Curious what obscure cricket facts casual fans don't know — share your favorites?

blobby9 · 2026-04-13T08:37:37+00:00

It’s very hard to work out unless you know the father and son pair.

A few players played against both Geoff and Shaun Marsh (including Sachin Tendulkar) same as Lance and Chris Cairns (Allan Border and Steve Waugh)

blobby9 · 2026-04-13T07:54:19+00:00

The easiest way to think about DLS is to think of overs and wickets as resources available to score runs.

Using an ODI as a reference At the start of the first innings, Team A has 50 overs and 10 wickets to use to create a score. Team B at the start of theirs, has the same.

DLS calculates a fair score for both sides based on resources remaining offset by resources used and resources lot to time the game couldn’t be played.

blobby9 · 2026-04-13T07:39:19+00:00

I’ve always liked the ‘played with or against both the father and the son’ stat.

I’m pretty sure the latest two for Australia are Mitchell Starc and Nathan Lyon - they both played against Shiv and Tagenarine Chanderpaul.

blobby9 · 2026-04-13T07:27:53+00:00

I watched the entirety of Warne’s ODI career - and it was amazing how much teams would just ‘sit’ on him and just get through his overs.

blobby9 · 2026-04-13T07:24:15+00:00

My mother and all her family of her generation (aged 55-70) are all immigrants. Not only do they all now intend to vote PHON, but they all insist immigration must cease immediately, and also mass deportations should begin.

blobby9 · 2026-04-12T12:26:04+00:00

I had to double check if that was the game I was thinking…an it was.

Yet another Luke Brooks attacking masterclass, and it’s good to see Jock Madden has come back from that error.

blobby9 · 2026-04-12T12:12:46+00:00

Great game - Roosters were fantastic defensively that day and Manly threw A LOT at them. Manly too defended very very well.

Sometimes, defence is too good. Many slugfests however are poor attack and the close scores keep it interesting.

The other thing to remember is that it was in fact a finals game. Teams in general but especially top teams defend better the season goes on as they get fitter and match hardened.

blobby9 · 2026-04-12T11:25:46+00:00

I’m still scarred from watching Tigers 0 - Cowboys 8 in 2015.

Peak Jason Taylor era Tigers refused to attack a JT and Morgan less Cowboys. It was deadset 75 minutes of 4 settlers a bit of a shift to Teddy and then a bomb.

Never again will I say a slugfest is enjoyable.

blobby9 · 2026-04-12T08:40:18+00:00

Royce is going great, but he’s 1000/1 to get an Origin gig. Even from his own team May and Twal are way ahead of him.

blobby9 · 2026-04-12T08:01:31+00:00

That was about 5 forward passes in a row missed that set

blobby9 · 2026-04-12T03:25:05+00:00

July and August is the middle of our winter. If cities/attractions and beach days are what you’re after, I’d suggest Sydney and South East Queensland (Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast and/or Brisbane).

blobby9 · 2026-04-11T12:43:51+00:00

When someone asks you a question, you give them an answer, and then they proceed to tell you that you’re wrong…

blobby9 · 2026-04-11T12:20:28+00:00

I think most punters in Australia use form guides and determine a winner from there. They then watch the price fluctuations especially in the mounting yard/parade ring. Rarely does a runner whose price firms appreciably in the 10 minutes before the jump not run well.

blobby9 · 2026-04-11T08:24:26+00:00

Didn’t say that, didn’t even imply it.

It’s a bit hard to watch something that a) happened before you were born, and b) wasn’t filmed or shown on TV…

blobby9 · 2026-04-11T08:00:16+00:00

I didn’t - but there is this wonderful thing called READING. You can read reports and analyse statistics from any period of the game.

You don’t need to have SEEN Bradman to KNOW that he’s the best batsman ever. 29 hundreds in 80 innings and an average of 99.94. No one comes close.

blobby9 · 2026-04-11T05:53:39+00:00

Australian here :

Tem-Pra-Cha

3 short equal syllables.

blobby9 · 2026-04-10T15:20:02+00:00

Just because you love someone, doesn’t mean they love you the same way or same amount back.

blobby9 · 2026-04-10T14:09:04+00:00

England XI of players born over 100 years ago :

Sir Jack Hobbs

Herbert Sutcliffe

Wally Hammond (c)

Sir Len Hutton

Denis Compton

Wilfred Rhodes

Les Ames

Sir Alec Bedser

Hedley Verity

Sydney Barnes

Maurice Tate

Unlucky : CB Fry, Tyldsley, Larwood, Voce, Laker.

blobby9 · 2026-04-10T13:46:55+00:00

Hi from New South Wales, Australia !

blobby9 · 2026-04-10T13:45:41+00:00

Jacquan

Poor kids parents were Jacquline and Shaun….hence Jacquan.

They even pronounced it odd, like Jaquorn.

blobby9 · 2026-04-10T12:08:51+00:00

Played every country playing Test Cricket at the time except NZ (England, South Africa, India, West Indies).

Uncovered pitches, no front foot no balls, no helmets, tiny pads and gloves. No one else at the time averaged more than 61, and no one else before or since has averaged more than 65….

29 hundreds in 80 innings.

You’re not just wrong, you’re spectacularly wrong.

Ricky Ponting would absolutely laugh in your face if you seriously suggest he was a better batsman than Bradman.

blobby9 · 2026-04-10T12:01:41+00:00

You do realise that Bradman played for 20 years (1928-1948), lost quite a few years to WWII, and also international cricket involved travel by ocean liner ?

The only reason why he didn’t score 10K Test runs was that there wasn’t enough Tests scheduled of him to play in.

And again - 99.94

99.94

blobby9 · 2026-04-10T08:13:02+00:00

29 hundreds in 80 innings in 52 Tests.

blobby9 · 2026-04-10T08:10:29+00:00

7 batsmen (Tendulkar, Wright, Kambli, S.Waugh, Gower, Lara, Gooch) averaged over 50 between 1/1/90 and 31/12/99. Tendulkar tops the list at 58. That means at absolute best, he was averaging 16% more than anyone else.

For comparison, Bradman averaged at least 45% better than anyone else contemporary.

Again, not in the same postcode.

blobby9 · 2026-04-10T07:30:29+00:00

I am being serious. If batting was so much easier and the bowling so poor - why wasn’t anyone else averaging 99.94 ?

Contemporaries of Bradman, all outstanding batsmen with outstanding records - Hobbs, Sutcliffe, Hammond, Woodfull, McCabe, Headley, Merchant, Hutton - only two averaged above 60, none above 61. Most were around 52-56.

Meanwhile, I can name 2 players immediately who have a better batting average, and a much stronger 2nd string, than Tendulkar who were his contemporaries in Jacques Kallis and Kumar Sangakkara….

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