Posted on 03/04/2022 10:43:37 AM PST by nickcarraway
He would be dead dead.
That’s really bad !
looks like the the legspinner got vax cancelled
If he only would have been boosted…
RIP.
That’s it!
Oh my. That didn’t age well.
I once heard an Indian man trying to explain cricket to an American baseball fan. It was a very long and involved conversation. and kind of hilarious to listen to.
Booster shot?
I bet.
And we thought soccer had weird rules.......the clock wind UP in soccer??? What the heck is that???
The American was completely perplexed. But the Indian was extremely enthusiastic!
Yeah I hear it’s big time in India...I guess the British influence has a lot to do with it.
Either Thai hookers or the vaccine shot.
Dang, you beat me too it!
I was going to say: “According to his family, this would have been much worse had he not been vaxxed...”
Kidding by the way
Warne was a magician. He did things with a cricket ball no one had seen before, and aren’t likely to see again. Half Sandy Kaufax, half Phil Niekro.
It’s only been a couple of months since they released a documentary about him. If you’re a sports fan, check your favorite online purveyor of movies for one titled, “Shane.” FF to about 8 minutes and watch his first trip “to the mound” in the 1994 Ashes match, Oz vs England. If the first three minutes don’t hook you, don’t waste your time with the rest.
Warne also was known to pound a few back, and he liked to smoke, so coronapanic or not, dead from a heart attack at 52 doesn’t surprise me.
Oh, cricket has two sorts of “bowlers,” fast bowlers (Nolan Ryan) and spinners (Sandy Kaufax).
A right-handed leg-spin bowler throws with a YUGE amount of counterclockwise spin, so the ball takes a vicious left-hand turn when it bounces. A right-handed off-spin bowler throws with a YUGE amount of clockwise spin, which makes it bounce to the right.
Spin bowlers usually bowl at the start of an innings because the pitch is still smooth, so they can predict how the ball will bounce better. The fast bowlers come up later because by then the pitch will have been roughed up, which makes spin bowling less predictable.
And there is no rule requiring the bowler to bounce the ball in front of the batsman. Throwing straight at the wickets would be called bowling “on the full.” But bowlers almost always elect to bounce the ball because it takes a batsman with an uncommonly skilled eye to detect the spin on the ball before it’s too late.
And unlike baseball, if the batsman get hit by a pitch, it’s HIS fault, not the bowler’s. The reason batsmen wear so much more padding than batters is they get hit pretty commonly. There’s not been an MLB player killed by a pitched ball since 1920. There was a first-class cricketer killed by a bowled ball in 2014. The batsman was struck in the neck, a bit lower than his helmet covered, rupturing his vertebral artery.
“Yeah I hear it’s big time in India . . .”
Check out the movie “Lagaan” - it’s very Bollywood, and kind of long, but it’s got plenty of cricket (which for many makes it even longer).
Oh, my.
Been watching a lot of videos of him since I heard the news.
That was a wicked googly!
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