Australia v India
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Kohli trying desperately to stay in the headlines now his form has dried up.
I imagine he’ll get an earful when he comes out to bat.
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@MajorRage said in Australia v India:
Who cares?
Aussies been treating opposition like shit for years on their home territory. Anybody want their fuckin arm broken?
Don’t condone it, but no interest in Aussies getting pissy about it.
Really?
I thought it was really fucking average behaviour. The captain of the most popular cricket team on the planet intentionally shouldering a 19yr old kid on debut because he was slapping their bowlers around a bit. What a complete piston wristed gibbon.
And what a pathetically (yet totally expected) weak sanction.
He should have been banned from the 5th test as a minimum. This wasn’t a few words about his mum, this isn’t getting into his head. It was deliberate physical contact.
And don’t get me started on the way he carried on like a wounded pork chop who’d been on the receiving end of a Jerry Collin’s special
Complete fuckwit, how could you look your wife and kids in the eye after that?
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Btw - the very best thing about Konstas yesterday was when they asked him about the incident and he said “what happens in the field stays on the field” - so good, makes Kohli look even smaller
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Virat is turning into an ageing pantomime villain.
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@voodoo see the first 3 words of my last paragraph.
Think you are being way over the top with your critique myself. It’s not cool, but sheesh can’t look your family in the eye? Get a grip.
Top level cricket, especislly vs Aus at home, has always been top tier tough. Kohli looks pretty petulant here but that’s about it.
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Get a grip?
You’re a man in your 40’s, let me know the next time you shoulder a 19yr kid because he’s making your teammate look a bit silly
It’s fucking embarrassing is what it is, and I’d feel like a complete fuckwit if I’d done it
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Ultimately, cricket is a non-contact sport, where the ball is the vessel through which contact is made (from the bowler's hand, onto the batter's bat or body, or into the fielder's hands). Kohli deliberately and clearly crossed that line.
The very light punishment sets a precedent, I fear.
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@MajorRage said in Australia v India:
@voodoo can you read?
Why would I do something I don’t condone?
Well you opened with “who cares” and then tried repeated to tell us that it’s a tough game and the Aussie’s are pricks.
So you may not “do it “ or “condone it”, but you’re definitely making light of it
Nobody is suggesting we cancel him, but a Level 2 punishment of a 1 game suspension should have been the minimum for me
And for what it’s worth, the commentators all agree with me
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Why have I given up on test cricket almost? I agree Kohli looked a twat for wlking past and banging against his shoulder, but f*** me it was a bump and he looks a dick but that's about it? He didn't hurt him or anything. The game supporters seem to be looking for things to sqeal about?? My son here and he going crook, I reminded him of the sldging etc they used to do when he played rep cricket, that would hurt a lot more than that.
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To be fair to Kohli, the way the kid curls his top lip as the bowler is approaching is pretty bloody annoying.
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@voodoo I’m making lighter of it than you are, yes. I’m happy to agree to disagree and walk away, but:
Aussie comms agree? That is a non existent argument. If you don’t worship the altar of Oz cricket, you cannot commentate their summer.
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@Dan54 said in Australia v India:
Why have I given up on test cricket almost? I agree Kohli looked a twat for wlking past and banging against his shoulder, but f*** me it was a bump and he looks a dick but that's about it? He didn't hurt him or anything. The game supporters seem to be looking for things to sqeal about?? My son here and he going crook, I reminded him of the sldging etc they used to do when he played rep cricket, that would hurt a lot more than that.
Because cricket isn't rugby. Or even football. Contact is not required or allowed, and Kohli deliberately sought it out.
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@MajorRage said in Australia v India:
@voodoo I’m making lighter of it than you are, yes. I’m happy to agree to disagree and walk away, but:
Aussie comms agree? That is a non existent argument. If you don’t worship the altar of Oz cricket, you cannot commentate their summer.
Ravi Shastri and Michael Vaughan. Hardly Aussie sycophants
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Back to the cricket: Cummins having a field day batting at 8 against a newish ball
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RR 3.71 after 100 overs
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Smith with a second ton in two matches. That's 34 in Tests, and not far from 10k
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According to comms: 11 tons against India. The most by anyone.
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@NTA said in Australia v India:
Back to the cricket: Cummins having a field day batting at 8 against a newish ball
He looks geeat
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Siraj losing his shit.
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@NTA said in Australia v India:
Smith with a second ton in two matches. That's 34 in Tests, and not far from 10k
Isn't he a beautiful batsman when he gets going. Just looks so awkward at times but so bloody quick to react.
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@NTA said in Australia v India:
Smith with a second ton in two matches. That's 34 in Tests, and not far from 10k
You can thank me for that! I said in the first test I thought age was catching up with him, and that his dodgy technique walking across his stumps would finally be found out now his eye is not as good... so he goes and scores two superb tons! Incredible player.
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@voodoo said in Australia v India:
@MajorRage said in Australia v India:
Who cares?
