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I know Healy, Slater etc. get a bad wrap as commentators, but how the **** does Ian Chappell not get called out as well is beyond me. He's an A-Grade flog and sprouts crap every second minute he's commentating. As an example:

"I don't like [Australian bowler (icr if it was Watson, Harris or Siddle)] bowling right arm around the wicket to Carberry"

Carberry has gone out to right arm around the wicket 6/7 times this series. The only time he hasn't was when Johnson bowled LAA to him.
 

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I know Healy, Slater etc. get a bad wrap as commentators, but how the **** does Ian Chappell not get called out as well is beyond me. He's an A-Grade flog and sprouts crap every second minute he's commentating.
I've grown to like him over the last few years.

He's got a lot more to offer than Healy, Taylor, Slater, James ****ing Brayshaw, and for the most part Warne as well.
 

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I've grown to like him over the last few years.

He's got a lot more to offer than Healy, Taylor, Slater, James ****ing Brayshaw, and for the most part Warne as well.
He really doesn't. Healy is shit, and should be banned from talking about anything other than keeping (because he actually does know stuff about that) so he offers more than Chappell. Taylor provides nothing, Slater the same (shame, he was good 4-5 years ago) and Brayshaw should stick to Presidenting. Chappell is ******* clueless. He provides some anecdote that is completely irrelevant to the modern game, complains about a bowling tactic that gets the player out most of the time and provides all round cluelessness. Of Carberry's 9 Test innings he has gone out to right arm around the wicket 7 times, and yet Chappell complained about the Australians bowling right arm around to him.
 

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Any chance of plebs in international cricket using there bats?

Hasham Amla, Monty Panesar, Michael Clark and Michael Carberry all leaving balls and getting bowled.
 
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I know Healy, Slater etc. get a bad wrap as commentators, but how the **** does Ian Chappell not get called out as well is beyond me. He's an A-Grade flog and sprouts crap every second minute he's commentating. As an example:

"I don't like [Australian bowler (icr if it was Watson, Harris or Siddle)] bowling right arm around the wicket to Carberry"

Carberry has gone out to right arm around the wicket 6/7 times this series. The only time he hasn't was when Johnson bowled LAA to him.

And now we won't even have Skull to listen to after Sydney:(
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-12-27/kerry-o27keeffe/5174236
 

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I must be the only one who likes Kerry and his laugh :(

I've read his books and he just seems like a very genuine guy. I enjoy his commentary more than most of the channel 9 try hards.
The only commentator that works full time on 9 that I like is Nicholas
 

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Such dumb batting from England today- why the rush?

Bell's shot to get out was awful, Stokes' was unnecessary as was Bairstow's, and Root's run out was completely avoidable.

Didn't think KP's this time was so bad- they were already eight down by that point, he had to go for runs.
 

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Very different feeling at the end of today than I felt end of yesterday.

Spent all day in the car, listening to the coverage on the radio, and mixing it up with 12th man during the breaks.

At one stage I got all excited thinking we had a wicket when it was just fake Lawry going off.
 

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Yeah I mean, wasn't that kinda the whole idea?

Morgan talks smack, Lee bites, challenge is made, Morgan cops a few in the nets but laughs it off, everybody gets some more publicity.
 

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I only hope that officialdom will review the incident and if necessary take some action against Lee's behaviour - perhaps a censure, fine or even a suspension for his act of stupidity and misjudgment.



in fact I believe he has brought the game of cricket into disrepute.



This should not have been shown on live television - people could have witnessed a tragic accident that the game of cricket never wants to see.



Dear god....
 

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Interestingly enough, a couple of years ago Brett Lee decided he would rather miss a game for NSW than prove his fitness in the only competitive match possible: an U19 match that Lee would have been allowed to play in (grade had been washed out). He seemingly declined to play because he was not comfortable with it. But bowling full pace at 48 year old journalists or footballers? Interesting decision marking from Lee.

I think it was a stupid dangerous gimmick that should have been vetoed at some point. Lee doesn't really deserve any more heat than the other parties involved though. C9 barely gets mentioned in Hadlee's article (might not at all? havent read it since this morning) yet I would attribute them with the most blame.
 

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Interestingly enough, a couple of years ago Brett Lee decided he would rather miss a game for NSW than prove his fitness in the only competitive match possible: an U19 match that Lee would have been allowed to play in (grade had been washed out). He seemingly declined to play because he was not comfortable with it. But bowling full pace at 48 year old journalists or footballers? Interesting decision marking from Lee.

I think it was a stupid dangerous gimmick that should have been vetoed at some point. Lee doesn't really deserve any more heat than the other parties involved though. C9 barely gets mentioned in Hadlee's article (might not at all? havent read it since this morning) yet I would attribute them with the most blame.

dear god please


...

is this real life?
 
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