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a massive zebra

a massive zebra

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mr_mister said:
3 famous English underachievers got their highest test scores in the same 3 test series between India-England in 1993

Graeme Hick, 178
Chris Lewis, 117
and Neil Fairbrother, 83

Talk about a false dawn. It was mostly a pretty rapid descent for them in tests afterwards.

Funnily enough another what if case, Vinod Kambli got 224 in the final test of this series before making 227 in his next test innings a month later.
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Totally untrue in the case of Hick. Between 1993 and 1995, Hick made 2,284 runs @ 46.61 in 30 Tests. Over these three years, only seven players made more runs, and only 11 made over 1,000 runs at a better average (none of which were English).

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GoodAreasShane

GoodAreasShane

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That Kimber article is a steaming pile of garbage. He thinks it is so clever too, no just full of whining and lazy stereotypes.


Massively ignorant comment regarding the Duncan Spencer situation too
 
B

Bolo

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Burgey said:
Terrible piece by Kimber, denigrating the very nation and game which gives him a comfortable living. **** bloke.

The ugly Australian: the evolution of a cricket species | The Cricket Monthly | ESPN Cricinfo
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The same facts the other 100 articles on the topic covered turned into a damn book by being fleshed out by a monumental whinge of personal anecodes and musings. Carried a grudge against a country since he was 15 cos he caught flak for not walking. Damn.

I'm curious about this though:

"Can you take a joke at your expense, and when you give one back, does it upset the person who joked at you? Do you drink, and do you get a round in at the bar? Will you not take offence - basically, can you handle the odd off-colour joke about (...)? And finally, will you complain? Because complaining...that's often not allowed."

Leaving out the aussies are racists cheap shot, doesn't this sound more like the English or Irish?
 
Burgey

Burgey

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Congrats Bert on winning the O’Reilly Medal for best and fairest in Sydney first grade. Awesome stuff.
 
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quincywagstaff

quincywagstaff

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Burgey said:
Terrible piece by Kimber, denigrating the very nation and game which gives him a comfortable living. **** bloke.

The ugly Australian: the evolution of a cricket species | The Cricket Monthly | ESPN Cricinfo
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I don't disagree with some of the points made there, but haven't they been made all before?

And as someone on Twitter responding to Kimber's tweet on this observed, why write this now? Seems odd after a 12 months where in difficult circumstances, Australian cricket has generally handled itself well. Off the top of my head can't recall too many abrasive incidents since the SA tour.

And Kimber seems to lazily thrown in everything whether it fits his thesis or not. I really don't think the underarm incident belongs in 'ugly Aussie' behaviour; it was basically a cricket captain who was having a mental meltdown. And referring to Anil Kumble's post-Sydney 2008 comments was curious considering what was the central controversy of that match.

There are definitely issues with Australian cricket - in recent decades the lack of ethnic diversity in the upper echelons of Australian cricket, especially indigenous is a big one imo - but this seems a particularly lazy dredging up of issues brought up a million times before.

On a broader level, even when he has some interesting insights always found Kimber's writing hard going - his articles always seem twice as long as they should be.
 
Burgey

Burgey

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Congrats to Forkers Faulkner on his birthday tweet yesterday. Hope it leads to more gay players feeling comfortable in being open about their sexuality (if they want to, ofc).
 
vicleggie

vicleggie

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why should he care what a bunch of latte sipping, over privileged morons who have it better than anyone at any time in history, think.

If they can't take a joke they should move to the middle east

mr_mister said:
How on earth did he think thatd be interpreted by the general public?
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Burgey

Burgey

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It appears vicleggie is something of an endangered species - a cranky, out of touch Tory in Melbourne, the latte sipping capital of the world.
 
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