Ashes 2023
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STUMP ODDITY
Cameron Green to Major Pom
Cameron Green to Major Pom
Ground your bat to keep your helmet onCameron Green to Major Pom
He's started walking, thinks the over's done
If you cross the crease line may God's love be with youThis is Cameron Green to Major Tom
You've really made the team?
And the papers want to know what made you take off in a tear
And it's time to appeal the stumping if you dareThis is Major Pom to Cameron Green
I've left before the call
And I'm walking in a most peculiar way
And Carey's thinking it must be his lucky dayFor here am I stranded in no man's land
Far beyond the line
The London air is blue and there's nothing I can doI've seen the stumping flash up on the screen
And I'm feeling very ill
And before too long I know it's time to go
As the umpire makes the right call, and Australia knowsCameron Green to Major Pom
The umpire's finger's in the air you got it wrong
Can you hear me Major Pom?
Can you hear me Major Pom?
Can you hear me Major Pom?
Can youHere am I stranded in no man's land
Far beyond the line
The Long Room air is blue but I'd have done it too -
Very good MIke. All your own work?
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Ashes 2023:
Very good MIke. All your own work?
Cheers
Yep
Except for Major Pom -
@junior said in Ashes 2023:
Lighten up, MajorPom!
You're right, if the shoe were on the other foot, the Aussies would probably also be invoking the "Spirit of Cricket" - and we would all be pointing out what a bunch of hypocrites they are too! For me, that's the whole point - this bullshit concept of the "Spirit of Cricket" is simply whatever suits me in the circumstances when the rules don't. It's the similar to, but far worse than, "rugby values".
Profile updated until the conclusion of the Ashes.
Lets face it, without me, this would just be a circle jerk of the most convicted of cheating sporting team on the planet. The Lance Armstrong of cricket.
Not having a bar of it.
If England can't win the Ashes, at least England are going to walk the Moral Ashes.
(I originally had we instead of England ... but I couldn't do that without doing a bit of this)
(C) @Virgil
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@MajorPom - like the new monicker old chap
With regard to the portrayal of it being the single event that decided the match, it seems it was us Little Englanders at fault not the actual Poms
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@MajorPom said in Ashes 2023:
Lets face it, without me, this would just be a circle jerk of the most convicted of cheating sporting team on the planet. The Lance Armstrong of cricket.
Not having a bar of it.
If England can't win the Ashes, at least England are going to walk the Moral Ashes.
And you called the rest of us predictable
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Shit talker talks shit about other shit talkers talking shit
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@NTA said in Ashes 2023:
Shit talker talks shit about other shit talkers talking shit
He does admit to talking shit in the article though to his credit.
….and he did back it up more often than not.
Bloody good player, on a par with Mark Waugh in terms of aesthetic appeal I reckon.
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@MajorPom said in Ashes 2023:
@junior said in Ashes 2023:
Lighten up, MajorPom!
You're right, if the shoe were on the other foot, the Aussies would probably also be invoking the "Spirit of Cricket" - and we would all be pointing out what a bunch of hypocrites they are too! For me, that's the whole point - this bullshit concept of the "Spirit of Cricket" is simply whatever suits me in the circumstances when the rules don't. It's the similar to, but far worse than, "rugby values".
Profile updated until the conclusion of the Ashes.
Lets face it, without me, this would just be a circle jerk of the most convicted of cheating sporting team on the planet. The Lance Armstrong of cricket.
Not having a bar of it.
If England can't win the Ashes, at least England are going to walk the Moral Ashes.
(I originally had we instead of England ... but I couldn't do that without doing a bit of this)
(C) @Virgil
Well fucking played. I saw your new moniker in another thread and had a good fucking laugh. Excellent work.
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3-0
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@MiketheSnow said in Ashes 2023:
3-0
Yeah that’s what I’m predicting.
I’m sure they’ll come out with bluster and fire at the horrific injustice of what they went through in the last test…….
….but overall I can’t see them on a level field with Australia over five days.
Labuschagne will get a huge score. Green will also chime in with a terrific all round performance. You read it here first.
It’s also Steve Smiths 100th test and he generally goes ok.
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Glenn McGrath talking sense. Well, until he talks about the catch.
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@MN5 said in Ashes 2023:
@MiketheSnow said in Ashes 2023:
3-0
Yeah that’s what I’m predicting.
I’m sure they’ll come out with bluster and fire at the horrific injustice of what they went through in the last test…….
….but overall I can’t see them on a level field with Australia over five days.
Labuschagne will get a huge score. Green will also chime in with a terrific all round performance. You read it here first.
It’s also Steve Smiths 100th test and he generally goes ok.
i saw McCullum has come out to say their all fired up and winning 3-2 sounds pretty good etc.....
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@Kiwiwomble said in Ashes 2023:
@MN5 said in Ashes 2023:
@MiketheSnow said in Ashes 2023:
3-0
Yeah that’s what I’m predicting.
I’m sure they’ll come out with bluster and fire at the horrific injustice of what they went through in the last test…….
….but overall I can’t see them on a level field with Australia over five days.
Labuschagne will get a huge score. Green will also chime in with a terrific all round performance. You read it here first.
It’s also Steve Smiths 100th test and he generally goes ok.
i saw McCullum has come out to say their all fired up and winning 3-2 sounds pretty good etc.....
He’s a dick.
……and he used to be one of my favourite ever BCs back in the day too.
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@MajorPom said in Ashes 2023:
Glenn McGrath talking sense. Well, until he talks about the catch.
It's a very good read outside of the catch. One part that struck a chord:
If they had been given the opportunities this England team have had, at Edgbaston and then at Lord's, let me tell you, they would not be 2-0 down.
The Bairstow dismissal, the Yorkshireman walking out of his crease like he owned the game, was the culmination of everything we have seen from this current team.
I have read a lot about the 'spirit of cricket' this week. Well, you have to respect Test cricket with your attitude as well. You cannot just go wandering out of your crease.
It took something like the Bairstow incident for England to realise they are in the battle - and that is disappointing.
Especially the part in bold. I've read in a surprising number of places this week that it shouldn't have been out because 'Bairstow wasn't trying to take advantage', or 'but Bairstow tapped his foot back in the crease to show the ball was dead/the over was over'
Many dismissals happen in cricket without the batter necessarily trying to take advantage. Lots of stumpings happen because we're a clumsy oaf and overbalance, not only from charging down the pitch trying to smash the ball for 12, or from trying to sneak a run...
On the second part - other than in backyard cricket by calling the local variation of "wickets" - in no part of the laws of the competitive game does a batter unilaterally decide when the ball is dead. What happened to playing to the Umpire or referee - that we teach kids in all sports on a regular basis
