Cricket thread

[AndyRM]

Trailing by 60 with only 5 left. Malan is gone.

Gonna need something fabulous from Stokes and Bairstow (probably Ali too) I think.

 

[Beebo]

Rain stops play after 20mins.

 

[AndyRM]

The maths comments on TMS are brilliant, I hope it rains all day!

The year is 2139, Ian Bell is now 157, when will people stop calling him the solution to our troublesome number 5 position?

To within 1 cm of tensile strength, what is the bend radius of Geoffrey Boycott's stick of rhubarb?

Advanced: Shane Watson is facing Devon Malcolm in poor light at Headingley. Calculate the probability of an lbw dismissal.

What is the correlation between the severity of criticism by former players on TMS, and the success of their own playing career?

Test question: Does a stick of rhubarb have the structural integrity to be used as a cricket bat?

 

[AndyRM]

Showing your workings, and including a reference to a statistical record that is only broken once every 30 years at best, please demonstrate that all declarations made by an England captain are either a) needlessly cautious, or b) irresponsibly reckless, whilst always being c) wrong.

 

[AndyRM]

Your county team only plays 4-day cricket in early Spring and early Autumn. Name any other summer sport where spectators sit under an umbrella and freeze all day while hoping that play will start soon, and regularly expect to do the same for the following three days. (NB: For candidates studying for the basic entry-level ‘Diploma in Sports Management’, extra marks will be awarded if they are members of the ECB.)

 

[green1]

The maths comments on TMS are brilliant, I hope it rains all day!

The year is 2139, Ian Bell is now 157, when will people stop calling him the solution to our troublesome number 5 position?

To within 1 cm of tensile strength, what is the bend radius of Geoffrey Boycott's stick of rhubarb?

Advanced: Shane Watson is facing Devon Malcolm in poor light at Headingley. Calculate the probability of an lbw dismissal.

What is the correlation between the severity of criticism by former players on TMS, and the success of their own playing career?

Test question: Does a stick of rhubarb have the structural integrity to be used as a cricket bat?

Ian Bell's name may fall by the wayside in the next 10 years or so.


Same as the width of a set of stumps so 9".

Difficult one, Devon bowled very wide on the crease so should be very difficult to get an lbw decision. However it's Watson batting so I'd put the probability at ~99.8%

Doesn't matter how successful their career was they have to justify their wage with over the top criticism when ever there is a batting collapse or when the opposition are 400/2.

Only if your Geoffrey Boycott and never hit the ball off the square

 

[User482]

It seems that Stokes is trying to win this one on his own.

 

[AndyRM]

Boycott's latest pearl of wisdom...

West Indies are still in this.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Test Match. Special?

 

[rich p]

Test Match. Special?

Eh?

Lead of 41 with Jimmy and Broad in.
Could be a testing last session for WI if it stays light and dry.

 

[User482]

All out. Broad gave it the long handle and England lead by 71.

 

[Dayvo]

Handy lead of 71 runs. Cue Anderson to clean out the Windies.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Eh?

Lead of 41 with Jimmy and Broad in.
Could be a testing last session for WI if it stays light and dry.

I'm hoping there is a cunning plan in England's kit bag, somewhere.

 

[AndyRM]

Oval Pigeon: Broad throws it away, leaving Jimmy a tantalizing 92 short of his maiden Test century.

 

[AndyRM]

I'm hoping there is a cunning plan in England's kit bag, somewhere.

In this game, 71 is a decent lead.