The New Cricket Thread

[Total Longo]

1 minute ago, Jose Jones said:

Yeah it wasn’t cheating, just stupid twatty behaviour. The rush to defend him though has been a bit nauseating. Just admit he’s a twat.

yeah, he is and there is no argument on that front from me. 

[Rico1304]

15 minutes ago, Total Longo said:

Honestly think the Smith thing has been blown out of all proportion, and i cant stand the fella. It's gamesmanship more than cheating in my opinion. Easy enough to ask the umpire where you should take guard again, really. 

It’s the exact opposite.  He’s altering the pitch to gain an advantage. He shouldn’t be anywhere near the crease. 

[Remmie]

You'd think after the cheating he'd try to be absolutely beyond reproach. If he doesn't learn from it this time (and I agree the act itself was more gamesmanship than cheating) then he's even more of a moron than he looks the fake crying prick. 

[Remmie]

1 minute ago, Rico1304 said:

It’s the exact opposite.  He’s altering the pitch to gain an advantage. He shouldn’t be anywhere near the crease. 

The batsmen are constantly gardening... 

[Total Longo]

2 minutes ago, Rico1304 said:

It’s the exact opposite.  He’s altering the pitch to gain an advantage. He shouldn’t be anywhere near the crease. 

No it isn't, he was trying to remove Pant's guard marks. It's just shlthousery. 

[Brownie]

Feels like it’s ages since Root got a ton.

 

Steve Smith gets no benefit of any doubt from me, the fidgety cunt.

[Bruce Spanner]

Something really interesting about cricket and not a copy and paste from the FT about workers rights in the wrong thread...

[Total Longo]

Wrong thread mate?

[Rico1304]

7 minutes ago, Remmie said:

The batsmen are constantly gardening... 

yes, the batsmen. The ones batting. 

[Rico1304]

6 minutes ago, Total Longo said:

No it isn't, he was trying to remove Pant's guard marks. It's just shlthousery. 

Why is he doing it? To gain an advantage.  The pitch isnt his. He shouldn’t be anywhere near it.  He’s cheating. 

[Total Longo]

1 minute ago, Rico1304 said:

Why is he doing it? To gain an advantage.  The pitch isnt his. He shouldn’t be anywhere near it.  He’s cheating. 

If anything he's doing it to annoy Pant, i don't know the man's psyche, but i know what cheating is. As much as i dislike the man this isn't cheating in my book. This is just plain and simple shlthousery, like Ruddock repeatedly putting Cantona's collars down during a match.

 

I'm not sure what actual advantage, apart from maybe breaking someone's concentration, scuffing their guard gives you. And if we are talking about psychological nagging, which cricket team hasn't tried that throughout history?  Are we going to start calling them all cheats?

[Rico1304]

4 minutes ago, Total Longo said:

If anything he's doing it to annoy Pant, i don't know the man's psyche, but i know what cheating is. As much as i dislike the man this isn't cheating in my book. This is just plain and simple shlthousery, like Ruddock repeatedly putting Cantona's collars down during a match.

 

I'm not sure what actual advantage, apart from maybe breaking someone's concentration, scuffing their guard gives you. And if we are talking about psychological nagging, which cricket team hasn't tried that throughout history?  Are we going to start calling them all cheats?

The guard is there so Pant knows where his stumps are.  He removes it.  He shouldn’t be standing anywhere near the crease. He’s scuffing the pitch with his boots. It’s very simple. 
 

It’s not chirping, it’s not sledging.  He’s doing something to change the surface.  Cheating. 

[Total Longo]

1 minute ago, Rico1304 said:

The guard is there so Pant knows where his stumps are.  He removes it.  He shouldn’t be standing anywhere near the crease. He’s scuffing the pitch with his boots. It’s very simple. 
 

It’s not chirping, it’s not sledging.  He’s doing something to change the surface.  Cheating. 

