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Re: Question on Wides AFAIK It's just whatever stance the first take, it doesn't matter when they switch. I do remember someone once being called for a wide after a switch stance (in the early days of switch hitting), but that was most likely a brain explosion from an umpire who had never seen...

Re: Last person to post on this thread wins 8 Start a thread about your adventures in Egypt, brickwaller

Re: Question on Wides The stance the batsman initially takes up before the ball is bowled is the stance that is used for determining LBW's and wides

Re: Pre-Ashes 2010/11 Discussion thread. Please stop calling me champ, and please find me one piece from an accredited journalist (You are not an accredited journalist, for reference) that claims that Matthew Hayden's form in the months leading up to his retirement was anything but...

Re: Pre-Ashes 2010/11 Discussion thread. Hayden's last 17 test innings: 0, 13, 0, 29, 83, 16*, 16, 77, 8, 0, 24, 12, 4, 8, 23, 31, 39. The media had been calling for his head for a while before he was nudged into retiring. Spare us the revisionist history in defence of a fellow "PROUD...

Re: Pre-Ashes 2010/11 Discussion thread. Ignoring yet another revolting Ponting swoon-fest in the making, he doesn't necessarily have to be on the way down to be looking at retiring. Many cricketers (and indeed sportsmen) retire at the top of their game rather than push on past their prime...

Re: John Howard for ICC President! I give up. You have fundamentally misunderstood, misrepresented and twisted everything I have said in order to continue to hammer home your woefully misguided argument that a man with as patchy a record in cultural diversity as John Howard will be able to...

Re: Pre-Ashes 2010/11 Discussion thread. Actually, someone is arguing that (Hint: it's you, 'champ'). Look at you sig for evidence.

Re: English Spinners I think half of Prior's problem in ODI's is that he likes to hit boundaries instead of turning the strike over. Obviously hitting boundaries is a good skill, but for the majority of the standard ODI innings, the field will be spread and picking off singles is the order of...

Re: Pre-Ashes 2010/11 Discussion thread. It is stupid to argue who is the most Australian or English

Re: Pre-Ashes 2010/11 Discussion thread. I know, he's brilliant. That was my point.

Re: John Howard for ICC President! No, No, No, No. For the third time, that is not what the article says at all. It says he lacks an appreciation for other cultures, not that he tries to somehow impose his own Australian culture on the. Gunpowder is a Chinese invention, so whenever...

Re: John Howard for ICC President! Boris, you have a comprehensive misunderstanding of absolutely everything I have said in this thread. Again, I explicitly said that I do not belive John Howard is racist, however, in the space of one post you've decided to put words in my mouth. Nowhere in...

Re: Melbourne Storm stripped of NRL premierships Do you seriously not understand how a scientific study works? *A government funded survey conducted by a qualified statistician proof *Anecdote from a forums poster using a sample size of 5 people not proof

Re: Melbourne Storm stripped of NRL premierships What do you mean 'proof'? It's the Australian Bureau of Statistics, that's far more reliable than your 5 friends from NT

Re: John Howard for ICC President! A huge impact, for obvious reasons. Cricket was an English invention, that's all. To suggest there is an inherent 'westernness' to it is profoundly insensitive to the cricketers of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, West Indies, and the rest of the...

Re: Pre-Ashes 2010/11 Discussion thread. I'm confident that Graemme Swann would not give a flying fudge and Ricky and the lads reminding him that he was caught drink-driving, has a big chin, or is '!@#$ing #$%house' (as is the preferred taunt by the Australian wordsmiths).

Re: John Howard for ICC President! I guess if we needed a man to launch a racially-fuelled crusade against a subcontinental country, someone with John Howard's level of disdain for foreign cultures would be the ideal candidate. A better way though, would be to give Ireland test status...

Re: John Howard for ICC President! Neither of those things hold even the slightest bit of importance. What do you mean by "has no power anyway"? Inside the domain of world cricket, the ICC has all the power

Re: John Howard for ICC President! No Boris, there is absolutely no metric in which Howard could be seen as a superior candidate to Sir John Anderson (Apart from the fact that he Australian, which appears to be the only reason he was chosen). Both have vast experience in politics, but Anderson...