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Peckhamgatecrasher

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All I could think about in the wee, small hours when I was drifting off to sleep, was how annoying the Australian commentators were. It's bad enough with the inflection at the end of every phrase/sentence but I guess that is the accent.


What was really peeve-inducing was the constant use of nicknames and acronyms. How hard is it to say Allan Border rather than AB? And when there is a standard acronym with some longevity behind it, namely LBW, they say "leg before"; not "leg before wicket", but "leg before". Churlish, I know, but I'm in a bad mood.


And yes, bloody well-played Faulkner.

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Very stange the way this has been done. Captain or not, no player should have a say in whether another player should play or not. I don't like the whole board of selecters thing either, they should just pay a coach to pick his team and get on with it.


I do think KP is a knob though.

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> I love cricket. Great to see Sri Lankan players

> shaking Joe Root's hand after his 200. Proper gents.


Especially after all the hoo-har about the mankading incident. That was ridiculous - there should be more mankading in the game as far as I'm concerned.

Peckhamgatecrasher

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I'm not entirely comfortable with mankading, but the lad was warned apparently.


Jonathan Agnew article on it was interesting, he reckons the umpire should apply a five run fine rather than the bowler being allowed to run batsman out. He also said:


"What I will say in balance is that Joe Root stood his ground when he knew full well he had been caught behind by Kumar Sangakkara off a huge glove.


He decided to stand there and hope he got away with it, eventually being given out following a successful Sri Lanka review. It's difficult to take the moral high-ground on a spirit of the game issue when your team has done that just a couple of hours earlier."



edited for split infinitive (grammar not good with a hangover)

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I remember that Bodyline tv series where they showed Jardine doing it earlier in his career - just to show what kind of a bounder he is. I think a dismissal is more than fair after Buttler was repeatedly warned; he is, after all, trying to gain an unfair advantage - like a pitcher throwing to base when a batter (sic) tries to take a lead from one base to another; the batter/batsman has to learn to 'watch it' that' all.

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