Still no one breaks Alistair Brown's 268 from twenty years ago
Still no one breaks Alistair Brown's 268 from twenty years ago
Brutal scenes and still room for Captain Morgan to put in one of his shit show cameos.
I am pretty fucking impressed that Pieter Seelaar is still going. Bowling left arm spin for them for 15 years must be a thankless task.
That scorecard is a bit mad.
Jimmy, as our resident umpire, what is the deal with saliva on the ball now? I know it's been banned but our club have had an email about my team having had several reports from umpires of (subconsciously) applying saliva to the ball. Other than the first game of the season, we've never actually been picked up on it. Is that the actual protocol, to not pick us up on it during a game and just grass us up to the league? The new Dukes balls are wank and need all the help they can get.
I don't think it's banned in law until the 1 October changes, but I think by ECB dictat it is banned. The guidance we are given on it by the Surrey panel is that in an unconscious instance of it (i.e. someone doing it out of habit without thinking) you just politely tell them not to, but if you think it's being done deliberately, then the first instance is a warning and the second instance is five penalty runs. I presume that eventually it will fall under 41.3 changing the condition of the ball, so we're kind of pretending it does in anticipation of the law change.
If there is a protocol in your league to grass you up afterwards, then that will be a local decision by their panel. I've done seven league games this season and I think I've given two or three friendly warnings to players who forget it's banned, and they just say sorry and that's the end of it.
Thought as much, pretty weird behaviour by our lot then.
What happens next season then when it is actually banned, if someone does it subconsciously?
If it follows 41.3 as currently written, then first offence is 5 penalty runs, second offence is hooking the bowler who's on at the time.
In practice, I honestly can't imagine umpires (particularly in amateur cricket) shotgunning 5 penalty runs every time they see someone lick their finger, so we'll have to see how it pans out.
Is this covid related?
Absolutely mental if that's led to shining the ball being effectively banned forever. Are you allowed a sticky sugar substitute in your pocket in lieu?
Prince Andrew would be completely ball bagged. Didn't Cook also not sweat but that made him a great ball handler? is the shining guy [no sweat] now going to have to stand next to the sweatiest guy to rub the ball on prior to working it over?
You're allowed to use sweat, but not saliva.
Maybe Eoin Morgan has eyes on being the designated sweater for the ODI side.
So is Jamie Overton also a racist, or....?
And how good actually is he? Haven't we had so many injuries he's about our 38th choice bowler?
Not a racist as far as I know.
He had years of struggle to the point where last year he was mainly playing as a batsman. Then during the winter, Azhar Mahmood joined Surrey as bowling coach and he has been magically transformed into someone knocking over county lineups at good pace. It'll be interesting to see how he goes.
The issue I have is he's got a second division centre forward's name so surely can't be a good bowler.
The whole team have League One player names, apart from Zak Crawley who has a shit overpromoted county cricketer name.
These Headingley 2019 highlights.
What a day that was.
The wasted review.
The shot after Lyon muffs the run out is one of those brilliant moments just capturing a bunch of emotions at once.
Stokes, Leach, Lyon e fielders all in varying states if "what just happened?"
Glenn McGrath's seethe on the radio commentary was an all time great few minutes.
Never heard it. I assume he was kicking off with Lyon for having his hands on back to front and Paine for the worst review of all time?
That's no inside edge. Frame by frame always skews that.
Think it's pretty harsh to lose a review there where the guy is basically bang to rights out but Aleem Dar didn't fancy it so 'stayed with the onfield decision'.
Aleem has lost his way in the last few years. Marais, though. What a guy. My umpiring hero.
I think there's a slightly longer one but searching on my phone is a pain. But you can see some of his seething face here.Originally Posted by Ben
Never heard it. I assume he was kicking off with Lyon for having his hands on back to front and Paine for the worst review of all time?
https://youtu.be/7td1U-FuhmY
Is it just me or is there now a bit of an unsatisfying 'but is it a no ball?' lull after a wicket falls? At least with DRS you can compartmentalise which types of dismissals should be treated circumspectly at first.
There used to be but maybe I'm just used to it now. I still gave Conway a big send off as soon as the pole got knocked back.
The thrust of the McGrath seethe was around the bad review and the other review which looked out but wasn't.
That's the strangest dismissal I've ever seen.
Twitter Indians in floods of bitter tears about it too. It's amazing what gets them going.
How dare any luck go England's way, eh? I've seen numerous tweets claiming we should have called him back, like the great and wise Dhoni did in 2011.
It did in the WC, to be fair.
How the Indians dare to comment on anything to do with honesty, integrity and humbleness I do not know. I suppose you can add obliviousness and ignorance to their list of adjectives when it comes to cricket.
Mahendra possibly the most corrupt man ever to play the game as well (though there are a few contenders for that title).
No way he isnt on the take. Some seriously suspicious innings over the years.
https://crickettimes.com/2022/06/all...ent-the-6ixty/
Jesus fucking Christ.
I don't know why it never occurs to people (even the weary critics) that these things exist purely for match fixing purposes or, being generous, for the purposes of those weird 'Dream 11' gambling apps that the Indians are all addicted to.
Are we just freakishly unlucky when playing in England? Stokes world cup off a deflection, Nicholl's wicket off a deflection, and now Blundell's wicket the ball after DRS goes down.
It was out anyway, calm down.
That is a bad run though as a silver lining two of them have come in a game that doesn't matter.
Potts was probably due a bit of luck, bowled very well yesterday without much reward.
DRS was pretty good for New Zealand yesterday. It all evens itself out eh?
Got a lot of time for Potts' economy rate.
Shame our catching is still absolutely tragic.
Broad is such a lovely guy in interviews but such a pain in the arse on the pitch. Get a grip, man.
My favourite response from cricinfo.
Joydeepsinghgil: "If Drs malfunctioning why they couldn't stop the match for 15-20 minutes "
The changing the ball thing has to stop, mind. You should be stuck with the same ball unless it gets lost.
I would die happy if we beat India by 1 wicket on day 5 with a DRS controversy.
You got TMS on Jimmy? Lots of umpiring chat.
Did they do a you're the umpire? Those are great for listeners but like PTSD for actual umpires who have ever had something weird happen in a game and not known what to do.
It was questions from amateur umpires and theoretical umpiring questions (one involving a parrot) from the bantermen of the TMS listeners.
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