tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6193495965695124697.post644109942464934224..comments2024-03-18T22:43:32.290-07:00Comments on The Old Batsman: What if Sachin finishes on 99?The Old Batsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14376172807195747856noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6193495965695124697.post-85825331768878713222013-01-09T20:53:59.585-08:002013-01-09T20:53:59.585-08:00hmm that is actually a good question and I had not...hmm that is actually a good question and I had not asked myself that question before until now, I will ponder on the possible answer tonight Pay per head softwarehttp://www.hostpph.com/pay-per-head/software.aspxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6193495965695124697.post-28515785309387565552012-09-17T23:18:14.224-07:002012-09-17T23:18:14.224-07:00Watch Sri Lanka vs Zimbabwe Live Stream ICC World ...Watch Sri Lanka vs Zimbabwe Live Stream ICC World Twnety20 1st Match Online Cricket On Pc>>><br /><br /><br /><br />http://sachin1tendulkar.blogspot.com/2012/09/watch-sri-lanka-vs-zimbabwe-live-stream.html<br /><br />http://sachin1tendulkar.blogspot.com/2012/09/watch-sri-lanka-vs-zimbabwe-live-stream.html<br /><br /><br />http://sachin1tendulkar.blogspot.com/2012/09/watch-sri-lanka-vs-zimbabwe-live-stream.html<br /><br /><br />http://sachin1tendulkar.blogspot.com/2012/09/watch-sri-lanka-vs-zimbabwe-live-stream.htmlDeshi Boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02345722258007071650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6193495965695124697.post-60294448643011518412012-03-16T03:38:19.416-07:002012-03-16T03:38:19.416-07:00The "new cherry sang for him that day" i...The "new cherry sang for him that day" is a great description of a shining cricket ball.Free bets ukhttp://www.free-bets-uk.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6193495965695124697.post-525008409301855502012-03-09T02:43:41.651-08:002012-03-09T02:43:41.651-08:00I did not know that Bradman was only 4 runs short ...I did not know that Bradman was only 4 runs short of having a perfect 100 average!That must of haynted him a bit!Free betshttp://www.free-bets-uk.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6193495965695124697.post-62208265089643546972012-02-22T06:25:13.965-08:002012-02-22T06:25:13.965-08:00Having watched it (from in front of the old Tavern...Having watched it (from in front of the old Tavern) and always having said it was the most exciting innings I ever saw, I was delighted to be reminded of Dexter's 70 at Lords thanks to John's posting the Wooldridge item.very slow old bowlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03000888829566502091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6193495965695124697.post-9025846916283594972012-02-15T12:56:30.220-08:002012-02-15T12:56:30.220-08:00John, Brilliant, thank-you, and for the compliment...John, Brilliant, thank-you, and for the compliment, too. <br /><br />All I remember of Dexter was his time as a somewhat aloof selector. Here I suppose is where stats comein, although I appreciate your dislike. I can look at Dexter's and see that he was Gower-ish in his love of the sumptuous 70-odd, followed probably by a couple of glasses of bubbles...The Old Batsmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14376172807195747856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6193495965695124697.post-25933703763527473082012-02-15T11:39:58.287-08:002012-02-15T11:39:58.287-08:00Statistics don't interest me much, OB; but gre...Statistics don't interest me much, OB; but great innings do. Here Ian Wooldridge recalls perhaps the greatest I ever saw, with a slight nod to the stats: <br /><br />‘Not for a moment could I drag my eyes from that splendid Olympian figure. He came in at 1.12pm with the England score at two for one, withdrew for lunch, returned at 2.10 and left for good at 3.12 with the score 102 for three.<br />He struck 70 runs off 74 deliveries but even those startling statistics tell next to nothing.<br />For me the second Test and the earth seemingly stood still as he played one of the truly great innings of our time.<br />He simply stood and smashed anything that Hall and Griffith could hurl at him.<br />The faster they bowled the more savagely he cut and drove and pulled them. This was Dexter, the enigma of even his own generation, rising head and shoulders above all his contemporaries.<br />Only once he smiled and that was when he thrashed Griffith through the covers to reach his 50.<br />His bat flashed through like a scimitar and the crack was like a British rifle sending death down into some deep, echoing gorge along the North West Frontier.<br />He held his bat at the highest point of that followthrough and waved it to acknowledge the ovation.<br />Even that was not his greatest shot. There was another, hit from a later ball that Griffith flung out of a sea of faces from the unsightscreened Pavilion End, that almost defeated description. Dexter picked it up late in its flight.