The forgotten man of NZ cricket. He propped up many an inning for NZ in tests and ODIs, and deserves better acknowledgment of his overall record and achievements. He's certainly the one I remember most from my years following the Black Caps from that time when I was at school. He wasn't the biggest Astle, but put saw off so many menacing, or formidable World bowling attacks with his clean stroke making. Also, great to listen once more to Martin Crowe commentating. What a batter he was too. Never forgotten.
Thorpe who passed away yeterday scored England’s fastest 200 the previous day and wouldn’t have imagined his monumental effort would so easily and quickly be overshadowed by Nathan. The only consolation for England is that they still won. As an England fan, it was fun initially but then it got increasingly nervous. Even though it was made by an opposition batsman, sometimes you just need to doff your hat and say “well played”. Well played, Astle RIP Thorpey
as a batter, I'd noticed.. when you're in this 'angry as*-kickin-astle' mode.. shots that you thought weren't a part of your repertoire tend to come out and surprise you in a very pleasant way!
That 1 run win by NZ at Belrieve was one of the most ridiculously incompetent pieces of international cricket I've seen to this day. The inability of Bruce Reid to lay bat or anything else on ball to get at least a single to get Greg Matthews on strike was ludicrous on the one hand, and on the other, is the fact that Chris Pringle, very fine ODI bowler that he became, bowled the most horrible and inaccurate over one could imagine almost, under the circumstances. It really should've at least been a tie due to the leg side wide that Pringle bowled early in the over. I'm an ardent kiwi cricket fan and I was honestly embarrassed by that win. It really shouldn't have happened, but stranger things have happened in cricket alas.
Massive win for amiga here, i liked the music back in the day, still sounds good. Dunno what happened to the atari version, but it's weak, even by its usual average standards.
Surprised no Indian fan has given you 100 innings of Tendulkar, Laxman, Dravid, Ganguly, Kohli, Rohit, et al that are a “million” times better than this. But truly special innings. Personally I like Gavaskar’s last test innings of 96 against a very good Pakistan attack on a Bangalore minefield in 1987 more. Pakistan had 3 spinners who were weaving webs around the rest of the Indian batting (Azharuddin scored 26, I think everyone else scored in single figures). Gavaskar displayed batsmanship of the highest quality, you need to watch it to believe it. Coincidentally, that was made in a losing cause too.
So many times i have seen this on my earliest C64 programs. But my favourite Dynamic Duo cracktro was this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-So6GXHbtAn4.html
