Comments on: Cow corner cricket – Twenty20 matches that push the boundaries

By: Durbsviking

Durbsviking — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:06:33 +0000

I have an idea for those field placings, and making them work. Row 6 / seat 231, Row 9 / seat 391, ……

If they are going to put it into the crowd then that is where the fielders should stand.

By: King Cricket

King Cricket — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:45:49 +0000

Steve’s right. We declare a moratorium on (almost) serious posts until at least the end of the week.

By: steve

steve — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:02:51 +0000

It’s KC’s fault for writing (almost) serious posts and then giving (almost( serious answers.

I don’t’ know what’s come over him recently.
What about cat post as therapy?

By: Lu

Lu — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:31:27 +0000

Hear hear Nick. Funny to read though – don’t think they quite understand the (rather surreal) humour of KC!

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:56:41 +0000

Never felt the need to post before. but I’m getting a bit worried about the next few months of comments on the best cricket blog I’ve ever read. In case the South Africans haven’t noticed, they’re supposed to be surreal, insightful, or only barely connected to the cricket – but most of all, they’re supposed to be funny. Even the majority of the kangaroo fondlers seemed to work that out.

This isn’t a bbc/guardian/times/durban cattle advertiser comments section. If you want to post comments about your team being superior, go and do it in one of the thousand other places on the web where you’ll fit right in.

On a related point, I was hoping my first post might be a link to a video of my cat wielding a tiny cricket bat. He quite likes walking on his hind legs, if he knows there are treats in the offing, but has had difficulties so far in grasping the signed souvenir bat from a 1970s Essex team my granddad gave me. He is however exceptionally greedy, so I have high hopes.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:11:16 +0000

The more I think about it the better it gets! Imagine trying to run in and bowl straight while the outfield revolves and the pitch is static. What a frankly wonderful concept.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:09:19 +0000

Is there some call for a further improvements to Twenty20 in light of this match? Maybe the pitch could be located on some kind of giant revolving dancefloor nicked from a Newcastle nightclub, and it could have boundaries of an irregular length. In my mind it looks a bit like a cartoon fried egg. At any given minute, cow corner could be quite a reasonable distance, but another quarter revolution and suddenly it’s ridiculously far away and long off has become mid off. Another quarter turn and cow corner is only just off the square. Obviously the fielders would have to constantly run against the revolution of the pitch in order to hold their positions, but anything that makes cricket more like It’s A Knockout is a winner in my book.

By: King Cricket

King Cricket — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:48:16 +0000

Clearly giving Bosman and Smith ‘enormous credit’ and admitting we were ‘bitter and smarting because England got royally annihilated’ wasn’t enough.

Yes, the English bowlers bowled too many length balls. Yes, ‘our’ South Africans are the most powerful batsmen in the side.

We’re not moaning about the sixes. We’re happy with sixes – that’s the game. We’re not blaming Bosman or Smith either – they couldn’t have done any more.

It just struck us that neither batsman hit a single six to any other part of the ground. Did no-one find this a slightly one-dimensional form of cricket?

We enjoy Twenty20, but we like it when the field settings play a part.

By: Batting in Ned Kelly's Helmet

Batting in Ned Kelly's Helmet — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:24:18 +0000

You got beat up by the bigger boys? This is just getting sad now.

By: steve

steve — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:14:19 +0000

What about “your” South Africans? Suddenly English in build?

Who’s making fun of Smith’s weight now?