Cricket 2023

[tamada]

Yes, the unsportsmanlike Tourists prevail.

[joudon66]

Ball tampering against South Africa, underarm bowling against New Zealand, so anything goes it seems.

[marjamlew]

If I was a Pom I'd probably be having a sook and a whinge about Bairstow being run out but as an Aussie and someone who has seen this type of runout atttempted but rarely successful in 50 years of cricket it's no big deal. Look in the scorebook.
Best team won. Stoke got away with his swinging from the ass for a while and was entertaining but he's hardly Steve Smith. Broad one of the games great cheats taking the moral high ground is priceless. 2 - 0 move on.

[Whistler]

Note also, Lyons was injured, test 3 will.be with a full compliment of bowlers

[tamada]

If I was a Pom I'd probably be having a sook and a whinge about Bairstow being run out but as an Aussie and someone who has seen this type of runout atttempted but rarely successful in 50 years of cricket it's no big deal. Look in the scorebook.
Best team won. Stoke got away with his swinging from the ass for a while and was entertaining but he's hardly Steve Smith. Broad one of the games great cheats taking the moral high ground is priceless. 2 - 0 move on.

Correct that he's "hardly Steve Smith" inasmuch he has no association with unsportsmanlike play. Yes, the best team did win but that win would have benefited immensely from being cleaner. From one of your earlier posts, is this really "as good as it gets"?

https://www.dailymirror.lk/110646/NZ-s- ... -and-Sanga

[tamada]

Note also, Lyons was injured, test 3 will.be with a full compliment of bowlers

This just in... Australian seen shopping for sandpaper at Wilko in Leeds.

[tamada]

If I was a Pom I'd probably be having a sook and a whinge about Bairstow being run out but as an Aussie and someone who has seen this type of runout atttempted but rarely successful in 50 years of cricket it's no big deal. Look in the scorebook.
Best team won. Stoke got away with his swinging from the ass for a while and was entertaining but he's hardly Steve Smith. Broad one of the games great cheats taking the moral high ground is priceless. 2 - 0 move on.

Correct that he's "hardly Steve Smith" inasmuch he has no association with unsportsmanlike play. Yes, the best team did win but that win would have benefited immensely from being cleaner. From one of your earlier posts, is this really "as good as it gets"? Apart from being able to quickly dismiss England's lower batting order I mean.

https://www.dailymirror.lk/110646/NZ-s- ... -and-Sanga

[marjamlew]

If I was a Pom I'd probably be having a sook and a whinge about Bairstow being run out but as an Aussie and someone who has seen this type of runout atttempted but rarely successful in 50 years of cricket it's no big deal. Look in the scorebook.
Best team won. Stoke got away with his swinging from the ass for a while and was entertaining but he's hardly Steve Smith. Broad one of the games great cheats taking the moral high ground is priceless. 2 - 0 move on.

Correct that he's "hardly Steve Smith" inasmuch he has no association with unsportsmanlike play. Yes, the best team did win but that win would have benefited immensely from being cleaner. From one of your earlier posts, is this really "as good as it gets"? Apart from being able to quickly dismiss England's lower batting order I mean.

https://www.dailymirror.lk/110646/NZ-s- ... -and-Sanga

You're not a Pom. Why are you having a whinge and a sook? Thought your mob loved it when the Poms get flogged.

[Whistler]

Note also, Lyons was injured, test 3 will.be with a full compliment of bowlers

This just in... Australian seen shopping for sandpaper at Wilko in Leeds.

Oh my Buddha, more hackneyed comments.

[tamada]

If I was a Pom I'd probably be having a sook and a whinge about Bairstow being run out but as an Aussie and someone who has seen this type of runout atttempted but rarely successful in 50 years of cricket it's no big deal. Look in the scorebook.
Best team won. Stoke got away with his swinging from the ass for a while and was entertaining but he's hardly Steve Smith. Broad one of the games great cheats taking the moral high ground is priceless. 2 - 0 move on.

Correct that he's "hardly Steve Smith" inasmuch he has no association with unsportsmanlike play. Yes, the best team did win but that win would have benefited immensely from being cleaner. From one of your earlier posts, is this really "as good as it gets"? Apart from being able to quickly dismiss England's lower batting order I mean.

https://www.dailymirror.lk/110646/NZ-s- ... -and-Sanga

You're not a Pom. Why are you having a whinge and a sook? Thought your mob loved it when the Poms get flogged.

Like my kiwi mate, when it comes to cricket, I root for WHOEVER is playing against the Aussies. Last month we were both cheering on India.

