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  • Thread starter I_Saw_Shaw_Score
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Otis

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  • Mar 31, 2018
  • #911
And now we have had NZ at 17/4 and then 35/5.

138 run partnership now though for the 6th wicket and NZ are currently 174/5, so we have let that opportunity slip though our fingers to polish them off for a really low score.
 

SkyBlueSoul

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  • Mar 31, 2018
  • #912
Aaaand bad light stops play with NZ 192-6
 
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wingy

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  • Mar 31, 2018
  • #913
Anyone seen Warners crocodile tears?
 

Otis

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  • Mar 31, 2018
  • #914
wingy said:
Anyone seen Warners crocodile tears?
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Yup.

Don't buy it at all and not for Steve Smith either.
 
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wingy

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  • Mar 31, 2018
  • #915
Otis said:
Yup.

Don't buy it at all and not for Steve Smith either.
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I actually felt Smiths were truely genuine.he was distraught, not so with Warner.
 

Otis

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  • Mar 31, 2018
  • #916
wingy said:
I actually felt Smiths were truely genuine.he was distraught, not so with Warner.
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I just got the feeling Smith was upset because he was no longer the superhero.

I am sure he was genuinely upset, just not convinced of the validity of his reasoning.

He's gone from the best batsmen in the world and comparisons with Bradman, to outcast and humiliation.

I think it is that, that is upsetting him rather than any genuine remorse.
 
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RedSalmon

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  • Mar 31, 2018
  • #917
Am in Australia at the moment. When it all came out just about everyone was outraged, a taxi driver was saying they should never play for Australia again and the level of anger was pretty high.

Got to say, a few days later and after a couple of tearful TV appearances quite a few people are asking if they have been punished enough. Was amazed that one commenteator seemed to be suggesting that the sheer humiliation of having to walk through the airport and get on the plane was punishment enough.

Dont be suprised to see some backtracking on the punishment handed out in the next few weeks.
 
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chiefdave

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  • Mar 31, 2018
  • #918
wingy said:
Anyone seen Warners crocodile tears?
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Yep. Refusing to answer questions regarding involvement of others and if they'd done it before doesn't look good.

Don't understand those complaining they're getting a hard time. They got caught cheating and it was pre-planned. What response is appropriate? They've been suspended and each given a press conference. They're hardly being paraded through the streets.
 

Terry Gibson's perm

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  • Mar 31, 2018
  • #919
Warner is getting little sympathy from his fellow cricketers did people see Trottys tweet what goes around comes around
 
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Gazolba

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  • Mar 31, 2018
  • #920
We should have a separate thread for 'cricket ball tampering' so those of us who are sick of the subject can just ignore it.
 

Grendel

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  • Mar 31, 2018
  • #921
I was talking to some Aussies the other day and they think Warner is an arsehole
 

I_Saw_Shaw_Score

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  • Mar 31, 2018
  • #922
Grendel said:
I was talking to some Aussies the other day and they think Warner is an arsehole
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It be hard not to think that, I think the same of Broad but I get as much delight as anyone when he has ‘one of his games’ (in 20 such as this test)
 
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Grendel

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  • Mar 31, 2018
  • #923
I_Saw_Shaw_Score said:
It be hard not to think that, I think the same of Broad but I get as much delight as anyone when he has ‘one of his games’ (in 20 such as this test)
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Actually these guys who are in Australia and big cricket fans say most really hate the bloke and think this is great
 

Johnnythespider

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  • Mar 31, 2018
  • #924
I can't believe that these 3 are the only ones involved, surely the bowlers would have to be in on this, as I understand it the lad with the tape was fielding on the boundary, would he see much of the ball out there ?
 

chiefdave

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  • Mar 31, 2018
  • #925
Johnnythespider said:
I can't believe that these 3 are the only ones involved, surely the bowlers would have to be in on this, as I understand it the lad with the tape was fielding on the boundary, would he see much of the ball out there ?
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Of course not. Look how Warner squirmed and refused to answer when he was asked if anyone else was involved or if they had done it before during his press conference.
 
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RedSalmon

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  • Mar 31, 2018
  • #926
This gets better.............got Warners wife on TV crying her eyes out now!!!
 

Otis

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  • Mar 31, 2018
  • #927
RedSalmon said:
This gets better.............got Warners wife on TV crying her eyes out now!!!
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I would cry my eyes out too if I was married to that arrogant twat.
 

Terry Gibson's perm

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  • Mar 31, 2018
  • #928
Maybe she has just seen the life she has become used to get a bit tighter
 

chiefdave

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  • Mar 31, 2018
  • #929
It just gets more and more bizarre. Unless I'm missing something the players involved aren't being treated any different than you'd expect but they're trying to push the angle that they are receiving terrible treatment.