Aussies been treating opposition like shit for years on their home territory. Anybody want their fuckin arm broken?
Don’t condone it, but no interest in Aussies getting pissy about it.
Really?
I thought it was really fucking average behaviour. The captain of the most popular cricket team on the planet intentionally shouldering a 19yr old kid on debut because he was slapping their bowlers around a bit. What a complete piston wristed gibbon.
And what a pathetically (yet totally expected) weak sanction.
He should have been banned from the 5th test as a minimum. This wasn’t a few words about his mum, this isn’t getting into his head. It was deliberate physical contact.
And don’t get me started on the way he carried on like a wounded pork chop who’d been on the receiving end of a Jerry Collin’s special
Complete fuckwit, how could you look your wife and kids in the eye after that?
Both things can be true.
Kohli being a petulant piston wristed gibbon who should be banned and not wanting to put up with the bleating of some precious fans who delighted in the sportsmanship of underarm bowling...
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At first glance I don't think that was Virat's call...
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@Donsteppa said in Australia v India:
At first glance I don't think that was Virat's call...
Definitely the striker's call.
Kohli turned to watch the ball instead of getting into gear
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TBH only way we looked like getting a wicket
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Kohli wafts and is gone. The aussies were ripping into him after the run out
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Send another Night Watchman, you cowards
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Game has shifted dramatically in 15 minutes. India need a partnership.
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@NTA said in Australia v India:
@Damo first: survive.
Hatch a plan overnight.
Jeepers, that Smith innings was huge and bloody annoying cos KW doesn’t have a chance to draw level for ages.
India still needing 110 just to avoid the follow on !
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@NTA said in Australia v India:
Send another Night Watchman, you cowards
That's the third or fourth time in recent times, I've seen a team send out a nightwatchman with about 20 minutes to play.
I don't think any of them have survived.
I don't know what they're thinking! A nightwatchman (MAYBE!) if there's ten balls or less left in the day. Because you don't want a specialist batsman to get out facing three or four balls. But four or five overs - that's ridiculous.
And even worse, the commentary teams appear to have invented a new role, where the nightwatchman is also apparently supposed to dominate the strike and protect the set batsman. That's bollocks IMO. The one thing you don't want is for the nightwatchman to get out and have to have your new batsman come out anyway - so if anything I'd want the set specialist batsman to farm the strike. After all, you don't trust your bunnies at the end of the innings.
And in Akash Deep's case - following this theory, he came out with five overs to play so ideally he faces all 30 balls.
Problem being he's had 8 innings in test cricket and faced 138 balls - so on average he only lasts 17 balls.
Edit: Maybe in the last over of the day, when a new batsmen doesn't have to come out anyway - the nightie might turn down a single to protect the set batsman.
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Haha Aussie with one of the worst reviews I've seen.
Ball went nowhere near the glove (or any part of the body for that matter).
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Indian batsmen are having a 'mare backing each other up between wickets
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@Chris-B said in Australia v India:
@NTA said in Australia v India:
Send another Night Watchman, you cowards
That's the third or fourth time in recent times, I've seen a team send out a nightwatchman with about 20 minutes to play.
I don't think any of them have survived.
I don't know what they're thinking! A nightwatchman (MAYBE!) if there's ten balls or less left in the day. Because you don't want a specialist batsman to get out facing three or four balls. But four or five overs - that's ridiculous.
And even worse, the commentary teams appear to have invented a new role, where the nightwatchman is also apparently supposed to dominate the strike and protect the set batsman. That's bollocks IMO. The one thing you don't want is for the nightwatchman to get out and have to have your new batsman come out anyway - so if anything I'd want the set specialist batsman to farm the strike. After all, you don't trust your bunnies at the end of the innings.
And in Akash Deep's case - following this theory, he came out with five overs to play so ideally he faces all 30 balls.
Problem being he's had 8 innings in test cricket and faced 138 balls - so on average he only lasts 17 balls.
Edit: Maybe in the last over of the day, when a new batsmen doesn't have to come out anyway - the nightie might turn down a single to protect the set batsman.
I reckon.
Someone supposedly in the team as a batsman gets protected from actually batting by a guy who is very likely tired from bowling heaps earlier on. It’s pretty ridiculous
As @NTA alludes to if it comes to it Australia might not enforce the follow on and instead bat again and set a huge 4th innings total.
It’s the modern way it seems
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@NTA said in Australia v India:
@Chris-B like the follow-on, I don't think it's a thing any more unless it's the circumstances you describe
Shouldn't be - but, India and NZ are both still using it - and both guilty of sending in early nighties.
Steve Waugh got rid of it altogether and I think was probably correct - except in exceptional circumstances.
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Wow. That is thick by Pant.
Shouldn't judge just on outcome, but jeesh. If he got it right he had 2 men on the leg boundary anyway
Southee-esque. Is about the most damning way I can describe it.
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