<br />There was hardly time for any backlift so he simply jabbed it. Quite how he could generate such power with only wrists and forearms to strike it so hard in front of the wicket no one will ever know.<br />But Butcher, at deep extra cover, literally could not move more than a foot before it was past him and scorching into the boundary boards.<br />Griffith was hurling the ball into the wicket to get it to rear chest-high. Even that could not slow the cascade of runs. Dexter dragged one down so fast on the leg side that McMorris never saw it.<br />It struck him on the leg and he fell poleaxed. Dexter spared only a cursory glance at the first aid administrations.<br />He prowled round and round his stumps with the tense stifflegged walk that hints at monstrous impatience.<br />He never rests on his bat at these times: he holds it either deep down the handle at the trail or across his chest, cradling it in the crook of his left arm.<br />Dexter was once an infantry subaltern and it seems that these attitudes might well have been learned from the Small Arms Manual. He treats his bat like a tommy-gun.<br />McMorris, recovered, retreated to cover for the next over from Sobers. But there was no hiding place.<br />Dexter smashed his next shot straight at his toecaps and McMorris, understandably, wanted to have no dealings with it.<br />He stooped tardily and gingerly but the ball was through him and away to the boundary again before he had to commit himself to more pain.<br />Hall and Griffith, the most volatile fast bowling attack in the world, had no idea where to bowl next at him. Hall was hit for 23 off two overs after lunch, Griffith was no-balled seven times in his first nine overs.<br />But shortly after three o' clock there was a fatal stay in proceedings.<br />Griffith had been hammered out of the firing line and Sobers came down to the Pavilion End to bowl his seamers. His first over was an impeccable maiden to Barrington and its effect on Dexter was profound.<br />The rhythm of England's crashing counter-offensive had been lost.<br />In Sobers' next over Dexter shuffled forward, bat slightly askew. It was his first indecisive movement in 80 minutes at the wicket and it was his last.<br />He missed the ball as it swung at him and struck his pad. There was to be no reprieve for the guerilla leader. Umpire Buller's finger went up and an innings that thousands will treasure for the rest of their days was over.’<br /><br />Apologies for taking up so much space with another man's eyewitness account, OB, but the writing of Wooldridge seems somehow to sit seamlessly with your own.<br />Oh, and to hell with statistics.John Halliwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12901514854360709519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6193495965695124697.post-57208578526504119212012-02-14T12:35:10.552-08:002012-02-14T12:35:10.552-08:00I like the Bolt comparison. It just sort of enhanc...I like the Bolt comparison. It just sort of enhances how freaky the Bradman average actually is.the85manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02097264092233698763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6193495965695124697.post-5197456575228590222012-02-14T08:20:54.529-08:002012-02-14T08:20:54.529-08:00pesky yanks...pesky yanks...Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05708054072412889163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6193495965695124697.post-29939591709025828742012-02-14T08:20:00.124-08:002012-02-14T08:20:00.124-08:00UPDATE
Using this method, dividing the gap betwee...UPDATE<br /><br />Using this method, dividing the gap between Brandman/bolt and their nearest rivals by the standard deviation among their nearest 12 rivals, bradman beats bolt by 22.9 to 2.6. This would leave bolt needing a time of 8.61s to equal bradman. <br /><br />So the point about bradman being supreme still holds.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05708054072412889163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6193495965695124697.post-83184111605612957442012-02-14T08:07:09.452-08:002012-02-14T08:07:09.452-08:00Sadly I can't take credit for the percentage c...Sadly I can't take credit for the percentage crude or not. From memory it was an American statistician who got into trying to prove who was the best sportsman of all-time.The Old Batsmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14376172807195747856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6193495965695124697.post-73276843406741477152012-02-14T07:59:37.276-08:002012-02-14T07:59:37.276-08:00Ummmm, for a post that delights in statistics, you...Ummmm, for a post that delights in statistics, your Bolt comparison betrays a startling ability to misuse them. Off the top of my head, a fairer comparison would be to measure the gap between Bradman and his 20 closest competitors in numbers of standard deviations and do something similar with Bolt. <br /><br />Your crude percentage trick could be used to prove that a football side who won a game one-nil were infinity percent better than their opposition.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05708054072412889163noreply@blogger.com