Fit at 41
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Fit at 41:
@taniwharugby said in Fit at 41:
@Rancid-Schnitzel you look taller
You're all midgets.
I like to think of myself as normal height and those taller as oversized. Which doesn’t help much as it also applies to my 12 year old. Båstard is already patting me on the head.
If it helps, most of the 20 best ever test cricket batsmen were about your height!
That is very true. Who are great test batsman who are tall blokes ?
Hayden, Pietersen, Graeme Smith......hard to name many
Definitely an issue with the Waughs.....Mark was noticeably taller which meant Steve was better.
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To be fair, the only real midget spat the dummy and left the building early last year.
That explains a lot. SMS (not the phone sort).
If you play cricket and are tall, you generally get pushed in the direction of fast bowling. If you are short you get pushed towards batting. Not hard to see how it works. KJ is an example, ex opening batsman, now fast bowler.
Not too many tall half backs or short locks either (unless you play for the 'canes).
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Fit at 41:
@taniwharugby said in Fit at 41:
@Rancid-Schnitzel you look taller
You're all midgets.
I like to think of myself as normal height and those taller as oversized. Which doesn’t help much as it also applies to my 12 year old. Båstard is already patting me on the head.
If it helps, most of the 20 best ever test cricket batsmen were about your height!
That is very true. Who are great test batsman who are tall blokes ?
Hayden, Pietersen, Graeme Smith......hard to name many
Definitely an issue with the Waughs.....Mark was noticeably taller which meant Steve was better.
Bradman, Tendulkar, Gavaskar, Lara, Steve Smith, Sir Kane, Kohli, Miandad, Barrington all under 5' 10". Steve Waugh, Ponting and Richards 5' 10'.
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That is very true. Who are great test batsman who are tall blokes ?
Try naming the good under-tall bowlers as well. Quicks in particular.
I have Danny Morrison (and not much else).
We said good. Danny doesn’t qualify
Actually you said "great". Thought that it would get mentioned - but I had nothing. So a liberal interpretation of "good".
Average height of a Kiwi male is still only 1.78 (and we are considered tall by world standards). Steyn is 1.79 apparently and Marshal was 1.8 so not short.
I am very suspicious of Danny Morrison being 1.88 which rules him out too (regardless of how good he was).
So fast bowlers under 1.78?
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That is very true. Who are great test batsman who are tall blokes ?
Try naming the good under-tall bowlers as well. Quicks in particular.
I have Danny Morrison (and not much else).
We said good. Danny doesn’t qualify
I’m just having ya on. I loved DK in the day. Such a good trier.
@Bones will wake up tomorrow and get excited about all his replies and then realise it’s a complete hijack about how tall cricketers are.
Classic ferning everyone.
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Chris Cairns was over 6ft...know he is a polarising figure.
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@taniwharugby said in Fit at 41:
Chris Cairns was over 6ft...know he is a polarising figure.
Very good bowler. Good batsman. This confirms our theory.
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Who was that geezer that played for England that had no neck. He was a short quick, wasn't he?
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@Bones will wake up tomorrow and get excited about all his replies and then realise it’s a complete hijack about how tall cricketers are.
More likely to be Stargazer than Honey as thread diversion monitor actually.
In a vague attempt to right this. International cricketers over the age of 41?
Clive Lloyd made it to 40 I think. -
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I would consider any fast bowler under 1.83 m to be "short" by today's cricket standards. Wagner falls into that category too.
Any fast bowler under 1.90 could even be considered short by todays standards really (all the Aussies are well over, even Southee is 1.93) but tall in the general populace, which is the point. How many under 1.79? Even historically.
Wags is 1.83 so still taller than most Kiwi men. Even Gladstone at 5'11 is over 1.80.
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@Bones will wake up tomorrow and get excited about all his replies and then realise it’s a complete hijack about how tall cricketers are.
More likely to be Stargazer than Honey as thread diversion monitor actually.
In a vague attempt to right this. International cricketers over the age of 41?
Clive Lloyd made it to 40 I think.WG Grace and Jack Hobbs pretty much played til they keeled over and died I think. Don Bradman played his last test innings at 39 ( turned 40 a week later ).
Dunno if any of you know but he got out for a duck in his last dig, what a shit player. No way an Indian Batsman would do that.
