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    Posted: 18 Jan 2023 at 10:30pm
I don't know if there is already a cricket thread one that's not just focussing on test cricket, if so gay can you merge, otherwise we can use this thread to discuss all things non test cricket, like ODI's T20 internationals etc.

Subman Gill currently 166 in Indias ODI game against NZ, there was a strange umpiring decision earlier where Pandik was given out bowled and he clearly wasn't, keepers gloves knocked the bails off, how can they make such a blatant wrong decision is beyond me. 
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Michael Clarke and Karl Stefanovic in wild scuffle amid cheating claims

Michael Clarke and Karl Stefanovic have clashed in a public park before the cricketing legend was slapped by girlfriend Jade Yarbrough in front of shocked onlookers. 
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Shubman Gill looking to score 200, he's 181 with 2.2 overs left 
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He did it 3x6's in a row Shubman Gill 200 with 9 more balls, what an innings, fair dinkum that was seriously impressive.
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NZ need 350 to win off 50 overs, I don't think so, but will be interesting to see, they can do it only if they get a good start, if they don't then no hope imo. They will need around 100 off the power-play to be in the hunt.
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Michael Clarke and Karl Stefanovic in wild scuffle amid cheating claims

Michael Clarke and Karl Stefanovic have clashed in a public park before the cricketing legend was slapped by girlfriend Jade Yarbrough in front of shocked onlookers. 


Former Australia captain Michael Clarke and Today Show host Karl Stefanovic have reportedly been filmed in a stunning confrontation that saw the former accused of cheating.

As reported by The Daily Telegraph, the ugly incident occurred on January 10 in Noosa where Clarke and Stefanovic were holidaying with partners Jade and Jasmine Yarbrough.

The publication reports they were at dinner when Clarke was confronted by his girlfriend, Jade, who had reportedly been in contact with the former cricketer’s ex-partner Pip Edwards.

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The fight led to a park, where Clarke was seen shirtless and limping as Jade screamed: “You f**ked her on December 17 … You f**ked her, you’re a f**king dog.”

Clarke can be heard vigorously denying the accusations before he is slapped across the face multiple times.

The situation continued to escalate, however, with Clarke taking aim at Stefanovic.

“Karlos, I can tell you now c**t, don’t you f***ing walk away. She can, she can punch me, but you, you c**t,” Clarke says.


Jade continues to scream at Clarke and hits him again

“You piece of s**t, don’t you f**king speak to him,” she says.

After Clarke continues to insist that he did nothing wrong, she says: “Oh am I wrong? You f**ked her (Edwards) on December 17, you f***ed her … you’re a f***ing dog … I’m going to show her every f***ing message you ever f***ing sent me.”

Adding insult to injury for Clarke was that at some point during the incident, he appeared to suffer an injury.

Clarke can be seen in the video limping as he walks after Jade, and reaching down to his right leg.

In a statement to The Daily Telegraph, Clarke said he “accepts full responsibility” for the incident and is "shattered” by his actions.

“I’m absolutely gutted I’ve put people I hold in the highest regard in this position,” he told the publication. “My actions in the lead-up to this altercation were nothing short of shameful and regrettable.

“I am shattered that because of my actions I’ve drawn women of class and integrity, and my mates, into this situation.”

“I own this fully and am the only one at fault.”
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I will never understand NZ picking Devon Conway in white ball games, he is a test batsman not a short format player.
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NZ 54 off 10 overs, no hope imo..
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Kiwi's nearly pulled the chase off, bowled out in the last over 12 runs short.
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 the Michael Clarke debacle is setting twitter alight with very funny comments...

 There's something about Michael Clarke and Karl Stevanovic being married to/dating sisters called Jade and Jasmine that is just perfect. Almost like it's a simulation.
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Keeping the likes of Michael Clarke and Karl Stefanovic out was the real reason QLD kept the border closed for so long.


Commiserations to Michael Clarke. There's no greater sign that you're officially an old cup cake than blowing a calf when you're on holidays with a belly full of piss. And put a shirt on you flog, you're a 40 year old man.
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The Karl Stefanovic + Michael Clarke + token blondes brawl in Noosa is further proof that trash is trash even when you’ve got cash.

Middle aged divorced dad Michael Clarke pulling his hamstring in a fight with another middle aged divorced dad while his girlfriend belts him for cheating. Don’t tell me Australia has no culture
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 haven't laughed this much for ages.

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LOL ahhh you gotta love aussie cricketers, they are always going to give you a laugh at their expense..
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Originally posted by Afros Afros wrote:

Kiwi's nearly pulled the chase off, bowled out in the last over 12 runs short.

Bracewell nearly pulled it off himself, if he had better support they might have got there. They were 131/6 at one stage with no hope at all, but Bracewell and Santner with that epic partnership marched towards the target almost making me look like a fool.
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I reckon we need a Backyard Cricket thread.
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My old man was such an Christmas pudding when I was a kid, seriously I was obsessed with cricket all my life as a young boy, its all I thought about day and night. I would practice by myself cause no one would play with me, throwing a ball at a ball with my right hand and then quickly holding the bat to play a return shot, I would dive around pretending to catch the ball in the yard and in my room, I practiced bowling at the BBQ at the end of the yard etc.. all with a tennis ball. Every so often the old man would get the hard cork ball out from the laundry where he kept it from me, tell me to get in front of the brick BBQ and bowl to me. I used to start getting very upset as I knew what was coming, he thought it was funny to send down a hard ball, as fast as he could bowl it at me, from about 20 feet away, with no pads or gloves ( wouldn't buy them for me, just had a shtty cheap Kmart bat ) he would send that ball down at me so fast, I'd literally be ducking and jumping out of the way, using the bat to defend myself as he laughed and made fun of me. I used to go inside with bruises all over me, he'd grab my ear and walk me inside give a smack round the back of the head and told I'm crap at cricket I should give up, meanwhile my sister is on the swing set and my mum is at the kitchen sink saying nothing.  

