Cricket Thread

[waspish]

As much as I despised Ponting as a player, he’s a good addition as an analyst to Sky Sports.

But his bias really was apparent yesterday when Stokes was hitting it everywhere.

Looking ahead to Thursday, I really hope Wood plays. Our bowling attack has been too one-dimensional thus far.

Yeah Ponting Hussain Sangakkara Atherton and mark Taylor are very good sack the rest off..

 

[blueish swede]

Yorkshire folk can't be wrong.

Superfluous information removed for clarity

 

[Nellies left peg]

Well said from Sunak, suspend the series until Australia may a full apology.

But didn’t Bairstow do exactly the same to an Aussie batsman? But missed the stumps

 

[jrb]

Did anyone shout 115 cheats!?

 

[BillCarlisle]

It is was an opportunistic action by the keeper. As the commentator said, he was throwing the ball regardless of where Bairstow was going to be, probably because he knew what he was going to do after observing him previously, so this is very similar to a Mankad and generally it is the done thing to give a warning rather than take the opportunity. I think the laws could be more helpful to the umpire here in this instance though.

IMHO that's the point - Carey doesn't seem to have warned Bairstow that if he does it again he'll be stumped/run out. As long as I've watched cricket that's been the way of things and I think it's that which ruffled so many feathers. It certainly ruffled mine. If he had already warned him it would have been a completely different matter and there really wouldnt be any issue about the dismissal.
The Aussies didn't cheat as they followed the 'Mankad rule' to the letter but they most certainly acted in a manner unacceptable to (I would imagine) the great majority of cricket lovers. Then having ample opportunity to withdraw the appeal they still claimed the wicket. Bairstow may have been a dozy sod, but Cummins & co really went down in my estimation yesterday.

 

[Scottyboi]

But didn’t Bairstow do exactly the same to an Aussie batsman? But missed the stumps

No he didn't was completely different scenario.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

IMHO that's the point - Carey doesn't seem to have warned Bairstow that if he does it again he'll be stumped/run out. As long as I've watched cricket that's been the way of things and I think it's that which ruffled so many feathers. It certainly ruffled mine. If he had already warned him it would have been a completely different matter and there really wouldnt be any issue about the dismissal.
The Aussies didn't cheat as they followed the 'Mankad rule' to the letter but they most certainly acted in a manner unacceptable to (I would imagine) the great majority of cricket lovers. Then having ample opportunity to withdraw the appeal they still claimed the wicket. Bairstow may have been a dozy sod, but Cummins & co really went down in my estimation yesterday.

Lots of sports rely on gentlemanly conduct, if that phrase is still allowed. Golf, snooker, cricket are all the better for having players who respect the game, so it’s disappointing to see this sort of thing happening. Hopefully England can put this behind them and find a way to wind them up in the next game.

 

[Jesus H Gabz]

As much as I despised Ponting as a player, he’s a good addition as an analyst to Sky Sports.

But his bias really was apparent yesterday when Stokes was hitting it everywhere.

Looking ahead to Thursday, I really hope Wood plays. Our bowling attack has been too one-dimensional thus far.

Thought he was gonna cry at one point, he is very knowledgeable and an easy listen, but he doesn’t half try running the team from the coms box, the hierarchy of the Oz cricket team goes something like:-Cricket Australia Ponting Waugh Taylor McGrath Hussain/Atherton (whoever’s on coms) Smith Warner Cummins, every time Ponting made a statement of how the play was going, thirty minutes later you’d see a reaction. We really need to turn the screw on em at Headingley because if it starts going wrong they’ll all start pointing the finger at each other

 

[Barcon]

Can someone give me a basic explanation of what the controversy is please?
Keep in mind that I know nothing about cricket.

 

[Nellies left peg]

No he didn't was completely different scenario.

What was it ? Looked similar to me

 

[stonerblue]

Can someone give me a basic explanation of what the controversy is please?
Keep in mind that I know nothing about cricket.

I know less than you but I did watch yesterday.
The fella with the stick missed the ball and the other geezer sitting behind the 3 sticky up bits of wood caught it. Then the hitter walks out of his crease (no, me neither) and the backstop fella chucks the ball at the sticks. Apparently you can be out if you're not in your crease!
Then the ref said, '' Fuck that, '' and let the batter carry on.

 

[Edghill OG]

Can someone give me a basic explanation of what the controversy is please?
Keep in mind that I know nothing about cricket.

Bairstow believed the over was completed and the ball was dead. Which it was as the ball was in the keepers hands. No way either batsmen were going to take a run. Marked his crease with his foot and then walked towards the middle of the pitch presumably to have a chinwag with Stokes before the next over commenced and the Aussies knocked the bails off his wicket. Umpire even looked confused as hadn't given it. Then the Aussies appealed and it was given out.

