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@Donsteppa said in Other Cricket:
SA won inside three days.
I know it’s a team game but by being completely selfishly selfless he owed it to the game to have a crack at Lara’s record. He could have batted 30-45 minutes after lunch and got there easily.
Only 33 triple tons have been scored in test cricket history, that’s in 2593 matches. He had an opportunity to go one better. There is NO FUCKEN WAY this guy will get another chance.
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I like that Lara's record stands. He's obviously a much better player, and he scored it against a much better opposition. Absolutely destroying Zimbabwe doesn't hold as much water as putting 400 on a tier one side.
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@No-Quarter said in Other Cricket:
I like that Lara's record stands. He's obviously a much better player, and he scored it against a much better opposition. Absolutely destroying Zimbabwe doesn't hold as much water as putting 400 on a tier one side.
No argument from me, Lara is one of my favourite ever players…..can lay claim to being the second best test batsman ever in my opinion……but it would have still been cool if some relatively unheralded guy took the record.
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the bloke averaged 26 before this knock, and was playing a glorified pub team. I would have been furious if he took the record to be fair, makes an absolute mockery of test cricket.
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@mariner4life said in Other Cricket:
the bloke averaged 26 before this knock, and was playing a glorified pub team. I would have been furious if he took the record to be fair, makes an absolute mockery of test cricket.
I do hear you, but even against shit teams it is still a great effort to get mammoth scores. You're right, his record is modest compared to every other guy on the list who has a triple ton but isn't that the beauty of sport, every journeyman potentially having his day ?
Then again perhaps he agreed with you and thought "Shit, I've just passed Gary Sobers, no way am I this good, better declare instead of having a go at Lara"
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@mariner4life said in Other Cricket:
the bloke averaged 26 before this knock, and was playing a glorified pub team. I would have been furious if he took the record to be fair, makes an absolute mockery of test cricket.
Hayden took the record against Zim in bloody Darwin if I recall correctly.
Tests are Tests. They all count. Where is your 'killer aussie' mentality?*
- yeah yeah, I know - Mark Taylor declared rather than pass the Don ... don't rain on my parade
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fuck Matt Hayden, he's a piston wristed gibbon as well.
The Zimbos were slightly more respectable then than they are now.
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@mariner4life said in Other Cricket:
fuck Matt Hayden, he's a piston wristed gibbon as well.
The Zimbos were slightly more respectable then than they are now.
Great batsman. Sitting watching him in the nets at the Basin years ago was awesome. Fuck he could hit it.
