny

Stefan racing has really surged forward, I hadn’t noticed it on previous listings.

Handicap on IRC div 0 standings.

Moneypenny
No limit
Alive
URM
Willow

For overall handicap look out for
Celestial and Mistral.

Where’s your Yacht race thread?

mollwollfumble said:

First four yachts are in. Was there any doubt.

Following those, still to arrive are

Stefan racing
Willow
Alive
URM
Moneypenny

Stefan racing has really surged forward, I hadn’t noticed it on previous listings.

Handicap on IRC div 0 standings.

Moneypenny
No limit
Alive
URM
Willow

For overall handicap look out for
Celestial and Mistral.

All remaining yachts have passed the southern tip of NSW.

At least one more yacht has retired. Koa, with rudder damage.

roughbarked said:

mollwollfumble said:

First four yachts are in. Was there any doubt.

Following those, still to arrive are

Stefan racing
Willow
Alive
URM
Moneypenny

Stefan racing has really surged forward, I hadn’t noticed it on previous listings.

Handicap on IRC div 0 standings.

Moneypenny
No limit
Alive
URM
Willow

For overall handicap look out for
Celestial and Mistral.

Where’s your Yacht race thread?

DFTT

Michael V said:

roughbarked said:

mollwollfumble said:

First four yachts are in. Was there any doubt.

Following those, still to arrive are

Stefan racing
Willow
Alive
URM
Moneypenny

Stefan racing has really surged forward, I hadn’t noticed it on previous listings.

Handicap on IRC div 0 standings.

Moneypenny
No limit
Alive
URM
Willow

For overall handicap look out for
Celestial and Mistral.

Where’s your Yacht race thread?

DFTT

‘k.

I’ll be listening to day 3 of the Test in the car, as I drive home. The reception is very poor over the mountains, and I have to change stations several times, but I hope to get the gist of what happens.

Michael V said:

I’ll be listening to day 3 of the Test in the car, as I drive home. The reception is very poor over the mountains, and I have to change stations several times, but I hope to get the gist of what happens.

Cricket on the radio is best.

roughbarked said:

Michael V said:

I’ll be listening to day 3 of the Test in the car, as I drive home. The reception is very poor over the mountains, and I have to change stations several times, but I hope to get the gist of what happens.

Cricket on the radio is best.

Ac a very visual person seeing is far preferable to hearing.

roughbarked said:

Michael V said:

I’ll be listening to day 3 of the Test in the car, as I drive home. The reception is very poor over the mountains, and I have to change stations several times, but I hope to get the gist of what happens.

Cricket on the radio is best.

Haven’t listened to it for some years.

Are there commentators worth listening to? Who are worthy of comparison to the greats of the recent decades?

Tamb said:

roughbarked said:

Michael V said:

I’ll be listening to day 3 of the Test in the car, as I drive home. The reception is very poor over the mountains, and I have to change stations several times, but I hope to get the gist of what happens.

Cricket on the radio is best.

Ac a very visual person seeing is far preferable to hearing.

Ac = As

Tamb said:

roughbarked said:

Michael V said:

I’ll be listening to day 3 of the Test in the car, as I drive home. The reception is very poor over the mountains, and I have to change stations several times, but I hope to get the gist of what happens.

Cricket on the radio is best.

Ac a very visual person seeing is far preferable to hearing.

I’ve got other things to get sunburned doing rather than sitting on a hard chair staring at an impossibly green oval for five days.

captain_spalding said:

roughbarked said:

Michael V said:

I’ll be listening to day 3 of the Test in the car, as I drive home. The reception is very poor over the mountains, and I have to change stations several times, but I hope to get the gist of what happens.

Cricket on the radio is best.

Haven’t listened to it for some years.

Are there commentators worth listening to? Who are worthy of comparison to the greats of the recent decades?

Cricket on the ABC is the premium.

roughbarked said:

captain_spalding said:

roughbarked said:

Cricket on the radio is best.

Haven’t listened to it for some years.

Are there commentators worth listening to? Who are worthy of comparison to the greats of the recent decades?

Cricket on the ABC is the premium.

Always was. Best was to have the cricket on the TV, with the sound turned down, accompanied by the ABC radio commentary.

But, today’s commentators; do they have personality and humour that compares to the greats like McGilvray, Blofeld, O’Keeffe, Lawry, Bogle, etc/

captain_spalding said:

roughbarked said:

captain_spalding said:

Haven’t listened to it for some years.

