Punchy Bassett
Brownlow Medallist
I always love it when the Poms come out and whinge about personal stuff with sledging, they've obviously A) Never stood near the Barmy Army for a test match or B) Listened to their own home crowds when we tour.
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I always love it when the Poms come out and whinge about personal stuff with sledging, they've obviously A) Never stood near the Barmy Army for a test match or B) Listened to their own home crowds when we tour.
Stories:
Mitchell Johnson pretty much said today on Triple that he still isn't over the personal sledging he copped from Pietersen a few years ago. They shook hands and said 'g'day' during this match, but he still seems a bit cranky about it. I gather Mitchell wrote as much in his biography
Graeme Swann said on Triple M that the only true cranky Aussie he played against was Ponting, who was always at the opposition.
He reckons Bollinger sledged every ball he bowled, but it was so s**t it was embarrassing.
Swann also had an encounter with his buddy "grumpy" Jimmy Anderson during a county game, shortly after being the godfather to Anderson's daughter. Swann and Stuart Broad both played for Nottinghamshire. After getting Anderson out, Swann and Broad started pissing themselves laughing, for some reason.
When Swann was batting, he hit the first ball he faced from Anderson for 4, then Jimmy stomped down the pitch and angrily said: "I never liked you, anyway! I should've got Cookie to be godfather."
It wasn't long before they were both together playing for England again. Jimmy didn't speak to Swann for days, until he (Swann) took a ripper catch off Jimmy's bowling, then they were buddies again.
Swann ended his "set of nuggets" on Triple M by talking about how dopey Tim Bresnan can be. He used to pronounce "chamois" phonetically, as in,
"cham-oh-iss".
During a test, Bresna got Ponting out LBW when Punter didn't offer a shot, but Ponting appealed the decision on DRS. As all the players were looking at the review on the big screen, Bresnan exclaimed, "Oh no!! It's hit him outside the line!"
Andrew Strauss goes: "Tim, you are an international cricketer playing a Test match; you should know the LBW rules"
Simon O'Donnell said on SEN the other day that he sledged a NSW batsman so savagely in the 90/91 Shield final that the guy still won't speak to him.
He said he was probably their best player, who was very hard to get out, so their tactic was to put him off his game.
Who was the "sledgee"?" Bevan?
NSW Shield Final team:
New South Wales 1st innings
SM Small ................................b O'Donnell...........82
BE McNamara.....c Siddons........b Fleming..............2
MD O'Neill............lbw...............b Fleming..............0
MG Bevan..........c Berry............b Fleming..............6
JD Kenny...........c Berry............b Dodemaide.........3
RJ Green ...........c Fleming........b Jackson.............40
+PA Emery.........c Siddons........b Dodemaide........62
GF McLay............c Siddons.......b Fleming..............3
*GF Lawson.............................b O'Donnell............0
PJS Alley.............c O'Donnell.....b Dodemaide.........5
WJ Holdsworth......not out....................................12
James Anderson is a sook. Always has been, always will be. He is the biggest mouth piece out there. For him to come out and say that we go over the top sledging is an absolute comedy skit.Brett Geeves wrote a good article detailing how much of a hypocrite Anderson is with examples of him crossing the line many times on the field.
https://www.foxsports.com.au/cricke...e/news-story/51fcafd754ba18a962584b84a88b3f41
Following a report on Friday about Nathan Lyon’s personal life, English cricket fans took full advantage and did their best to get inside the Australian spinner’s head with a low blow.
According to the Daily Mail, Lyon has started seeing another woman following the breakdown of a long-term relationship with the mother of his two children.
Lyon reportedly broke up with Mel Waring more than a year ago and has taken up a new relationship with a Perth-based real estate agent named Emma McCarthy.
The off-spinner was also apparently seen kissing McCarthy in a car before the third Test.
The report said Waring hadn’t taken the split well, also claiming McCarthy once went out with Australian teammate Mitchell Marsh.
That was enough for the Barmy Armey to formulate a sledge towards Lyon.
“I like kissing in the car with my hand inside her bra having fun with Mitch’s ex she says I’m much better at sex.”
Barmy Army are a bunch of self important flogsFor all the tut-tutting from the English media over Bairstows vague accusations of personal stuff, they're awfully quiet over their own 'Barmy Army' getting personal yet again:
https://wwos.nine.com.au/2017/12/16/09/18/barmy-army-sledge-nathan-lyon
Bairstow headbutting Bancroft = too personal, who a soon-to-be divorced guy is kissing = fair game according to the English rags.
Do you not watch cricket?...can't take a wicket out of England.
It's was a general loose comment directed at him being much much better in EnglandDo you not watch cricket?
This doesn't sound good.
https://www.foxsports.com.au/cricke...s/news-story/03bbb5e7b3d110272164a669887c6b7c
Someone raised the issue of personal sledging directed towards Bairstow a few days ago and potentially what it could have been about.
I personally wish the sledging would cease. I'm all for witty remarks, getting under their skin (the headbutt incident) and a stare here and there but seems it might be getting well and truly out of hand. Not the first time we've been accused of this during this series and previous series.
Back in the day, there was a first grade cricketer at Penrith who'd surreptitiously wear two boxes out to bat. When the opposition would bring on their fast bowling spearhead, he'd take one out and throw it on the ground and announce "no need for that with this bloke".