Cricket things that annoy you

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Adelaide Hawk said:
You know what's really annoying me right now? The flippant attitude to batting from two players I used to rate very highly. Head has turned into a bazballer, nothing more, nothing less. And I always admired Carey as a batsman, but the shots he plays to get out on lately are doing my head in.

Here we are, 2nd day of a Test match (not Day 5 ... Day 2). On comes off-spinner Phillips. Okay, he took 5 wickets in the previous Test so at least he should be treated with some respect. Apart from Lyon (2 overs), this is the first ball on this pitch from a spinner.

Does Carey use a few balls to gage the turn, etc? No. He thinks Australia are running out of time with only 3 and a half days remaining and he needs to get on with it.

FIRST ball from Phillips ... FIRST ball. It pitches outside Carey's off stump and is spinning AWAY. The one shot you should not be considering is the sweep. So, what does Carey do? He decides to play a half-assed sweep shot, against the spin mind you and hits it straight up in the air.

Carey's glovework is first class, but I'm not going to argue with anyone who thinks he could be replaced. He's doing nothing to help himself.
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This aged well.......
 
PhatBoy said:
Head reeks of a player who’s believed a lot of press about himself from the ultra-mainstream media (ie. fox sports etc) who latch onto whatever they can. He has played some really good eye catching knocks thrashing like a twenty20 specialist but you would really look at those knocks in isolation and almost say ‘well he didn’t have much choose.’ Adelaide against the West Indies, Brisbane against SA and a few others. That’s not to diminish them - the WTC final was another - they were good knocks.

But he doesn’t HAVE to play that way. He averaged over 40 as a test batsman, batting sensibly. He has proven he can bat properly.

The England guys playing Bazzball: they haven’t. Ok Root has, but the others haven’t. For Crawley: that’s the ONLY way he’s probably going to have a meaningful test career. Same with Duckett. Probably the same with Bairstow. His best period of test cricket has been playing ultra aggressively. So far for Brook that’s the only way he’s played.

Head has been successful not doing it.

I am still really confused as to why he thinks he has to bat that way all the time now
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People should be locked up for using "going" when referring to a batter being dismissed.
"He scored 50 before going out" is just wrong.
"He scored 50 before getting out" is right.
 
Blurter said:
People should be locked up for using "going" when referring to a batter being dismissed.
"He scored 50 before going out" is just wrong.
"He scored 50 before getting out" is right.
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I dunno. There's a lot of going in and out.
One player from each team goes out. They toss, then they go back in, and one team goes out. The other team who is in sends out two players to go in, until one of them goes out. Then that player goes in, and another player comes out, and he is in. Until ten players that were in are out, then the last one out and the one not out both go in. Then the other side goes in, and the side who were in before go out, ...
 
Blurter said:
People should be locked up for using "going" when referring to a batter being dismissed.
"He scored 50 before going out" is just wrong.
"He scored 50 before getting out" is right.
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Going out seems to be the Victorian vernacular for getting out?
 
Adelaide Hawk said:
I wouldn't mind betting I wasn't the only one reading the riot act to him. I just get annoyed when I know he can be doing better ... as he proved in the 2nd innings.
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Yeah that innings justifies the criticism. Both players have the talent to show more than they have over recent times. It is doing them both a disservice if we accept them to be nothing more than 5th gear all out sloggers.
 
31550 said:
I dunno. There's a lot of going in and out.
One player from each team goes out. They toss, then they go back in, and one team goes out. The other team who is in sends out two players to go in, until one of them goes out. Then that player goes in, and another player comes out, and he is in. Until ten players that were in are out, then the last one out and the one not out both go in. Then the other side goes in, and the side who were in before go out, ...
corbies said:
Going out seems to be the Victorian vernacular for getting out?
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That could be right...
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teams , say umm outside the top 20 having T20I status eg. gibraltar v italy

and then series not having test status such as:
WSC - Aust/WI/ROW (77/78 - 78/79)
ROW v Eng (70)
ROW v Aust (71/72)
SA Rebel tours (81/82 - 89/90)
 

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cricketnut14 said:
teams , say umm outside the top 20 having T20I status eg. gibraltar v italy

and then series not having test status such as:
WSC - Aust/WI/ROW (77/78 - 78/79)
ROW v Eng (70)
ROW v Aust (71/72)
SA Rebel tours (81/82 - 89/90)
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I don't have any sympathy for the WSC or Rebel players - they knew in advance they wouldn't be officially sanctioned, but took the cash anyway.
 
big_e said:
I don't have any sympathy for the WSC or Rebel players - they knew in advance they wouldn't be officially sanctioned, but took the cash anyway.
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I can't blame any of the players for signing up for WSC given the circumstances of the time.

