The Cricket Thread (part 6) - from July 2023 (Bartholemew Frinton-Smythe, Humphrey Wigbert-Porter, and Quinten Breckenridge)

Don’t watch much cricket so don’t get the whinging over the Bairstow dismissal. Left his crease so looks fair to me, am I missing something?

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Who would want to drink warm beer with that hypocrite? He did the very same thing to Murali years ago, but now he is playing the victim card. He can FRO!

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Same old England, always whinging.

What a bunch of cucks. And McCallum, you hypocritical prick, no one wants to have a beer with you anyway. Go and play your DiasterBall.

Oh, and Johnny, you might want to pick a better time to do some gardening next time, ■■■■■■■■.

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Loved the Flintoff celebration from Hazlewood

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They sound like contestants in Monty-Python’s “Upper Class Twit of the Year” competition.

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If we were actually any good at chants in this country (which we’re generally not) then you’d love to hear a few directed back at them next time they’re out here for the Ashes.

I’d love the whole Southern Stand (Warne Stand) to be chanting “Whinge, Whinge, ■■■■■■■ Whinge” or what Seddon Bomber wrote, “Same old England, Always whinging” to flip that particular one on them.

I love that English Real Ale. I held the record for a while at a pub in Worcester; 14 pints in a session. That is what they told me as I found it hard to remember after 8.

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Classic piece of channeling for payback.

Just like Carey, nope.

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Probably unsure of the exact ruling. Checking with the video ref, who had little choice but to apply the word of the law after doing the same to Starc the day before.

On the Kasprowicz rule, it’s out. But that’s only when the Poms are bowling.

Bear’s Toe knows the rules, he was trying to do the same thing to Loose Change a couple of days before. He just thought in this instance the rules didn’t apply to him. I strongly suspect he will be more circumspect in his meandering in the future, if he plays more tests that is. Anyway, he was clearly not amused. so that only made the spectacle all the more enjoyable.

Not a thing, from an official point of view, plenty of mirth to be had if you want to read some of the tweets in articles linked in this thread. My advice is don’t miss the tweets, they are rolled gold.

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Now that Ashwin is supporting it I’m uncomfortable about it lol

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Fk me, that’s almost 8L of beer in a session.

Did they just save the effort and hook you up directly to the keg?

serious change to life in nanjing I would’ve thought.
hope you all have a cracking life in Stamford.

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All sorts of circumstances.

Umpire calling over.
Ball is thrown by the wicketkeeper to a fielder to return to the bowler is the standard one.
Player injured.
Completion of first run when an attempted leg bye is run and batsman hasn’t played a shot.

More than a dozen reasons, IIRC.,

Quite correct. No-one else but the keeper involved AND he wasn’t attempting a run.

Lots of clips on social media this morning showing the Poms doing similar things…recently too.

Poms are pretty precious about it; but so are we I reckon. Players and coach hypocritical when it comes to something that would help their team. HOLD THE PHONE!!