Banter The No Dazzlering Big Cricket Thread - 2025/26 Ashes Edition

[Cuzz09]

Heart:

Australia win easy

Head:

Poms skittle our brittle batting line up in Perth both innings in the 100s and go 1 up

Hope:

we win the toss, bowl and have Eng 4/50 at lunch

 

[TY24]

Get up, it's slander the English day

 

[Doashuey]

Which is why it shits me to tears that we are the ones who get labelled cheats on the regular.

Everyone did it, we were just stupid/arrogant enough to get caught.

And Cricket Australia made it into a much bigger thing than it would have otherwise been by imposing a penalty much larger than what the ICC thought was applicable. They let that culture fester then hung the players out to dry to save their own blushes. The only one with any integrity that came out of that was Steve Smith. He wasnt involved in the planning or execution of it but by all reports he knew something was afoot and didnt stop it as skipper. So he was willfully negligent but not a cheat yet he did the right thing and fell on his sword.

Monty Panasar was a woefully incompetent cricketer and a self-confessed cheat but as Smith pointed out, he matches that with a very low IQ and even less self-awareness. Anyone that tries to sledge Smith in the leadup to an Ashes series is a very slow learner. My pre-Ashes prediction- Smith will score 700+ runs this series

 

[Dazzler9]

And Cricket Australia made it into a much bigger thing than it would have otherwise been by imposing a penalty much larger than what the ICC thought was applicable. They let that culture fester then hung the players out to dry to save their own blushes. The only one with any integrity that came out of that was Steve Smith. He wasnt involved in the planning or execution of it but by all reports he knew something was afoot and didnt stop it as skipper. So he was willfully negligent but not a cheat yet he did the right thing and fell on his sword.

Monty Panasar was a woefully incompetent cricketer and a self-confessed cheat but as Smith pointed out, he matches that with a very low IQ and even less self-awareness. Anyone that tries to sledge Smith in the leadup to an Ashes series is a very slow learner. My pre-Ashes prediction- Smith will score 700+ runs this series

Shane Warne once said of Panesar that he hadn't played 30 Tests (or whatever the number was at that point), but that he had played the same Test 30 times. i.e. doesn't think about his bowling, just serves up the same stuff every time regardless.

 

[TY24]

Got here early (before the gates opened) to try and beat the queue.

Didn't work. I've never seen a queue like this at Optus before.

 

[Ochre]

If the members actually gets full before I get there I will burn the waterslides at the WACA down

 

[TY24]

Obligatory 'Day for it' post

 

[TY24]

If the members actually gets full before I get there I will burn the waterslides at the WACA down

All I can say is good luck getting a seat on level 1

Me and my mate took one look at it and went up to level 5

 

[Ochre]

All I can say is good luck getting a seat on level 1

Me and my mate took one look at it and went up to level 5

Oh that's not a big crowd thing, top level is better views anyway

 

[TY24]

Oh that's not a big crowd thing, top level is better views anyway

I prefer level 1 if I can get really close to the middle, but that's nigh on impossible at these bigger tests

Got no complaints with my view today

 

[THE A5]

Got here early (before the gates opened) to try and beat the queue.

Didn't work. I've never seen a queue like this at Optus before.

Im gonna approach every red head today and say “hey Ty”

 

[TY24]

Im gonna approach every red head today and say “hey Ty”

If they kiss you back it's me

 

[TY24]

I don't know what a Brydon Carse is but I feel like his parents forgot the A

 

[Truckosaurus]

Shane Warne once said of Panesar that he hadn't played 30 Tests (or whatever the number was at that point), but that he had played the same Test 30 times. i.e. doesn't think about his bowling, just serves up the same stuff every time regardless.

This is the only reason anyone remembers Panesar

 

[Dazzler9]

Yeah 'chell !!

 

[RookiePick]

Starc the destroyer!

 

[Goroyals22]

Tell ya story walking pal

 

[Truckosaurus]

Oh thank God Khawaja held on to that

 

[HoneyBadger35]

Who’s winning?

 

[JoshWoodenSpoon]

Who’s winning?

Imperialism!

 

[Matele]

I’m excited to attend on Sunday

 

[Dazzler9]

Sh*t review, that.

 

[RookiePick]

Sh*t review, that.

Reckon he didn't know too much about it. Straightened off the pitch considerably.

 

[Dazzler9]

Time to drag Boland please.

 

[THE A5]

If they kiss you back it's me

Might say it to some girls and hope it works a trick