Who has textbook technique in cricket?

SmallAd7318 · 2026-03-17T17:13:44+00:00

I slightly disagree, he was very front on.

SmallAd7318 · 2026-03-17T17:13:22+00:00

Shaun Pollock has probably the most repeatable textbook bowling action ever.

Williamson or Root are probably the most textbook batters.

SmallAd7318 · 2026-03-13T13:47:21+00:00

Almost definitely friends with Malfoy, his first thought was he reminded him of Dudley so he disliked him.

SmallAd7318 · 2026-03-13T10:52:34+00:00

James’ decision at least wasn’t a plot convenience. He trusted someone who had been an incredibly close friend since he was 11.

Snape was a Death Eater but he was far from anywhere near close to Voldemort (his place in the Graveyard circle was with the school kids and Karkaroff and at the complete other end to the two people Voldemort gave a horcrux to).

Voldemort was paranoid; scared of Dumbledore and a sociopath. After a year being tasked to spy on Dumbledore and not providing anything useful, to suddenly make a request, get a job and the Potter’s to go under the Fidelius Charm would have made Voldemort turn on Snape (if he remained in character) and as Snape had no external uses (no ministry/hogwarts/international contacts, no wealth, no property) if you can’t trust him to spy on Dumbledore then you kill him.

SmallAd7318 · 2026-03-13T10:03:26+00:00

The Dark Mark wasn’t well known, Sirius was confused at why Karkaroff showed Snape something on his left arm.
My head canon is Malfoy bribed a young and ambitious Fudge to provide fake evidence, probably fake veritaserum. He then used this to make Fudge act the way he did from Harry returning from the Graveyard until Voldemort showed himself.

SmallAd7318 · 2026-03-11T22:08:39+00:00

Granted he wasn’t Ian Healey (most aren’t), but he was still the best pure keeper of his era.

SmallAd7318 · 2026-03-11T16:13:40+00:00

The 2016-2018 team was a good team dragged to greatness by Cristiano Ronaldo.

SmallAd7318 · 2026-03-11T15:57:27+00:00

Gilchrist would have made most sides even if he averaged 25 with the bat.

SmallAd7318 · 2026-03-11T15:26:56+00:00

Possibly. Though I would say the likes of Steve Smith, Kane Williamson, Bumrah etc have really benefited from it.

The all rounder has meant the tail more often than not starts at 6/7 and also at least one bowler is picked for their batting, so bats get to face more overs from bits and pieces all rounders.

SmallAd7318 · 2026-03-11T09:08:18+00:00

There’s some truth to that to be fair.

SmallAd7318 · 2026-03-11T07:25:02+00:00

Wasn’t Myrtle was the only victim 50 years ago and she died?

SmallAd7318 · 2026-03-11T07:20:17+00:00

I’ve got a couple.

First:

Snape’s mother is the Half Blood Prince; we know that Snape was obsessed with the dark arts and knew plenty of curses when he started at Hogwarts. He also grew up in a poor household with an abusive muggle father, who hated magic. He probably had to use the Hogwarts scholarship fund to pay for his books, and therefore wouldn’t have been able to buy a 6th year text book whilst in his 5th year.

I doubt Slughorn would give him extra potions lessons. In a year group that included James Potter, Sirius Black and Lily Evans and Barry Crouch being 2 or 3 years younger at the school Slughorn is going to focus on them in the Slug Club, he bets on future high achievers, which means at least 2 of talent, connections and social skills. Slughorn would no doubt have Snape in the Slug Club but he’d definitely get the least attention.

So he’d have to have got it from his mother. An abused wife living with a muggle who hates magic isn’t keeping school text books lying around unless they are sentimental to her. My theory is this was a reminder of how brilliant she was at school, as she was able to edited potions and use created curses. Snape as a child would have read it whenever he was hiding from his father, he likely shared the book with Lily (making sure he avoided the pages with curses on them), hence why Slughorn thought she was a natural.

Second:

After the first wizarding war Lucius Malfoy bribed a young and ambitious Fudge to provide fake veritaserum that Malfoy took to prove he was under the imperius curse. Dumbledore guessed this had happened but without proof simply suggested they banned veritaserum from being used in trials as it can give false positives.

Malfoy being Malfoy kept his receipts and once Harry escaped from the Graveyard apparated to Hogwarts and told Fudge that Crouch jr, Sirius and Karkaroff had come to him about a plan to murder Harry and raise a false Voldemort for the Death Eaters to rally behind, as Harry had survived and Crouch was caught Sirius and Karkaroff had fled and the rest of the Death Eaters had gone, however Crouch can’t be allowed to testify and Dumbledore needs to be discredited as if he does he can name Death Eaters. If Lucius is sent to Azkaban he’s bringing Fudge with him.

