Cricket Thread

[levets]

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...

Very good!

 

[heslops barnet]

Australia tried to claim two catches where they grounded the ball, one of which they got away with, and then that Bairstow dismissal. No class at all.

If they’ll use sandpaper nothing is beyond the convicts

 

[levets]

If they’ll use sandpaper nothing is beyond the convicts

Remember this?

 

[freshie]

 

[bluethrunthru]

I have to say I was with England and Bairstow until I was reminded of this

 

[ancoats]

The only way to shut them up (Aussies) is by coming out in the next test and beating and Beating them well,
I hope the England Bowlers and wicket-keeper try everything within the laws of the game, even the bowler stopping and running the batter out for walking before the bowler has bowled,

what I have seen and i hope that the England team also picked up on, is Steve Smiths likes to pick the ball up when he blocks a good Yorker, that can be given out

 

[cleavers]

The only way to shut them up (Aussies) is by coming out in the next test and beating and Beating them well,
I hope the England Bowlers and wicket-keeper try everything within the laws of the game, even the bowler stopping and running the batter out for walking before the bowler has bowled,

what I have seen and i hope that the England team also picked up on, is Steve Smiths likes to pick the ball up when he blocks a good Yorker, that can be given out

We should always do this in professional sport, use the rules/laws to the maximum, in England we always try to be "nice" in sport.

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

We should always do this in professional sport, use the rules/laws to the maximum, in England we always try to be "nice" in sport.

This is true

 

[RiversideBlue]

The only way to shut them up (Aussies) is by coming out in the next test and beating and Beating them well,
I hope the England Bowlers and wicket-keeper try everything within the laws of the game, even the bowler stopping and running the batter out for walking before the bowler has bowled,

what I have seen and i hope that the England team also picked up on, is Steve Smiths likes to pick the ball up when he blocks a good Yorker, that can be given out

We should do something like this, wait for them to be given out and the withdraw the appeal. It would just make them look even more cuntish

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

I have to say I was with England and Bairstow until I was reminded of this

Very subtle but important difference between the two incidents. Labuschange played a shot and the ball was clearly still in play as with any stumping. Bairstow didnt and had clearly assumed the over was finished. The umpires body language also indicated the over was complete as he had switched off. I trust you can now tell the difference ??