No, those things can fuck off as well.
My sister had a lone piper at her wedding. If only he had been alone, in fact there were 150 people there to hear it.
I enjoy a good old bag pipe session.
The English are just plain rude.
I like big country honouring their heritage by just having guitars that sound like bagpipes. Similar with the guitar solo in under the milky way by the church. Good song.
Everybody is losing their minds that David "Un-Australian" Warner was picked up by the Channel 9 commentary team.
I don't care about the fact that he's still being punished, but I can't imagine ever wanting to hear what he thinks about anything. It's not like he strikes you as a particularly insightful observer of the game. He's basically an idiot. What's the point?
Because he's a famous star and it'll make people tune in.
The same shite leads to the tragic media careers in this country of various Ashes 2005 players including Pietersen, Vaughan and Flintoff.
I'm no aficionado of Australian limited overs cricket, but Paine and Stoinis as a third wicket pairing seems like the batting must be a bit light.
I'm not convinced this side wouldn't have gotten the Sheffield Shield wooden spoon in the late '90s or early '00s.
Just a bit.
Australia are just spectacularly poor players of spin atm, as bad as any of England’s horror shows.
How many actual batsmen are in this team? Just Finch and Marsh?
Ashton Agar to the rescue!
Darren Lehmann having a twitter whinge at Alison Mitchell is pretty great. He really is a piece of work.
Made a meal of that.
I can't work out whether it's going to be cathartic or depressing when these idiots fail to chase a modest total in a serious knockout match by backing themselves to execute the aggressive brand instead of just playing with a modicum of sense.
We've managed to avoid the traditional Sri Lankan quarter-final shambles by abolishing quarter-finals, but we need to almost completely revamp our bowling lineup before then. Wood and Plunkett isn't winning anyone anything, and David Willey is utter toilet if it doesn't not only swing, but swing lavishly.
How benevolent of the English players to permit their hands to be sullied by handshakes with the dirty cheating convicts.
"News".
Not news here cobber.
"Complex".
Sky ran the 'story' too. But, y'know, Sky.
Someone get Mick Lewis on the blower, his record could be in danger here.
How are Australia so bad?
I reckon T20 has a massive negative influence on bowlers/bowling. It's alright being able to sneak a few odd varietals in when you only have to bowl 4 overs and going for anything less that 10 is an achievement, and everyone is swinging for he bleachers every ball. When you scale that up to 10 overs it's just buffet shite for half decent batsman because there are so many bad balls and they have the ability to wait for them and hit them out of this preposterously little ground.
I don't hate that Smith isn't being forced to play through this.
Why is there even a series on at the moment? It seems like there's a whole bunch of sports that are desperately trying to compete with the World Cup. Surely unwise.
Bad day to be a South African lady cricketer.
Root heroically chucking down 10 overs for 44 in this runfest is lol.
Brutal.
Shame the World Cup isn't this year as no one is living with this England batting line-up in the form they are in. It'll probably all go to shit when they drop Root to get Stokes back into the team. I'm trying to think how the ICC can fudge the pitches to thwart us.
Pakistan are going to win the World Cup, so really it's just a case of whether we lose to them in the semis or completely bomb out in the group stage.
Buttler was a joke here.
That 6 off Stoinis when they'd just gone 9 down was mental.
T20 cricket is, literally, just hit and giggle now. The bowlers can't keep the grins off their faces as they go at 15-an-over.
It's going to take Australia years to recover from this ball tampering business. Proper cultural victory for the Kevin Rudd coffee drinking poser side of things.
Great tour lads, thanks for coming.
Dalmia Cement boundary boards at Malahide, they've finally made it.
Stayed up watching the rerun of this just long enough to see the recalled Suresh Raina be bounced out by Peter Chase. There are some comforting constants in life.
I bet Smith realised it.
Ronald rolling back the years in the hit and giggle cup. Get him in the test team (says Butch). Big Fat Rob isn't sold.
Based on his form this year, him for Malan is definitely an argument worth having. It's India, too, if it was Pakistan or someone you could chuck the series in the name of positive, forward-thinking selection, but we can't be losing to India.
I've not seen much of this Kuldeep fella, but from the bits I saw yesterday, he looks a bit of a chucker. Is that par for the course with 'mystery' spinners? I thought they'd gone quite strict on that now.
The chucking inquisition did not include Indians, or else Harbhajan and Trashwin would have been in the dole queue by now.
Kuldeep doesn't look like a chuck here, though who's to say if this is his usual action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-SlqsIac1k
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I think he's just quite chest-on, which I always find a bit aesthetically odd.
Dhoni
What was he doing? Utter joke, seems like he was simply playing for statistics until they told him to hit out or get out.
Good example of why England need Root, even if he looks like a bit of a third wheel in 400 run smashfests.
Harsh on Hales that he's the one to make way for Stokes, his form is second only to Bairstow, if that. We could probably do without Wood, Stokes and Root can share his overs . . .
Stokes doesn’t get in the ODI side as a batsman or a bowler despite his obvious talent, his record in this form isn’t great. Not that you’d drop him due to the balance he offers.
For proper (world cup) ODIs, it should definitely be Hales and Stokes and one less bowler.
Plenty of teams go with 4 front-line bowlers and 2 or 3 to share the other 10 overs (not saying that's necessarily a good move), but Ali, Rashid, Stokes, Plunkett Willey, Wood is 6 front-liners! What's the point? Especially as 2018 Mark Wood is pretty shit really, right? Can't help but think his continued selection is a kind of classic English stubbornness mixed with selective memory. Good bantz, KNOWS THE PLANS, used to be pretty rapid at some point, he'll come good at some point. Don't think the ego of selectors/the England MACHINE can cope with the thought that just picking the best players would be more effective than picking ones they've "moulded". It's borderline sunk cost fallacy at times with these wankers.
I've talked to a couple of people who would know, and apparently it's just a massive open secret that Dhoni fixes voraciously and is one of the most corrupt people in the history of cricket. He gets away with it though because he is untouchable within India and has all the big politicians/businessmen onside, to the point where TV commentators have been sacked for criticising him.
Chennai Super Kings is just a massive fixing racket.
Maybe Adil can reconsider his red ball retirement. All over the Indians here.