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Brass Monkey wrote:

Brass Monkey wrote:
Ind v Eng: T20 - 1-0 Eng; ODIs - 3-1 Ind
SA v Aus: T20 - 1-1; ODIs - 2-1 Aus; Tests - 1-0 SA
Pak v SL: Tests - 1-0 SL; ODIs - 3-2 SL; T20 - 1-0 Pak
Zim v NZ: T20 - 2-0 NZ; ODIs - 2-1 NZ; Test - 0-0
Ban v WI - ODIs - 2-1 WI; Tests - 1-1

JKLever wrote:
Ind v Eng: T20 - 1-0 Ind; ODIs - 4-1 Ind (if we're lucky)
SA v Aus: T20 - 1-1; ODIs - 2-1 SA; Tests - 1-1
Pak v SL: Tests - 1-1 SL; ODIs - 3-2 SL; T20 - 1-0 SL
Zim v NZ: T20 - 2-0 NZ; ODIs - 3-0 NZ; Test - 1-0
Ban v WI - ODIs - 2-1 Ban; Tests - 2-0 BAN

Henry wrote:
Ind v Eng - T20- India, ODIs-3-2- England
SA v Aus - T20s-1-1, ODIs- 2-1-RSA, Tests- 1-1
Pak v SL - Tests-1-0-Pak, ODIs- 3-2- SL, T20- Pak
Zim v NZ - T20s- 1-1, ODIs- 3-0-NZ, Test- Draw
Ban v WI - ODIs- 2-1-WI, Tests- 1-0-WI

vilkrang wrote:
Ind v Eng: T20 - 1-0 Eng; ODIs - 4-1 Ind
SA v Aus: T20 - 1-1; ODIs - 2-1 Aus; Tests - 1-0 SA
Pak v SL: Tests - 1-1 ; ODIs - 3-2 PAK; T20 - 1-0 SL
Zim v NZ: T20 - 2-0 NZ; ODIs - 2-1 NZ; Test - 1-0 NZ
Ban v WI - ODIs - 2-1 WI; Tests - 2-0 WI

Amazing, particularly the SA v Aus T20 series. Who would have thought that in a series with only 3 possible results, more than one person would predict the same score?

Staggering.

Has this sort of prediction been done before? By this I mean has there ever been a series where the score was predicted by people and there was only 3 possible results? It's quite amazing in a way, 3 results - predictions, series.

Nice find.

2 Tests for SA vs Aus? Load of sh*t.

Yeah it's bollocks. I would say thank fark for England but even they are only giving the saffies 3 tests next year. The Ashes is the last bastion of hope, it's the only proper (ie 5 test) series left now.

I can't remember the last non-Ashes series that was a 5-matcher. Even the best get 4 matches at best. Sorry state of affairs.

Brass Monkey wrote:I can't remember the last non-Ashes series that was a 5-matcher. Even the best get 4 matches at best. Sorry state of affairs.

Off the top of my head, our tour of South Africa 2003-4 was a 5 tester. There must have been another one since then though.... Pathetic if not.

Wasn't it 04-05 in Yarpland? Pretty sure it was 5 Tests anyway. And did we play them over 5 in 2008 or was it only 4?

Aye, 5 Tests for 04/05, 4 for 08. Everybody stopped around 05. Which was a shame as there'd been some really good 5 matchers that decade up until the cut.

Which other series used to be 5 (or even 6) matches? Aus-SA perhaps? Eng-WI and Aus-WI, although those would have been cut back when WI became increasingly sh!t.

Don't remember too many 5 Test series involving subcontinental sides, and the Snoozers have always played them fairly sparingly I think.

NZ playing 5 match series? More effective than Mogadon, and less addictive I would have thought

Have they ever played one in their cricketing history? I meant they play Tests in general sparingly, the only series longer than 3 that I can recall is the 1999 TAYPOC-off with England for Test cricket's official wooden spoon.

Ashes and WIndies pre-2003 aside, there haven't been many 5-match rubbers in the last 10 years.

