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T20 World Cup 2024


MustardAndOnions said:
He’s amazing but they played him so bad

Just waiting to get out


:lol: Very true
Is that worse than Rory the other week?
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I don’t think they have much other choice when he bowls like that

He’s virtually unplayable at times
Voice of fair play said:
I know Kholi comes across as a twat on the field.

But every time I see him and hear him interviewed he across very very well
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Don’t say that on here 😂😂😂😂
 
Voice of fair play said:
The wider point I am making mate is the introduction of T20 has took fielding to a different level, surely that can’t be disputed
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No of course it can’t. I was being a bit daft. Although I’d say it’s been improving throughout my life with the first kickstart coming from the Sunday league, and with that starting to feed through into test cricket by the 80s.

Acceleration over the last 10 or 15 years has been astonishing though. And I suppose, in that context, my point has some seriousness as well in that the authorities have been prepared to tinker with the laws to accommodate things like this with runoff areas to make it possible (you couldn’t do that trying to climb over a fence and back again), allowing you to pass it to yourself like that etc.
 
Voice of fair play said:
Top class entertainment not bad this T20 stuff!!

The game went one way then the other throughout
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That game certainly was. And I’ll tell you something else. it was that because there was something of a balance between bat and ball, the balance between offense and defense as our American friends might say, which all sports need, but which you don’t really get with the postage stamps of the IPL. Because easy though it is to use the c word, and deserved though it might be in South Africa’s case, that was also still phenomenal death bowling. And because the final decisive and breathtaking dismissal wouldn’t have been decisive or breathtaking in the IPL because it would’ve cleared the boundary by 20 metres.
 
MustardAndOnions said:
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This is what I saw too

Why didn’t they check?
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There's a reply on there showing another pic of where the boundary rope should be (by the ring of browner grass) compared to where the pads actually are. His foot was on the brown ring but the pads had been moved back presumably by an earlier fielding attempt.

It seems an anomaly that they're so neurotic about whether his foot touched the pad or avoided it by a few mm, when the ropes are entirely mobile and players can push them out at will and leave them pushed back.

The rope will always be the same length so the field will remain the same area, but if they really want to measure cricket games by the millimetre (and that catch probably decided that game and tournament) then they should consider how easy it is for players to crash into boundaries and leave them out of place.
 
Beau Peep said:
There's a reply on there showing another pic of where the boundary rope should be (by the ring of browner grass) compared to where the pads actually are. His foot was on the brown ring but the pads had been moved back presumably by an earlier fielding attempt.

It seems an anomaly that they're so neurotic about whether his foot touched the pad or avoided it by a few mm, when the ropes are entirely mobile and players can push them out at will and leave them pushed back.

The rope will always be the same length so the field will remain the same area, but if they really want to measure cricket games by the millimetre (and that catch probably decided that game and tournament) then they should consider how easy it is for players to crash into boundaries and leave them out of place.
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You are 100% right and it’s a great point

But also even with the boundary moved he still touches it and there’s been no talk about it either
 
When I saw the catch live, I thought the foot touched, on watchng it numerous times, I think it’s an optical illusion and it’s the shadow of the foot touching
 
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