Are there commentators worth listening to? Who are worthy of comparison to the greats of the recent decades?

Cricket on the ABC is the premium.

Always was. Best was to have the cricket on the TV, with the sound turned down, accompanied by the ABC radio commentary.

But, today’s commentators; do they have personality and humour that compares to the greats like McGilvray, Blofeld, O’Keeffe, Lawry, Bogle, etc/

Nah but they do their best.

captain_spalding said:

roughbarked said:

captain_spalding said:

Haven’t listened to it for some years.

Are there commentators worth listening to? Who are worthy of comparison to the greats of the recent decades?

Cricket on the ABC is the premium.

Always was. Best was to have the cricket on the TV, with the sound turned down, accompanied by the ABC radio commentary.

But, today’s commentators; do they have personality and humour that compares to the greats like McGilvray, Blofeld, O’Keeffe, Lawry, Bogle, etc/

Can’t agree cap’n. There’s a delay between vision & sound. Quite disconcerting.

roughbarked said:

captain_spalding said:

roughbarked said:

Cricket on the ABC is the premium.

Always was. Best was to have the cricket on the TV, with the sound turned down, accompanied by the ABC radio commentary.

But, today’s commentators; do they have personality and humour that compares to the greats like McGilvray, Blofeld, O’Keeffe, Lawry, Bogle, etc/

Nah but they do their best.

Kerry O’Keefe’s laugh was both endearing and annoying.

Tamb said:

captain_spalding said:

roughbarked said:

Cricket on the ABC is the premium.

Always was. Best was to have the cricket on the TV, with the sound turned down, accompanied by the ABC radio commentary.

But, today’s commentators; do they have personality and humour that compares to the greats like McGilvray, Blofeld, O’Keeffe, Lawry, Bogle, etc/

Can’t agree cap’n. There’s a delay between vision & sound. Quite disconcerting.

When I was working from home, I could have the radio going in the shed and the TV in the house. At the fall of a wicket, I could skedaddle to the kitchen window and watch the replay.

A brief delay in today’s start. New time is 10:45.

sibeen said:

A brief delay in today’s start. New time is 10:45.

is it raining?

Bogsnorkler said:

sibeen said:

A brief delay in today’s start. New time is 10:45.

is it raining?

We had a few short showers an hour ago. Hardly wet the ground and as the temperature is still around 25° any water will quickly evaporate.

sibeen said:

Bogsnorkler said:

sibeen said:

A brief delay in today’s start. New time is 10:45.

is it raining?

We had a few short showers an hour ago. Hardly wet the ground and as the temperature is still around 25° any water will quickly evaporate.

In other words it is gone.

FUCK

At least Warner’s looking freshened up.

FUCK

roughbarked said:

At least Warner’s looking freshened up.

that took the smile off his face.

sibeen said:

FUCK

no. it was DUCK!

mollwollfumble said:

mollwollfumble said:

First four yachts are in. Was there any doubt.

Following those, still to arrive are

Stefan racing
Willow
Alive
URM
Moneypenny

Stefan racing has really surged forward, I hadn’t noticed it on previous listings.

Handicap on IRC div 0 standings.

Moneypenny
No limit
Alive
URM
Willow

For overall handicap look out for
Celestial and Mistral.

All remaining yachts have passed the southern tip of NSW.

At least one more yacht has retired. Koa, with rudder damage.

Next ones in, all in the harbour.
Caro – just finished
Warrior won
Gweilo
Celestial
Whisper

Gweilo and Celestial both highly ranked in their classes.

FUCK

mollwollfumble said:

mollwollfumble said:

First four yachts are in. Was there any doubt.

Following those, still to arrive are

Stefan racing
Willow
Alive
URM
Moneypenny

Stefan racing has really surged forward, I hadn’t noticed it on previous listings.

Handicap on IRC div 0 standings.

Moneypenny
No limit
Alive
URM
Willow

For overall handicap look out for
Celestial and Mistral.

All remaining yachts have passed the southern tip of NSW.

At least one more yacht has retired. Koa, with rudder damage.

Next ones in, all in the harbour.
Caro – just finished
Warrior won
Gweilo
Celestial
Whisper

Gweilo and Celestial both highly ranked in their classes.

Celestial looks set to take out three classes.
IRC, IRC 1 and ORCi 1

sibeen said:

FUCK

Tiniest mark on snicko only

Hmm, a quite heavy shower out of nowhere. It may get to the G.