After the announcement of WSC, Bob Hawke was quoted as saying (he was ACTU Boss at the time) " the players were being raped and would have continued to be raped by the ACB"

The pay was poor which meant that most of the players had full time jobs outside of cricket. Ross Edwards (an Accountant) retired from cricket because his employer would not give him any more time off to play whilst Ian Davis knocked back a overseas tour because he could not get anymore leave from his employer (the Commonwealth Bank). Rick McCosker also had issues with trying to get time off to play (he worked in a a bank as well) as did David Hookes.

If I remember correctly, the issue of whether WSC signed players could play for their countries was clouded because the different cricket boards around the world had different rules for these players (e.g. the WSC Windies players were allowed to play in the test series vs Australia in 1978 albeit for only the first 2 tests).

They may have been under the impression initially that they could play WSC and also for their country. One wouldn't know unless one was in that position.

However, I don't begrudge any of them signing up.
 
Rabish Binney said:
I can't blame any of the players for signing up for WSC given the circumstances of the time.

After the announcement of WSC, Bob Hawke was quoted as saying (he was ACTU Boss at the time) " the players were being raped and would have continued to be raped by the ACB"

The pay was poor which meant that most of the players had full time jobs outside of cricket. Ross Edwards (an Accountant) retired from cricket because his employer would not give him any more time off to play whilst Ian Davis knocked back a overseas tour because he could not get anymore leave from his employer (the Commonwealth Bank). Rick McCosker also had issues with trying to get time off to play (he worked in a a bank as well) as did David Hookes.

If I remember correctly, the issue of whether WSC signed players could play for their countries was clouded because the different cricket boards around the world had different rules for these players (e.g. the WSC Windies players were allowed to play in the test series vs Australia in 1978 albeit for only the first 2 tests).

They may have been under the impression initially that they could play WSC and also for their country. One wouldn't know unless one was in that position.

However, I don't begrudge any of them signing up.
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The West Indian and Sri Lankan rebel tourist can be seen in a more sympathetic light when you consider the money that was offered and their circumstances at the time. They also all suffered far harsher punishments than the English and Australian tourists who while they might not have been as well remunerated as players are now were still on quite decent coin and couldn't really point to genuine hardship at the time by way of justifying their decision to break the sanctions.
 
Bowlers in t20 cricket celebrating like they’ve just split the atom when they’ve taken a wicket that was basically a case of them running in and a batsman trying to blast the ball into the stratosphere and he didn’t succeed.

If you’re Mitchell Starc and you’ve hit the base of middle stump with an inswinger at 150kph, you’re Sunil Narine and you’ve dropped one on a 5c piece that’s spun away from a right hander and clipped the top of off while the batsman is groping for it, or you are Dwayne Bravo bowling a slower ball that has the batsman playing his shot 10 times before the ball arrives, celebrate all you want but don’t make out like a length delivery outside off stump that gets smashed to the only fielder within a 5 mile radius on the off side was a plan
 
Registered User said:
It annoys me a little that my grandfather can't watch this on Fox (he hasn't got a smart phone, computer or nothin')

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YouTube on the TV? Would recommend ChromeCast which would resolve this issue and can host Kayo as well
No one buys the international right to the West Indies or Bangladesh games, therefore they broadcast it on YouTube, all their domestic, and Mens and womens internationals are shown on free on YouTube
 
Registered User said:
Thanks. Nah, he's got nothing, and is a very stubborn boomer.
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My boomer parents are good with digital devices but apart from their dvrs which for them is just a modern video still think of their television like it's the 1980s and it's still an analogue set.
 
Cricket things that annoy me...f###, where do I start...

1) The Mankad is a legit dismissal. Every argument against it is bullshit.
2) T20.
3) CA.
4) Bilateral ODI series.
5) 2 test series.
6) Super overs.
7) People using the term "spirit of cricket" to justify their own self serving biases.
8) Any time Tassie loses.
9) Bazball......well, it will if it ever succeeds, because right now it's the only thing in cricket that makes me laugh!
10) The imbalance cause by the Big Three's greed.
11) Bowling restrictions in limited over games. We don't need them any more - time for all bowling and fielding restrictions to be removed and to bring back the balance between bat and ball.
12) Powerplays and free hits. F### batsmen.
 
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