Comments on: Karachi Test pitch preview with Archimedes

By: Bail-out

Bail-out — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 21:20:14 +0000

In reply to Bail-out.

And Major League Baseball has had Arquimedez Pozo Ortiz and, for fans of Ancient Greek geometry, the even more glorious Arquímedes Euclides Caminero Ordóñez. Both from the Dominican Republic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes_(disambiguation)

By: Bail-out

Bail-out — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 21:16:07 +0000

In reply to Ged Ladd.

For international footballers from the Americas, there is Luther Archimède, who plays for Guadeloupe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Archim%C3%A8de

By: Bail-out

Bail-out — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 21:07:08 +0000

In reply to Deep Cower. People say smoking isn't cool, but they're wrong. Sadly.

By: Deep Cower

Deep Cower — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 11:37:26 +0000

This has nothing to do with the Karachi pitch but I HAD to share this here because it might just about be the coolest thing to happen in a cricket ground:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CjC-f3dGR94

By: King Cricket

King Cricket — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 07:48:00 +0000

In reply to Deep Cower. Big hairy swinging facts.

By: Deep Cower

Deep Cower — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 04:09:59 +0000

In reply to Bail-out. Sir Julius Caesar suffered from high cholesterol all his life supposedly caused by his high fat red meat diet. His son Charles Caesar, seeing his father suffer so, invented a salad that now goes by the name of Caesar salad. Later an American chef named Cardini stole the recipe (he was aided in this quest by his first name, Caesar, that removed all doubt). I doubt you will find this on the interwebs anywhere. You have to come right here, to this site, where facts reside. Big, huge, hanging facts.

By: Ged Ladd

Ged Ladd — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 20:39:23 +0000

In reply to Bail-out. Does Archimede Morleo do math, like an American, rather than maths like a proper mathematician? And more importantly, does the singular Morleo Archimede have some insights for us about the Karachi cricket pitch?

By: King Cricket

King Cricket — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 20:33:29 +0000

In reply to Ged Ladd.

There was an Archimede (just the one) Morleo, who was an Italian footballer.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimede_Morleo

By: Ged Ladd

Ged Ladd — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 20:23:17 +0000

In reply to Bail-out. I’m not trying to be funny, but if there wasn’t a Brazilian footballer named Archimedes, there blooming-well should have been. It’s certainly not my fault.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 16:23:28 +0000

I’m just pleased that Archimedes had heard of Jason Gallian. Did he have any views on him? Or Darren Bicknell? Maybe they could do a double act?

I’m not a Notts man myself, rather a fan of the county that employed the other (dare I say better?!) Bicknell – and I’m surprised Archimedes didn’t pick someone from there; I know for a fact that, not only could Brendan Julian swing the ball round corners, but his favourite equation was ‘that the volume and surface area of the sphere are two-thirds that of the cylinder including its bases’ – given that’s carved on Archimedes’ tomb, you’d have thought they’d have gotten along. Maybe Julian’s penchant for bowling wildly inaccurate balls followed by wickets during AXA league games in the 1996 cup winning year was enough to put him off, but it always endeared him to me…