If Zimbabwe are ‘woeful’ what are Bangladesh?

1. meh

2. I submit ‘English’ as a suitable adjective for “beyond woeful”

3. How about, afflicted, agonized, anguished, appalling, awful, bad, calamitous, catastrophic, cruel, deplorable, disappointing, disastrous, disconsolate, disgraceful, distressing, doleful, dreadful, feeble, gloomy, grieving, grievous, grim, heartbreaking, heartrending, heartsick, hopeless, inadequate, lamentable, lousy, mean, miserable, mournful, paltry, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, plaintive, poor, racked, rotten, shocking, sorrowful, sorry, tortured, tragic, unfortunate, unhappy, wretched.

   I’ll leave you to sort out the hierarchy!

   source: http://www.theasaurus.com

4. Think you’ve been busted as being someone who pronounces ‘thesaurus’ as if it’s a type of dinosaur because of that link.

   1. I used to be quite good at spelling, but just lately its been abominable, alarming, appalling, atrocious, deplorable, depressing, dire, disgusting, distressing, dreadful, fearful, frightful, ghastly, grody, gruesome, grungy, harrowing, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrific, horrifying, nasty, offensive, raunchy, repulsive, shocking, stinking, synthetic, tough, ugly, unpleasant, unsightly.

      source: http://www.thesaurus.com

   2. A flawless riposte.

5. I am a bit disturbed by the adjective Cricinfo plumped for in the end:
   “Craven Bangladesh crash to nine-wicket defeat”

   I don’t know what that means. Didn’t he used to present Blue Peter?

   Does anyone know how John Craven became involved in Bangladeshi cricket? Sounds like a remarkable story…

6. What about using the Battrick levels?

   useless
   worthless
   abysmal
   woeful
   feeble
   mediocre
   competent
   respectable
   proficient
   strong
   superb
   quality
   remarkable
   wonderful
   exceptional
   sensational
   exquisite
   masterful
   miraculous
   phenomenal
   elite

7. Or perhaps, Bangladish.

   at the other end of the scale I propose ‘ Brutal Deluxe’.

8. Shite.

   Marginally less shite than shite.

   Good enough to avoid insults from your own mother, but no-one else.

   Good enough for it not to be worthy of angry tweets from extremists.

   Lindsay Lohan’s acting skills.

   Satisfactory, but not acceptable.

   Acceptable.

   Exceeds expectations.

   Owl.

   Newt.

   Gandalf.

   Biblical.

   Brutal Deluxe.

   1. This is a good scale, Bastheram.

      Brutal Deluxe has definitely taken hold, Daneel.

   2. The only way I could’ve liked this list better was if Kallis preceded Shite and Sehwag succeeded Biblical.

9. Leslie

   Turner

   Craven

   Its Friday and I can’t be arsed to work

   Purves

   Huq

   Singleton

   Noakes

   Brutal Deluxe

   1. Huq above Singleton, surely, but great scale.

   2. No Ellis? For shame…

   3. Daneel, I ommitted Ellis because I don’t know what to think about her questionable offspring.

      I mean how would we feel about Len Hutton if Richard Hutton had gone on to record “Murder on the Dancefloor” rather than playing 5 tests in 1971? (thanks Wikipedia)

   4. Huq above Singleton.

      Do you have some photos?

10. Remember Katy Hill?

    Man alive, thems were the days.

    1. Perhaps whoever has the job of trying to produce a full-lenght highlights show of today’s game could pad it out with images of Blue Peter presenters through the years.

11. KC did you ever play PM2 as Halifax? As the only Good** team available they were the obvious choice, but I wonder whether it would have offended your Lancastrian sensibilities.

    1. The long-term advantages of having Godfrey Obebo in our team did lead us to Halifax on occasion, what with the tragic and wrongful omission of Witton Albion on the spurious grounds that they weren’t in a league anyone had heard of.

12. Did you miss the Sehwag interview? Bangladesh are “ordinary”. 🙂

13. I thought you had it nailed eons ago: http://kingcricket.blogspot.com/search/label/angry%20or%20amazed

    Chris

    1. As a cricket writer, we’re not keen for Cricinfo to catch wind of that simple approach to match analysis.

       They would produce a program to churn out articles along the lines of: “Bangladesh anger, Windies amaze” and dozens of spindly men in glasses with alcohol problems would instantly be rendered redundant.

    2. Pterodactlys. Angry or Amazed. England beaten by some lads who just turned up. It’s all very retro round here at the moment.

14. I knew I’d seen something similar to this before…

    http://scaryduck.blogspot.com/2010/12/on-scaryduckworth-lewis-method-for.html

15. Ajit Agarkar

    Mohammed Sami

    Chris Martin

    Brett Lee

    Dale Steyn

    Wasim Akram

    Andrew Caddick

    Brutal Deluxe

16. Brutal Deluxe is clearly a win…

17. At the woeful end of the scale . . .

    Genital Warts

    Not just pants, but something worse you could find inside of them.

18. “Charlie Sheen”

19. Following housemonkey’s idea:

    Charlie Sheen

    Lindsay Lohan

    ShahRukh Khan

    Michael Caine

    Marlon Brando

    Audrey Hepburn

    Natalie Portman

    Brutal Deluxe

20. Charlie Sheen on top of Lindsay Lohan? Scarily likely.

21. Sell the sponsorship rights.

    Kevin O’Brien produced a Hero Honda Brutal Deluxe knock last week.

    AB de Villiers is in nPower Audrey Hepburn form.

    Bangladesh put in a Durex Charlie Sheen performance. Wait, that doesn’t sound so bad…

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