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taniwharugby

Chris Cairns was over 6ft...know he is a polarising figure.

Snowy

@MN5 said in Fit at 41:

I’m just having ya on. I loved DK in the day. Such a good trier.

Yeah I got that, still in the good category, not great.

He was also about all we had for a while there.

MN5

@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.

Hooroo

Who was that geezer that played for England that had no neck. He was a short quick, wasn't he?

taniwharugby

@MN5 ha, I was looking at the example wrong...thinking of tall bowlers, not the short ones.

Bovidae

I would consider any fast bowler under 1.83 m to be "short" by today's cricket standards. Wagner falls into that category too.

Snowy

@MN5 said in Fit at 41:

@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.

Bovidae

@Hooroo said in Fit at 41:

Who was that geezer that played for England that had no neck. He was a short quick, wasn't he?

Gladstone Small. Google says 5'11".

Snowy

@Bovidae said in Fit at 41:

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.

MN5

@Snowy said in Fit at 41:

@MN5 said in Fit at 41:

@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.

Bovidae

@Snowy said in Fit at 41:

@Bovidae said in Fit at 41:

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.

If that's your standard, Fred Trueman. Listed at 1.78 m. But he would have been tall for his era.

Snowy

@MN5 said in Fit at 41:

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.

You Bobs or Vegene?

Hooroo

@Bovidae said in Fit at 41:

@Hooroo said in Fit at 41:

Who was that geezer that played for England that had no neck. He was a short quick, wasn't he?

Gladstone Small. Google says 5'11".

Midget!

Snowy

@Bovidae said in Fit at 41:

@Snowy said in Fit at 41:

@Bovidae said in Fit at 41:

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.

If that's your standard, Fred Trueman. Listed at 1.78 m. But he would have been tall for his era.

Nice, so we have one (albeit from 50 to 60 years ago). Average height has increased by about an inch in the last 50 years so certainly not a tall guy even then.

MN5

WG Grace looked big and tall and imposing with the kind of beard a craft beer enthusiast would cream his pants over but was he in fact a short man by modern standards ?

MN5

@Hooroo said in Fit at 41:

@Bovidae said in Fit at 41:

@Hooroo said in Fit at 41:

Who was that geezer that played for England that had no neck. He was a short quick, wasn't he?

Gladstone Small. Google says 5'11".

Midget!

As is anyone under 1.90cm

Hooroo

@MN5 said in Fit at 41:

@Hooroo said in Fit at 41:

@Bovidae said in Fit at 41:

@Hooroo said in Fit at 41:

Who was that geezer that played for England that had no neck. He was a short quick, wasn't he?

Gladstone Small. Google says 5'11".

Midget!

As is anyone under 1.90cm

Agreed!

Paekakboyz

Snowy

@Paekakboyz Looking up?

Paekakboyz

@Snowy not to him!! But it does appear I post on a site frequented by giants.

Who knew Polish chicks were so farking tall. Bet you all have killer legs

The Silver Fern

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