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Re: Random Cricket Thread (International Cricket)
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Sun Nov 29, 2015 11:48 amby Aidan11
365notout wrote:So....when you think we'll see the first D/N test in England?
Hopefully never. I think test matches are well enough attended. Where there are empty seats the issue seems to be the cost of tickets rather than the entertainment.
Re: Random Cricket Thread (International Cricket)
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Sun Nov 29, 2015 12:17 pmby Arthur Crabtree
If it happens, it'll be entirely for the benefit of tv. So it's bound to happen.
Re: Random Cricket Thread (International Cricket)
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Sun Nov 29, 2015 4:17 pmby Alviro Patterson
I'm not sure how effective Day/Night test cricket is going to be in England, most of summer it stays light until past 9pm and even then the light lingers for a while further.
However Day/Night County Championship matches has potential to attract the crowds.
Re: Random Cricket Thread (International Cricket)
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Sun Nov 29, 2015 6:09 pmby The Professor
Fast bowler Zak Gibson awarded inaugural Maori Cricket Scholarship and have successfully tempted him away from a professional rugby contract.
Can't think of many cricketers who could also have been rugby players.
Re: Random Cricket Thread (International Cricket)
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Sun Nov 29, 2015 7:25 pmby Gingerfinch
365notout wrote:Fast bowler Zak Gibson awarded inaugural Maori Cricket Scholarship and have successfully tempted him away from a professional rugby contract.
Can't think of many cricketers who could also have been rugby players.
De-Villiers? I think he could have played pro hockey as well.
Re: Random Cricket Thread (International Cricket)
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Sun Nov 29, 2015 7:36 pmby Alviro Patterson
Jonny Bairstow was equally talented at Rugby in his youth
Re: Random Cricket Thread (International Cricket)
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Sun Nov 29, 2015 7:37 pmby Gingerfinch
Alviro Patterson wrote:Jonny Bairstow was equally talented at Rugby in his youth
Pretty average then?
Re: Random Cricket Thread (International Cricket)
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Sun Nov 29, 2015 9:55 pmby Arthur Crabtree
I think there was an all black in the nineties who later played cricket for NZ. Wilson, possibly?
A few cricketers played top division football going back twenty years and beyond, including Ryan Sidebottom's dad.
Re: Random Cricket Thread (International Cricket)
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Sun Nov 29, 2015 10:47 pmby Making_Splinters
Well of course there was Fry who played cricket for England, in the FA Cup for Southhampton, for the BarBars in Rugby and not to mention was a record holder in the long jump.
Rugby and cricket aren't that all uncommon.
Re: Random Cricket Thread (International Cricket)
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Sun Nov 29, 2015 11:26 pmby westoelad
M.J.K. Smith was a double International at cricket and rugby.
Re: Random Cricket Thread (International Cricket)
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Sun Nov 29, 2015 11:45 pmby Arthur Crabtree
Arthur Crabtree wrote:I think there was an all black in the nineties who later played cricket for NZ. Wilson, possibly?
Jeff Wilson, played cricket then rugby, then cricket for NZ, from the nineties onwards.
Re: Random Cricket Thread (International Cricket)
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Mon Nov 30, 2015 10:02 amby The Professor
All right all right all right ....I was wrong
Re: Random Cricket Thread (International Cricket)
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Mon Nov 30, 2015 10:32 amby GarlicJam
Arthur Crabtree wrote:Arthur Crabtree wrote:I think there was an all black in the nineties who later played cricket for NZ. Wilson, possibly?
Jeff Wilson, played cricket then rugby, then cricket for NZ, from the nineties onwards.
Yeah, but he was a plonker, so that doesn't count.
Re: Random Cricket Thread (International Cricket)
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Mon Nov 30, 2015 10:38 amby Arthur Crabtree
Don't know him, but according to the internet he was a NZ legend...
Re: Random Cricket Thread (International Cricket)
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Mon Nov 30, 2015 10:46 amby Gingerfinch
I thought he was in The Beach Boys!
