New Cricket sayings

[cricketnut14]

I remember cow corner from the 90s, at least.

yeah steve waugh went towards cow corner alot in the 90's

 

[PhatBoy]

The phrase ‘we always talk about BATTING in partnerships, BUT’ before some commentary genius thinks they’re the first person to ever mention bowling in partnerships

 

[Altum Volantes]

Long levers

Long Levers is definitely a good one (bad one?).

There aren’t too many blokes in the BBL that haven’t got a pair…

 

[Tyberious Funk]

He's 65 not.
Hard hard is it say "not out"?

Brett Lee "go to the boardroom", instead of bowling him a bouncer or a short one.

The other day I heard Brett Lee use the term 'giving the batsman a sniff' to refer to a short ball.

 

[Costanza_]

Thankfully it died out when C9 lost the rights, but referring to a good length ball as the "salmon zone" used to do my head in.



Ian Healy was the worst offender.

 

[1989]

Brett Lee needs to let the 'Michelle Pfeiffer' die a natural death.

 

[Zach Package]

The whole James Brayshaw nomenclature needs to get in the bin along with him.

'What a great shot that was by this particular individual'

'how amazing is this man'

'how's the ball use by this player'

I guess I suppose my question is, what the **** is wrong with him?

 

[big_e]

The whole James Brayshaw nomenclature needs to get in the bin along with him.

'What a great shot that was by this particular individual'

'how amazing is this man'

'how's the ball use by this player'

I guess I suppose my question is, what the **** is wrong with him?

You have to understand that you are talking about two different people.

One is James Brayshaw, who is actually an intelligent and considered man.

He sometimes plays a character called JB, who is part-buffoon, part-bogan, part-class clown. JB appears on TV and radio stations that want to attract a certain type of audience, that apparently love that blokey shtick.

JB earns James Brayshaw a s**t-ton of money.

 

[Sammo360]

Thankfully it died out when C9 lost the rights, but referring to a good length ball as the "salmon zone" used to do my head in.

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Ian Healy was the worst offender.

Full is now “The Slot”.

 

[Tyberious Funk]

You have to understand that you are talking about two different people.

One is James Brayshaw, who is actually an intelligent and considered man.

He sometimes plays a character called JB, who is part-buffoon, part-bogan, part-class clown. JB appears on TV and radio stations that want to attract a certain type of audience, that apparently love that blokey shtick.

JB earns James Brayshaw a sh*t-ton of money.

You could replicate this for several commentators, including Ian Healy and Michael Slater, both of whom are much, much better when they are working for overseas networks that don't encourage them to be dickheads.

 

[Zach Package]

You have to understand that you are talking about two different people.

One is James Brayshaw, who is actually an intelligent and considered man.

He sometimes plays a character called JB, who is part-buffoon, part-bogan, part-class clown. JB appears on TV and radio stations that want to attract a certain type of audience, that apparently love that blokey shtick.

JB earns James Brayshaw a sh*t-ton of money.

Something, something something, Chew man

 

[1989]

The whole James Brayshaw nomenclature needs to get in the bin along with him.

'What a great shot that was by this particular individual'

'how amazing is this man'

'how's the ball use by this player'

I guess I suppose my question is, what the **** is wrong with him?

Spot on. Whether it’s footy or cricket, lots of words, with no substance.

The disappointing thing is he can actually commentate, but these days it’s just strings of blokey, repetitive cliches, and I’m happy to say that some of his MMM footy commentary in the past has been superb.

“Finchy is an enormous talent who has the ability to hit the cricket ball an unbelievably long way”. Just pure crap that adds nothing.

Same with footy. Relying on the “he’s a great player” type comments instead of analysing the actual game at hand.

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

cow corner, I think is fairly new, but also actually reasonably helpful jargon.

"cow corner" has been around since at least the 80s

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

You could replicate this for several commentators, including Ian Healy and Michael Slater, both of whom are much, much better when they are working for overseas networks that don't encourage them to be dickheads.

Slater is still a prize dick overseas from the little I've heard. He's just somehow worse (and drags anyone he played with down) when commentating for an Australian network.

 

[k31th]

"cow corner" has been around since at least the 80s

Clearly my experience differs, even though I was born in '87.

That's ok... I always had it referred to as "deep mid-wicket" but nobody says that anymore.

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

Clearly my experience differs, even though I was born in '87.

That's ok... I always had it referred to as "deep mid-wicket" but nobody says that anymore.

Yeah, the position was deep mid wicket. But the "agricultural slogs" were described as "being to cow corner". I hadn't noticed, but you might be right in a way in the position itself (not just the direction of a slog to that position) has largely changed terms.

 

[Father Jack]

Clearly my experience differs, even though I was born in '87.

That's ok... I always had it referred to as "deep mid-wicket" but nobody says that anymore.

I think you have to play a certain type of slog for it to be 'cow corner', otherwise it's just plain old deep mid-wicket.

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

I think you have to play a certain type of slog for it to be 'cow corner', otherwise it's just plain old deep mid-wicket.

A certain type of shot which bush league finger spinners, and traditional number 10s and 11s, are well acquainted with.

 

[Gough]

Pacers for fast bowlers although it's Indians who seem particularly guilty of this.

 

[STFU Donnie]

I remember cow corner from the 90s, at least.

I remember it from the late 70s.

 

[katana]

Thankfully it died out when C9 lost the rights, but referring to a good length ball as the "salmon zone" used to do my head in.

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Ian Healy was the worst offender.

yeah its right there, between pastel emerald, and violet sunset.

 

[The hands of stone]

Batsman who can ' go up and down the gears'
Swing the ball around corners
Bowling 'gas' seems to have made a comeback

 

[kickazz]

I recon I heard Gillespie refer to the Strikers' "de(e)fence" and "offence" the other day, instead of you know, batting and bowling/fielding.

 

[kickazz]

Nicking off really went from nought to 100 in a short time

 

[kickazz]

How long has "nurdle" been a word?