Aussie Cricket
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@barbarian said in Aussie Cricket:
@booboo said in Aussie Cricket:
@MN5 said in Aussie Cricket:
The underarm incident was a boring, overblown non event 40 years ago.
How people still feel the need to wank on about it to this day is completely beyond me.
Genuine question. How old were you when it happened?
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Kind of my point. (I actually meant to direct the question to @MN5 ...)
But I suppose it applies to everybody and how impressionable you were when it happened will impact on your feelings about it.
For
1112yo sporting nuffy booboo it was just the most major outrage. Young me just couldn't comprehend how you stopped playing properly.Absolute shocked disbelief.
Cushion I was leaning on watching in the lounge barely survived the kicking I gave it.
Edit: I can't maths
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@booboo I agree re bodyline. As an Australian I legitimately don't understand the outcry.
We do exactly the same thing now with regularity - use short, leg-side bowling to force a catch behind the wicket. So how we ever complained about when the poms did it is beyond me.
Like underarm - they exploited the laws of the game to their advantage.
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@MN5 said in Aussie Cricket:
The underarm incident was a boring, overblown non event 40 years ago.
How people still feel the need to wank on about it to this day is completely beyond me.
Wait a minute! This is a TSF cricket thread. Therefore any talk of actual present day cricket is strictly limited to a cap of 10% of posts. The rest needs to be about subjects like what some bloke who played 40 years ago averaged on the third day of tests while batting number 5 against left hand bowlers. This then needs to be compared to other similar players from different decades to decide who makes the all time 2nd XI.
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@KiwiMurph said in Aussie Cricket:
This is what happens when the Black Caps don't
playlose for 3 moreweeksgames.Fixed.
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@booboo said in Aussie Cricket:
@MN5 said in Aussie Cricket:
The underarm incident was a boring, overblown non event 40 years ago.
How people still feel the need to wank on about it to this day is completely beyond me.
Genuine question. How old were you when it happened?
And it's always good to remind Aussies of their shameful acts.
Look, it was a bit of a fluffybunny thing to do but the Chappells are no Brad Haddins
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@barbarian said in Aussie Cricket:
I've always been a bit perplexed by underarm. It still resonates so strongly, and yet what Australia did was entirely legal at the time. It seems to be the 80s equivalent to Sandpapergate, and yet they are completely different situations with only one actually outside the rules of the game.
I don't agree with the decision to bowl underarm, but still to be talking about it 40 years later?
Give us a break, will you? We're reminded of body line every Ashes series, FFS!
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@MN5 said in Aussie Cricket:
@booboo said in Aussie Cricket:
@MN5 said in Aussie Cricket:
The underarm incident was a boring, overblown non event 40 years ago.
How people still feel the need to wank on about it to this day is completely beyond me.
Genuine question. How old were you when it happened?
And it's always good to remind Aussies of their shameful acts.
Look, it was a bit of a fluffybunny thing to do but the Chappells are no Brad Haddins
Brad Haddin comes across as a choir boy compared to the Chappells. Which demonstrates just how seriously the underarm was taken.
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@booboo said in Aussie Cricket:
@MN5 said in Aussie Cricket:
@booboo said in Aussie Cricket:
@MN5 said in Aussie Cricket:
The underarm incident was a boring, overblown non event 40 years ago.
How people still feel the need to wank on about it to this day is completely beyond me.
Genuine question. How old were you when it happened?
And it's always good to remind Aussies of their shameful acts.
Look, it was a bit of a fluffybunny thing to do but the Chappells are no Brad Haddins
Brad Haddin comes across as a choir boy compared to the Chappells. Which demonstrates just how seriously the underarm was taken.
No he doesn’t. He’s universally loathed whereas Greg Chappell is a legend who did something dumb once
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@MN5 said in Aussie Cricket:
@booboo said in Aussie Cricket:
@MN5 said in Aussie Cricket:
@booboo said in Aussie Cricket:
@MN5 said in Aussie Cricket:
The underarm incident was a boring, overblown non event 40 years ago.
How people still feel the need to wank on about it to this day is completely beyond me.
Genuine question. How old were you when it happened?
And it's always good to remind Aussies of their shameful acts.
Look, it was a bit of a fluffybunny thing to do but the Chappells are no Brad Haddins
Brad Haddin comes across as a choir boy compared to the Chappells. Which demonstrates just how seriously the underarm was taken.
No he doesn’t. He’s universally loathed whereas Greg Chappell is a legend who did something dumb once
Which of these turds looks more appealing?
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Unlike most posters I was an adult when the underarm incident took place, albeit living on the other side of the world.
I too was incensed (& amused) at the time, but I do think the whole thing gets rolled out way too often.
the Snedden catch was far more rage inducing but has been largely forgotten.
Aussie cricketers cheat, Aussie umpires are fluffybunnies. the sun rises in the east. Move on.
I look at it as a coming of age for NZ cricket and a fantastic outcome for us. So rattled were the Aussies that they had to come up with this venal act. All the smug condescension from Australian cricket died that day. A great result for us. Bowl a legal delivery and we lose. Even if we win it's forgotten in a few years. Show as piggy said that the colour of the jersey reflects your inner fortitude. Priceless.
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@MN5 said in Aussie Cricket:
@booboo said in Aussie Cricket:
@MN5 said in Aussie Cricket:
@booboo said in Aussie Cricket:
@MN5 said in Aussie Cricket:
The underarm incident was a boring, overblown non event 40 years ago.
How people still feel the need to wank on about it to this day is completely beyond me.
Genuine question. How old were you when it happened?
And it's always good to remind Aussies of their shameful acts.
Look, it was a bit of a fluffybunny thing to do but the Chappells are no Brad Haddins
Brad Haddin comes across as a choir boy compared to the Chappells. Which demonstrates just how seriously the underarm was taken.
No he doesn’t. He’s universally loathed whereas Greg Chappell is a legend who did something dumb once
So serious
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@Bovidae said in Aussie Cricket:
And poor old Bruce Edgar gets completely forgotten being unbeaten on 102 at the non-strikers end.
Not completely. IIRC it was a rather slow 102 that lead to us needing a six of the last ball...
Given that he opened and it was the last ball, and he was on 102, his strike rate wasn't great.
