That is amazing I am very jealous.
That’s a great tactic especially at his height he would basically be wearing wicket keeping pads
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I always suspected that one was still going over but hilarious nonetheless
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I think it was his first tour here and he was having some issues with his feet. He was recommended to go to where my brother worked and they made him a set of orthotics straight away and he loved them that much that he only wore ones made by them for the remainder of his career. They would ship them over in bulk and he would still visit them and invite the owner and staff into the corporate area whenever he came back
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Awesome stuff mate. Thank you for sharing.
I met the great man Shane Warne a couple of times. Last time was when he was watching his son at a local football game. We were in a group and got chatting. At quarter time he said to the group do you mind if I smoke. Everyone was enjoying his company and all said no problem go ahead Shane. He then proceeded to smoke 4 cigarettes as quick as I’ve seen anyone all during the quarter time break. He literally inhaled them. There was just a puff of grey smoke surrounding the great man.
Loved a dart and a beer.
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Loved quite a few things…
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He was a good bloke.
Still can’t believe he’s gone.
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A ripping bloke. My favourite sportsman of all time. Will always be the greatest bowler ever in my view
Some people would be like…talk to my agent, or ask for a fee.
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Yeah also the conversion of 50s to 100s
Smith 35/42 = 83.3% conversion
Root 36/65 = 55.3% conversion
Smith almost always tons up after getting 50, while Root only slightly better than every second half century to go on with it.
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Many years ago I travelled to Mumbai as a memorabilia dealer had a contract to produce a limited edition series of cricket bats (35 centuries equalling Gavaskar) and Sashin Tendulkar refused to sign anything unless his signature was protected. I was approached due to our system of protecting sporting memorabilia and they wanted me to demonstrate our system. We arrived in Mumbai at midnight and Sashins driver picked us up and delivered us to the Taj Lands End Hotel. He picked us up in the morning and took us to Bollywood when Sashin was filming an Airtel ad. Sashin looked at the demo bat and liked the look of it. As it was his birthday we gave him a book on Formula One car racing as he loves it. Sashin then asked if he could join us for dinner. (I nearly fell over in shock). He came to the hotel with his wife and manager but we had to have a private room and he sat next to me where I explained our protection system and he loved it and agreed to do the bats. What a gentleman he was, quietly spoken and very respectful. In my life as a memorabilia authenticator, this day will remain in my memory forever. Just fantastic. We spoke about cricket, facing fast bowlers and his love for lamb chops :-). (Photo taken at Bollywood - Mumbai)
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In this day and age what is the reason that the FTA networks need to swap the cricket between 7 and 7mate?
If you are going to bump it off the main channel for The Chase and the news why not just have it all on 7Mate? Is it a ratings thing?
that’s epic.
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Thank you.
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Yep, everybody loves lamb chops.
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Not sure this is true. I understand that scores cannot be attributed for the same innings. So he has 35 innings of 100+ and 42 innings of 50-99. A total of 77 innings of scores above 50.
Joe on the other hand has 65 innings between 50-99 and 36 of 100+. A total of 101 innings above 50.
What the stats kind of represent is that in almost every second instance of Smith getting a 50, he goes on with a ton. It’s closer to 1/3 for Root, who is still a very very very good batter
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I can see Slammin Sam and Sashin hitting it off.
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Australia win the toss and bowl in the Women’s Test Match.
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Did you invent “straight to the pool room”?
Gonna head to the G on Saturday and check this out. Hopefully it’s not over by then