Here's a crazy idea. If you're worried about the way your wife and kids are taking this and / or being treated take them out the firing line. You don't parade them all through the airport, have them at the press conference and then have you wife give her own press conference.

Reality is they've hired PR people who have done a crap job and people aren't believing what they are being told.

Why not just withdraw from the public eye. They aren't short of a few quid just head off to the middle of nowhere, there's plenty of that is Aus, or even got overseas, spend a few months in the states where nobody knows who you are.

Give it 3-6 months and then start thinking about if you want to comeback and what you need to do to achieve that.
 
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I_Saw_Shaw_Score

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  • Mar 31, 2018
  • #930
NZ off to a flier here.

Need Broad and Anderson to finish this off with th new ball and hopefully a lead of 40
 

Terry Gibson's perm

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  • Mar 31, 2018
  • #931
I_Saw_Shaw_Score said:
NZ off to a flier here.

Need Broad and Anderson to finish this off with th new ball and hopefully a lead of 40
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Total rubbish from wood it was like a county player setting up a declaration with buffet bowling and Leach is another no spinning spinner
 

Otis

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  • Mar 31, 2018
  • #932
Terry Gibson's perm said:
Total rubbish from wood it was like a county player setting up a declaration with buffet bowling and Leach is another no spinning spinner
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Is it a bit like at the City when we have had non-footballing footballers?
 

I_Saw_Shaw_Score

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  • Mar 31, 2018
  • #933
Cricket porn from Jimmy!
WHAT A DELIVERY!!!
 
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Terry Gibson's perm

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  • Apr 1, 2018
  • #934
I_Saw_Shaw_Score said:
Cricket porn from Jimmy!
WHAT A DELIVERY!!!
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Unplayable no sandpaper required
 
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Terry Gibson's perm

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  • Apr 1, 2018
  • #935
Why do they have no third man
 

Otis

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  • Apr 1, 2018
  • #936
Terry Gibson's perm said:
Unplayable no sandpaper required
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Yeah, but as he game's on so late I bet loads of people have taped it.
 

I_Saw_Shaw_Score

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  • Apr 1, 2018
  • #937
5fer for Broad means he now cannot be dropped for 12 months.

(Well bowled this innings though!)
 
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I_Saw_Shaw_Score

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  • Apr 1, 2018
  • #938
So both Stoneman and especially Vince get a few runs in their final knocks of the winter to probably keep their places for the Pakistan Test at home inna couple of months.......
 

Terry Gibson's perm

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  • Apr 1, 2018
  • #939
I_Saw_Shaw_Score said:
So both Stoneman and especially Vince get a few runs in their final knocks of the winter to probably keep their places for the Pakistan Test at home inna couple of months.......
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Cook is lucky there are few other openers about but Broad,Stoneman and Vince have booked summer places and Wood has managed to get Woakes back in
 
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I_Saw_Shaw_Score

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  • Apr 1, 2018
  • #940
Terry Gibson's perm said:
Cook is lucky there are few other openers about but Broad,Stoneman and Vince have booked summer places and Wood has managed to get Woakes back in
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Woakes should be starting at home anyway.
 

Terry Gibson's perm

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  • Apr 1, 2018
  • #941
I_Saw_Shaw_Score said:
Woakes should be starting at home anyway.
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Should be but they seem to like wood and obviously they wouldn’t dare to leave out Broad especially after his one in twenty test
 

Covstu

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  • Apr 1, 2018
  • #942
There must be a better opener that cook now, he has a decent knock about one in ten now. Anyway on top just need to rack up about 450 inreckon
 

tisza

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  • Apr 1, 2018
  • #943
I_Saw_Shaw_Score said:
Woakes should be starting at home anyway.
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Can do it at home but only rarely looks likely of getting more than a couple of wickets a game.
Batting & injuries kept him in Test side. Before his injury looked like he had started to get it sorted but hasn't really looked the same since.
 

tisza

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  • Apr 1, 2018
  • #944
Covstu said:
There must be a better opener that cook now, he has a decent knock about one in ten now. Anyway on top just need to rack up about 450 inreckon
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Problem is doesn't seem to be. Stoneman was supposed to be best candidate based on several years of big runs in domestic cricket. Hamed had a shocker last year. Jennings hasn't looked the part. Cook scored a shed load last year in County cricket but still making poor technical mistakes at Test level.
 

I_Saw_Shaw_Score

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  • Apr 1, 2018
  • #945
tisza said:
Can do it at home but only rarely looks likely of getting more than a couple of wickets a game.
Batting & injuries kept him in Test side. Before his injury looked like he had started to get it sorted but hasn't really looked the same since.
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He’ll be fine over here this summer.
 
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