Please do the same!

[Bakes]

I just emailed the "guardians" of the law of cricket and the ECB to try and rectify this summers demise. Please do the same

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am writing whilst experiencing one of the most appalling summers of cricket my country has ever seen in the hope that the MCC, the guardian of the laws, can change this in the future.
After being a ticket buyer in the 2005 Ashes series, I met the 2006/07 calendar with excitement and a full wallet, expecting to see a full 25 days of test cricket and an action packed ODI series. What followed, has not only bamboozled the mind, but left me and many others feeling empty toward the laws of cricket.
The fall from grace by the highly decorated MBE England Cricket team (including batsman Paul Collingwood at an avg. of 8.5) in the last 12 months has been astounding. ODI thrashings and routs in the form of 5 wickets, 277 runs, 206 runs, an innings and 99 runs and also a ten wicket win in test form. This can not be put down to the team alone and I feel the laws of cricket have something to answer to.
In Melbourne the Victorian Cricket Association and the Melbourne Cricket Club lost more than 2.8 Million dollars from an England team that capitulated in the first and only three days. To suggest that the offending team should be obliged to cover any losses from poor form would be ludicrous to say the least. That is why I’m suggesting my first rule addition to be considered by the MCC.
In such a situation, where it is deemed by the governing match official that a team (including coaching staff and officials) has underachieved in a manner that has lead to the loss of more than a days play is to parade around the ground no more than five meters from the spectator barrier with their pants around their ankles. This would signify that they have indeed been “pantsed” by the opposition and would help the disillusioned public share their disappointment with a visually embarrassed team.
I’m sure you are aware that when there is a loss of a days play, there is also a loss of earnings. To help with this loss on pointless third and fourth days (as shown in Melbourne and Sydney this year), the MCC could introduce some incentives for punters like myself.
Having a “Rotten Fruit Day”, where patrons are presented with a complementary full bag of “goodies, anywhere any time” (I’m sure your aware of the catch phrase!) to throw at who they believe has cost them the chance to see a good game of cricket. This would work well in conjunction with the new “pantsed” rule, as well as at other times in the match, for example, when Andrew Flintoff wins the toss and elects to bat.
This brings me to my next point.
When teams such as Australia play lesser quality teams such as Namibia, Canada or England, the team greatly out ranking the other should be entitled to bat first in ODI’s. On 26/1/2007, at the Oval in Adelaide, fans were denied the privilege and right to see a full game of cricket.
After paying hard earned money for a full price ticket, the loyal supporters of the International game received less than half a game of cricket in return. Some may even argue that they bore witness to a game of cricket that, in fact, never eventuated. When a collective group is obviously incapable of making a correct decision (Harmison’s lead up to ashes, Panesar omition, Jones given keepers gloves and Fletcher/Vaughan not changing tactics so “Lads” don’t get confused ect ect), why should they be permitted to make one to the detriment of millions of cricket loving people?
I have copied in the ECB in the attempt of stopping a repeat performance of the toss of the “Australia Day Massacre”.
Finally, In the lead up to the ICC world cup, I find it somewhat confusing that a team such as Bangladesh can treat the game of cricket with such contempt. Having witnessed the blatant demise of the England squad in Australia this summer, why has Bangladesh been permitted to blatantly cheat the laws of the game we love, and run themselves into form by hosting England A. Do you see the Aussies hosting the Summerset Under 12’s?n Or the South African’s hosting the Deli Under 9’s?....... I think not. Because the people of this cricket loving country, believe in what is right and what is fair. Not what is locked up in an un-deserving cupboard when they have only won the ashes by a dodgey caught behind at Edgbaston.

Yours truly,

Disappointed with the laws of Cricket.

I was pissed off at the end of the 2005 ashes. Not only did pricks like Hugh Grant get tickets ahead of cricket loverslike myself.but I had to put up with comments from idiots (twats= english translation) when in england.

 

[SBI]

You overstepped line calling Hugh Grant a prick.

 

[Bakes]

You overstepped line calling Hugh Grant a prick.

When a wavy haired todger chaser who couldn't give two rats clackers gets the nod for a ticket (for free I might add) ahead of a expat aussie 200m down the road who went to every other test. He is just that

 

[dan warna]

er, sorry, er terribly sorry, i er, whoops, did I poke you? sorry, er, um, was that your bottom I spanked, terribly er sorry, oops, sorry, ah, was that your wife I was spooning? sorry, oops, nice hooker there, yes urm, sorry.