It's a mark that Pant has already put there and will put there again. It doesn't have any effect on a thing, apart from making Pant mark out his guard again. He isn't walking repeatedly across pitch marks further up the crease that will affect how the ball behaves, or putting sandpaper on the ball.  

 

We're going around in circles here. 

 

 

[Jose Jones]

7 minutes ago, Rico1304 said:

The guard is there so Pant knows where his stumps are.  He removes it.  He shouldn’t be standing anywhere near the crease. He’s scuffing the pitch with his boots. It’s very simple. 
 

It’s not chirping, it’s not sledging.  He’s doing something to change the surface.  Cheating. 

Is that actually in the rules? That fielders can’t remove marks made by batsmen on the crease?

Or something similar?

[Rico1304]

2 minutes ago, Total Longo said:

It's a mark that Pant has already put there and will put there again. It doesn't have any effect on a thing, apart from making Pant mark out his guard again. He isn't walking repeatedly across pitch marks further up the crease that will affect how the ball behaves, or putting sandpaper on the ball.  

 

We're going around in circles here. 

 

 

I played for about 30 years, I’ve never seen it done in person, and it’s the first time I’ve seen it on the TV. IMO he’s altering the pitch to gain an advantage - by putting Pant off. That’s cheating. 
 

You can bet your life kids and village cricketers will be doing it next season. 

[Captain Howdy]

I think he’s more acting the cunt than cheating tbh, I think the Ruddock analogy is a good one, he’s a piece of work though the jumpy twat, as has been said after the sand paper you would think he would be beyond reproach. I’ve not seen the game what was Paines sledging all about?

[Manny]

Not having it that it's the same as Ruddock putting down Cantona's collar. Cantona didn't need his collar to play the game and score goals, so that's an irritation. Pant needs his guard to know where his stumps are - yeah he can remark it so it's not the worst type of cheating, but I can still envisage a scenario where he forgets, or loses sight of it or whatever, and loses his off stump as a result of someone else's "not in play" actions.

 

It's not full-on cheating, but, with his reputation...

 

 

[Mudface]

9 minutes ago, Captain Howdy said:

I think he’s more acting the cunt than cheating tbh, I think the Ruddock analogy is a good one, he’s a piece of work though the jumpy twat, as has been said after the sand paper you would think he would be beyond reproach. I’ve not seen the game what was Paines sledging all about?

Yep, a big takeaway from this is- how fucking dumb is Smith? Regardless of whether it's cheating or bad sportsmanship, did he really think no one would notice when there's a stump cam recording what he's doing from a few feet away?

[Jose Jones]

18 minutes ago, Captain Howdy said:

I think he’s more acting the cunt than cheating tbh, I think the Ruddock analogy is a good one, he’s a piece of work though the jumpy twat, as has been said after the sand paper you would think he would be beyond reproach. I’ve not seen the game what was Paines sledging all about?

Just a rather unfunny attempt to Ravi Ashwin after he got hit by a bouncer.

 

Paine: I can’t wait to get you in Brisbane, Ash.

Ashwin: I can’t wait to see you in India. It’ll be your last series.

Paine: At least my teammates like me, dickhead.

 

[Jairzinho]

Incredible bants.

[lifetime fan]

No he wasn’t cheating, definitely not. 
 

He was just shadow batting when fielding in the fourth innings! 

[Edward.]

Would it be similar to the batsmen wandering up to the bowlers end and moving his run up mark ever so slightly. Is that cheating? 

[Brownie]

It’s more gamesmanship than cheating. Considering his past, he should be trying to be squeaky clean, the prick.

[lifetime fan]

1 hour ago, Edward. said:

Would it be similar to the batsmen wandering up to the bowlers end and moving his run up mark ever so slightly. Is that cheating? 

Of course it’s cheating. 
 

The same as Prior putting jelly beans on the pitch was cheating. 

[Jairzinho]

Is eating trebor mints while fielding in order to shine the ball so much that it swings round corners cheating? 

 

Asking for a friend.