Beer and Sport

T20 World Cup – Alternative Commentary

Moses — Sat, 08 May 2010 07:24:17 PDT

G’Day All,

I’ve been a bit quite around here lately, spending most of my time on www.greenandgoldrugby.com. I’ve also disabled comments on this blog as the amount of spam coming through is unbearable!

Anyway, as I watching Australia dominate the T20 it’s much more interesting to listen to www.testmatchsofa.com than the tripe being served up on Fox. Better still, I’ve added a widget to the right so just press play and enjoy!

They breed ‘em tough in the country

Moses — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:45:34 PDT

Just saw this Toyota advert on TV, made me laugh.

Wallabies to win the Tri Nations

Moses — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:45:36 PDT

Laugh at me if you will, but I just stuck $20 on the Wallabies to win this years Tri Nations.

To do this, we need to beat the Boks in Perth and Brisbane, then it gets interesting.

Considering we’ve got the only 2 bonus points in the comp so far, if we score 4 tries in Brissy and pick up a third we don’t even need to win the Auckland to take the title!

Still think my 20:1 punt is a shocker?

Dear Channel 9

Moses — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:34:29 PDT

Dear Channel Nine,

Please tell Mark Nicholas to piss off to England and never come back. In his place you may hire Shane Warne, who unlike Nicholas played cricket for his country, and actually comes across like he knows what he’s talking about.

Regards

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Credit to AllStarNZ for this great post

Crap Lookalikes – Stuart Broad is Dammed

Moses — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 07:28:33 PDT

Boy Band

Band of Boys

Crap Lookalikes – Kobus Wiese is McBain

Moses — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:13:56 PDT

On closer inspection, these are loafers.

Thanks to tonight’s Rugby Club on Fox for this one…

SuperFred gets a Brazillian

Moses — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:31:20 PDT

Couldn’t help myself…

Crap Lookalikes – Andrew Flintoff is a Brazillian Statue

Moses — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 07:30:12 PDT

Fred the redeemer

Rio Grande

Crap Lookalikes – Nathan Hauritz is Doogie Howzer

Moses — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:20:00 PDT

Thanks to the folks over at Test Match Sofa.

How shit is Mitch?

Moses — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:39:17 PDT

It wasn’t until JRod pointed out that Mitchell has better figures than Anderson that I got to thinking a statistical analysis could be insightful on the bowlers in this series to date. I’ve uploaded my working here if you want to take a look in Excel.

Mitchell Johnson is in terrible form, you can read about it here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and according to google there are 520 more such stories here.

However, when one looks at aggregated bowling figures, Johnson has 8 wickets and is just trailing Hauritz (9) and Hilfenhaus (9) for series honours.

Mithcell’s bowling average of 41.38 looks terrible, until you consider the roads prepared to date and observe that he’s ranked 5th best in the series, ahead of JM Anderson (42.1), PM Siddle (45.1), GP Swann (56.1), SCJ Broad (64.1), MS Panesar (115.1) and all the part timers.

Johnno’s overall economy rate is poor at 4.00, with just Collingwood (4.47) and Onions (4.55) returning inferior resutls. Still, I haven’t read too many stories calling for Onions to be chopped.

On paper his bowling to date is more than acceptable, it’s impressive. He’s taken 8 out of 34 English wickets, namely Strauss, Cook (twice), Bopara, Flintoff, Prior, Broad (on 19) and Anderson (on 29) so there’s no ‘soft’ ones padding his stats, unlike SuperFred.

Are we asking too much of a guy who’s had the ‘spearhead’ label placed on him after 3 good spells and an injury to Lee? If we’re going to drop any bowler for Clark to come in then Siddle should be first in line.