Happy birthday to the greatest sporting spectacle on earth, test match cricket, which was born on this day in 1877. The current Pakistan v Australia game is test match #2,455 and the recently completed India v Sri Lanka game was the most recent test match #2,456. Imagine baseball but it’s interesting that’s test cricket.
Australian won of course, never in doubt and australia continues to dominate the great game.
Here’s an interesting fact about the first ever test match: Australian batsman Charles Bannerman is officially recognised as test cricketer #1 for Australia, he faced the first ever delivery in test cricket, he scored the first ever half century and century in test cricket, he had the first ever not out in test century, he was the first ever player to carry his bat (when a player opens the innings and is not out when all 10 wickets have fallen) and to this day he still has the highest % of runs scored by an individual in a completed innings where his 165 not out was 67.34% of his team’s total of 245.
It was statistically proven that nobody dominated their chosen sport as much as Sir Donald Bradman dominated test cricket who retired head and shoulders above everyone that ever played the game. All the other sports have players who can be called the greatest but have second, third, fourth greatest nit far behind but test cricket has Bradman and then a significant stretch of daylight before you even discuss who could be second.
03-15-2022, 09:42 AM
ShaDynasty
Lol. I think you're being a little optimistic about the level of interest the 5 people who post in gen chat have for cricket.
unfortunately it was the weakest book in the series. dude had serious writer's block at this point. adams kept postponing writing the installment, ignored several deadlines and in the end the publishing company put an editor next to him in his home who he had to give pages to as he wrote them. no wonder the book turned out to be meh. the theft of the Ashes is one of the better parts of the book
installments 1 & 2 are among the best things ever written in comedic scifi
03-15-2022, 08:41 PM
Goldenchild
all I know about cricket is what I've seen in this 1984 homoerotic film. but the gist is, it's a capitalist conspiracy by rich Brits, and the Australian convicts/Indochina population unfortunately took the bait...
Ahahaha homoerotica gets posted on Wu Corp and brock immediately returns
03-15-2022, 11:46 PM
Goldenchild
that signature is about to give me a seizure (brock)
Hound, nobody cares about cricket and Aussie men look like blue-eyed blond hair "white devils" the 5% keep talking about, unbearably white. but I'll give you a point for having foreskin
03-16-2022, 12:22 AM
The Hound
You are a self confessed homosexual
03-16-2022, 01:47 AM
Goldenchild
But Aussies have the gay accent, not me
American English > Commonwealth English
03-16-2022, 03:59 AM
The Hound
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Originally Posted by Goldenchild
what I've seen in this 1984 homoerotic film
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03-16-2022, 02:23 PM
Goldenchild
Boy George blowing Morrissey would still be less gay than having an Aussie accent
03-16-2022, 02:55 PM
Rev Jones
Quote:
Originally Posted by The Hound
@5th State, I haven't read anything by them before but you have you heard this album?
