The beauty of the situation is our players wouldn’t have had to say anything when shaking hands after the game - as we won. Each player from both sides know deep down there is nothing to see here, Bairstow stuffed up. It’s part of the game.
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That one’s worse.
That’s wrong too.
Brit commentator as Bairstow walks off “They could have withdrawn the appeal, but they didn’t “
Well, Johnny tried but couldn’t get it to work.
Baz was better at it - waited for a batter to check it was ok to leave, then leave to celebrate a century.
That is absolutely true in one sense.
We absolutely could’ve withdrawn the appeal but thankfully we had no such desire to do so
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It’s not really in the ‘spirit of the game’ is it?
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Interesting that I haven’t heard any whingeing from Bairstow himself. He knows full well he stuffed-up. Never leave the door open, never give a sucker a break and all that…
The saltiness is more related to where the game stood at the time, and the fact that the dismissal very probably cost them any chance of victory. With Fatty gone, Australia were only ever one wicket (Stokes) from winning the game.
So unsporting to appeal.
Not at all but you can withdraw the appeal if you feel it’s not in the spirit of the game but common sense prevailed
Lol, you’d swear it was from an English pantomime script!
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Nobody are bigger sooks than the poms……. Ohhh except for New Zealandrrs.
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That is perfect from Cummins. Prepare a decent non Bazball-road pitch and maybe we’ll get some more traditional non bodyline cricket.
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It’s all quite fascinating isn’t it? They spent three hours bowling non stop short ■■■■ because of the pitch they asked to have prepared. Then they happily accept that Starcs perfectly controlled catch was deemed not out due to “rules” by Erasmus. Then sook their arses off that Bairstow was out due to “rules” by Erasmus.
Fwiw, I didn’t like it at the time. I’m still not convinced we shouldn’t have withdrawn the appeal. But the more I hear, fark them every which way. Especially Broad, whose hypocrisy knows no limits.
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Bairstow can’t really complain having tried the exact same thing in the same game. Carey should respond to questions by saying he got the idea from Bairstow…
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He should, that’d be perfect.
Yep, quite. He’d know full well he stuffed-up.
For me, this is the funniest thing throughout this whole furore.
Just because of how it fits every possible stereotype that you could imagine. Like if you were taking the p¡ss and coming up with made up toff names for guys in the Lord’s long room then these would be the names you’d come up with.
Bartholomew Frinton-Smythe
Humphrey Wigbert-Porter
Quinten Breckenridge
That’s outstanding.
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