sherb
Hall of Famer
It's a bit rich, and highly unfair, to single out one person when your side is 1-51 chasing 117 to win and gets bowled out for 111.
Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
Weekly Prize - Join Any Time - Tip Round 9
The Golden Ticket - MCG and Marvel Medallion Club tickets and Corporate Box tickets at the Gabba, MCG and Marvel.
You sound like you never saw it live. No argument would change my view he deserved banishment for shocking performance in that partnership. Anyone watching at time horrified with his choke.No he didn’t. There’s no argument you can make to say that he did. Especially when you’ve just given it to
Him for being too defensive
You sound like you never saw it live. No argument would change my view he deserved banishment for shocking performance in that partnership. Anyone watching at time horrified with his choke.
Ha ha Love the names but nothing can save Martyn from his right whack at that time. Made him a better cricketer years later to work his way through his mental fragility and flawsI watched every ball of it.
anyone watching at the time was watching one link in a chain of chokes that australia was becoming more and more famous for and no one else that played an equal part in that chain was ever treated like Martyn.
Including the example I gave above.
if all players were treated like Martyn, by the end of the decade australia would have been fielding a batting line up of Richard Chee Quee, Noel Fielke, and Peter Goggin
Ha ha Love the names but nothing can save Martyn from his right whack at that time. Made him a better cricketer years later to work his way through his mental fragility and flaws
He was treated exactly how he should have been for that s**t show.Could have made him a better cricketer 6 months later if he was treated accordingly
That Australian side was a pretty old one when Martyn broke into it and he's always had a reputation as being his own man. Even at the time I remember wondering if he was scapegoated for his batting that day or the fact his face didn't quite fit at the time.
He was treated exactly how he should have been for that sh*t show.
I'm not talking Steve Waugh. That is your issue on a player that had been around with credits on the board.No he wasn’t.
if he was Steve Waugh would have been treated the same way 12 months earlier.
Why wasn’t he
I'm not talking Steve Waugh. That is your issue on a player that had been around with credits on the board.
Martyn copped everything he deserved for probably the worst batting performance I seen from one of our specialist bats since the mid 80's. Just terrible as an Aussie supporter to see such a choke in those exact circumstances.
There is no identical efforts. That just your own take, certainly not one I accept at all as reality at time. Martyn is only specialist bat of our team around that time I seen * up so badly when he let tailender act like the real batsmen in such a partnership. Unforgiveable. I never been more angry at one of our batsmen in that period. He rightly got banished big time.It’s a consistency issue.
why was it ‘fair’ for Martyn to cop a punishment that other players didn’t for identical efforts
There is no identical efforts. That just your own take, certainly not one I accept at all as reality at time. Martyn is only specialist bat of our team around that time I seen fu** up so badly when he let tailender act like the real batsmen in such a partnership. Unforgiveable. I never been more angry at one of our batsmen in that period. He rightly got banished big time.
There is batting to the circumstances. You the last specialist bat, McGrath is in next, which you not want to get to. McDermott half decent tailender but you should still be taking as much as strike as possible and take responsibility in circumstances to get bulk of runs yourself. Instead he left it to McDemott to do that as he showed no balls himself in circumstances to take on role he should of. Massive choke like never seen in that period.How isn’t there?
There is batting to the circumstances. You the last specialist bat, McGrath is in next, which you not want to get to. McDermott half decent tailender but you should still be taking as much as strike as possible and take responsibility in circumstances to get bulk of runs yourself. Instead he left it to McDemott to do that as he showed no balls himself in circumstances to take on role he should of. Massive choke like never seen in that period.
Just spare me the nonsense he should be easily forgiven for such a pathetic showing.
I still get angry thinking of how he left it to McDermott and then to do what he did just ******* unforgiveable.
It is not his role and any other middle order or top order bat I seen for us has taken on the role in such circumstanes. I do not remember any others of that period completely leaving it to the tailender like Martyn did. ******* pathetic and nothing over 25 years later changes the reality of how badly he ****ed up then. You are way too easy on him and thankfully selectors were not.It’s not nonsense. It’s reality. McDermott himself had literally had more experience in guiding a chase
It is not his role and any other middle order or top order bat I seen for us has taken on the role in such circumstanes. I do not remember any others of that period completely leaving it to the tailender like Martyn did. ******* pathetic and nothing over 25 years later changes the reality of how badly he f’ed up then. You are way too easy on him and thankfully selectors were not.
You are kidding yourself.
It's 8 wickets down and ******* McGrath in next. Martyn should have taken on the task to get the runs and take bulk of strike. He did neither and shirked the role he should have adopted in those circumstances. Completely terrible choice in circumstances.
I'm sorry, but it is ridiculous to point the finger at one person when the side was 1-51 chasing 117 and lost.You are kidding yourself.
It's 8 wickets down and ******* McGrath in next. Martyn should have taken on the task to get the runs and take bulk of strike. He did neither and shirked the role he should have adopted in those circumstances. Completely terrible choice in circumstances.
Never seen such *s like that in that period when 8 wickets down. You kidding yourself to think others in same period did the same with such a tailender.And?
so what about the million other fu** ups by established batsmen in similar circumstances?
I'm not pointing the finger only at him but there nobody deserved dropping more than him right then and there. It was horrific what he done.I'm sorry, but it is ridiculous to point the finger at one person when the side was 1-51 chasing 117 and lost.