Louis Expounds Upon Twenty20

first there is an 'opening' ceremony
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the first batsman must be metrosexually dressed, for the good of equality
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sometimes when the batsman is angry he slide-tackles the ball towards the cowering wicketkeeper
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it is a very silly game
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oh dear. his opponent guessed which hand the ball was in. he had been so subtle as well. now his side must play with no pants.
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there's always one who forgets his helmet
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as punishment, he is laughed at by girls aloud
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the whole world is watching, even when you need to scratch your sack
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it can be a very frustrating game
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but it makes some people happy
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here is the fast-food stand. observe the chef literally hitting chickens out of the air so he can cook them
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every team has a ninja. here the batsman takes a defensive stance. he does not know that the ninja is behind him.
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this is the greatest player in the world. he is about to beat up a photographer.
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sometimes the wicketkeeper is mad and tries to play volleyball instead
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no you fools it has to go over the net
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there is joy
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and there is sadness
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but it all ends with a big party!
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so everyone goes home happy in the end.
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twenty20: the game of now
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what was it with all the wymyn in this one?

A+++++++++++++

thx louis glad we got a handle on that

Ha ha ha well done LJ.

good thread

i understand it now.

damn just as I head to bed

― gospermaban sim gishel (acoleuthic), Friday, December 3, 2010 9:45 AM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark

nakhchivan how am I meant 2 adulate yr harried new posting persona, fuck it I'm going back 2 bed

― gospermaban sim gishel (acoleuthic), Friday, December 3, 2010 10:06 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

good luck to the good guys, RIP, zzzz

― gospermaban sim gishel (acoleuthic), Friday, December 3, 2010 10:09 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

dude that was self-checking deprecation, yr truths they are already manifest

zz

― gospermaban sim gishel (acoleuthic), Friday, December 3, 2010 10:12 AM (6 seconds ago) Bookmark

#goingtobed

you just keep me hanging on

let's do this in here actually

eternal lolz @ India for this

Anyone else watching Trinidad steamroller the rest of the Caribbean in the CPL recently?

Pravin Tambe just sprinted to take a diving catch like he was thirty years younger.

Bloody hell, 49 in a month! Hope for us all...

Semi-final win over Jamaica wrapped up with five overs to spare. Narine, Hosein and Bravo all with an economy rate of four or under. Eleven wins out of eleven.

Of course, they’ll lose the final now but TKR have been superb.

Rakheem Cornwall with a diving catch to finish off Guyana for 55 all out.

TKR vs Zouks is going to be great.

Cornwall went early but Fletcher and Deyal are murdering the TKR bowlers ;_;

74-1 off eight overs.

Zouks are the team I'm supporting (partly for Cornwall but also as I think they were the bunch that hired Jarrod Kimber as a selector) so not displeased by this

Zouks all out for 154, which could be worse for TKR, i guess. Given how they breezed through Guyana, i'd still fancy St Lucia.

What are these insane bowling choices for the Zouks mind you? Spin is not travelling at all so let's bowl loads of pace?

Bringing Williams back on was the sort of insanely stupid bowling change not even a child would consider

Until Zahir’s over I still thought the Zouks would do it. Kuggeleijn going for 16 in his last over was unexpected.

It was a terrific performance by TKR, after the first ten Zouks overs. Simmons and Bravo running through the Zouks’ dances as they hit six after six was rubbing it in a bit.

Jofra Archer has just hit four consecutive sixes off Ngidi in the IPL and there are still four balls in the over.

Could have easily been a 40-run over. Which has happened to me before. I know.

Smith and Samson are chasing 224 in Sharjah so drivers on the Al Wasit Highway watch out.

Pooran with possibly the best piece of fielding I’ve ever seen. Dived over the rope to catch the ball and threw it back underarm to save a six before he landed.

unbelievable !!

Pooran 🔥😆 pic.twitter.com/LURbC5TIIb

— Şakēth #Dream11IPL 🏏🇮🇳 (@SakethC7) September 27, 2020

UNBELIEVABLE fielding from Nicholas Pooran! 😳👏

That is absolutely sensational. The best save in IPL history? 🔥#Dream11IPL

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— Sky Sports Cricket (@SkyCricket) September 27, 2020

With video.

