I was thinking the same when I saw them the other day.
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I was thinking the same when I saw them the other day.
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'Alright, son, this will catch you out. Who was your cricketing hero growing up?'
'Shahid Afridi.'
'Bollocks.'
Langer's walked before he was sacked. All we need is for Davey to fuck off forever and I think we well be good to go for the next 5 years.
https://www.news.com.au/sport/cricke...d96b4de6d457b0
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Watch England appoint Langer
It would be the most Tom Harrison thing ever. 'This is a man who knows how to win cricket's most coveted prize: the Ashes'.
Looks like the u19 final is going well.
Truly miraculous partnership, this. I thought it was a 70 all out job at one stage. Rew looks like a true grinder, left handed Collingwood vibes.
Pope on the sofa a Sky natural with his assured talk of baddas and their preddy simple techniques. Just needs the career now.
Is any Indian cricket team likeable? Just seem like gits from top to bottom.
The Indian cricket system is so chaotic, competitive, arbitrary and patronage-based that almost anyone who makes it to national level is, at the very least, going to have really sharp elbows.
Kind of the opposite to England, whereby if you play a pretty cover drive in the Tonbridge School nets, an international career is mapped out for you.
Is Rahul Dravid the toppest lad of Indian cricket?
Yeah, I'd say so. He's probably too honourable and will get done in by politics in the end.
I always liked this (Ed Smith, bleh) article from when he retired: https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/e...dignity-557122
That's a good article. As you know I came to cricket relatively late, certainly compared to I think all of this thread's regulars, but I do remember the first series I paid attention to where we played against Dravid. No idea the result or scores or anything, just that after I'd got past you presumably having to be pretty cool to earn the nickname "the wall" that he just stood out as a professional sportsman. Accountability before bluster and just always seeming like the classiest guy.
Known aggro dickhead upset that his fellow aggro dickhead mate didnt get his way.
Cummins will cop plenty of fire going forward from precisely the type of people we dont want near the Test team anymore.
https://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket...lQDCKNXyfmBWdQEx-Aussie teammate Mitch Johnson slams captain Pat Cummins in extraordinary attack
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Only Australia could win the Ashes 4-0 and follow it up with a massive egotistical dick-swinging contest between current and former greats, pulling the team into turmoil.
Elite honesty from all concerned, I'm sure.
Langer was also grinding his coaching staff into the ground with Elite micromanaging.
Last edited by Queenslander; 06-02-2022 at 12:12 PM.
I'm not convinced Australia even needed a coach to win the Ashes this year.
Fuck me the fallout from this is as toxic as it gets.
Maybe we should run 2 tests teams, one for all the blokes who love kicking puppies and one for the rest of us that have moved on from the win at all costs mentality eg threatening violence, king hitting Joe Root, using sand paper, appointing a sex pest as Captain. etc
The amount of toxic masculinity swirling around atm is shameful.
Last edited by Queenslander; 07-02-2022 at 05:24 AM.
Mullet and a tash seems unironically incredibly fashionable in Australia these days so I'm hardly surprised toxic masculinity is causing issues.
Cummins is getting dragged over being too PC whatever that means.
You will end up with Dizzy surely, which will be very sad as he is brilliant and a good man.
Dizzy and Cummins is the perfect combination going forward.
Edit: I just remembered when Langer's generation were coached by John Buchanan they won everything and they all threw him under the bus.
This fallout will takes years to fade away.
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I don't often watch or comment on the T20 franchise leagues, but fucking hell, that innings from Roy today was something else. Incredible hitting.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...st-indies-tour
Obviously I already know how dreamy Foakes is and I'd like to see Mahmood get a go but somebody tell me what to think about Lees, Clarke and Bohannon please.
Lees has been around for some time. At one point was the coming thing, then fell away, then left Yorkshire for Durham, and now seems to have had a renaissance. Can't be any worse than the openers we've had recently.
Bohannon has a good record and looks about 15 years older than he is, not seen loads of him because he plays up north and mainly red ball which is rarely on TV.
Joe Clarke... immense talent. Also been involved in various incidents which means he is on Eoin Morgan's shit list with Hales. Used to be in the Worcestershire rape club, now in the Notts coke club. If he gets picked there will be an outcry from some quarters, I imagine.
'Worcestershire rape club'....?
Oh. Lovely.
Seems we're dropping both Broad and Anderson, I can't wait to see which no doubt superior bowlers they pick instead.
What, for the whole series?
I look forward to the "we are managing them" comments but we wont use either of them again until June.
The named squad is totally bizarre. They don't seem to have picked a backup opener (to Lees/Crawley) or a number three at all. Presumably that means Root's doing it, in which case... ah fuck it, who knows.
Matt Fisher is a bizarre choice.
"No-one doubts the quality and experience that James and Stuart bring to the England set-up. It will be up to the new managing director and permanent head coach to decide on whether they will be involved this summer and beyond."
It would be deeply weird for anybody to have somehow come to the conclusion that they are the issue, if that's what's really happening here.
