India v Australia, 4th Test, Delhi, 22-26 March, 2013

taipan wrote:

Nath wrote:Indian commentators complaining about excessive appealing from Aussie lol

But just yesterday Gavaskar said you are entitled to appeal whether you think the batsman is out or not.

I likes, I does.

Brass Monkey wrote:Aus really are quntish when their tails are up.

I actually prefer it that way. Having grown up watching and hating (in an admiring sort of way) on a generation of Aussie qunts, this lot had seemed banal substitutes so far.

The Caribbean joie de vivre that borders on lunacy, the bumbling and sometimes hypocritical English whose contribution to cricket humour is Michael Vaughan's tweets, the Lankans who're trying to have all Test cricket played at Galle and only Galle, the Indians' unique combination of arrogance, sanctimoniousness and incompetence, the hothead Pakistani bumblers who would consider it a privilege to be called incompetent, the South African who ch...ch.. every time the cock of a close win is shoved down their throats and the the NZs who really only would like to f cuk sheep and do it hard, are all critical elements in the tapestry that is international cricket.

Bangladesh and Zimbabwe are still trying to find their true calling in international cricket, but no doubt they will contrive to be as messed up as the rest. Once Zimbabwe's finished with it's genocide program, and Bangladesh has found out they really only want to play football all along, of course.

Just like we need all of the above, we need an Australia to be arrogant, whingeing, naive and bullying, in order that we may kick the living shit out of them when they're down. Australia's role is to be is the USA of international cricket, the Great Cricketing Satan who just wants to be loved and cannot understand why it isn't loved. Instead, the rest of the world fantasizes about someone in their team - just for illustration let's call him Gautam 'jehad' Gambhir - wrapping a somewhat incendiary and suddenly expanding belt around themselves and attaching themselves limpet like to a Michael Slater, a Justin Langer, an early Ricky Ponting, and early and later Michael Clarke, a later stage Shane Watson, an early Warner and going- BOOM!

No point doing it to an Ed Cowan, he'd probably write a fifty page thesis looking at the event from Gautam's POV (BTW, Gauti, have you tried that nice belt I sent you only last week?) while patting your head.

So yeah, f cuk the Nice Aussies, what we really want are insolent Aussies we can F cuk Nicely.

Also, SRT needs to retire.

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Well, there we go.

Anthony_Gonzales wrote:A pitch like this is good for cricket. So so much better than the roads which have become the norm everywhere now

Amen to that

Basil wrote:

Anthony_Gonzales wrote:A pitch like this is good for cricket. So so much better than the roads which have become the norm everywhere now

Amen to that

Not sure that the roads are the norm everywhere.

taipan wrote:
Not sure that the roads are the norm everywhere.

Apart from SA, I'd say it's the case.

Brass Monkey wrote:

taipan wrote:
Not sure that the roads are the norm everywhere.

Apart from SA, I'd say it's the case.

Trent Bridge always gives us a decent result pitch. Others in England have admittedly gone downhill recently, it's gone to the other extreme from the three-dayers we used to see at Edgbaston and Headingley a while back.

So, any coincidence that when Twatto takes over as captain, Aus start acting like c*nts again? To be honest, it seems like some of the Aus players are more willing to 'play' for Watson than they are for Clarke. Clique well and truly exposed?

Looks like we might finally have a cracking test match on our hands.

Henry wrote:So, any coincidence that when Twatto takes over as captain, Aus start acting like c*nts again? To be honest, it seems like some of the Aus players are more willing to 'play' for Watson than they are for Clarke. Clique well and truly exposed?

Looks like we might finally have a cracking test match on our hands.

Not really. Bannies will get 30 or so ahead. Aust will crumble for about 150. Bannie openers will knock of 85 of those. Game over, possibly today.

Australia play better when they act like qunts, England play worse for some reason...

beamer wrote:Australia play better when they act like qunts, England play worse for some reason...

Because Australians are naturally c*nts and the English are naturally top-notch gents?

I think it's the other way round with England?

The bowlers at least get increasingly peevish and juvenile when they have been getting no results.

Farkin Con drops Instant. Qunt.

Yoody starts with a loopy half volley that gets spanked. Soft qunt.

Fark, any lead is gonna be valuable here. India will open the bowling with Ashtray for sure.

Elmer cleans up Instant to spare Con's blushes. 6-fer. 9-272.

Henry wrote:So, any coincidence that when Twatto takes over as captain, Aus start acting like c*nts again? To be honest, it seems like some of the Aus players are more willing to 'play' for Watson than they are for Clarke. Clique well and truly exposed?
.

I had the same thought yesterday

2 in 2 as Elmer closes out the innings at 272 with Ojha lbw. 7-94 for Elmer. Well done him.

Now put 260 on the board and we might actually have a chance at victory.

I bet we get rolled for 120.

India could learn a couple of things from Australia here. Tailend batting and bowling to the bloody tail.

Well done Nathan Lyon,

Aust might even get ahead with 7 or 8 wickets in the shed here.

And well done Elmer. Tailor made pitch to be sure but easily the best he's bowled in a Baggy Green.

Maxwell?

This wicket is evoking memories of the Wankhede horror of Nov 2004 (M.Clarke 6-9)

What chance a lazy waft by Warner for a pair?

JGK wrote:And well done Elmer. Tailor made pitch to be sure but easily the best he's bowled in a Baggy Green.

Aye. He looked genuinely dangerous when he went around the wicket.