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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.

  • 3 weeks later...

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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Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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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.

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)

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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