The elastic and ambiguous spirit of cricket

http://m.theage.com.au/sport/cricket/spirit-gets-a-recall-briefly-20110805-1ifji.html

Makes some fair points. Funny how we take the high moral ground on issues like the Bell run out but accept batsmen who know they're out but stand their ground with impunity. Baum compares the Harbi wicket where he got a palpable edge to the ball with the fielders' reaction for instance. Viv Richards is not presented in a favourable light.

There is no way India would have recalled the batsman if they were playing Australia.

yep biggie they wouldn't have they would have called him a monkey instead. lol.

the silly monkey couldn't run fast enough

G'day CT

Hey biggie, how have you been,

CT wrote:Hey biggie, how have you been,

Was knocked down by a mystery virus thats going around during the week but pulled myself through on a diet of Chicken Soup & Jack Daniels.

ah chicken soup with jack good combo. least it kept you happy, but that's not good but your all better now.

Red wrote:http://m.theage.com.au/sport/cricket/spirit-gets-a-recall-briefly-20110805-1ifji.html

Makes some fair points. Funny how we take the high moral ground on issues like the Bell run out but accept batsmen who know they're out but stand their ground with impunity. Baum compares the Harbi wicket where he got a palpable edge to the ball with the fielders' reaction for instance. Viv Richards is not presented in a favourable light.

Jebus the websites for Australian papers look cheap - its like stepping back into 1998.

I think Greg Baum has dialled this one somewhat. E.g.:

Actually, so did India. Reportedly, England asked Dhoni three times on the field to recall Bell, unavailingly. Except for the accident of tea, Bell would have been replaced, the match would have gone on, and the incident remembered as just another in a tawdry catalogue. It was that close.

Nice use of 'Reportedly', in the 'Completely made up' sense. Morgan and Bell were stood by the boundary for the whole bally-hoo.

Subsequently, England failed the spirit of cricket twice anyway. No announcement was made of Bell's reprieve, which means the Indians retook the field to a chorus of boos. But do you think Bell gestured acknowledgement of Dhoni's graciousness? Of course not.

No announcement was made of Bell's reprieve because the teams decided not to tell anyone. And how does he know Bell didn't acknowledge Dhoni?

Gaz

you could also add that 'except for the accident of tea' Bell wouldn't have been walking off the ground to be in a position to be run out

aus papers maybe cheap but least they don't hack into peoples telephones.

CT wrote:aus papers maybe cheap but least they don't havent been caught when they hack into peoples telephones.

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well yes that could well be the case lol

CT wrote:aus papers maybe cheap but least they don't hack into peoples telephones.

The Australian papers in England do.

Ooooh CT, you biatch.

Sorry Gaz, Murdoch is a Yank. The rules for ownership of US comms assets.

Gary 111 wrote:

CT wrote:aus papers maybe cheap but least they don't hack into peoples telephones.

The Australian papers in England do.

no auss papers in england. old rupert as skulls says in a yank.

Yes, we taught them about technology. They were still using coconut phones until we taught them a bit more.

Them = Yanks?

no aussie had better tech than coconut phones, aus perfected the tin can phones.

He's about as American as Richie Benaud is British.

He's nearly as American as Peter Roebuck is Australian ...

Do we all have to take all our own trash back?

Rupert is as American as foam pies in the face i.e. very, hotish (*cough*) Asian wife to-boot.

Rupert is as American as kangaroos and squinting.

Rupert is as American as bending over the President and bonking him up the clacker.

it's no use the poms whinging about rupert now they let him in and now they have to learn not to use telephones.

Gary 111 wrote:Rupert is as American as kangaroos and squinting.

went to a pub once called The Squinting Cat. Must've been Aussie-run.