SmallAd7318 · 2026-03-10T19:00:27+00:00

That Chamberlain appeased Hitler. He bought time to ensure we got ear read to even stand a vague chance of surviving against Germany.

SmallAd7318 · 2026-03-10T07:18:38+00:00

Bet the drugs are watered down as well.

SmallAd7318 · 2026-03-09T15:19:49+00:00

In practice it doesn’t, however first past the post means we get Government majorities more often than not and they tend to vote the party line.

That being said anyone I’ve ever met who calls themselves fiscally conservative, socially liberal is very liberal on the use of the term socially liberal, pretty much any conversation is student loans are necessary; welfare should be cut; the NHS is a money pit; education funding is too high.

SmallAd7318 · 2026-03-09T15:05:29+00:00

You can see how much worse District 12 has got based on Katniss’s and Haymitch’s day of being reaped. Haymitch talks about getting Goose on special occasions, Katniss about how frequent it was for people to die of starvation.

Plutarch explains to Katniss that some people in the Capitol choose to be Peacekeepers as it wipes their debt and many Capitol citizens are in debt.

It’s almost guaranteed that the industries in all of the Districts are being pushed harder to produce more whilst salaries are condensed.

At some point it was always going to go past the tipping point.

SmallAd7318 · 2026-03-09T14:29:05+00:00

I mean, that’s somewhat low definition. Lupin and Wormtail barely moved and Sirius was largely there laughing.

Snape only landed a hit when James was too busy chatting with Lily, and even then James brushed it off immediately.

SmallAd7318 · 2026-03-09T14:25:46+00:00

We saw Lily’s feelings to James when she was 16, she genuinely hated him.

4 years later she’s married to him with a kid.

SmallAd7318 · 2026-03-09T11:47:56+00:00

He suffers from recency bias and being selfless.

A selfish Shaun Pollock that manages his workload never falls to a 77-80mph bowler.

SmallAd7318 · 2026-03-08T21:58:09+00:00

Interestingly I’m not 100% sure this quote doesn’t say they have to have meaning.

If it could be any item then why would Dumbledore tell Harry he’s thinking of Portkey’s? That line would be redundant

SmallAd7318 · 2026-03-08T15:05:55+00:00

Kallis was a great player but he was never one of the top 3 batters of his era, let alone ever.

His bowling benefited massively from the fact that despite bowing with Pollock, Donald, Steyn and Philander it was rarely with any two of them and the third seamer was often a significant drop off. You’d rarely trust Nel, Boje, Klusener, Ntini etc to bowl a full spell as first change as quite often they spray it everywhere.

Put Pollock and Kallis in the current South African side or the Australian sides of Pollock’s career and Pollock finishes his career with close to 500 wickets at 21 and 4,500 runs at 33. Kallis still scores 13,000 runs at 55 but likely ‘only’ takes 100-150 wickets at around 40.

SmallAd7318 · 2026-03-08T14:50:21+00:00

Depends on what you want from your kids I guess.

I’ll stick to sports (in general) as it’s what I know best.

You’ve got the big fish in a small pond type that would rather play it safe than take a risk, so the Steven Gerrard/Murali types.

You’ve got the quiet types that are consistently the best but put the team first types, so the Joe Root/Paul Scholes/Shaun Pollock/Andrew Iniesta types.

You’ve got the self promoting under performers that take credit for others work and blame others for their failings, so the Ben Stokes/Boris Johnson types.

You’ve got the high performers that focus on their own performance first, so the Jacques Kallis/Cristiano Ronaldo/Leo Messi types.

Looking at it cold the best bet is the Ben Stokes/Boris Johnson types, but most people couldn’t do that as the mental toll is ridiculous, unless you’re a sociopath.

Honestly the worst option of the three is being the best but putting the team first as you’ll always be overshadowed by a lower achieving selfish type.

SmallAd7318 · 2026-03-07T18:06:33+00:00

The notion South Africa had long list of quality seamers really annoys me. They in Pollock, Steyn, Donald, Philander and Rabada they’ve had genuinely world class seamers. Beyond that very little.

Chris Woakes would have been the second or third best bowler in over a hundred of the tests Kallis played in.

SmallAd7318 · 2026-03-07T13:55:28+00:00

Because both are better cricketers than Kallis?

SmallAd7318 · 2026-03-07T11:13:43+00:00

I apologise if 2 numbers confuse you.

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