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Forum: The Maple Leaf

Aug 26th 2019, 8:06 pm

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Posted By dave_j

Re: Cricket

I agree that I'm criticizing from the viewpoint of someone who can criticize from a level of gross ignorance.
I also agree that sometimes the bowlers perform well and batsmen badly, but is that a...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Aug 26th 2019, 5:01 pm

Replies: 400

Cricket

Views: 36,888

Posted By dave_j

Re: Cricket

I make no pretense to knowing much about cricket but, like the local GP who can't quite pick a good diagnosis, I can recognise symptoms of a problem and it's plain in this case that a score of 67...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Aug 26th 2019, 4:41 pm

Replies: 400

Cricket

Views: 36,888

Posted By dave_j

Re: Cricket

A point well made.
Surely the primary task of batsmen is to ensure that they simply don't throw the game away and that they have the secondary task of racking up runs to ensure a win if at all...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Aug 26th 2019, 2:32 am

Replies: 400

Cricket

Views: 36,888

Posted By dave_j

Re: Cricket

I haven't a clue who's out there... but there's that niggle that pokes me in the ribs at night when for the umpteenth time I've told myself not to have drunk that last glass of wine.
Insanity is...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Aug 26th 2019, 1:17 am

Replies: 400

Cricket

Views: 36,888

Posted By dave_j

Re: Cricket

Ok... So let's be a little controversial.
England deserved to have lost and should have. Why?
Because, in rugby,and any number of other 'team' games, there are 'specialists' whose job it is to...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Mar 29th 2018, 10:41 pm

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Cricket

Views: 36,888

Posted By dave_j

Re: Cricket

Now that is an interesting question, and a corollary would be 'If a bowler falls such that his trousers become dirty, does this mean that he has can no longer use the trouser material to 'condition'...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Mar 29th 2018, 9:59 pm

Replies: 400

Cricket

Views: 36,888

Posted By dave_j

Re: Cricket

A comparison that really isn't valid.

The football 'dive' is a act that is made in full view of spectators and referee all of whom are able to make reasoned judgements whether the context...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Mar 29th 2018, 6:38 pm

Replies: 400

Cricket

Views: 36,888

Posted By dave_j

Re: Cricket

Would he still be upset and remourseful had he NOT been caught?

I think not. He is therefore sorry and appologetic ONLY because he was caught and for NO other reason.

I doubt that this was the...

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