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  1. LongHopCassidy

    What year was the modern Australian Test team's peak?

    A bit curious about this. Their dominance was shown by marquee victories every couple years or so. Most interesting would be what people thought the team was at its peak performance, considering it was impossible to compare separate-but-similar teams on a mostly identical win record. The only...
  2. LongHopCassidy

    Battle of the Infamous Footballers

    Allsports battle was admittedly a flop (too broad, obscure murderers with an unfair advantage over well-publicised ****s). So let's take a more laser-focused approach. Starting after 48 secondings. You, the discerning voter, are entitled to unlimited nominations but five secondings. Votes to be...
  3. LongHopCassidy

    The best ever players of spin bowling?

    KP and Clarke obviously the best of the contemporaries, along with Tendulkar and Dravid way back when. Some of the historical ones throw up a few surprises: Bill Ponsford - every spinner in the Sheffield Shield allegedly much preferred to bowl to Bradman than Ponsford. Javed Miandad, although...
  4. LongHopCassidy

    Test cricket draft: 1877-1938

    Dust off your statsgurus and Neville Cardus anecdotes, because we'll be facing the least-appreciated of all Test cricketers. No restrictions of entry apart from taking the field in a Test match at least once between 1877 and 1938. Hutton, Grace et al. are all eligible despite playing relatively...
  5. LongHopCassidy

    The Australian Cricketing Politics thread.

    This deserves its own thread, since I'm sick of trying to piece together this Byzantine intrigue across multiple threads and forums. It's too entertaining not to be centralised. I expect profligate contributions from Backlash. Let's start with the faction speculations: Team Watto: - Khawaja...
  6. LongHopCassidy

    Chris Martin retires

    Chris Martin retires from all forms Commiserations to a great servant of NZ cricket. Standard-bearer of the NZ attack between the Bond and Southee years. Meanwhile, on Instagram:
  7. LongHopCassidy

    What level of pace do you consider unplayable?

    As in, personally for you. Fastest I've faced would be roughly 125 kph (82-83 mph?). I saw it, but I was never in a position to actually react, let alone score.
  8. LongHopCassidy

    Australia - should they field four quicks?

    In light of Starceh looking the goods with the Duke, it does merit consideration. The case for: 1. English conditions obviously favour quick bowlers, and it's likely that at least one will run through a side with a terrific showing. It's a better probability of that with four specialist...
  9. LongHopCassidy

    "Submit your own Argus review" thread

    Given we all have opinions to burn, I think we all know some badly-needed reforms that need implementation IMMEDIATELY AND WITHOUT DELAY if Australia is to ever regain the Ashes without becoming the England of the 1990s. Fish rots from the head and all that. Let's begin: The LHC Review...
  10. LongHopCassidy

    Peter Siddle: Nominee for World's Sexiest Vegetarian by PETA - YOUR VOTE COUNTS

    Woke up to this tweet from Patto: Voting can be done here. You can't say no to this face.
  11. LongHopCassidy

    Cricketing confessions

    See title for clarification of title. I actually enjoy Mark Nicholas' commentary Yes, yes, he's a total plum-in-mouth ponce with pretensions to actual journalism, but the guy at least has insights on the game and can express it in more than one syllable at a time. Not overly biased, has an...
  12. LongHopCassidy

    Following the Twitter war

    Interesting selection of jabs over Twitter by a few cricketing luminaries. Due to escalate nicely. Michael Vaughan obliging with some trolling (and getting dozens of bites): Skull can't stay away for long: Any other finds?
  13. LongHopCassidy

    A mobile version of the site?

    I don't know how much this project would cost, but I'd love to see it happen. Major text formatting issues (some posts have huge font, others tiny) at the moment for those browsing/posting on phones. Would buy several copies of Finding Seams On Apples to help bankroll the cause if asked.
  14. LongHopCassidy

    Australia's best-ever finger spinner

    Too many of these threads already, but until the England/NZ series starts you can all gagf and take what you can get. We have a proud history of wristies (including the oft-unsung Chuck Fleetwood-Smith) but in the epochs between O'Reilly/Grimmett, Benaud and Warnie we've leaned on our more...
  15. LongHopCassidy

    Bowling: Keith Miller vs. Ray Lindwall

    What it says on the packet. Personally not completely sold on Miller as a shoe-in for an Australian ATG XI, given he averages 36 with the bat yet is entrusted with the number 6 position. But that's another thread. Who's bowling for your life?
  16. LongHopCassidy

    What happened to the Chappell-Hadlee?

    Was a bloody good rivalry while it lasted, mostly because we couldn't defend 350 without the spectre of Pidge. What killed it? No money? Burnout? Overlap with IPL? 50-over game out of vogue? Would sit still for a 5-match Twenty20 series even.
  17. LongHopCassidy

    Your web browser

    What are you using to browse this thread right now? Had unflinching loyalty to Firefox for a decade till I gave Chrome an extended run. Can open four tabs on launch.
  18. LongHopCassidy

    Injury rehab/personal fitness thread

    Let's begin with a story. Over-trained with the leggies last season, to the point where my right shoulder and left spinal-flanking muscle (erectus spinae, for SS' benefit) were basically non-functional for cricketing purposes. Looking back, I wasn't bowling with spikes which caused my lower...
  19. LongHopCassidy

    Homegrown vs. imported coaches

    Would prefer this not to turn into an 'Arthur sucks' vs. 'he just asked them to do a simple task' echo chamber. Certainly Flower and Fletcher did England a world of good, while on the other side of the fence Australia's win/loss record in Tests has a quite sobering correlation between the...
  20. LongHopCassidy

    The third best spinner of all time?

    May well have been discussed before, but let's have a plebiscite anyway.
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