[tamada]

Note also, Lyons was injured, test 3 will.be with a full compliment of bowlers

This just in... Australian seen shopping for sandpaper at Wilko in Leeds.

Oh my Buddha, more hackneyed comments.

The best part is I don't have to make accommodations for the social stigmatization.

[samster]

Australia were far the better team.

As far as the stumping goes, I hear what you say MJL but, that was disgraceful. The Aussies should have reversed their appeal. A Mankad is much more sneaky but, if someone continually strays out then, the custom is to give a warning. Carey should have had a word with Bairstow after he did it the previous ball.

[jackspratt]

Spare me the sanctimony.

https://imgur.com/a/JAcQyod

AND, from the coach

[Whistler]

Never liked Mancat. Stems from High School match, I copped a foot crusher from a quick, right on the bridge of left foot. Ball was dead but the little bugger of a bowler, mancated me while I sat on the side of the pitch rubbing my very sore foot.

[Galee]

No doubt the best team won. England were diabolical on the first day.
Whatever the Aussies do that cheating label is hung on them forever.
In the next game I can see Bairstow throwing the ball at the stumps after every ball to make a point.

[marjamlew]

Never liked Mancat. Stems from High School match, I copped a foot crusher from a quick, right on the bridge of left foot. Ball was dead but the little bugger of a bowler, mancated me while I sat on the side of the pitch rubbing my very sore foot.

Mancad is when the non striker is backing up to far and is run out by the bowler in his follow through.

[marjamlew]

MCC have suspended three members - - Bartholomew Frinton-Smythe, Quentin Breckenridge and Humphrey Wigbert -Porter. The old white men of the empire that raped the world and loved a bit of genocide, upset about a stumping. Ya gotta love the old dears

[tamada]

Spare me the sanctimony.

https://imgur.com/a/JAcQyod

AND, from the coach

"But after discussions with his team, Black Caps skipper Daniel Vettori decided to withdraw the appeal in the spirit of fair play."

[tamada]

Anothe one bites the dust.

[marjamlew]

The Spirit of Cricket
Can you believe it? The national meltdown. The sanctimony. The holier than thou arrogance. The English.

There are two astounding aspects to the Jonny Bairstow run out. The first is the delusion that has been revealed within English cricket and, it seems, the entire nation.

The delusion is that they think they own and regulate the concept of ‘the spirit of the game.’ For them it’s their right to give the rest of us a good old dressing down – no, a ferocious scolding – about what is, and isn’t fair.

And, of course, for them there’s no need to be consistent with their deliberations. They didn’t seem to care about the spirit of the game a decade ago when the umpire inexplicably missed Stuart Broad clearly edging the ball to be caught at first slip.

Broad knew he edged it. The Australians knew he edged it. Broad stood his ground. Given the obsession his country seems to have with upholding all things that fall under ‘the spirit of the game’, one would have expected Broad to walk. He didn’t.

On Sunday, Broad was brought to the crease as the next batter in line after Bairstow. When he arrived in the middle of the ground, it seemed he had the almighty spirit pulsating through his moral conscience. He told wicketkeeper, Alex Carey, that the Bairstow run-out would be what he’s forever remembered for.

This is the same Stuart Broad who said after he edged to slip and didn’t walk:

“Those things aren’t remembered. It’s winning the series that will be remembered. We do have a win-at-all-costs mentality. I think we’re quite an unpleasant team to play against at the moment. Teams won’t play against us and enjoy the experience. That’s want we want.”

Anyone else smell the stench of hypocrisy?

The second staggering aspect of the whole episode is the reaction from the locals. From the bloated elitists in the MCC long-room chanting ‘cheat’ to the Australian players as they walked past, the crowd chanting ‘same old Aussies, same old cheats’, the less than squeaky clean coach who won’t have a beer with the Aussies, the journalist asking if we’ll see an underarm bowl from the Australians during the series, to the typically unhinged front pages of the nation’s newspapers.

They scream at us with bluster and condemnation, insisting we don’t understand sportsmanship, or respect the spirit of the game.

But the truth is, it’s the English who have let themselves down and acted like bad sports far more than the Australians. Fundamental to being a good sport and upholding the spirit of the game is the notion of accepting the umpire’s decision.

Only a day before the run-out incident, Mitchell Starc appeared to take a catch – he controlled it, then upon falling to the ground, slid the ball along the ground. The umpire deemed that because his hand was not under the ball, it was not a catch. The decision was, frankly, bulldust.

