Convicts v Marxist Land Thieves - Crucket
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Ouch indeed! Did had a laugh about Warner running Bancroft out. Heard a few murmurs that it was Smith and Warner hatching this strategy rather than the full leadership group. If that is the case I'd imagine the rest of that group would be pretty pissed about how Smith framed things.
Now the ICC have given the one match ban for Smith it'll be interesting to see what CA think is needed on top of that.
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@paekakboyz said in Convicts v Marxist Land Thieves - Crucket:
Ouch indeed! Did had a laugh about Warner running Bancroft out. Heard a few murmurs that it was Smith and Warner hatching this strategy rather than the full leadership group. If that is the case I'd imagine the rest of that group would be pretty pissed about how Smith framed things.
Now the ICC have given the one match ban for Smith it'll be interesting to see what CA think is needed on top of that.
It’s not like the players and CA are chummy at the moment. Bet they haven’t forgotten the drawn out contract negotiations earlier. Where they basically held the CA to ransom.
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@virgil Fark, I'd totally forgotten about that hoo haa! hmmm a few suspensions without pay you reckon?
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@victor-meldrew said in Convicts v Marxist Land Thieves - Crucket:
@mn5 Hansie Cronje was also regarded as one of the best ever...
That went well.
By who? His folks? He was an ordinary test player
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@mn5 said in Convicts v Marxist Land Thieves - Crucket:
@victor-meldrew said in Convicts v Marxist Land Thieves - Crucket:
@mn5 Hansie Cronje was also regarded as one of the best ever...
That went well.
By who? His folks? He was an ordinary test player
Yes, but a terrific christian.
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Nice quote from David Warner following Faf Du Plessis ball tampering of a couple of years back.
"We hold our heads high and I'd be very disappointed if one of our team members did that.
"The rules are in place for a reason. If you're not going to use them why bother having them?
"If you're going to overstep the mark, be prepared to get fined and miss Test matches."
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Iinteresting here in aus watching the public turn on them ,
They have lost their own supporters big time
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Ok. I have gone from "not outraged " to "people need to calm the fuck down" . Some of articles and reports I have read are getting silly.
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The bulk of them are coming from the Australians themselves
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@baron-silas-greenback said in Convicts v Marxist Land Thieves - Crucket:
Ok. I have gone from "not outraged " to "people need to calm the fuck down" . Some of articles and reports I have read are getting silly.
Agreed. There are far more important issues people should be losing their shit over around our political spectrum, but they won't because they don't care about politics nearly as much as they care about cricket. Cricket is easy to think about.
Plus, this feels a bit like the straw that broke the camel's back. As a cricketing public, we have generally allowed a lot of things to occur that other nations witness with a kind of seething hatred (that we've often written off to jealousy). This time we're not only losing, we're losing badly.
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@nta said in Convicts v Marxist Land Thieves - Crucket:
@baron-silas-greenback said in Convicts v Marxist Land Thieves - Crucket:
Ok. I have gone from "not outraged " to "people need to calm the fuck down" . Some of articles and reports I have read are getting silly.
Agreed. There are far more important issues people should be losing their shit over around our political spectrum, but they won't because they don't care about politics nearly as much as they care about cricket. Cricket is easy to think about.
Plus, this feels a bit like the straw that broke the camel's back. As a cricketing public, we have generally allowed a lot of things to occur that other nations witness with a kind of seething hatred (that we've often written off to jealousy). This time we're not only losing, we're
losingcheating badly.Fixed!
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@nta said in Convicts v Marxist Land Thieves - Crucket:
@virgil "losing badly" as in "bad losers".
Aren't you fucking loving this?
Only me?
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Surely this would be as good of a time as any for the ICC to really clamp down on ball tampering and change the rules to provide some sort of deterrent?
Is it any wonder ball tampering is so rampant when the punishment is so weak?
ICC haven't banned Bancroft, didn't ban Faf Du Plessis etc etc go back as many years as you like.
It all seems a bit strange that the governing body of cricket seem to allow this to go on with minimal punishment.
