Trott named player of the year, Cook gets test player

"Unofficial estimates put the ICC's expenditure on the ceremony at close to US$ 1 million"

How bad is your organisation to miss getting your snout in that feed trough

So $999,900 spent on the bar tab, and $100 spent on a few picnic tables and Mark Nicholas's MC fee?

Surely the worst bit is that they don't want to foot the bill for a full DRS in every country, but they can spend a million 'bucks' on some pissy award ceremony?

To steal a phrase from the Badger King ...

"Cockjuggling Thunderqunts!!!!"

Back in the C4 days, I actually used to say 'coaljuggling thunderaunt', s'what predictive text used to fire out and it stopped me getting banned.

FWIW could not care less that they didn't turn up for the ceremony. At least it shows the thrashing hurts.

And telling the ICC to f... Off is always nice

Personally I find it to be quite an immature, sore-losery type action to not go. Think it displays a lack of sportsmanship and honour. It trivialises the event. But I'm not vehement on the subject. When I read the article, unfortunately I thought 'how very typical'. And, unfortunately, it is.

Congrats Trott & Cook. Well deserved recognition. I agree about India. Total thunderqunts for not attending, especially as they were in country.

Brass Monkey wrote:Personally I find it to be quite an immature, sore-losery type action to not go. Think it displays a lack of sportsmanship and honour. It trivialises the event. But I'm not vehement on the subject. When I read the article, unfortunately I thought 'how very typical'. And, unfortunately, it is.

Fair dos.

'It trivialises the event.' - yeah, if you mean the tour as a whole. Phurt, if you mean the ceremony.

I was going to say the event in itself is trivial, but at the same time surely as some of the leading lights you have a duty to turn up if you're in the vicinity? Vicinity as in about 20 miles away - and you don't go! Not one person to pick up the award - not even the f*cking tea boy!

F*ck, I mean 'work things' are a rigmarole as I'm sure we can all attest to - but you grit your teeth, smile, chat bollocks, mingle whilst thinking 'WHATTA QUNT!!!" and then go home, no harm done. It can actually be called a 'snub' without a hint of sensationalism.

Did Roo and Chef manage to turn up?

From further afield:

eh?

Brass Monkey wrote:The Indian team's non-appearance at the ICC Awards ceremony in London on Monday night has sparked off a controversy of sorts with the ICC expressing its "disappointment" and the team management saying it was informed too late to change existing plans.

Not a single Indian player or official attended the event and there was no one to collect the Spirit of Cricket Award, which MS Dhoni won for his decision to send back Ian Bell during the second Test of the summer at Trent Bridge.

"We are disappointed," Haroon Lorgat, the ICC chief executive, told ESPNcricinfo. "They have had a great year [before the England series] and it was an occasion to celebrate. It was a missed opportunity."

According to Lorgat, India also missed out on attracting more sympathisers after a disastrous England tour where they have lost both the Test and ODI series. "It was a good opportunity to show their sporting character despite them losing on this tour."

Indian team manager Shivlal Yadav explained that he received a call from the ICC on Monday afternoon. "I had already told the boys that it was an off day. So now how could I have asked them to suddenly change their plans? Hence I told them (ICC) that they should not keep the table free for us," Yadav said.

Interestingly, in 2009 Dhoni failed to collect his ODI Cricketer of the Year Award even though he was in Johannesburg, the venue of the ceremony. Last year's event was in Bangalore, with the Indian team in attendance albeit in denims and T-shirts. Raising more eyebrows, though, was the absence of the BCCI's top brass, including N Srinivasan, then its secretary and currently its president-elect.

The decision to hold this year's awards in London was taken the ICC's executive board on February 16; it is understood that the ICC then sent an email to the BCCI outlining the various details of the awards ceremony, to be held on September 12. On August 24, two days before the nominees' list was formally made public in Canterbury by Clive Lloyd, head of the selection panel for the awards, the ICC sent another e-mail to the Indian board informing that three Indians - MS Dhoni (Spirit of Cricket), Sachin Tendulkar (Cricketer of the Year) and Gautam Gambhir (ODI Cricketer of the Year) - had been nominated in three different categories.

On September 7, the ICC sent a fresh e-mail to Srinivasan's office reminding him about the awards and thereby extending another invitation for the Indians to attend them. It is believed that the Indian team, which was originally scheduled to leave for Cardiff, where it plays its final one-day match on September 16, had in fact postponed its trip by a day, leading to speculation that the players would attend the ceremony.

"We hold the awards' night at a time convenient for the cricketers," Lorgat said. "When we sat earlier in the year to decide on the dates for this year's awards, the choice was between London and Colombo. But we felt that England-India would be a marquee series and therefore [it would be] apt to host it in London."

Unofficial estimates put the ICC's expenditure on the ceremony at close to US$ 1 million.

Qunts? Yeah, qunts.

They didn't turn up for the Tests either.

They haven't shown up for anything since the World Cup.

Fred drowned in booze after the 2005 ashes. India have drowned in endorsements and a sense of their own self importance. And to be honest, half of their side are fatties.

Dello wrote:

They didn't turn up for the Tests either.

You're really going to whore that joke out over different threads? For shame.

Yes. Obviously.

You should make a thread dedicated to it, just in case anyone hasn't seen it yet.

You are what's wrong with this country.

Brass Monkey wrote:Well, no real surprise. Nice tits BTW.

Has anyone been keeping track of Christina Hendriks' lately? My days.

Have I been keeping track of her? Don't even know who the garq she is. What am I, some sort of person who knows sh!t?

Henry wrote:They haven't shown up for anything since the World Cup.

quite true. literally. half the side is in the infirmary

they were all there for the ipl of course

Christina Hendricks! You know - Mad Men actress - jugs all over the place - bit of an American CC.

Every picture is an eyeful.

You lost me at 'Mad'. Soz man. You must mistake me for someone who watches sh!t. I get home and get on the balcony with my binoculars, scan for burgers and sausages all night every night.

She has got remarkably 'fat girl tits' for someone relatively trim.

trim you say?



looks like a lab experiment gone wrong