Off Topic Sport Other than Football - formerly the Ashes Thread

Chances are that wasn't in the '90s

 

2001

 

More daft early season pitches
Yorksire bowled out for 50 at Essex.
Essex make 142, then Yorkshire make 161-2 at over 5 an over!
Over 350 runs and 22 wickets in one day.
Cricket on speed.

 

Another slowish start from Golovkin in the first round, followed by his usual:

 

Hardest pound for pound puncher I've seen

 

Quite a achievement by Yorkshire to be bowled out for 50 by Champions Essex on day one, but win the game by 91 runs on day three

 

Well worth a watch.

 

And in better quality. One will probably get taken down, so have two.

 

Found Surrey more of a challenge
3 new starlets under 21 did the damage as well. Future looks bright for Alec Stewart's lads

 

England squad for first Test
Alastair Cook, Mark Stoneman, Dawid Malan, Joe Root (capt), Jonny Bairstow (wk), Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler, Chris Woakes, Mark Wood, Stuart Broad, James Anderson, Dom Bess.

Nice to see lots of changes from the ashes failure.................................not

 

Yeah, there seem to be teams winning big, then losing big the next game. Not sure who are the favourites, but it's only May.
International call ups usually play a big part.
And the weather.

 

Chris Froome - sensational performance today in the Giro d'Italia.
Staggering

 

"Staggering"

Landis? was more the word I was looking for.

 

what does that mean?

 

History being made over in Japan, as Georgian sumo wrestler Levan Gorgadze (who competes under the name Tochinoshin Tsuyoshi) has been storming through the Natsu basho with a 12-2 record, having initially won his first twelve bouts in the tournament which included an upset win over the yokozuna Hakuho Sho, that has all but sealed his promotion to the ōzeki rank

 

Yates folded big time (sadly) .
Looks like Dumoulin et al were also doing too
much wheel-sucking and faffing about rather than ride.

Anyway, the question will be as I (and Internet land
also) said (no surprises there given the parallels and
the Vuelta TUE saga) .

 

Sadly, the issue of whether a cyclist is clean or not is one which is always present in the sport.
I genuinely believe Froome is clean; I might be naive, I might be wrong, but until there's conclusive proof otherwise I'll remain of that view.

 

These tournaments are a surprisingly good laugh, I went to one in Poland earlier this year with some mates. I had no idea what was going on on-screen (lots of flashing lights as far as I could tell) but lots of cheap beer!