So when I hear the words back yard cricket that's what my mind conjures up. I'm sure its something much happier for most people..Embarrassed
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Bloody hell. Sounds like a lovely man. Those cork balls were killers.

Yeah backyard cricket was a happy memory to a lot of aussies. When you had a mate who had an ideal backyard/ driveway and a group of mates you could spend all day playing. Some of the rules we came up with - eg 6 if you hit a certain spot on a wall. Then there was indoor cricket with a squash ball and those little souvenir bats. Good times.
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We made our own tiny bats before those souvenir bats were a thing, we made them out of school rulers and paddle pop sticks, sticky taped the paddle pop sticks to the top and you had a handle, we used rolled up foil for the ball, on your knees cricket was fun, that one we played at school a lot and on the rare occasions I could go to someone's house we played too.
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Good stuff. Who needs bloody i-Pads?

Did you ever make REALLY mini bats with 3 half-paddle pop sticks glued together and then you cut/ sand them until you have a little bat the size of your thumb with a handle? Then you decorate it with the brands of the time - Grey Niccols, DF, etc? Everyone in primary school had their own little collections.
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yes all that and more, everything was about having a gray nicholls, slazenger or duncan fernley gear. I remember this one time we got soooooo excited we were allowed to use one of the first ever Slazenger bats with the big black cat down the back of the blade, no oil bat had a polymer coating, the school bought 2 of them for school cricket team, we borrowed them from the sports store in school all the time, man we thought we were Viv Richards holding those things. 

Used to draw bats in school books all the time, always about those cool brands. I had a bat, it had to be oiled, ugh.. it was made in Pakistan and had some unknown sticker brand on it, it was a xmas present, I asked for a Gray Nichols or Slazenger but got this piece of crap, was thin and had a red rubber handle that got sticky in no time, hated it but used it as that's all I had, handle went on it within first 6 months. 
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I always got my spoiled brother's hand-me-downs, which were always good but never felt right for me. One Christmas when I was about 14 I got a Duncan Fearnley - I think the one Allan Border used ("magnum" maybe?) and I'll never forget how sweet it felt in the nets for the first time. I was suddenly doing shots I never could do. And it didn't need oiling!

My brother still has this huge thick heavy thing that Rod Marsh used with Rod Marsh's signature on it. I'm imagining it's a County, but were they around back then?
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One more cricket bat story. When I was about 10 we had to do a "talk" in class and I rang up the Grey Nicolls factory in Melbourne and asked them if they could send me any info about how bats were made etc (before the internet!) They must have loved a kid ringing them because they told me they'd prepare a pack for me for free with little samples like wood off-cuts, stickers etc and an info thing about how they're made. My mum took me in to collect it and I was so excited. I practised that talk about 100 times. Then on the day I froze up! I'd always liked doing talks, debating etc, but this one day I got stage fright and it was awful. I ended up just handing round the stuff. The bitch teacher said (I'll never forget it), "It started off well but went downhill from there."   
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I always got my spoiled brother's hand-me-downs, which were always good but never felt right for me. One Christmas when I was about 14 I got a Duncan Fearnley - I think the one Allan Border used ("magnum" maybe?) and I'll never forget how sweet it felt in the nets for the first time. I was suddenly doing shots I never could do. And it didn't need oiling!

My brother still has this huge thick heavy thing that Rod Marsh used with Rod Marsh's signature on it. I'm imagining it's a County, but were they around back then?

Alan Border wouldn't be as famous as he is now if it wasn't for Ian Botham giving him his Duncan Fearnley bat to use, Border says it made him as batsman as he was in poor form up that moment and he could finally play the shots he wanted, all due to that bat Botham gave him.
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One more cricket bat story. When I was about 10 we had to do a "talk" in class and I rang up the Grey Nicolls factory in Melbourne and asked them if they could send me any info about how bats were made etc (before the internet!) They must have loved a kid ringing them because they told me they'd prepare a pack for me for free with little samples like wood off-cuts, stickers etc and an info thing about how they're made. My mum took me in to collect it and I was so excited. I practised that talk about 100 times. Then on the day I froze up! I'd always liked doing talks, debating etc, but this one day I got stage fright and it was awful. I ended up just handing round the stuff. The bitch teacher said (I'll never forget it), "It started off well but went downhill from there."   

LOL I did something similar but it was for a fishing magazine another thing I loved as a kid, and I wrote a letter to Dick Lewers the editor, he liked my story and questions about fishing for mullet he sent me a brand new lure in its box, I was so stoked I tell you, those days back then seem so innocent and pure.  
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 I had an old cricket bat from the forties, which I inherited from my father, who was an A-grade cricketer with Waverley. Used it to play cricket with my brother and friends, using the pillars of Bronte School's entrance as the wicket. The grandmother of the singer, Johnny O'Keefe, lived directly opposite the school and we regularly broke her front windows...then bolted before getting caught. She eventually put iron bars on the windows and we resumed playing.

 Had that bat until very recently...it still held up after nearly eighty years...but then I gave it to my nephew as a keepsake. 

 I was a mean leg-spin bowler. The boys hated facing me. I reckon I could still roll the arm and take a few wickets...but no-one in the family plays anymore.  

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