Big Cricket Thread

[Mulldogg]

Gideon Haigh didn't miss the members in The Australian

The booing, as is most booing, was mainly harmless, carrying on as it did long past the point anyone could remember what they were booing, and becoming chiefly about companionship.

The parrot cry of ‘same old Aussies, always cheating’ also invites the question of from whom they might have learned it. After all, you can trace the line of Ashes tit-for-tat back to the Oval in 1882 when, coincidentally, WG Grace ran out the Australian Sammy Jones for wandering out of his crease under a misapprehension the ball was dead. “I taught the lad a lesson,” Grace is reputed to have said afterwards; just so.

But the jostling of players in the members? Really? By virtue of the antiquity of the Long Room, and the assumption that people-like-us know how to behave, Lord’s retains the privilege of unusual proximity to the players - the frisson from hearing a player’s spikes on the hardwood floor is one of cricket’s glories.

They will not have it long, however, if blimps and prigs want to vent fury on their visitors because they are unaware of the laws that … checks notes …. their own club sets for the world. And what could be a worse look in the week of the Equity in Cricket report than puce-faced, dim-bulb snobs picking fights with a placid, softly-spoken Muslim player? Chaps, pull yourselves together.

You’re actually cheating Stokes of some of his glory.

**** Gideon is one of the all time great wordsmiths. Chefs kiss type stuff that prose.

 

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Day 5 crowd at Lord's have faux walnut on their hunting rifles.

 

[Farang83150]

Ahahaha this is gold
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Micheal Vaughn saying on Sky, the average age for the 3 of them was 85

 

[Farang83150]

Surely mccullum was kicking himself later when he remembered he'd done the same thing...twice!
Also hats off to the x pom captains that have come out and said nothing wrong with it at all, birstow made a school boy error.

 

[happy_eagle]

The whole "well the English have done it too" doesn't exactly absolve the action though does it ?

Even hypocrites can be right every once in a while

 

[Truckosaurus]

They can be right but wasps shouldn't cry too loudly when they're stung.

 

[Farang83150]

The whole "well the English have done it too" doesn't exactly absolve the action though does it ?

Even hypocrites can be right every once in a while

Fk em

 

[THE A5]

Good watch

 

[Tugga27]

Surely mccullum was kicking himself later when he remembered he'd done the same thing...twice!
Also hats off to the x pom captains that have come out and said nothing wrong with it at all, birstow made a school boy error.

They had Steve Harmison on Pommy radio today.
The hosts kept on trying to goad him into saying it was against the spirit of cricket.

Harmy said he loves Jonny to bits but he was a dozyy sod for walking out of his crease.

They then suggested he should've been given a warning.

He pretty much laughed them off and said it's an Ashes series.

 

[Tugga27]

The whole "well the English have done it too" doesn't exactly absolve the action though does it ?

Even hypocrites can be right every once in a while

Depends if you agree with the action though.

 

[KBLT]

The whole "well the English have done it too" doesn't exactly absolve the action though does it ?

Even hypocrites can be right every once in a while

If we'd been caught applying lollies to the ball, I'd agree with this point.

But that's not what happened.

 

[Ilkka Sinisalo]

https://www.news.com.au/sport/cricket/englands-hypocrisy-laid-bare-after-cheating-claims-during-second-test/news-story/406ad362e13f5865bbaddc754e179837

This about sums it up

Ah yes, Piers Morgan is irate and thinks it was unethical and against the spirit of the game. The same Piers Morgan who knew about journalists engaging in illegal phone hacking when he was overseeing The Daily Mirror. What a plonker.

 

[ziad]

England as a nation appear to be in a slow decline. Nothing to do with cricket which I don't particularly follow, but they lack cohesion and leadership. Their press almost make ours look journalistic.

On cricket, he would have been out in our back yard.

 

[ioppolo]

England have a history being massive pricks with sportsmanship. Here's Daniel Vettori calling back Paul Collingwood after the exact same thing happened.



But in a match sometime before this one, Paul Collingwood didn't call back Grant Elliott after this incident (a match NZ actually won off the last ball, good old karma).

 

[ioppolo]

Also here's Buttler being mankad and whinging about it, despite being warned earlier by the same bowler, twice I think.

 

[Rowan18]

Rules are rules and these guys are professionals and playing at the elite level. You go out there to win anyway you can within the rules (though all teams have had times where they've stretched it with ball tampering etc).

Bairstow stumping cancels out the Starc catch. England lost the game by calling us in to bowl on day one and then letting us dominate them with the bat. This is a very evenly matched series but England has been making more mistakes and have lost two close ones.

They'd hope that they're analysing these things behind closed doors, because if they believe their own BS then they're heading for even more trouble.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

They'd hope that they're analysing these things behind closed doors, because if they believe their own BS then they're heading for even more trouble.

BazBall really only works if there's total faith and buy in though, it's almost like a cult. Does McCullum have it in him to put his pride aside and adjust the approach? I'm not convinced.

 

[Farang83150]

Would love to see them go bazball on an Indian pitch.

 

[Get_The_Gaff]

Surprised victorian police can find time out of their busy schedule of beating up old people for not wearing masks to post on twitter

 

[Wild Kelly]

The Poms have been waging a psychological war against us from the start with Broad coming out with the initial sentiment that the previous series didn't count because it was during covid (or similar). Subsequently they have dismissed the first test result by intimating that they had a moral victory because they play to entertain to try to "save" test cricket through bazball and now creating controversy by intimating that we somehow cheated our way to victory in the 2nd test.
It's all about creating controversy and diverting the English papers away from their shortcomings.
Let's face it..... the Poms had the best of conditions when they bowled and batted and we were without Lyon from our attack in their 2nd innings. He would have taken 2 or 3 on that wicket.

 

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Surprised victorian police can find time out of their busy schedule of beating up old people for not wearing masks to post on twitter

$I know right$

 

[happy_eagle]

 

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UK PM attacks Australia over controversial Ashes moment

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak backs up the England cricket team in their complaints about the dismissal of Jonny Bairstow.

www.abc.net.au

 

[UseR2006]

 

[ioppolo]

Would love to see them go bazball on an Indian pitch.

I'd actually love to see it work because the whinging from the Indian team would shame anything the Poms have done.