He played club cricket in my manor last year, now currently scoring no runs for Victoria.
He played club cricket in my manor last year, now currently scoring no runs for Victoria.
I see, well, back to your earlier point, at least they've got a ready made hero to step in, in Usman Khawaja's eyes:
"To say Dave Warner or anyone else involved in sandpaper[gate] is not a hero. I strongly disagree because they have paid their dues. A year out of cricket is a long time."
Does this T10 only exist for match fixing/betting purposes? All the teams are sponsored by betting exchanges or fantasy cricket websites yet there's no spectators in the ground and I can't imagine TV viewing figures are through the roof, and I doubt the likes of Amir and Pollard would be turning out for less than $50k.
Yes. Half of county cricket is there too. Imagine the lack of self respect, playing in that utter shite so that desperate cases in the subcontinent can gamble on you.
Embarrassing collapse from England once again. Salt chips one to mid off first over, Crawley gloves a wide to slip, Brook runs himself out, then the captain top edges his first ball to fine leg.
Losing a series to that lot should be penalised by having to come home in a canoe.
Test squad for India:
Ben Stokes (Durham – captain)
Rehan Ahmed (Leicestershire)
James Anderson (Lancashire)
Gus Atkinson (Surrey)
Jonny Bairstow (Yorkshire)
Shoaib Bashir (Somerset)
Harry Brook (Yorkshire)
Zak Crawley (Kent)
Ben Duckett (Nottinghamshire)
Ben Foakes (Surrey)
Tom Hartley (Lancashire)
Jack Leach (Somerset)
Ollie Pope (Surrey)
Ollie Robinson (Sussex)
Joe Root (Yorkshire)
Mark Wood (Durham)
We've actually picked 4 spinners who are actual specialist spinners, ye gods have we finally learned our lesson? Admittedly Shoaib Bashir is the greenest of the green and a complete punt, I was umpiring him in club stuff a couple of years ago, and I'm not sure Tom Hartley has done much with the red ball either but at least we've not picked Livingstone.
We've allowed a slow left armer the West Indies pulled in off the street to go for just nine in his four overs there. We're an absolute car crash (Livingstone the epitome), the demise has been quite something.
How the fuck has Sam gone for 38 in two overs. I swear the IPL riches, which incidentally come because Indian women fancy him, have killed off his motivation.
West Indies literally always mug us off in the islands. My theory is they're always bang up for it as it's the only time they play in front of a crowd.
Rovman Powell (who?) smeared him to all parts.
I've just had a look and Powell has played 50 ODIs, 60 T20s. He's completely passed me by, I have no clue who he is.
Some going by England to be getting rolled over in a test match and T20 on the same day.
Hang on it's the women...
Last edited by Luke Emia; 15-12-2023 at 09:11 AM.
Bigger weapon than Phonics
Have to say, if I was umps there I don't think I'd have physically blocked his path, not great conflict resolution really. That having happened, though, for him to physically run at the umpire should be vastly longer than a 4 match ban.
You can see that's all about the umpire going fully Aussie macho this is my pitch cobber. He clearly isn't running on the pitch when you can see the little alpha twitch starting, very obviously keen for some confrontation. Completely needless and the type of thing that only serves to erode respect between both sides.
If he actually wanted him to not run on the pitch, why is he showing him the inside line? Should have stood much nearer the stumps and forced him to go wider without having to be completely off the pitch.
To be fair to the Umpire here, Curran very well knows he shouldn't be stepping onto the pitch even just a little. If it was a case of "oh sorry mate, probably did just step on there, wont happen again" then it's likely we never hear of this.
But to go and play chicken with the Umpire is just daft and the thing of more concern really.
What level are we talking for stepping on the pitch here? Not sure his feet ever go inside those tramline things, do they have a name or are they just modern wide guides? I wouldn't call that stepping on the pitch unless you don't want people on the cut square at all. Which, if that's the rule, he's obviously bang to rights.
I take it as the cut square but our resident umpire will likely know more than I.
The law says that you're not allowed to practise on the square without the permission of the umpires, either before or during the match. I don't know if the Big Bash has some kind of local rule that supersedes that. Usually you see bowlers mark out their run-up with a measuring tape, and then any actual running in and bowling is done well to the side.
Umps sees him running through onto the actual pitch and gets involved. I have very often been in a similar position and you just ask the players not to. He seems to ask this initially but Curran ignores him. Umps is probably rattled by this and decides to stand in his path to stop him doing it, which, no matter how arrogant Curran is being, isn't really helping the situation. I'd have just let him carry on and then reported him afterwards for minor twattery, unless I thought he was trying to damage the pitch which is something else.
