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The footage of Boon being run out because he practically stopped mid pitch for a breather, then the stream of obcenities when he was walking back was gold!
the replays are almost better then the live coverage!
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What you mean like the way Cricket should be played ???? Instead of pandering to those weak sub-continent countries who cant hack it and then in turn sledge us in their own language so they cant get in trouble
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Exactly my point, The Aussies DO sledge. So do the "goody-goody" countries in the subcontinent. At least we are open about it and do not hide it. You said yourself its part of the game. Exactly !!!! . Bring back the Mervs, Vivs, Bothams, etc. Thats what people want to see
Exactly my point, The Aussies DO sledge. So do the "goody-goody" countries in the subcontinent. At least we are open about it and do not hide it. You said yourself its part of the game. Exactly !!!! . Bring back the Mervs, Vivs, Bothams, etc. Thats what people want to see
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they don't, they disentegrate opponents mentally
I never knew of the Gavaskar incident until seeing that today - anyone know if he copped a fine/suspension or something?
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I'd read about the Gavaskar incident but that was the first time I'd seen footage of it.
Firstly, what a sook Gavaskar was. That looked very out to me, even on replay. There was no obvious deflection. And even if it did hit his bat, it's hardly the biggest umpiring clanger ever.
As for the walk off itself, I was actually surprised how little there was to it. Chauhan walked with him to the boundary but then was sent straight back out by the manager with the new batsman. Unless channel nine cut some footage? Certainly nowhere near as prolonged as Ranatunga's sulk in the 1998/99 season.
Firstly, what a sook Gavaskar was. That looked very out to me, even on replay. There was no obvious deflection. And even if it did hit his bat, it's hardly the biggest umpiring clanger ever.
As for the walk off itself, I was actually surprised how little there was to it. Chauhan walked with him to the boundary but then was sent straight back out by the manager with the new batsman. Unless channel nine cut some footage? Certainly nowhere near as prolonged as Ranatunga's sulk in the 1998/99 season.
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I agree. The man who bugs me most of all with this sledging caper is Viv Richards. He captained a West Indies team that pounded opposition teams with a barrage of racist slurs and insults, then when he retired he wrote a book tipping the bucket on the Australians for their on-field behaviour.
According to poor old Viv the Aussies were the only ones doing it, picking on his poor defenceless 6'10" fast bowlers.
Sure Viv .... I'll believe you ... thousands wouldn't.
I agree. The man who bugs me most of all with this sledging caper is Viv Richards. He captained a West Indies team that pounded opposition teams with a barrage of racist slurs and insults, then when he retired he wrote a book tipping the bucket on the Australians for their on-field behaviour.
According to poor old Viv the Aussies were the only ones doing it, picking on his poor defenceless 6'10" fast bowlers.
Sure Viv .... I'll believe you ... thousands wouldn't.
I was reading about that Gavaskar incident the other day, and whilst Sunny was seemingly quite embarrassed in hindsight by his response, it was interesting when he put in its proper context, and not just shown as one-off footage by Channel 9.
Apparently there were three or four terrible non-decisions against Aussie batsmen the day before, prompting the Indian keeper to joke when a snick wasn't given - "if he gives another one of them not out, I'm walking off", or words to that effect.
So when Gavaskar chopped the ball onto his pad the following day and was given out, and was immediately sledged when he stood his ground, he claimed it (the walk-off thing) was just stuck in his mind from the day before, and kind of just happened.
Fortunately, the Indian Team Manager was at the gate to tell Cheetan Chauhan to go back out, and not follow Gavaskar into the change rooms.
Not a terribly great cricket moment, but there's been a hell of a lot worse, and certainly not fair to judge an otherwise brilliant and fair cricketer on ...
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Poor old whitey ... oppressed, battered and beaten from a few hundred years of being the colonial whip-handler ... god it must hurt to be victimised for being the dominant race.
Its so easy to cry out "reverse racism", or whatever you want to call it, rather than face up to the fact that we are the ones that have led way in racial slurring for so long.
There is no comparison - no moral equivalence - between calling someone a "white @&$#" to being called a "black @&$#" ....
Besides, Viv Richards primary intimidatory weapon was a combination of the bat and his own self-confidence ... he didn't need trash talk to mentally fragment the opposition.
Poor old whitey ... oppressed, battered and beaten from a few hundred years of being the colonial whip-handler ... god it must hurt to be victimised for being the dominant race.
Its so easy to cry out "reverse racism", or whatever you want to call it, rather than face up to the fact that we are the ones that have led way in racial slurring for so long.
There is no comparison - no moral equivalence - between calling someone a "white @&$#" to being called a "black @&$#" ....
Besides, Viv Richards primary intimidatory weapon was a combination of the bat and his own self-confidence ... he didn't need trash talk to mentally fragment the opposition.
Seriously scmods ... do you really think we judge Lillee on his antics with Javed Miandad, or that ridiculous aluminium bat thing ?!
No, we remember him, as we should - charging in with a full head of steam and bowling a great leg-cutter. A bit of a larikin, and a sensational bowler.
Not as a sooky baby who kicked up an onfield stink when they took his bat off him.
Will we remember Ponting as someone who got into a pub brawl over a transvestite? Course not (unless he does it again, that is).
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The thing I've gleaned from the replays of the 80/81 series is how low-key everyone is when they take a wicket. Just a satisfied smile and a handhsake. No dancing, screaming, whooping, and charging in off the boundary.
Lillee and co. make the likes of Brett Lee and Shane Warne look like even bigger ****ers than they already are.
The thing I've gleaned from the replays of the 80/81 series is how low-key everyone is when they take a wicket. Just a satisfied smile and a handhsake. No dancing, screaming, whooping, and charging in off the boundary.
Lillee and co. make the likes of Brett Lee and Shane Warne look like even bigger ****ers than they already are.
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