KKR needed 92 from 30 balls. They now need 42 off 16. Incredible match.

Very even IPL so far

Looks ominous.

Rauf not faring any better.

much needed

ban mohammad hafeez

they'll STILL fuck this

It’s going to be a pretty comfortable chase, I think.

There you go.

Ridiculous finish.

permaban hasan ali

permaban the entire pakistan brains trust for not keeping imad wasim on and maybe also bowling hafeez/malik

Both semis finished with a boundary on the last ball of the 19th over with five wickets remaining.

only one won by a bunch of cunts tho

No Conway for the final, which sucks for NZ - we already have enough psychological scars against Australia.

I've decided I am not going to watch it, pay attention to it, or think about it at all. I am going to have a nice Sunday and there will be no cricket

Only half-joking that I might just watch the toss and switch off.

Some bug hutting here from NZ. I thought it was over at the half way point but Williamson has been terrific.

Shami’s on fire for Gujarat in the match between the two expansion teams. He’s taken KL Rahul, de Kock and Pandey in 15 balls. This season should be a lot of fun, the games over the weekend were great.

Yeah, I watched the Punjab run chase. Mad that someone won MOTM for their batting in a game where six others outscored them (and their own bowling got murdered), but those were tbf some clean hits

A weekend where literally everything came up West Indies I guess

I didn’t want to say, but yes…

Not sure I’d have had Pat Cummins down as the batsman who’d equal KL Rahul’s 14-ball 50 but he’s just hit 56 off 15.

can he actually stop pls

I don’t think anyone has dominated a season like this since Kohli in 2016. I can’t imagine Buttler won’t break the record of four centuries.

Absolute scenes. 36 needed off the last over, Powell hits three sixes in a row, the last of which was probably over waist height but not given as a no-ball, Delhi go bananas, look like they’re going to take the batsmen off, send a guy from the bench over to argue with the umpire, etc, they end up losing by 15.

if mccoy had conceded 36 to win off the last over then i'd have feared for his career tbh

Umran Malik looks like a real talent. Probably the fastest Indian bowler in recent memory and laser-focused on the wicket today.

Not that it mattered when Marco Jansen got smacked for 25 in the final over…

that was the most egregious betrayal of an all-time great spell in living memory

I can not believe this game.

LSG out of it, then strolling to victory, then throwing it away, then a failed mankad, then chaos.

Missing a Mankad from here with one wicket to take and one run to defend is among the most embarrassing things that can happen to a cricketer pic.twitter.com/aEE5Paaany

— Sreshth Shah (@sreshthx) April 10, 2023

lolllll I was only following it on Cricinfo but omg

RCB are the clown princes of cricket

honestly I think RCB might be one of the most cursed modern franchises in all of sport

it ended the way it had to, with a Kohli ton and an abysmal bowling display

couldn't help but getting a bit teary eyed at the hug between Kohli and Gill mind. a torch being passed

Gill and Jaiswal are going to own the next decade

that was fuckin epic

Tears in my eyes, maiden T20 century for Sunil Narine #IPL2024 pic.twitter.com/QTrRyl4BJy

— Santokie (@Santokie89) April 16, 2024

So happy for him.

the bowler gets repeatedly smashed for boundaries and literally can't do anything about it. the crowd listlessly cheer, knowing the currency of a six, once a momentous event, is about the equivalent of a quick-run two circa 2009

Narine once again having an absolute superman game and losing because he's somehow the only person who can bowl effectively any more

Whatever this form of the game truly is, Narine has perfected it

I see the Americans are envious of cricket's big scoring numbers and are preparing pitches that get the runs down into baseball territory, or something

steven taylor making ALL AMERICA PROUD there

!!

Pakistan. Car wrecks, not looking away, etc

Not to deny Pakistan's ability to snatch defeat etc but some of these pitches man.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/cgkg6zyr0v2o

Beat the previous record for the youngest IPL century by five years and 221 days, and did it in 35 balls.

Watched it! Was a phenomenal innings. He is however almost certainly 2.5 years older than is claimed, which would make him 16, and which still puts this in the category of 'holy shit'

(There's a video of him letting his 'real' birth date slip if you search)

Interesting!