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Not even when you do turn out for your county? The only salary you are on is the central contract?

As I understand it, the central contract is a bit like a "salary" but the main thing is that it gives the right for the country to pull you out of games etc and decide when you play. From the player's point of view it's a guarantee of income, but they still get a match fee whenever they turn out.

There has always been a huge difference between what a solid first class pro gets and an established international (and also between them and the real stars). Now, the gulf is even bigger though county players can hit a minor jackpot of their team wins a global t20 game. Players like Warner of Oz wouldn't be known anywhere now without t20 but he can expect to earn a godamn fortune over his career and he may never play a test match.

if a cricket knew he was in a fight but fedor didnt could the cricket control his chirp and sneak up behind and chirp in his ear cause the willies or just u know startle fedor so he gasps and then scurry around enter his open mouth and well i dunno jui jutzu or whatever but clog his windpipe or something and kill him?

lol @ fedor ever not realising he was in a fight.

fedor via 1st round decapitation

anatta confesses already knows the answer but posed the same question to several high stakes professional poker players in las vegas and as anatta expected chris ferguson got the answer almost immediately but so did the supposedly "lucky" gus hansen and everybody else was frankly dumbfounded.

lol @ you i know an mma fighter and he gets his mail and eats cereal anatta not gonna give away the answer but give u a hint: math.

You win. Haha...gets his mail and eats cereal, wtf.

mods can delete my jokes. sorry really to the op and posters for any disruptions he was nice enough to share his knowledge in the "well" format so it was inappropriate on my part.

Im an Australian, someone that was absolutely born and bred cricket, played basically from when I could walk until late teens, where a particularly nasty ankle injury (non-cricket injury) meant I quit a lot of sport, played poker and became pretty much a house hermit... and am now reduced to watching cricket and bowling to a 7yr old nephew, anyway, some answers to some questions that never got answered, and some that did

Its close between the West Indies in the 80's and the Australians in the 1995 through to about 2003. The West Indies lost a Test Match series 5-1 to Australia in the early 70's, and after that the team began using a lot of fast bowlers in their teams, which would intimidate a lot of teams. They were quite scary at the time, and it wasnt until a test series in 1995 against Australia in the West Indies that Australia won 2-1. That was the turning of the tide of domination and Australia crushed for about 10 years, only recently losing more test series. Now the best teams are pretty even between India, South Africa and Australia, with England a bit behind IMO, and the West Indies very poor after there best 3 or so players...

(For those who dont know, the West Indies are a combined team from the islands roughly between North and South America. The main island is Trinidad and Tobago, and other players come from islands such as Antigua and Barbuda, Guyana, Barbados etc... They have a domestic competition similar to the Australian domestic league with the States represented, and England with the counties, but each island is pretty much a team. Recently, domestic problems have arised from strikes from players, officials perhaps not acting in the best of intergrity etc... and talks of the islands splitting up and maybe a second tier Test competition arising, with the Island teams competing with teams such as Canada, Ireland, Netherlands etc...

I dont know that much about English history, but Pieterson is easily top 5 currently worldwide...

Australia win the Ashes 3-1
A wide is a delivery that a realistic cricket shot cant be player against. The intepretation is varied between formats of the game, with limited overs matches more strict because of the limited time to score runs. Recently batsmen have used moving around the crease, the area they bat in, to manipulate the angle and length of the delivery, which has thrown the defintion of the wide into question to an extent...

The fielding restrictions were bought in to stop captains putting every man on the boundary to stop runs... Later on teams were forced to have only 2 men outside the 30yard circle to encourage attacking play. Sri Lanka, most famously Sanath Jayasuriya, having the infield in to hit over the field for runs. To compare, if every outfielder in baseball had to be inside the diamond, there would be big incentives to hit into the wide open spaces out wide, you might get out but the early runs can set up scoring rates for later on in the innings...

Yes, very rude as has been alluded too...

Very difficult to bat long enough as a team to get a draw in a test match. Plus playing conditions can be so variable that plans can change based on the weather very easily. For example, in England when the sky gets cloudy the ball moves around in the air a lot more. This makes it harder to predict and as a result, more wickets usually occur compared to sunshine...

I cant see any team getting test status soon. However, a second division for tests, with maybe 8 teams a division isnt completely impossible, probably most likely...

This is one that I only read, not confirmation whether it was true, and was more of a great quipe then just lingo. About a bowler who didnt bowl very fast like a fast bowler, but not super slow like a spiner...

Bob Cunis, like his name, is neither one nor the other...

A beer company, Victoria Bitter, or VB, ran a series of adverts using funny cricket lingo in situations for 3 blokes living on a flat who watched the cricket, the one I remember most being someone throwing a mate a beer during the cricket and hitting him in the nuts, with the caption "middle stump" among others...

Yorkers are worth in terms of gambool in terms of getting a wicket, but like certain NFL plays, if you use a strategy too often, it can be countered. In terms of countering a yorker, the batsmen will lower how much he lifts his bat before the ball is delivered, making it easier to get the bat down and block the ball from hitting the stumps...


Serious case of GTFO....

Michael Clarke is one of my most hated cricketers. A bit of a pretty boy and is banging a hot missus... Not even sure why I hate him, but Mark Waugh was a favourite when I was young and was almost a carbon copy, a bit soft mentally but a very pretty cricketer. The Arsenal FC of cricket maybe...

because u r a ghey from west australia

lol

Your Test XI I guess is something like....

P. Hughes
S. Katich
M. Clarke
M. Henriques
D. Warner
S. Smith
B. Haddin
B. Lee
N. Hauritz
S. Clark
D. Bollinger

Now readable.

Hate the rain.....last saturday before the semis and it has to rain.We have struggled to get on the field after Xmas and when we have the decks have been like porridge.Once again.........hate the rain.