But four series in a row between SAF and ENG (= between 1998 and 2005) were over 5 matches. As was WIndies v England 08-09 (was this a post-Stanford moneyspinner?)

beamer wrote:Have they ever played one in their cricketing history? I meant they play Tests in general sparingly, the only series longer than 3 that I can recall is the 1999 TAYPOC-off with England for Test cricket's official wooden spoon.

We playesd them in a five match series in 1958 in England in 1958, but I'm guessing that's the last time that we did.

PeterCS wrote:As was WIndies v England 08-09 (was this a post-Stanford moneyspinner?)

No, it was a 4 match series where one was abandoned after a few overs and rescheduled. So only a 5 match series on a technicality, but officially will be the most recent non-Ashes 5 match series.

beamer wrote:Wasn't it 04-05 in Yarpland? Pretty sure it was 5 Tests anyway. And did we play them over 5 in 2008 or was it only 4?

Aye, not sure how I farked that up, was right before the ashes.

According to Cricinfo, NZ's last 5-match series was in '71-'72 against WI, it finished... 0-0. Snooze-tastic!

Actually, according to Blowers maybe it wasn't as boring as it looks.

New Zealand is always a special favourite for Blofeld, apart from the wines which he enjoys unashamedly, the 1972 team in the West Indies coincided with his first commentary job.

"I loved that tour. Glenn Turner batted wonderfully well. Bevan Congdon was the most under-rated cricketer I have seen. The first Test introduced Lawrence Rowe when he scored a double century and century in his debut then on the first morning of the third Test Bruce Taylor bowled the West Indies out.

"If Turner and Terry Jarvis had held a catch each New Zealand may well have won the game.

"Then the late Ken Wadsworth and Bruce Taylor held out to draw the fifth Test. All of the games were terribly exciting and gave the lie to the comment that drawn Tests are boring," he said.

In any case, NZ never had a 5 Test series scheduled again...

"I loved that tour. (*quaffs Marlborough white*) Glenn Turner batted wonderfully well (*zzzzzzzz* .. WAZZAT?!! oh, yes ...). Bevan Congdon was the most under-rated cricketer I have seen (*snorrrr,,,,, snorrrrrrr* WAZZZZUP WHATDYAMEAN?!?! Oh, I see ... quite ....). The first Test introduced Lawrence Rowe when he scored a double (*quaffs more Marlborough white*) century and century in his debut (*Looks up from autocue* Oh look, there's a Number 7 pigeon!! Errr, Where were we old chap? Ah, of course ... erm .....) then on the first morning of the third (*zzzzzzzz* WAZZAT?!! oh, LOOK I WAS ONLY RESTING MY EYES, GOT THAT?? ...) Test Bruce Taylor bowled the West (*quaffs Marlborough Merlot*) Indies out. (GERROFF, I WAS JUST RELAXING!!!)

"If Turner and Terry Jarvis had (*quaffs Marlborough white and Merlot together*) held a catch each New Zealand may well have won the (*snorrrrrrrrrrrr* GETTAWAY YOU BLASTED BAILIFFS!!!!... oh, where was I? ...) won the dashed game.

"... All of the games were terribly, TERRIBLY (*snoooooooze ...*, errrm, er ...*smacks lips*) were spiffingly exciting and gave the lie (*quaffs anything to hand*) to the comment that drawn Tests are (*TREMENDOUS SNORRRRRRRRRRRRRRR*)," he said.

Are you the only person that doesn't like Blowers?

Hell yeah. The only person in the whole wide world.

Though if you read what I wrote, it was more a question of scepticism that that series - starring Glenn Turner etc. - was quite so enthralling as PMJ (*) was protesting - I suppose for the personal reasons that he conceded (his commentating debut, his love of the wine, ....) rather than any objective cricketing reasons.

(*) Poor Man's Jonners

vilkrang wrote:Are you the only person that doesn't like Blowers?

Me too, he's a caricature and not burdened with a surfeit of knowledge about the game either.

Thirded. Lacks substance. Made a career out of being desperately posh and making outlandish verbal bollock-statements. Blagger.

Forthed. Total pseud.

Elitist qunts. Makes me laugh anyway.