Cricket Thread

[melrose40yarder]

Bored of the Bairstow incident! I’d rather they talk about when we were 188/1 and experience players played like armatures!

You are correct the 4 shocking shots and the 74 extras are what cost us the game.Bairstow should only play as a batsman Foakes should be the keeper.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

Rewatch the incident in the clip I've posted and you'll see that Bairstow ducks, the ball passes over his head, Bairstow at no point thereafter looks behind him to see what has happened to the ball. He doesn't even watch it into the keepers hands. For all he knows, the keeper could have missed the take, dropped the take, it could be going for byes, in any of these scenarios the ball would have been alive and Bairstow wouldn't have been any the wiser.
For argument's sake, what if the keeper had dropped the take, Bairstow had walked out of his crease, the keeper had picked up the ball and thrown it at the stumps?
At the very least it was sloppy and gormless cricket from Bairstow.
If anyone wants to look at the link I've posted, it shows that at no time was the ball settled in the keepers hands. He receives the ball and throws it at the wicket in one fluid action.
There was never a pause or hiatus in play.
There was only one person to blame for Bairstow losing his wicket, and that was Bairstow.

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.

 

[Gundoggin]

 

[Edghill OG]

Bit embarrassing Sunak has recently come out and said something about it. We all know Aussies are shithouses that's why they're there in the first place.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

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It's a bit astonishing that Boycott, who played dozens and dozens of times against the Aussies and should know them inside out, imagines that they'll do any such thing.
They are, and always have been, a team that's prepared to do anything that's right on the line of what's acceptable to win. No way will they apologize. They wouldn't be Australians.
I'm hoping that this means that the England players will go into the last three tests with fire in their bellies.

 

[BlueHammer85]

They are, and always have been, a team that's prepared to do anything that's right on the line of what's acceptable to win.

I honestly believe every player and team should have that mentality.

 

[Nellies left peg]

Bit embarrassing Sunak has recently come out and said something about it. We all know Aussies are shithouses that's why they're there in the first place.

It’s a pity Sunak doesn’t come out and say things about how he is running the country because he’s kept his head down since becoming PM

 

[Edghill OG]

It’s a pity Sunak doesn’t come out and say things about how he is running the country because he’s kept his head down since becoming PM

That was half my point. I bet a large number of the population don't even know he's PM.

 

[Cricket Blue]

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

 

[Dr Jacoby]

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.