Comments on: Kyle Mayers is playing Brian Lara Cricket properly

By: Bail-out

Bail-out — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 21:19:16 +0000

In reply to Bail-out.

As an update to the “funny old game”, Pakistan have just beaten India in their next Asia Cup fixture – despite India being by some distance the top-ranked team in Asia. Does this mean Thailand are now the best team in Asia? Sadly I don’t think it works that way – Bert will be along shortly to say that not all tournaments are complete directed acyclic graphs, only tournaments that are transitive (or equivalently, have strict total ordering; or equivalently, do not contain a cycle of length 3; or equivalently, have exactly one Hamiltonian path) – but Thailand should pick up a healthy dose of ICC ranking points this tournament. I think the way the scoring system works they’d have got more points for beating Pakistan after Pakistan beat India than for doing so before Pakistan beat India, sadly.

By: King Cricket

King Cricket — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 06:08:17 +0000

In reply to Bail-out. Looks like we're going to need... more Thais!

By: Bail-out

Bail-out — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 20:30:01 +0000

This Asia Cup is proper “funny old game, cricket” material by the way – in their last match Pakistan had just thrashed reigning champions Bangladesh by 9 wickets. And Bangladesh had won their previous match, which coincidentally was against Thailand, by 9 wickets too. So on that basis you might have expected Pakistan to beat Thailand by at least 18 wickets. Bert will be along shortly to say something about sub-additivity, but even so, you wouldn’t have expected Thailand to win by 4 wickets.

By: Bail-out

Bail-out — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 20:21:23 +0000

In reply to Bail-out.

Since tweets don’t embed, and most people won’t click through to see a random tweet: that’s a 100 second highlights reel of Chantham’s innings in the Asia Cup. Worth watching.

Bet the Barmy Army would enjoy a winter trip to Chiang Mai. They should probably think about sponsoring the Thai team to keep their progress going and help make this a reality…

By: Bail-out

Bail-out — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 20:15:15 +0000

Was at least a hint of Brian Lara Cricket in Natthakan Chantham’s half-century today: helping Thailand to their first ever victory over Pakistan. By four wickets with a ball to spare – great match.

https://twitter.com/WomensCricCraze/status/1578075266928508928

By: John

John — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 09:38:17 +0000

Brian Lara on easy mode was such fun. Batting strike rate of 600 and bowling figures of 0-10. Other bowler just got to make the numbers up.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 23:31:28 +0000

In reply to Sam. And that's the Birmingham Bears way.

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 21:01:31 +0000

‘Bat. Bowl. Dettol.’

By: King Cricket

King Cricket — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 15:17:05 +0000

In reply to Ged+Ladd. "I reoriented the cake, much to everyone’s relief," is a quite wonderful sentence.

By: Ged+Ladd

Ged+Ladd — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 14:54:15 +0000

We had some “proper cricket” in Southwark Park last night as part of our London Cricket Trust Awards evening.

The “batter” I photographed was just the sort of “six or out”, Stick Cricket character to whom you refer:

https://ianlouisharris.com/2022/10/04/london-cricket-trust-2022-awards-southwark-park-4-october-2022/

Some readers might also enjoy news of the London Cricket Trust, which is, amongst other things, now engaged in a “special operation” in Sussex, while also indulging in the sort of cakeism that King Cricket readers would no doubt applaud.