But while disappointed, and probably a little disillusioned, the Australians got on with it. After all, respecting the umpire’s decision is fundamental to upholding the game’s spirit.

Of course, the English were ok with that decision because it went their way. But a day later, when the shoe was on the other foot, the nation was engulfed in an almighty – and it must be said – unflattering meltdown.

They seem confused. Cheating is when you transgress the laws of the game. We’ve been there before. But whatever way you look at it, Australia did not do that on Sunday at Lords.

But that won’t stop the English – they’ll go on beating their chest, stomping their feet, bleating, chanting about Bazball and the legacy which they’re yet to create, and, of course, the importance of the spirit of the game.

Their famous supporter group, the Barmy Army, will sing about sandpaper and Australian’s being cheats. The rest of the fans will boo the Australian players.

And it will be all ok, because don’t forget, the English are the arbiters of what’s banter, sledging, what feels right, sportsmanship, and the spirit of the game. Just like they decide when the ball is dead and when the over has been called. The rest of us appear to live in their world.

Except, so far, the part about winning.

Can you believe it? The national meltdown. The sanctimony. The holier than thou arrogance. The English.

There are two astounding aspects to the Jonny Bairstow run out. The first is the delusion that has been revealed within English cricket and, it seems, the entire nation.

The delusion is that they think they own and regulate the concept of ‘the spirit of the game.’ For them it’s their right to give the rest of us a good old dressing down – no, a ferocious scolding – about what is, and isn’t fair.

And, of course, for them there’s no need to be consistent with their deliberations. They didn’t seem to care about the spirit of the game a decade ago when the umpire inexplicably missed Stuart Broad clearly edging the ball to be caught at first slip.

Broad knew he edged it. The Australians knew he edged it. Broad stood his ground. Given the obsession his country seems to have with upholding all things that fall under ‘the spirit of the game’, one would have expected Broad to walk. He didn’t.

On Sunday, Broad was brought to the crease as the next batter in line after Bairstow. When he arrived in the middle of the ground, it seemed he had the almighty spirit pulsating through his moral conscience. He told wicketkeeper, Alex Carey, that the Bairstow run-out would be what he’s forever remembered for.

This is the same Stuart Broad who said after he edged to slip and didn’t walk:

“Those things aren’t remembered. It’s winning the series that will be remembered. We do have a win-at-all-costs mentality. I think we’re quite an unpleasant team to play against at the moment. Teams won’t play against us and enjoy the experience. That’s want we want.”

Anyone else smell the stench of hypocrisy?

The second staggering aspect of the whole episode is the reaction from the locals. From the bloated elitists in the MCC long-room chanting ‘cheat’ to the Australian players as they walked past, the crowd chanting ‘same old Aussies, same old cheats’, the less than squeaky clean coach who won’t have a beer with the Aussies, the journalist asking if we’ll see an underarm bowl from the Australians during the series, to the typically unhinged front pages of the nation’s newspapers.

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They scream at us with bluster and condemnation, insisting we don’t understand sportsmanship, or respect the spirit of the game.

But the truth is, it’s the English who have let themselves down and acted like bad sports far more than the Australians. Fundamental to being a good sport and upholding the spirit of the game is the notion of accepting the umpire’s decision.

Only a day before the run-out incident, Mitchell Starc appeared to take a catch – he controlled it, then upon falling to the ground, slid the ball along the ground. The umpire deemed that because his hand was not under the ball, it was not a catch. The decision was, frankly, bulldust.

But while disappointed, and probably a little disillusioned, the Australians got on with it. After all, respecting the umpire’s decision is fundamental to upholding the game’s spirit.

Of course, the English were ok with that decision because it went their way. But a day later, when the shoe was on the other foot, the nation was engulfed in an almighty – and it must be said – unflattering meltdown.

They seem confused. Cheating is when you transgress the laws of the game. We’ve been there before. But whatever way you look at it, Australia did not do that on Sunday at Lords.

But that won’t stop the English – they’ll go on beating their chest, stomping their feet, bleating, chanting about Bazball and the legacy which they’re yet to create, and, of course, the importance of the spirit of the game.

Their famous supporter group, the Barmy Army, will sing about sandpaper and Australian’s being cheats. The rest of the fans will boo the Australian players.

And it will be all ok, because don’t forget, the English are the arbiters of what’s banter, sledging, what feels right, sportsmanship, and the spirit of the game. Just like they decide when the ball is dead and when the over has been called. The rest of us appear to live in their world.

Except, so far, the part about winning.

https://footyology.com.au/spirit-of-cri ... t-out-guv/