Post of the year

[Bijed]

Whilst I certainly spend too much time on CW, what I don't do is read every single post that gets made and as such I imagine that I've been missing out on a lot of excellent contributions from the numerous posters here. As such, I thought it might be a worthwhile idea (and a sort-of-replacement to BotM) to get people to nominate their favourite posts from the last year or so (or since this is the first one, no reason for a time restriction, I suppose) in a few categories as follows:

Cricket Chat - Most informative/insightful post
Cricket Chat - Funniest post
Off-topic - Most informative/insightful post
Off-topic - Funniest post

I'll give it a few days, maybe, to get a few (if any) nominations in, then, let people vote for their favourites. Winner gets to feel smug. Probably best to link to the post you wish to nominate, rather than paste it as a quote, so people can get the context.

 

[trundler]

"A respected banana"
Srbhkhsk in response to a question, "what is kelaji" (a typo for kaleji). Might only be funny to Hindu/urdu speakers but it was hilarious.

 

[trundler]

Also, slippy threads are always in CC but the posts are never related to cricket. What do they count as?

 

[Bijed]

Also, slippy threads are always in CC but the posts are never related to cricket. What do they count as?

Haha, good point. I'll cop out and say they can count as either

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

"A respected banana"
Srbhkhsk in response to a question, "what is kelaji" (a typo for kaleji). Might only be funny to Hindu/urdu speakers but it was hilarious.

Credit goes to me for asking that question.

 

[sledger]

Honest Bharani's posts are always insightful. They never fail to give great insight into what it must be like living with a very small brain.

Apropos of nothing, I've not seen AN around here for a while.

 

[Athlai]

Shri not knowing how to get off a bus easily.

 

[Athlai]

Is there any way to view the most liked posts?

 

[Burgey]

Click on my username, then click "View forum posts."

 

[Daemon]

Bijed's had some good ones

Lol at 1 year ban. Kohli, Warner, Smith and Du Plessis were caught doing the same thing on camera. Guess who got charged?

Umpires did not even change the ball. They can't possibly ask Bancroft to strip and show what he's hiding.

They could possibly search by touch, but then they'd be guilty of ball-tampering too

 

[Daemon]

Good from Chadd. Now has more Test wickets than Mennie.

At the very least he'll have silenced the NaySayers

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[Daemon]

Beautiful. I'd generally expect an ode to a player to be longer than this, but in true Wagner fashion you kept it short

x

 

[Adders]

Shri not knowing how to get off a bus easily.

Classic post indeed, but I think the mushroom and glass eating (save for the fact there was concern for his health) are strong contenders tbh.

 

[Ausage]

Bijed showing class starting a competition he's looking odds on to win.

 

[zorax]

I have no idea how to even begin finding posts to nominate for this. I'll just jump on the voting for Bijed bangwagon too then

 

[morgieb]

Bijed's had some good ones

I'm disappointed in that the Travis Head/arms and the Matt Prior/subsequently (re: his hair/lack thereof) were outside the twelve month period (IIRC)

 

[Athlai]

I don't think I've received over 10 likes for a single post this year. My personal bests are probably the Wagner haiku, general Wagner bowling short puns, or ripping into Zorax about NZ poaching other HK talents.

Looking through posts I have liked to find others...

On Zorax passing an umpiring test (Off topic)

Zorax's signature move will be the raised thumb, rather than the raised finger.

Daemon, explaining what his avatar represents (Off topic)

Mine is India's away record

GIMH immediately torpedoing Shri's "Politics thread for the not so smart" - I don't agree with his politic sat all, but this was great and underappreciated (Off Topic)

A thread for leftists then

 

[Athlai]

Bijed is probably going to easily win this, heres my favourite of his

NZC - is they have any inkling of sense, will hire Wags post retirement for international talent recruitment. They could the role, NZC Operations Executive or something.

Don't know if the corporate life would suit him, I hear he gets a bit short with people.

Hardly has to be corporate. All he has to do is goto SA and sign up outside quota talent and bring them back. While over there, have a nosey around Zimbabwe too.

It isn't like the English counties aren't doing it.

For the rest of his annual pay check, he can do meet and greets or help bowlers with their fitness and game preparation.

All I am saying is that NZC should make and facilitate an easy pathway for non-quota qualifying talent to migrate to into NZC FC structures.

And Wagner is the obvious posterboy to lead it and for NZC to beat off some of the counties. Whether he has talent identification skills, I do not know. But he seems to have a good enough head on his shoulders to me.

Whoosh

That's the thing with jokes about the short ball - if you don't land them right, they just fly over people's heads

 

[Athlai]

Nomination for thead of the year is Burgey vs. Zorax

Seasons 2-10 of that one were as good as it gets. Got a bit stale after that.

 

[vcs]

How nice that you've finally found friends your age

I'll nominate this one from zorax for best diss.