Aussie Cricket
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On the Aussie cricket team, their recent results really reinforce how bloody difficult it is to win away from home. To the point that they are resting players to ensure they are fit for the summer as losing at home is not an option, whereas losing overseas during winter will mostly fly under the radar.
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@canefan said in Aussie Cricket:
@No-Quarter was the inquest instigated by the government or the family? Terrible for all as you say, like losing him all over again
Any unusual death requires an inquest
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Another team struggling a bit overseas is England who are 1-1 with Bangladesh, with the series decider today. Bangles boys really ripping in as well, I'm sure Stokes will be particularly upset about the sledging. Might have to write another book after the series.
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@barbarian said in Aussie Cricket:
@Virgil said in Aussie Cricket:
Totally unnecessary but it is nice to see muppets like Haddin squirming and being asked awkward questions.
If anything it puts under the spotlight the Aussie win at all costs prepare for a fucken broken arm attitude.Man it takes a pretty twisted mind to take pleasure in someone having to give testimony about a mate's death at the coroner's court. A death that was incredibly tragic and totally accidental.
Haddin would be one of, if not my number one hatiest, sports stars but have to agree with what is said. I'm sure Virg didn't mean it like that but any chance to have a sporting dig takes a backseat when someone has lost their life.
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0-5 whitewash confirmed. Bowlers took their usual tap, and their batsmen couldn't get it done despite Warner getting 173.
The bowling attack was substandard, and struggled, but that batting lineup was first choice, with Warner, Finch, Smith, Bailey and M Marsh all playing. Only one of those players goes home a success. Warner, as much as i hate that dopey, belligerent little dwarf, scored 386 runs @ 77, with a strike rate of 113. That's a great series.
M Marsh appears to be the latest in a long line of not really good enough all rounders who get constantly picked.
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Bloody hell that's an insane innings. Finch with 19 from 40, what a fail. Just needed one other bloke to get a decent 50 and they're home, Warner will be spewing.
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Warner was Ponting-esque in his innings. Clean striking and never looked rattled.
Smith and Finch the biggest failures of the series. Finch looks a little more rotund than previous.
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A good read, and yet one that leaves me with just as many questions.
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@Donsteppa yep, i was going to write about this today. There seems a lot of anger from the Hughes family towards cricket, and that days play. And the media are not helping by how they are reporting (i read an article this morning where his dad kept saying "bullshit" during someone's testimony.
If indeed they are angry, i would love to know what at?
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Cricket:
@Donsteppa yep, i was going to write about this today. There seems a lot of anger from the Hughes family towards cricket, and that days play. And the media are not helping by how they are reporting (i read an article this morning where his dad kept saying "bullshit" during someone's testimony.
If indeed they are angry, i would love to know what at?
I'm guessing:
They lost their son. They want him back. They're angry at that and they need someone or something to blame. To direct their anger at. They think that will make it right. Make them feel better if that someone or somethibg is punished.Sad fact is none of that will happen.
Phil will still be dead and they will still be sad and angry.
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@booboo That seems to be a big part of it, but there's an implication that maybe the stories at the inquest aren't what the family believed were the case at the time - whether they're right in that belief or not is the million dollar question...
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Cricket:
@Donsteppa yep, i was going to write about this today. There seems a lot of anger from the Hughes family towards cricket, and that days play. And the media are not helping by how they are reporting (i read an article this morning where his dad kept saying "bullshit" during someone's testimony.
If indeed they are angry, i would love to know what at?
Yeah, the whole thing has left me bewildered as to what anyone expected to come out of it. Rather unedifying for the family. I mean, so what if they sledged him? Did you see the fluke manner in which he died? As if someone meant to kill him.
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sounds like it got worse today, and i really don't know what the Hughes family are trying to get out of this?
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This is a good piece from Malcolm Knox. Don't think any of us can fully appreciate what the Hughes family is going through.
The good that may yet come from the Phillip Hughes inquest
The coronial inquest into the death of Phillip Hughes may yet deliver some good.
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Great read.
What I'm bemused about is that - if Bollinger did make that sledge and Haddin had gone in wth that game plan, etc - why deny it now when the family believes it to be true from the time - and from another player.
Possibly none of it was said or short pitched bowling planned, but I think:
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even a kid bowling in the back of Afghanistan would have been vaguely aware that an Australian batsman called Philip Hughes had a known weakness against the short ball... if they hadn't planned to give him the odd bouncer it would have been unusual...
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Bollinger's alleged sledge: again, anyone who's ever bowled a bouncer remembers steaming in fuming that "I'm going to knock this fucking fluffybunny's block off" - yet would have been horrified had we literally succeeed. I don't think anyone who knows the game beyond the headlines would have thought lesser of him for saying it*.
(*) yes, I'm in the crowd of "Brud Huddun's all shut bro", but there's a difference in scale between sportsmanship and a situation where someone dies on the pitch.
Would it have done any harm to admit to it all, or did the session not really play out that way? Either way, it's very sad.
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