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“And I sort of reminded Jonny last week I walked out of my crease at the end of an over. “I quickly whipped my bat back and questioned Jonny on whether he would take the stumps and he said, ‘Bloody oath I would’, and ran off.”...

The hypocrites are the bad sportsmen. Australia should demand an apology.

Carey threw it as soon as it landed in his gloves. He didnt hold it for a few seconds giving the impression the play was dead.

Ive played plenty of cricket. No one walks out of the crease until the ball starts getting thrown back to the bowler via the slips, cover and mid off. Bairstow walked as the ball was landing in the keepers hand. It was not dead. He made a mistake that under 11s dont make.

No its not. Its unsportsmemlike to leave the crease even if he isnt going for a run and try to declare play dead. He doesnt know what else is happening. Its not his call to make. Plus he shouldnt be patting down the pitch with his bat anyway. and whats been terribly unsportsmemlike has been the...

Its not even remotely unsportsmen like. It was the english batsmen who was unsportsmen. Im so sick of batsmen walking out of their crease. They have no right to.

Bairstow doesnt get to declare play as dead whenever he wants it to be. He has to wait to the umpire does.

Whining is just a word for "standing up and giving a s**t."

But all the november games came in the last 10 years whereas in the other months you are counting games from the eighties, nineties and early 2000s when people cared a about this nearly as much as they cared about football. How about just counting crowds over the last ten years?

Thats so dismal. This stuff used to get 70 thousand Plus.

Why am i get notifications about this thread? Its 3 posts long, ive never been here and ive lost all interest in international cricket like most people. if the intention was to get me to post here then mission succeeded.

Im not sure i agree with the last point. I played unprofessional cricket (at a much much much much lower level then 1970s international cricket and we did all those things in the last praragraph. Fielding certainly wasnt an afterthought.

That was my response. What do you mean by they now aimoessly wander where before they didnt?

You think they aimlessly wander Now? Are you alluding to drug use or gross stupidity due to spending to much time as children on screens?

Players who leave the crease before they know the ball is released are cheats. They should be out regardless of whether the bowler mankads them or not.

No it Isnt. You leave the crease then you can get run out. Its really simple.

They havent figured it out though. People have lost interest in cricket. People dont like too many competitions. They want to know who the winners and losers are. if you have too many competions they all end up winners and losers at some point and the sport loses its sense of purpose.

And thats just plain weird as odi is actually interesting. T20 is simplistic garbage.

three forms of the game is too many. One needs to go. Which do you prefer?

This is a joke right?

Screwed by the australian cricketing board. Now by the grim reaper was my first sporting hero. forget steve/mark waugh. Deano was the legend.

Yeah im sure everyone was well aware of the boundary countback rule when the game started and were basing strategy around it. Even if they did it is still stupid. Its like declaring st kilda the winner of the 2010 grand final because of some silly rule about most forward fifty entries...

Is that serious? Sixes dont count? This is ridculous. A rematch is needed.

Why didnt they just do a second super over. The tennis did more then one extra match.

Look at the scores. No one won. The closest to winning was new zealand as they lost less wickets. You were just given the trophy despite not winning. Trophies dont determine who wins. Scorelines do. When someone asks how much did you win by then what is your answer?

The only reason people believe england won is because of a desperate human need for resolution (or they are english). There was no resolution. No one won. It was a tie.

Scores say it was a tie.

Thats not how worth is determined. The opposite in fact.

England didnt win.

Thats stupid. Could equally claim New Zealand should win given they lost less wickets and were the away team. The world cup was a draw.