The Official Cricket Thread

[Frankenhooker]

AB not hanging about. 40-0 from 3.

[Spy Bee]

This will be done in 12 overs.

[Frankenhooker]

Absolute carnage. 82-0 from 5.2.

[Rico1304]

Bring back KP!!!

[Trumo]

SA win with more than 5 overs to spare and 9 wickets in hand. Mauling.

[Spy Bee]

That was some awful behaviour from the Aussie team when the Williamson appeal was not overturned. 

[Jairzinho]

Pretty standard behaviour when a throw in goes against your team in another sport.

 

I'd love umpires to feel they have enough backing to just say to Hazlewood in that situation "stop being a gobshite, and fuck off back to your mark".

[Spy Bee]

Pretty standard behaviour when a throw in goes against your team in another sport.

 

I'd love umpires to feel they have enough backing to just say to Hazlewood in that situation "stop being a gobshite, and fuck off back to your mark".

Yeah, you get it in some sports, but not rugby and not cricket. I'd hate to see them go the same way!

[Jairzinho]

Yeah, you get it in some sports, but not rugby and not cricket. I'd hate to see them go the same way!

They won't. Well, I know fuck all about rugby but no-one would allow it in cricket. Maybe a little bit of cuntery in IPL and it's ilk, but frankly I couldn't care less what they do there. In test cricket not tucking your shirt in is bang out of order.

[Yozzer]

I found the exchange pretty funny to be honest. As Jairz said, it would be better if the umpire got to tell them to fuck off as well.

 

I hate the moral superiority that certain followers of rugby and cricket take over football. The "this doesn't happen in (insert sport here)" brigade are the worst.

[Joe Strummer]

Steve Smith is a little obnoxious cunt. No wonder his team is now following suit.

[A_S]

The stupid thing about it is that I have absolutely no idea what Hazlewood thinks he saw, but Williamson clearly got a huge inside edge onto his pad, hence the decision being rightly overturned. It was so far away from being controversial, it isn't funny. 

[Hades]

Retire, son. It's never going to get better than this.

 

[Spy Bee]

I found the exchange pretty funny to be honest. As Jairz said, it would be better if the umpire got to tell them to fuck off as well.

 

I hate the moral superiority that certain followers of rugby and cricket take over football. The "this doesn't happen in (insert sport here)" brigade are the worst.

It's got nothing to do with moral superiority and everything to do with not tolerating shithousery.

 

The neg was because you broke the rules, not because I completely disagreed with your post.

[lifetime fan]

Cabbage patch looking cunt.

[Trumo]

Martin Crowe has died of cancer aged 53.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/32680286

[KopOut]

Martin Crowe has died of cancer aged 53.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/32680286

Many tributes flowing into NZ since the news broke, from cricket legends all over the world.

 

There was a minutes silence at a game in India, and Lords has its flag at half mast.

 

He was one of the world's top 5 greatest ever batsmen.

[Jose Jones]

Top 5 greatest ever might be pushing it a bit.

First I really ever knew of Martin Crowe was when there was a massive Botham-inspired fuss that Somerset wanted to get rid of Viv Richards and Joel Garner as their overseas players and replace them with Crowe.  You've got to be pretty fucking good to have anyone think that might have been close to being a good idea.

[A_S]

Australia looking at introducing Duke balls into their FC competition next season for some games. Officially it is to get local players more used to facing the Duke ball before the next Ashes tour, which makes some sense on one level, although hasn't the argument always been that a Duke ball wouldn't last as well in Australian conditions? 

 

It wouldn't surprise me if there is an element of the powers-that-be being proper fucked off with the amount of below-standard balls coming from Kookaburra in the last couple of seasons. Pair that with the whole pink ball experiment still being up in the air and it is a real opportunity for Duke to get in on the Australian market at all levels of cricket. 

[lifetime fan]

It's a far superior ball, makes sense.

[lifetime fan]

The Bumble Story on SS2 now - I'm pissing myself already.

[Rico1304]

It's a far superior ball, makes sense.

I've our league to source one that doesn't spin, doesn't swing and is incapable of going over 65 mph. It'd also be nice if it was a bit sticky when I'm fielding.

[lifetime fan]

Only hits the middle of the bat would be nice too.

[Hades]

To strengthen a class based divide and in a political context, it was said that after Karl Marx watched a game of cricket, he decided that ‘a revolution in England was improbable’ (Carrington, 1990)[12]. This was due to the fact that Marx thought that ‘if the masses could be so easily subdued by such a resolutely sedate game with its mores of bourgeois Englishness dripping from every rule and expression, then all was lost for the socialist cause’.

 

[Trumo]

The Bumble Story on SS2 now - I'm pissing myself already.

 

You'd have to go back several pages but I posted a Youtube vid where he talks about the time Jeff Thomson bowled a 95mph bouncer straight into his plums. His account of the incident is funny as fuck.