Fantastic test match, whatever the outcome.
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Thread: England v Aussies Ashes Series
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14-07-2013 12:20 PM #92
So far in this Test, Australia's last wicket has added 213 for 1. Rest of the team - 348 for 18.
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14-07-2013 01:21 PM #93
England win the test, quite clearly a loud noise on snicko, great match, 10 wicket match for young James!
Thought it was audible enough watching it live.
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14-07-2013 01:22 PM #94
That was a fantastic contest. Roll on the 2nd test.
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14-07-2013 01:23 PM #95This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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14-07-2013 01:25 PM #97
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snicko has confirmed the audio. Fantastic drama
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14-07-2013 01:30 PM #99This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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14-07-2013 05:22 PM #100
I am a bit of an old codger where cricket is concerned but I must say the test match served up a pretty tense ending.
What I don't like is all these "challenges". The umpire's word should be final - even if he's an idiot.
I also don't care for the singing of patriotic songs before the sessions. What is that all about? The Barmy Army?
The main problem with cricket now is that it's not on terrestrial TV any more.
The last one that was on the telly (Channel 4) - I think 2005 - was very exciting with Flintoff offering his hand to Lee etc etc
I've ignored cricket since then but maybe I'll bite the bullet and get into it again.
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14-07-2013 05:57 PM #101
As someone posted earlier SKY have taken tv coverage onto another level. Something they've pretty much managed to do with every sport they've taken under their wing.
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15-07-2013 02:23 PM #103
No changes to the England squad for the second test. Good call I think, would have been easy to drop Finn but he'll come good on his own wicket.
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16-07-2013 12:35 PM #104This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Makes sense. I like Finn as a bowler - he may not be quite as dangerous as Broad and Anderson, but when he's in the groove he's very difficult to play against. Reminds me a bit of Geoff Arnold, another underestimated bowler in the days of Bob Willis and Chris Old.
That Test was a very close-run thing, and England did very well to come through as winners. It ould easily have gone the other way and the fact that they did win speaks volumes for Cook's captaincy and the character of the team. It would have been unjust and unwise to drop anyone IMO.
Second Test will show us what the Aussies are made of. My feeling is that England (weather permitting) will go 2-0 up and cruise the rest of the series.
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16-07-2013 12:57 PM #105
Well done Stuart Broad for being a cheat and winning his team the game. Hopefully we can now forget all this 'gentlemans' game pish as it's clear that Cricket is just the same as Football, Rugby etc when it comes to winning at ALL costs.
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16-07-2013 01:54 PM #106This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I wouldn't say that his actions won England the game either. That was an epic five day contest with so many twists and turns you couldn't really say that one incident determined the result.Every gimmick hungry yob,
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16-07-2013 02:02 PM #107This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I don't mind Broad standing there - If he wants to cheat so blatently that's his decision - but it's a bit rich of England to moan about Trott and his LBW then sit smugly back and watch him cheat his way to another 40 or so runs.
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16-07-2013 02:26 PM #108This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteEvery gimmick hungry yob,
Digging gold from rock and roll
Grabs the mic to tell us,
He'll die before he's sold.
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18-07-2013 08:06 AM #109
The 2nd Test begins at Lords this morning, if its half as good as the Trent Bridge test we are in for a treat. Not so many updates from me today as I'll be consuming some alfresco pints down Leith pre Malmo first leg screening!
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18-07-2013 11:07 AM #114This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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18-07-2013 12:15 PM #116This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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18-07-2013 12:18 PM #117This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Cricket has always been schizophrenic - "gentlemen" and "players" both taking part, and the "gentlemen" just as competitive as the professionals. W G Grace was notorious for taking as much advantage as he could in order to win a match - and he was one of the "gentlemen". His encounter with Charles Kortrght in 1898 - and Kortright was a ferociously intimidatory bowler - is a classic of late-Victorian cricket. "You're not going yet, Doc - there's one stump still standing ..." Grace claimed he had never been so insulted in his life, and said so to an Essex committee member, who told him not to be so silly - of course he had.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kortright
The batsmen has always had the right to stand and await the umpire's decision - during the Lord's test during the first South African series after they were re-admitted to Test cricket Mike Atherton stood his ground after Allan Donald caught his outside edge. He was given not out, and that led to one of the most absorbing hours of cricket I've ever seen - Donald bowling over after over of the most hostile deliveries imaginable, and Atherton defending doggedly until finally Cronje took Donald off exhausted.
And then of course there was Dougie Jardine and the Bodyline series ...
Sportsmanship> I don't think so. At one point Jardine complained to the Bill Woodfull the Australian captain that one of the Aussies had called him (Jardine) a "*******". Bill agreed that this wasn't on, and offered to sort it out right away. So he took Jardine into he Aussie dressing-room, called for silence, and asked the Aussie players, "All right, which one of you *******s called this ******* a *******?"
And then there was the great Aussie fast bowler Lillian Thomson ...
The first Ashes series I watched throughout involved the Chappell brothers, Ray Illingworth, and Geoffrey Boycott, it was so long ago. Never since then have I seen a batsman, English or Australian, walk unless his stumps have been flattened or scattered to the four winds. You just don't do it, mate - not in the Ashes.
Cricket isn't a gentleman's sport, Dave - it's fun.
The Lord's wicket in this weather is a lovely wicket for a seamer, and with the bowlers on show this could be a very interesting match.Last edited by --------; 18-07-2013 at 12:33 PM.
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18-07-2013 12:40 PM #118
Good stuff Doddie, but at the end of the day Broad cheated plain and simple. Plenty of sport commentators out there are quick to criticise footballers for diving, fouling off the ball and so on, but by your definition they have the right to do that as its the referee's decision?
Let's apply the same things to football and cricket et al. You can't call Suarez a cheat for falling over in the penalty box, yet give Broad credit for standing his ground.
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18-07-2013 02:27 PM #119
I appreciate that, Dave, but this has always been part of the 'code' - a batsman is entitled to stand his ground, but if the umpire raises his finger, then the batsman has to go. I'm actually more peeved by this idea of appeals being allowed - when I first started watching, the umpires were always right even when they were wrong.
I think the problem is when some idiot starts talking about cricket as if it were somehow different from (and morally superior to) any other sport. It isn't and never has been. There's always an edge in the Ashes - the stories of Aussie sledging of English batsmen, and English batsmen getting them back, are legion.
Merv Hughes used to stop in the middle of the wicket after a delivery, look at the batsman, and tell him, "Hey, mate, there's some **** on the end of your bat." And when the batsman would raise his bat to look at the toe of the bat, Merv would say, "No, mate - other end."
Have you ever heard THIS before?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrCNUrnsu2sLast edited by --------; 18-07-2013 at 02:34 PM.
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18-07-2013 02:35 PM #120This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Like you, I'm getting a bit bored with DRS and the reviews. Beginning to agree with Aggers that 1 review per innings is the best option which takes away the 'hope I get lucky here' option.
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