 

[Barcon]

I know less than you but I did watch yesterday.
The fella with the stick missed the ball and the other geezer sitting behind the 3 sticky up bits of wood caught it. Then the hitter walks out of his crease (no, me neither) and the backstop fella chucks the ball at the sticks. Apparently you can be out if you're not in your crease!
Then the ref said, '' Fuck that, '' and let the batter carry on.

Fuckinell It’s easier to switch off talksort than try to understand. I only tuned in to hear about us signing the most expensive defender in the galaxy. ; )

 

[Barcon]

Bairstow believed the over was completed and the ball was dead. Which it was as the ball was in the keepers hands. No way either batsmen were going to take a run. Marked his crease with his foot and then walked towards the middle of the pitch presumably to have a chinwag with Stokes before the next over commenced and the Aussies knocked the bails off his wicket. Umpire even looked confused as hadn't given it. Then the Aussies appealed and it was given out.

Thanks mate. I think I understand now.
Although I think you underestimated my, “I know nothing about cricket“ line ; )

 

[malg]

Can someone give me a basic explanation of what the controversy is please?
Keep in mind that I know nothing about cricket.

Someone was given out. It is in the rules or laws or whatever. The English are up in arms and say 'It isn't cricket' when in actual fact it is cricket otherwise the fella wouldn't be out!! The English have said they want their ball back....

 

[stonerblue]

Fuckinell It’s easier to switch off talksort than try to understand. I only tuned in to hear about us signing the most expensive defender in the galaxy. ; )

Bairstow believed the over was completed and the ball was dead. Which it was as the ball was in the keepers hands. No way either batsmen were going to take a run. Marked his crease with his foot and then walked towards the middle of the pitch presumably to have a chinwag with Stokes before the next over commenced and the Aussies knocked the bails off his wicket. Umpire even looked confused as hadn't given it. Then the Aussies appealed and it was given out.

Didn't realise he got sent off..
Really enjoyed the little I saw. That Stokes go was fantastic. Him and the other batter who spent his innings having 100mph bouncers aimed at his napper showed some balls.

 

[Edghill OG]

Thanks mate. I think I understand now.
Although I think you underestimated my, “I know nothing about cricket“ line ; )

If the Toronto you are from is Canada you might be more familiar with baseball. Almost like throwing 3 strikes without a batsman present and rendering one of the batsmen out.

 

[Barcon]

If the Toronto you are from is Canada you might be more familiar with baseball. Almost like throwing 3 strikes without a batsmen present and rendering one of the batsman out.

It’s all good mate. I just had to google what a barstow was.

 

[Gabriel]

Can someone give me a basic explanation of what the controversy is please?
Keep in mind that I know nothing about cricket.

In the last minute of the half, Ederson and Rashford went for a 50-50 on the ground in our box, but Ederson got there first and took the ball, yet in doing so he slid through with his body and wiped out Rashford, who landed awkwardly and lay motionless. Ederson threw the ball to the touchline so that play could be stopped and treatment could be delivered, yet before the referee could blow his whistle, Fernandes (who else ?) intercepted the ball and chipped it into the untended net. The referee looked at Fernandes in the vain hope that he would not ask for the goal to be given, but he shrugged his shoulders, smiled sardonically, and asked that VAR decide. The VAR adjudicator applied the letter of the law and said that because the whistle hadn't been blown, the goal had to stand. Cue uproar. As the teams trudged off, Mike Summerbee squared up to Fernandes in the tunnel and called him rude names, for which City later apologised. City went on to lose the game, everyone is more upset about the ungentlemanly conduct than the chances we missed, and for some reason we're playing them at Elland Road on Thursday...

 

[Barcon]

In the last minute of the half, Ederson and Rashford went for a 50-50 on the ground in our box, but Ederson got their first and took the ball, yet in doing so he slid through with his body and wiped out Rashford, who landed awkwardly and lay motionless. Ederson threw the ball to the touchline so that play could be stopped and treatment could be delivered, yet before the referee could blow his whistle Fernandes (who else ?) intercepted the ball and chipped it into the untended net. The referee looked at Fernandes in the vain hope that he would not ask for the goal to be given, but he shrugged his shoulders, smiled sardonically, and asked that VAR decide. The VAR adjudicator applied the letter of the law and said that because the whistle hadn't been blown, the goal had to stand. Cue uproar. As the teams trudged off, Mike Summerbee squared up to Fernandes in the tunnel and called him rude names, for which City later apologised. City went on to lose the game, everyone is more upset about the ungentlemanly conduct than the chances we missed, and for some reason we're playing them at Elland Road on Thursday...

I call bullshit.