Ashes 2021-22
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@crazy-horse said in Ashes 2021-22:
@rotated said in Ashes 2021-22:
@crazy-horse said in Ashes 2021-22:
@rotated are you saying Stokes is a pork chop? I keep hearing similar but what has he actually done? Nobody has given examples apart from the media talking him up beyond his actual stats. Sure he clouted a couple guys a few years ago but the alleged circumstances around that hardly makes him a dick.
Its difficult to put your finger on why Hadlee was so unpalatable to the Aussies yet totally understandable. Ditto Botham, Khan, Watson, Cairnsy all the way back to Keith Miller.
Fair point. Not sure why I feel like sticking up for him, perhaps because he comes across ok to me. I have my pet hates like everybody - Steve Smith and his 'mini me' immediately spring to mind.
How come ? Sure Smith cheated and looks like a lesbian but I canāt help admire his incredible record, Labuschagne is following in his footsteps pretty effectively ( with the recordā¦.not the cheating )
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Interesting to see Lyon come on to bowl with a 3-6 field to the right hander and instantly Mark Waugh and Warnie weren't happy with that balance - "it's going to make him bowl too straight and he's at his best pitching outside off stump."
I wonder what they would have thought of Somerville bowling with a 2-7 field?
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@mn5 said in Ashes 2021-22:
@crazy-horse said in Ashes 2021-22:
@rotated said in Ashes 2021-22:
@crazy-horse said in Ashes 2021-22:
@rotated are you saying Stokes is a pork chop? I keep hearing similar but what has he actually done? Nobody has given examples apart from the media talking him up beyond his actual stats. Sure he clouted a couple guys a few years ago but the alleged circumstances around that hardly makes him a dick.
Its difficult to put your finger on why Hadlee was so unpalatable to the Aussies yet totally understandable. Ditto Botham, Khan, Watson, Cairnsy all the way back to Keith Miller.
Fair point. Not sure why I feel like sticking up for him, perhaps because he comes across ok to me. I have my pet hates like everybody - Steve Smith and his 'mini me' immediately spring to mind.
How come ? Sure Smith cheated and looks like a lesbian but I canāt help admire his incredible record, Labuschagne is following in his footsteps pretty effectively ( with the recordā¦.not the cheating )
I actually didn't mind Smith until the cheating. It wasn't the cheating as such, more the aftermath. The tears, and I don't believe for one minute he and the bowlers didn't know. It stank of a cover up (which probably wasn't his idea) but he was one of the faces of it.
As for Labuschange, I cringe for him with his antics. Whereas Smith is Smith, Lasbuschagne seems like it's all an act to me. An embarrassing act that makes him look like a dick A blatant copy of Smith. Plus the face. It annoys me.
Agree, about their records.
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@kiwimurph said in Ashes 2021-22:
@mn5 said in Ashes 2021-22:
Labuschagne is following in his footsteps pretty effectively ( with the recordā¦.not the cheating )
He's barely played outside Aus and has an average of 20 in UAE......
This is such an āIndianā thing to point out
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@mn5 said in Ashes 2021-22:
@kiwimurph said in Ashes 2021-22:
@mn5 said in Ashes 2021-22:
Labuschagne is following in his footsteps pretty effectively ( with the recordā¦.not the cheating )
He's barely played outside Aus and has an average of 20 in UAE......
This is such an āIndianā thing to point out
FYB!
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@rotated said in Ashes 2021-22:
@tewaio said in Ashes 2021-22:
What annoys me the most is how the Aussies mispronounce his name, yet in the 2000s Wallabies fans/commentators were fine with saying Jannes Labuschagne correctly.
It is at his insistence that it is Labuschange like Champagne. The Hyacinth Bucket of test cricket.
His family gave up because Australians
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@canefan said in Ashes 2021-22:
Funny how that aussie all rounder Green(?) came out to bat and got bowled by Ben from Chch second ball. The aussie comms could only squeeze in a couple of minutes of fapping about how good he is. Then they went on about Stokes being the English Talisman. Ha give me Neil from Pretoria anyday. We loves Wags ā¤
Loves
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@canefan said in Ashes 2021-22:
Funny how that aussie all rounder Green(?) came out to bat and got bowled by Ben from Chch second ball. The aussie comms could only squeeze in a couple of minutes of fapping about how good he is. Then they went on about Stokes being the English Talisman. Ha give me Neil from Pretoria anyday. We loves Wags ā¤
Wasn't it Greymouth ? Offf to google..
No... Chch. Sorry ...
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@booboo said in Ashes 2021-22:
@rotated said in Ashes 2021-22:
@tewaio said in Ashes 2021-22:
What annoys me the most is how the Aussies mispronounce his name, yet in the 2000s Wallabies fans/commentators were fine with saying Jannes Labuschagne correctly.
It is at his insistence that it is Labuschange like Champagne. The Hyacinth Bucket of test cricket.
His family gave up because
AustraliansQueenslandersFixed.
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@nta probably fair
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@rotated said in Ashes 2021-22:
@tewaio said in Ashes 2021-22:
What annoys me the most is how the Aussies mispronounce his name, yet in the 2000s Wallabies fans/commentators were fine with saying Jannes Labuschagne correctly.
It is at his insistence that it is Labuschange like Champagne. The Hyacinth Bucket of test cricket.
Quite understandable, really. The name would have come from French (boscage = woodland) and then butchered into Afrikaans along the way.
Wouldn't have started out as "Lah-boo-skuhk-knee", fer shure.
And that's the innings....