FUCK

sibeen said:

FUCK

SHAZBOT

reckon they’ll declare if Carey gets to 100?

party_pants said:

reckon they’ll declare if Carey gets to 100?

Nup, not a chance.

Carey 101*

FUCK

Lead 371

Just fkn declare!

Ian said:

Lead 371

Just fkn declare!

ok. they listened

Arts said:

Ian said:

Lead 371

Just fkn declare!

ok. they listened

Yep :)

Arts said:

Ian said:

Lead 371

Just fkn declare!

ok. they listened

only after risking injury to the bowlers.

FUCK OFF

sibeen said:

FUCK OFF

Aye, it’s not Boxing Day any more.

Ian said:

That’s fake, they are not at the beach at all, they’ve just drawn a beach on the wall, fake as.

Peak Warming Man said:

Ian said:

That’s fake, they are not at the beach at all, they’ve just drawn a beach on the wall, fake as.

Reckon they’d rather be at the beach.

FUCK OFF

sibeen said:

FUCK OFF

SHAZBOT

FUCK OFF

Once they go upstairs to the third umpire and go through the vido frame by frame I reckon he could be out.

sibeen said:

FUCK OFF

Nice one Bavuma

sibeen said:

FUCK OFF

I just got a Gaelic translation of that and apparently it is

FUCK AS

I will alert to you on any further developments in understanding in Irish Gaelic translations of FUCK OFF as they come to hand.

ms spock said:

sibeen said:

FUCK OFF

I just got a Gaelic translation of that and apparently it is

FUCK AS

I will alert to you on any further developments in understanding in Irish Gaelic translations of FUCK OFF as they come to hand.

I’m pretty sure that it is pronounced FECK

:)

sibeen said:

ms spock said:

sibeen said:

FUCK OFF

I just got a Gaelic translation of that and apparently it is

FUCK AS

I will alert to you on any further developments in understanding in Irish Gaelic translations of FUCK OFF as they come to hand.

I’m pretty sure that it is pronounced FECK

:)

:)

You are right sibeen!

I correctly assumed that you were up to date on the prounciation. It means that all is good in the world.

Luncheon.

Peak Warming Man said:

Once they go upstairs to the third umpire and go through the vido frame by frame I reckon he could be out.

His bat might be in the air but he’s thinking about grounding it.

FUCK OFF

far cough

FUCK OFF

FUCK OFF

Bavuma has 2/17

sibeen said:

Bavuma has 2/17

ROFL

The Maharajah’s been run out.

sibeen said:

Bavuma has 2/17

Starc throws/bowls better with a bung finger :)

FUCK OFF

FUCK OFF

200 up for South Africa, looks like they’ve turned the tide.

Yay us! Innings and 182 runs.

FUCK OFF

An innings & 182 run victory.

Should be a whole new attack for Sidanee.

Peak Warming Man said:

Should be a whole new attack for Sidanee.

Yeah, one that is fit.

Less than 200 behind so at least they avoided the followon.

Wait

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-30/matt-renshaw-ashton-agar-scg-test/101816972

Ashton Agar and Matthew Renshaw have been added to the squad. Green and Starc have been omitted due to injuries (broken fingers).

AUSTRALIA SQUAD:
Pat Cummins (capt)
Ashton Agar
Scott Boland
Alex Carey
Marcus Harris
Josh Hazlewood
Travis Head
Usman Khawaja
Marnus Labuschagne
Nathan Lyon
Lance Morris
Matthew Renshaw
Steve Smith
David Warner.

Michael V said:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-30/matt-renshaw-ashton-agar-scg-test/101816972

Ashton Agar and Matthew Renshaw have been added to the squad. Green and Starc have been omitted due to injuries (broken fingers).

AUSTRALIA SQUAD:
Pat Cummins (capt)
Ashton Agar
Scott Boland
Alex Carey
Marcus Harris
Josh Hazlewood
Travis Head
Usman Khawaja
Marnus Labuschagne
Nathan Lyon
Lance Morris
Matthew Renshaw
Steve Smith
David Warner.

Seems odd. We lost a pace bowler and an all-rounder who also bowls pace. Replacements are an opening bat and a spinning all-rounder. I can sort of understand the logic in picking a second spinner in Sydney, but not sure why we need another opener.

party_pants said:

Michael V said:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-30/matt-renshaw-ashton-agar-scg-test/101816972

Ashton Agar and Matthew Renshaw have been added to the squad. Green and Starc have been omitted due to injuries (broken fingers).