Oh look, another sign of ECB institutional failure! Useless cunts.
I think the most likely explanation is that one or both of the duo told Root he is a shit captain, and now that Silverwood/Giles are gone there is no one left to quell Root's vengeance.
There's no way Andrew Strauss and/or Paul Collingwood are thick enough to actually believe the above statement.
Waahhh, James and Stuart won’t let us micro manage every aspect of their lives, wahhhh.
Absolutely no chance we’ll appoint a ruthless coach like Kirsten because he’ll call the ECB out for what they are.
A jilted Jimmy bunging up the county game for another decade Darren Stevens style would be glorious.
They tried appointing a useless weed before to go alongside our useless weed captain and it didn't work - surely they won't get away with it again? I guess there is absolutely no accountability for Tom Harrison so he'll probably do just that.Originally Posted by Ben
Mickey Arthur, who has inexplicably washed up at Derbyshire, would be my choice. Give them a couple of Tests at the county ground as compensation.
What a class act.
“There has been much public comment since Justin Langer’s resignation as the Coach of the Australian Cricket team.
For good reason, I haven’t made public comment before today.
To speak about a decision, which was yet to be made and which is for Cricket Australia to make, would have put Cricket Australia and the team in an impossible position. I’d never do that.
I believe in respecting the sanctity of the change room and proper process.
Now that a decision has been made by Justin to resign and given his own public comments and others by Cricket Australia, I can provide some clarity.
Justin has acknowledged that his style was intense. And it was.
He has apologised to players and staff for his intensity.
I think the apology was unnecessary.
Because the players were ok with JL’s intensity.
It came from a good place – his fierce love of Australia and the baggy green – something which has served Australian cricket well for three decades.
It’s what makes him a legend of the sport.
And Justin’s intensity drove a better team culture and higher team standards.
These are significant Justin Langer legacies.
And on behalf of the players, I thank Justin.
More than that, we owe him a lot and Justin will be a welcome face in the change room in the future.
So, his intensity was not the issue for the players and the support staff.
The question is: what is the best style of coaching for the future, given how the team has evolved?
We have been very well schooled in how to play cricket in the right way – in the correct Australian way.
We understand the importance of always playing to the highest ethical standards.
And the players need no motivation as I’ve never played with more motivated cricketers.
To be better players for Australia, from this solid foundation, we need a new style of coaching and skill set.
This was the feedback the players gave to Cricket Australia. And it’s the feedback I understand support staff also gave.
We welcome that Cricket Australia invited the players and staff to contribute to CA’s evaluation.
I add that as professional sportspeople we would have accepted any decision CA were to make because that’s what professionals do.
CA have made a brave call to transition, given the team has been winning.
Finally, we are custodians of cricket, with one very big thing in common: our first duty is to Australian cricket, which is bigger than any one of us.
I take this responsibility seriously. I live and breathe it.
We also have a duty to our mates.
Many former players have reached out to me and silently offered me their advice which is welcome.
Some others have spoken in the media – which is also welcome and comes from a love of the game and their support of a mate.
To all past players, I want to say this:
Just as you have always stuck up for your mates, I’m sticking up for mine.”
"change room"
It's a dark day for not starting sentences with conjunctions.
I'm watching the IPL auction (isolation things), the auctioneer collapsed during a bidding war for Wanindu Hasaranga. They seem to have just dragged him off, found some other geezer and carried on
Jason Roy nearly went unsold until his old Surrey coach Vikram Solanki stuck up the paddle at the death, love a bit of that sort of thing.
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture...aches-wont-fix
Love a bit of Liew.
What's the feeling on The Hundred now that the dust has settled? I appreciate you won't achieve overnight change with one tournament but do they think it's done much to start to make cricket appeal to a wider audience?Like the increasingly preposterous Boris Johnson, Harrison has resolved to brazen out a situation that would have swept away lesser men. Like Johnson, there are few questions that he cannot answer with a lavish recital of his successes: in white-ball cricket, England’s men and women have both won World Cups, while the launch of the Hundred competition yielded record crowds and impressive TV audiences.
As a traditionalist, I hate it. But I can’t deny it was entertaining for what it was and got a lot of people interested who otherwise weren’t. Even my wife was enjoying it.
It was great for the women's game. Its (possibly considerable) ill effects are the knock ons for the rest of cricket, rather than people having a terrible time at the actual Hundred games. I'm not sure why it couldn't be 15 overs (if it had to be shorter than T20) rather than the stupid 100 ball mess which was dreamed up by morons.
I've become weirdly obsessed by the IPL auction. I've just watched a bidding war for Jofra Archer, who is listed as an 'All-Rounder', and who won't play this year, reach over $1 million.
All rounder
Last edited by Queenslander; 13-02-2022 at 11:40 AM.
That is one of the more laughable quotes I have ever seen.
By older players of course he means 'older men who were once players'.
Nah Tubby would back himself to go again.
Last edited by Queenslander; 13-02-2022 at 12:18 PM.
In fairness the could all probably do a job for England right now.
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