Anyway, umps does make a physical obstruction out of himself which is needless escalation and basically bad officiating. Curran - from all I know about him, a man used to doing what he likes - then presumably gets red mist and escalates it even more by running into him. This is unforgivable because it is, as was described 'intimidating an umpire' which is a Level 3 offence and you'd get 10+ match bans if you did that in league cricket. Pros operate in a different sphere and obviously there's a livelihood thing.
Umps really didn't help the situation at all but Curran still deserves the book thrown at him.
Last edited by Jimmy Floyd; 21-12-2023 at 11:33 PM.
Even as an amateur player, we know we have to stay off the square completely before a game (we can't even practice bowling on the very end wicket). Curran is just being an arsehole and deserves what's coming.
This white ball coach of ours comes across as a right chancer.
I doubt the ump is thinking about which side to show him while he's being run at full pace by a guy the size of Curran.Originally Posted by niko_cee
I can't see how the ump has done anything wrong here. Curran just lost it.
Wow. Thanks for the support through this incredibly difficult time??? The man needs to find a PR person pronto.
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=htt...5tojy68c1.jpeg
Some proper shenanigans in Cape Town.
The Saffers got bundled for 55, then India collapsed from 153-4 to 153 all out (yes, 0-6).
Shastri is the man, no one can tell me otherwise.
Markram has somehow hit a 99-ball century (out of 158). Incredible stuff. If he can stick it out a little longer, they might even have a chance of winning this.
This will end up being rated the best innings of all time, or very close to it, on the model that ICC use for player rankings. Even a vague threat of Bannerman perhaps.
Bollocks. That's your fault Jim, any mention of Bannerman and the cricket gods react.
Good, I don't want Bannerman to fall. It's the best record in all of sport. That and 99.94.
I didn't realise how close Michael Slater got to the record in 1999.
I also didn't realise that he's been arrested numerous times in the past 3 years for assault and domestic violence. What the hell happened there?
He's always been a nutcase.
The man needs some help, and quickly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michae...st_and_charges
Even in the UK he'd have done some time after about six of those, do Australia not have jails?
In other 90s Australian cricketer news - Stuart MacGill has been up to some stuff hasn't he?
Yeah, he's the one I was trying to think of. The Aussie Escobar. If I'm remembering correctly and that's what all the abduction stuff was about
With Michael Schumacher a vegetable and the class of 92 widely derided as United tumble down the table, all I need to complete revenge for the sporting misery of my childhood is to put the rest of that Australian side behind bars. 'Haydos' first, ideally.
Ponting can stay a free man. Really like him post retirement.
Isn't Hayden one of the worst imaginable people going? Big christian country Queensland superarsehole?
The bowlers were mostly fine. Cricket as a metaphor for life.
I quite like Glenn McGrath in retirement. Gillespie has already served his time by presiding over that mega-racist Yorkshire team. Warne is in the ground and that leaves 'Binga', who showed pretty poor judgement by sending those bouncers at a barely-equipped Piers Morgan so perhaps we can nail him in the future.
I'd say bouncing the fuck out of that twat grants him immunity from prosecution.
With Ben on that one.
Didnt realize MacGill was up to no good. Always a step behind Warne
Even though he was nowhere near Warne, he was good to watch. Turned it a fucking mile and was a pure wicket taker, despite the sprinklings of unmitigated tripe as the great man Bob would put it.
T20 World Cup 'draw'
I could write a long book on how that has been put together. Every single penny squeezed and not a single pretence of sporting integrity going into it. Imagine if FIFA got the 32 World Cup qualifiers and decided to put Brazil v Argentina together every time because it makes them more money. Actually, they could learn from this.
But yeah, needless to say India v Pakistan will be played at the Cradle of Cricket, Eisenhower Park in New York.
I forgot that was over here. Decided to look for tickets, seems impossible to find them
Didn't we just have this world cup about 3 weeks ago?
What the fuck happened with Group C? We're playing who now?
I think they herded all the teams with no TV markets into one group to give the graveyard slots. So, so much thought has gone into it.
This tournament will 100% not be a shit show, don't worry.
So then are we thinking first embarrassing loss to Oman or Namibia?
I haven't even got into the bit where the Super Eight draw is pre-determined, i.e. one group is going to be India-Australia-South Africa-Sri Lanka and the other is going to be England-Pakistan-New Zealand-West Indies, regardless of whether all those teams finish 1 or 2 in their group. If one of those eight get knocked out in the first round then the team concerned just inherits their pre-arranged spot.
An epidemic of personal reasons is doing the rounds for the England-India series. Harry Brook withdrew from the series yesterday and now Virat Kohli has done the same for the first two games.
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