Bairstow furious cause he didn’t know wicketkeepers could do that. - Adam Liaw
Anyone who has ever played cricket for more than a week knows this sort of stuff happens all the time at all levels, and knows batters have to stay in their crease.
In the words of former England captain Eoin Morgan:
It’s in the Poms’ interest for it to blow up because a) they like playing with their ‘backs against the wall’, and b) they can use it do distract attention from going down 2-0.
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Carey has directed more balls at the stump then the bowlers this innings - Greg Baum.
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England were 1/187 in the first innings. That’s where it was lost for them.
… and c) they can now blame the Australians for them losing and destroying the spirit of the Ashes, the game of cricket, their sinking economy and the whole phone hacking scandal (that’ll be Piers Morgan’s angle for sure).
The old Currant Bun (Sun) splash will be a beaut tomorrow here.
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Feels like years since Bairstow carried off the protester.
Pretty disappointed with those MCC members in the Long Room having a dip at our boys at lunch. Hope CA grow some and lodge a full blooded complaint.
That’d top it all off nicely then. … Questions in the Commons at PMQ.
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In the minority, but that’s a pretty pants appeal and way for Bairstow to get out. Yes, technically right but that’s the sort of thing that would happen at grade cricket. It’s the bloke that you all hate playing keeper, does that and holds the appeal.
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I have no sympathy for them. They have form pointing to the rule book for dodgy decisions. They made their bed.
Cry me a river.
FARK THE POMS
FARK CARLTON
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You’d be mad if we did it to you!
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Well Johnny had a go once or twice at us doing the same thing in Edgbaston. Its one keepers are always watching for at all levels to nick a cheap wicket… I sort of wonder what AB, Steve Waugh or Punter would’ve done? Or even Smith when he was skipper. Not sure.
The one that does end up attracting a warning prior to is the following up by the non striker. The bowler nearly always warns them that if they keep doing that he’ll run him out. Club level or first class.
By the ‘RULES’ for Starc’s catch
By the ‘SPIRIT OF THE GAME’ for Bairstow’s blunder
Can’t have it both ways when it suits you.
FARK ENGLAND
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And so it begins …
DO NOT READ THE SUN!
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England: We think this is against the spirit of cricket.
Has our coach individually done this before? Sure.
Have we as a team done this ourselves in a Test? Yes.
Have we been playing the game in a way that could be considered in any way traditional or, at times, sporting? Look, hear me out…
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I wake up to this…brilliant stuff.
They already were calling us cheats for taking legitimate catches, then calling for the Laws of the Game to avoid a legitimate catch, now they are calling us cheats more even though what we did is the Laws of the Game stuff.
And any Aussie who has this thing about us cheating, get stuffed. It was pretty much all in one motion, you cannot walk out of your crease until ball is called dead.
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It’s the Pom mental gymnastics at play. They always do this. It’s a coping mechanism for being a bunch of losers. Try and distort your thinking into believing you’ve been wronged, that the opposition has been underhanded, and take the moral high ground. And then believe your own BS and in your own head be arrogant enough in your own mind that it’s true.
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1st Test Poms: “Even though we lost it felt like a win, and if it wasn’t for us the Aussies would have lost”
2nd Test Poms: “We were winning this test, and we actually did win, until the Aussies cheated by following the rules, they should get into the Spirit of the Game by allowing us to win”.
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