AUSTRALIA SQUAD:
Pat Cummins (capt)
Ashton Agar
Scott Boland
Alex Carey
Marcus Harris
Josh Hazlewood
Travis Head
Usman Khawaja
Marnus Labuschagne
Nathan Lyon
Lance Morris
Matthew Renshaw
Steve Smith
David Warner.

Seems odd. We lost a pace bowler and an all-rounder who also bowls pace. Replacements are an opening bat and a spinning all-rounder. I can sort of understand the logic in picking a second spinner in Sydney, but not sure why we need another opener.

Warner is a bit unreliable.

party_pants said:

Michael V said:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-30/matt-renshaw-ashton-agar-scg-test/101816972

Ashton Agar and Matthew Renshaw have been added to the squad. Green and Starc have been omitted due to injuries (broken fingers).

AUSTRALIA SQUAD:
Pat Cummins (capt)
Ashton Agar
Scott Boland
Alex Carey
Marcus Harris
Josh Hazlewood
Travis Head
Usman Khawaja
Marnus Labuschagne
Nathan Lyon
Lance Morris
Matthew Renshaw
Steve Smith
David Warner.

Seems odd. We lost a pace bowler and an all-rounder who also bowls pace. Replacements are an opening bat and a spinning all-rounder. I can sort of understand the logic in picking a second spinner in Sydney, but not sure why we need another opener.

They’ve still got Cummins, Boland and Josh. So maybe they thought they were missing the batting component of the all rounder?

Tamb said:

party_pants said:

Michael V said:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-30/matt-renshaw-ashton-agar-scg-test/101816972

Ashton Agar and Matthew Renshaw have been added to the squad. Green and Starc have been omitted due to injuries (broken fingers).

AUSTRALIA SQUAD:
Pat Cummins (capt)
Ashton Agar
Scott Boland
Alex Carey
Marcus Harris
Josh Hazlewood
Travis Head
Usman Khawaja
Marnus Labuschagne
Nathan Lyon
Lance Morris
Matthew Renshaw
Steve Smith
David Warner.

Seems odd. We lost a pace bowler and an all-rounder who also bowls pace. Replacements are an opening bat and a spinning all-rounder. I can sort of understand the logic in picking a second spinner in Sydney, but not sure why we need another opener.

Warner is a bit unreliable.

Only a bit, you reckon?

roughbarked said:

Tamb said:

party_pants said:

Seems odd. We lost a pace bowler and an all-rounder who also bowls pace. Replacements are an opening bat and a spinning all-rounder. I can sort of understand the logic in picking a second spinner in Sydney, but not sure why we need another opener.

Warner is a bit unreliable.

Only a bit, you reckon?

I’m being kind.

Tamb said:

party_pants said:

Michael V said:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-30/matt-renshaw-ashton-agar-scg-test/101816972

Ashton Agar and Matthew Renshaw have been added to the squad. Green and Starc have been omitted due to injuries (broken fingers).

AUSTRALIA SQUAD:
Pat Cummins (capt)
Ashton Agar
Scott Boland
Alex Carey
Marcus Harris
Josh Hazlewood
Travis Head
Usman Khawaja
Marnus Labuschagne
Nathan Lyon
Lance Morris
Matthew Renshaw
Steve Smith
David Warner.

Seems odd. We lost a pace bowler and an all-rounder who also bowls pace. Replacements are an opening bat and a spinning all-rounder. I can sort of understand the logic in picking a second spinner in Sydney, but not sure why we need another opener.

Warner is a bit unreliable.

Yep, he made a first ball duck in his second innings of the second innings.

Tamb said:

party_pants said:

Michael V said:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-30/matt-renshaw-ashton-agar-scg-test/101816972

Ashton Agar and Matthew Renshaw have been added to the squad. Green and Starc have been omitted due to injuries (broken fingers).

AUSTRALIA SQUAD:
Pat Cummins (capt)
Ashton Agar
Scott Boland
Alex Carey
Marcus Harris
Josh Hazlewood
Travis Head
Usman Khawaja
Marnus Labuschagne
Nathan Lyon
Lance Morris
Matthew Renshaw
Steve Smith
David Warner.

