not many but also their bats tend to not be like 6 inches wide, that's actually against the rules
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Friday, 31 May 2013 12:58 (eleven years ago) link
maybe if yr bats were bigger you could do cool stuff like that, ever think of that??
― jabba hands, Friday, 31 May 2013 13:06 (eleven years ago) link
Baseball bats are much thicker than cricket bats, though of course you have to get a good contact to hit a home run in baseball. I suspect also that cricket balls are heavier than baseballs.
― Neil S, Friday, 31 May 2013 13:27 (eleven years ago) link
Right. You savages want distance over finesse, you'll get it
― OH NO, SECONDS LEFT, SECONDS LEFT, AND THERE IT IS. REGRET. (imago), Friday, 31 May 2013 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHs8fWaz2cU
^^^this is beyond baseball. it's beyond God
― OH NO, SECONDS LEFT, SECONDS LEFT, AND THERE IT IS. REGRET. (imago), Friday, 31 May 2013 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
I'm going to post Neil's video again, because fuck me, Gayle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPBPNwge80U
The ones he hits off the bowler in yellow (Brett Lee) are just insane. Although we're about to see Brett Lee again in a second...
― OH NO, SECONDS LEFT, SECONDS LEFT, AND THERE IT IS. REGRET. (imago), Friday, 31 May 2013 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNkrD95WfmE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8w6pXV7uRU
decent shots
― OH NO, SECONDS LEFT, SECONDS LEFT, AND THERE IT IS. REGRET. (imago), Friday, 31 May 2013 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LDBe3qaT0Q
― OH NO, SECONDS LEFT, SECONDS LEFT, AND THERE IT IS. REGRET. (imago), Friday, 31 May 2013 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
right, after that pornographic excess, let's get back to the classy shit
― OH NO, SECONDS LEFT, SECONDS LEFT, AND THERE IT IS. REGRET. (imago), Friday, 31 May 2013 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKQFBj-xZwk
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 31 May 2013 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
ah, you want shahid afridi? fine, have him. but that's ALL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljHQaC_7DcA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OevSKhYnzQA
RIGHT, fuck this horrible one-day bollocks, back to the purity of Test cricket
― OH NO, SECONDS LEFT, SECONDS LEFT, AND THERE IT IS. REGRET. (imago), Friday, 31 May 2013 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWMOhHuVq_o
yahh trick yahh
Just spent 45 minutes down an Afridi / Akhtar rabbit hole. Miss watching Wasim tear it up too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IihR54KHS70&feature=youtube_gdata_player
― хуто-хуторянка (ShariVari), Friday, 31 May 2013 17:42 (eleven years ago) link
loooool dude
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Friday, 31 May 2013 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
i'm just yanking yer chain, but come on, it's hitting a ball with a stick
you want "finesse" and "beauty" and "classiness" and other words we all hate bill plaschke for, that's what pitchers have on bowlers about a million times over
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Friday, 31 May 2013 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS9IKkXxgbI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3HlZ7gpYb0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbmdqF31KhU
― the profane theology of (imago), Saturday, 1 June 2013 10:42 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlyG5wnW7I0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV09NIY2IXA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrGP-3tbydY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7UOy5thUig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2yv7OIXKIc
― the profane theology of (imago), Saturday, 1 June 2013 10:58 (eleven years ago) link
I mean, come the fuck on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZGgRK2FAaQ
― the profane theology of (imago), Saturday, 1 June 2013 10:59 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, and let's have a shout-out to the gentle art of wicketkeeping, seeing as it's what I purvey myself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKI8P7IDhM4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv1JKr15tsc
^^^these are mindbending
― the profane theology of (imago), Saturday, 1 June 2013 11:18 (eleven years ago) link
sure but
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_onT-zjiG04
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Saturday, 1 June 2013 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
excellent counterpoint
― zvookster, Monday, 3 June 2013 20:36 (eleven years ago) link