Comments on: Duke balls, five-day pitches and the final Test of the summer https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/duke-balls-five-day-pitches-and-the-final-test-of-the-summer/2015/08/19/ Independent and irreverent cricket writing Thu, 20 Aug 2015 13:38:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.3 By: Sam https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/duke-balls-five-day-pitches-and-the-final-test-of-the-summer/2015/08/19/#comment-239714 Thu, 20 Aug 2015 13:38:54 +0000 http://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=13869#comment-239714 After the climax of Trent Bridge, the dead rubber of The Oval.

Sexy.

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By: King Cricket https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/duke-balls-five-day-pitches-and-the-final-test-of-the-summer/2015/08/19/#comment-239713 Thu, 20 Aug 2015 11:50:10 +0000 http://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=13869#comment-239713 In reply to Stormin’ Turd Dancer.

Bit baffled by the different time zones in that, but the email’s supposed to go out at roughly the same time each day, including everything from the preceding 24 hours (usually just one post).

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By: Mike https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/duke-balls-five-day-pitches-and-the-final-test-of-the-summer/2015/08/19/#comment-239712 Thu, 20 Aug 2015 11:03:41 +0000 http://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=13869#comment-239712 In reply to Mike.

These Aussie openers have heard of hitting fours and sixes but thought ‘why risk it?’ etc.

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By: Mike https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/duke-balls-five-day-pitches-and-the-final-test-of-the-summer/2015/08/19/#comment-239711 Thu, 20 Aug 2015 11:02:48 +0000 http://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=13869#comment-239711 19 runs in an hour. Wow. It looks like we’re in for the long haul here, folks – a classic, five-day test to keep the $urr€y coffers chock-full. Australia will eventually declare their first innings sometime around tea on Monday…

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By: Stormin' Turd Dancer https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/duke-balls-five-day-pitches-and-the-final-test-of-the-summer/2015/08/19/#comment-239710 Thu, 20 Aug 2015 10:57:49 +0000 http://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=13869#comment-239710 On a note of dischord, my auto e-mail re this article arrived at 10.05am today despite being posted at 9:41am PDT yesterday – hence (given the 8 hour time difference) this is bowled at 17:41 yesterday.

I can see the first appeal to this article appearing before close of play yesterday. KC, why the additional 16 hour+ delay before coming through to my e-mail account?

On my gheetar, I use 6 notes to form E and G major. More is louder!

STD

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By: Mike https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/duke-balls-five-day-pitches-and-the-final-test-of-the-summer/2015/08/19/#comment-239709 Thu, 20 Aug 2015 10:55:41 +0000 http://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=13869#comment-239709 In reply to AP Webster.

Losing both tests of a two-test series, even if you got absolutely mullered in both, perhaps?

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By: Ged https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/duke-balls-five-day-pitches-and-the-final-test-of-the-summer/2015/08/19/#comment-239708 Thu, 20 Aug 2015 10:53:30 +0000 http://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=13869#comment-239708 In reply to AP Webster.

…as opposed to an ungifted amateur baritone ukulele player who has written down all of the notes in the sequence of his measly four strings using the flats rather than the sharps.

In any case, the guitar tabs tend to go by numbers rather than notes, so that four note riff, massively simplified, looks like this:

D 9
G 8
B 7
e 7

As you say, Balladeer, not a musician.

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By: Bert https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/duke-balls-five-day-pitches-and-the-final-test-of-the-summer/2015/08/19/#comment-239707 Thu, 20 Aug 2015 10:41:17 +0000 http://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=13869#comment-239707 In reply to Jef.

Gold. Pure gold. The very first word is grammatically wrong, and the meaning gets worse from there.

Are editors doing for the lulz, putting a big stet on the copy to stop the subs correcting it?

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By: Balladeer https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/duke-balls-five-day-pitches-and-the-final-test-of-the-summer/2015/08/19/#comment-239706 Thu, 20 Aug 2015 10:26:19 +0000 http://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=13869#comment-239706 In reply to AP Webster.

You’d never say Eb/Gb in a B-major chord. You’d say D#/F#. the sort of tiny point that only matters to musicians.

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By: King Cricket https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/duke-balls-five-day-pitches-and-the-final-test-of-the-summer/2015/08/19/#comment-239705 Thu, 20 Aug 2015 09:57:42 +0000 http://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=13869#comment-239705 In reply to AP Webster.

What’s less than a whitewash? A 30 degree ‘fastwash’? Or is that more of a 1-0 in a two-Test series sort of thing, being as it doesn’t really accomplish anything?

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