The Ashes.
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Unsung hero was Carey. A fantastic, one handed catch, after setting himself by standing legside. He got exactly what he asked Hazlewood to bowl, a shortish ball, on Duckett's hip.
Re. the 'stumping' of Bairstow: "An incendiary moment had blood boiling at Lord's amid howls about the 'spirit of cricket' but it was a strict interpretation of the laws that caused all the consternation."
All the lowdown: https://www.cricket.com.au/news/spirit- ... 2023-07-03
Re. the 'stumping' of Bairstow: "An incendiary moment had blood boiling at Lord's amid howls about the 'spirit of cricket' but it was a strict interpretation of the laws that caused all the consternation."
All the lowdown: https://www.cricket.com.au/news/spirit- ... 2023-07-03
Donny.
It's a game. Enjoy it.
It's a game. Enjoy it.
Stokes is full of shit if he reckons they would not have tried to stump or run out in the same fashion. Pope did something similar to De Grondhomme from the slips last year. Stokes says it’s not the same as this was the last ball of the over. Absolute horseshit batsmen leave the crease between balls to talk to the non striker all the time when the ball is declared dead. Over was not called so Bairstow is just ignorant for wandering off.
As for Broad carrying on after the event, we’ll he has been smacked in the helmet a few times this series so clearly a few things have shifted up there.
As for Broad carrying on after the event, we’ll he has been smacked in the helmet a few times this series so clearly a few things have shifted up there.
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Most here have played a lot of cricket and know the laws backwards. After the delivery of the last ball in an over, the ball is “live” until the umpire says “Over” but until then you can run a batsman out. Someone was hypothetically asking whether the batsmen would have run if Carey’s throw had missed and gone towards the boundary and the consensus was that they would have. So this is partly sour grapes, partly a British media beat up and partly an opportunity to kick the Aussies after the poms have lost 2 tests! Bring on the 3rd test and I hope we kick their arses again.
I term the current Collingwood attack based strategy “Unceasing Waves” like on a stormy and windy day with rough seas. A Perfect Storm 
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Agree Lazza, as a keeper Bairstow would be well aware of the rules. And like the Starc catch, it was sent to the 3rd umpire to adjudicate.
Amongst the boos in the long room you can hear some Aussies laughing...
https://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket/th ... d5bab74cd2
The MCC letting colonials into the long room...
The furore over the Bairstow dismissal is a godsend for England as it deflects from the fact that they are 2 nil down and their stupid batting cost them in both tests.
Amongst the boos in the long room you can hear some Aussies laughing...
https://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket/th ... d5bab74cd2
The MCC letting colonials into the long room...
The furore over the Bairstow dismissal is a godsend for England as it deflects from the fact that they are 2 nil down and their stupid batting cost them in both tests.
If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but just grumble with the rest. - Jerome K Jerome
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Spot on, it's being played up by the players as a distraction.
They "felt like" they won the first test (but didn't) because they made all the play but we played boring
They would have won the second test but we cheated and stumped Bairstow.
Would've, should've but didn't.
Spot on, it's being played up by the players as a distraction.
They "felt like" they won the first test (but didn't) because they made all the play but we played boring
They would have won the second test but we cheated and stumped Bairstow.
Would've, should've but didn't.
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
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Love you to expand Frankie. I am interested in your reasoning.FrankieGoesToCollingwood wrote:Love beating the poms as much as anyone, but I was feeling uneasy right after the incident. That was my initial gut feel. Still not comfortable with it
I term the current Collingwood attack based strategy “Unceasing Waves” like on a stormy and windy day with rough seas. A Perfect Storm
The problem that I have with Bazball, other than it being another example of a kiwi claiming credit for something he didn't invent is that... well...
I dunno if was just a Frankston thing but you know when you're walking around in jeans on a hot humid day for some reason and you get all that chaffing in your groin and sometimes on your gonads? Well back in the day we used to call that rash "Bazza". AKA, Bazza Ballrash. I once knew a guy called Barry. And now you know his nickname.
Every time I hear the term 'Bazball', all I can think about is genital rash. Now while that's disturbing, sure, it seems fitting that England's sports fans have pinned their national pride on it. They're not, in the main, known for being a very hygienic mob
Anyway, I was kinda with Frankie at first. My first thought was "Yeah Pat oughta call that back" but on review, nah. I mean, aside from the well made point of Stokes and McCullum's hypocrisy in the matter with their own past actions, Stokes did say earlier in the week, in response to Ollie Robinson's profanity laden example of English spirit of the game, that they are all professionals and that this is the Ashes and that changes things. So Ben himself ceded "spirit of the game" that very week.
Furthermore, well yeah... he's out. Fatty the batsman doesn't get to decide when the ball is dead just because his blood glucose got a bit low and he was dozily strolling around wondering if someone might have dropped a few corn chips on a good length for him to scrounge up. It's not his decision. The ball was very much still live. Everyone outside the groin rash bubble and it's adoring fans understands this.
Calling him back would be offering them a freebie. Something you might do when playing a minnow or someone irrelevant like Bangladesh or New Zealand. (I was going to say WI too but they didn't call back Deano so fuggem). Even then it happens maybe once every 20 or 30 years. But as Mr Stokes said, this is the Ashes. No freebies.
And man, I thought our education system was on the decline... But how can it be cheating if it's in the rules? Someone needs to teach that motley array of toffs and chavs a bit about logic. Sad that a windswept s---hole the size of your armpit could once produce intellectual giants like Newton, Turing and Hawking but now struggles to sort out this little brain buster.
I dunno if was just a Frankston thing but you know when you're walking around in jeans on a hot humid day for some reason and you get all that chaffing in your groin and sometimes on your gonads? Well back in the day we used to call that rash "Bazza". AKA, Bazza Ballrash. I once knew a guy called Barry. And now you know his nickname.
Every time I hear the term 'Bazball', all I can think about is genital rash. Now while that's disturbing, sure, it seems fitting that England's sports fans have pinned their national pride on it. They're not, in the main, known for being a very hygienic mob
Anyway, I was kinda with Frankie at first. My first thought was "Yeah Pat oughta call that back" but on review, nah. I mean, aside from the well made point of Stokes and McCullum's hypocrisy in the matter with their own past actions, Stokes did say earlier in the week, in response to Ollie Robinson's profanity laden example of English spirit of the game, that they are all professionals and that this is the Ashes and that changes things. So Ben himself ceded "spirit of the game" that very week.
Furthermore, well yeah... he's out. Fatty the batsman doesn't get to decide when the ball is dead just because his blood glucose got a bit low and he was dozily strolling around wondering if someone might have dropped a few corn chips on a good length for him to scrounge up. It's not his decision. The ball was very much still live. Everyone outside the groin rash bubble and it's adoring fans understands this.
Calling him back would be offering them a freebie. Something you might do when playing a minnow or someone irrelevant like Bangladesh or New Zealand. (I was going to say WI too but they didn't call back Deano so fuggem). Even then it happens maybe once every 20 or 30 years. But as Mr Stokes said, this is the Ashes. No freebies.
And man, I thought our education system was on the decline... But how can it be cheating if it's in the rules? Someone needs to teach that motley array of toffs and chavs a bit about logic. Sad that a windswept s---hole the size of your armpit could once produce intellectual giants like Newton, Turing and Hawking but now struggles to sort out this little brain buster.