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Conference xtine::cricket_v2

Title:The new Cricket conference
Moderator:XTINE::HARDING
Created:Fri Dec 20 1996
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:25
Total number of notes:153

14.0. "One-Day series 1996-97 Australia" by SNOFS1::NANCARROW () Sun Jan 19 1997 10:13

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14.1CHEFS::KIRKPATRICKJD'you want some?Mon Jan 20 1997 18:478
14.2etiquetteSNOFS1::NANCARROWWed Jan 29 1997 02:4511
    Jeff, et al
    	I apologise unreservedly if anybody takes offence to the Aussie
    	slang "Pakiis" used in the original note. But one question if
    
    		Australians are aussies
    		English are colloquially "POMS"
    		W.Indians are colloquially "WINDIES"
    		what are cricket players from Pakistan ??
    		(what a loaded question that is)
    
    						Mike N.
14.3What's in a name?CHEFS::KIRKPATRICKJD'you want some?Wed Jan 29 1997 11:308
    
    Er, how about "Pakistanies"?
    
    ALso, why are the English known as POMs? Given that it stands for
    "Prisoner of Mother England", surely that's you lot!
    
    j.
    
14.4POM or POHM?CHEFS::KINGIThe hole in the wall gangWed Jan 29 1997 14:318
    
    
    I always thought that POM should be spelt POHM and stood for Prisoners
    Of Her Majesty. i.e. those of us stuck in poor old freezing Blighty.
    Unlike those convicts who lie around on beaches all day sunning
    themselves on all year round holidays :-)
    
    Ian.
14.5CHEFS::ASHLEYSMITHligament deficientThu Jan 30 1997 16:4613
    Hellooo Aussies,
    
    Question: Can you explain the apparent metamorphasis of the bowling
    of Michael Bevan from 'Liquorice Allsorts One-day fill in Man' to
    Left-Arm Test spinner, outbowling the Fat Boy Warne?
    
    re The sqaud for South Africa - bit of a worry when the likes of 
    Slater, Ponting, Law and Moody can't even make the final 14. Would
    have thought they all must be vying for the Holiday to England in 
    May.
    
    Andy
                          
14.6not really but he is on lineSNOFS1::NANCARROWMon Feb 03 1997 03:0424
    Bevan                                              
    	is considered only a part time bowler at the best, but for once he
    actually bowled perfectly on line and as such did a lot of bowling and
    had the Windies so confused he took some wickets. Bevan himself says he
    is not a bowler and it is probably a matter of time before he goes off
    line again and is used only as a part timer. As a matter of fact the
    Aussies were all out for 243 in the fifth test at the WACA and the
    Windies are 7 for 353 and Bevan has not taken a wicket on a spinners
    paradise, mind you Warne only has two wickets as well. Bevan will
    probably leverage his batting and bowling and retain a spot in the test
    team for the forseeable future.
    As for the fifth test Hayden was out for a duck again and the only two
    to show some grit were M Waugh who scored 70 odd and Bevan 80 odd not
    out. Lara has finally come good too late in the series with 130 odd.
    Unfortunately history will show a 3-2 result in the test series which
    will probably flatter the WINDIES team a bit considering the way they
    caved in when they still had an opportunity to win the series.
    I really have to ask the question is LARA a pressure player with the
    series all over he has his best form of the summer. If he finnishes top
    of the averages it will not be any justice to Chanderpaul or Jimmy
    Adams or Carl Hooper who have done some honest work all through the
    series.
    
    						Mike N.
14.7as expectedSNOFS1::NANCARROWFri Feb 07 1997 09:139
    As expected WINDIES won the dead rubber after a pathetic batting
    performance on a terrible test wicket, this however was no excuse
    for the total surrender of the top order. Warne and Bichel showed the 
    guys on top how to do it, only Blewett had a genuine excuse for getting
    out with a brute of a ball which skidded along the ground after hitting
    one of the cracks. The aussies psyched themselves out over the pitch
    and obviously were not happy with the thought of working for a living.
    
    Mike N.