Seems odd. We lost a pace bowler and an all-rounder who also bowls pace. Replacements are an opening bat and a spinning all-rounder. I can sort of understand the logic in picking a second spinner in Sydney, but not sure why we need another opener.

Warner is a bit unreliable.

He did make 200 in his last innings. We can hardly drop him after that effort.

party_pants said:

Tamb said:

party_pants said:

Seems odd. We lost a pace bowler and an all-rounder who also bowls pace. Replacements are an opening bat and a spinning all-rounder. I can sort of understand the logic in picking a second spinner in Sydney, but not sure why we need another opener.

Warner is a bit unreliable.

He did make 200 in his last innings. We can hardly drop him after that effort.

Duck in his last innings. 200 in the one before.

party_pants said:

Tamb said:

party_pants said:

Seems odd. We lost a pace bowler and an all-rounder who also bowls pace. Replacements are an opening bat and a spinning all-rounder. I can sort of understand the logic in picking a second spinner in Sydney, but not sure why we need another opener.

Warner is a bit unreliable.

He did make 200 in his last innings. We can hardly drop him after that effort.

It was his first century in how long?

Tamb said:

party_pants said:

Tamb said:

Warner is a bit unreliable.

He did make 200 in his last innings. We can hardly drop him after that effort.

Duck in his last innings. 200 in the one before.

I don’t think I can allow that one :)

roughbarked said:

party_pants said:

Tamb said:

Warner is a bit unreliable.

He did make 200 in his last innings. We can hardly drop him after that effort.

It was his first century in how long?

Dunno, first one in a while. But now that he made 200 he can’t dropped for the next test.

He’s not Stuart Law or Brad Hodge or Jason Gillespie …

party_pants said:

Michael V said:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-30/matt-renshaw-ashton-agar-scg-test/101816972

Ashton Agar and Matthew Renshaw have been added to the squad. Green and Starc have been omitted due to injuries (broken fingers).

AUSTRALIA SQUAD:
Pat Cummins (capt)
Ashton Agar
Scott Boland
Alex Carey
Marcus Harris
Josh Hazlewood
Travis Head
Usman Khawaja
Marnus Labuschagne
Nathan Lyon
Lance Morris
Matthew Renshaw
Steve Smith
David Warner.

Seems odd. We lost a pace bowler and an all-rounder who also bowls pace. Replacements are an opening bat and a spinning all-rounder. I can sort of understand the logic in picking a second spinner in Sydney, but not sure why we need another opener.

Might be suggesting to Warner that he should keep playing like he did in Melbourne.

Michael V said:

party_pants said:

Michael V said:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-30/matt-renshaw-ashton-agar-scg-test/101816972

Ashton Agar and Matthew Renshaw have been added to the squad. Green and Starc have been omitted due to injuries (broken fingers).

AUSTRALIA SQUAD:
Pat Cummins (capt)
Ashton Agar
Scott Boland
Alex Carey
Marcus Harris
Josh Hazlewood
Travis Head
Usman Khawaja
Marnus Labuschagne
Nathan Lyon
Lance Morris
Matthew Renshaw
Steve Smith
David Warner.

Seems odd. We lost a pace bowler and an all-rounder who also bowls pace. Replacements are an opening bat and a spinning all-rounder. I can sort of understand the logic in picking a second spinner in Sydney, but not sure why we need another opener.

Might be suggesting to Warner that he should keep playing like he did in Melbourne.

Been very much a year in two halves for UK.

Three yachts still not at the finish line.

Huntress returning to port, retired.

Currawong is still racing but had earlier put in to Eden for repairs.

Gun Runner is the last of the main fleet, now turning the corner into Hobart harbour.

Winners of various classes.
Commanche – line honours
Celestial – IRC and ORCi
Cyan Moon – PHS
Midnight Rambler & Pretty Woman – Corinthian
Mistral – 2-handed
Cinquante – Sydney 38

Overall winner – Celestial

Picture of Celestial. Who stole the back half of the yacht?

>>Gun Runner is the last of the main fleet, now turning the corner into Hobart harbour.

Probably stopped somewhere.

Peak Warming Man said:

>>Gun Runner is the last of the main fleet, now turning the corner into Hobart harbour.

Probably stopped somewhere.

Selling arms to Russia

Peak Warming Man said:

>>Gun Runner is the last of the main fleet, now turning the corner into Hobart harbour.

Probably stopped somewhere.

Ha!

Should be right to bat if needed.