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You know what really grinds my cricketing gears?
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NZTailender
I can't believe I ate the whole thing
In March and April as well. So dire.
Precambrian
Banned
The over the top praise of Kevin Peitersen by the British media, and add Cricinfo to that. No day passes without a Oh holy Peter article. While at the same time, exploits of a similar aged Dhoni goes with hardly a mention. Too biased coverage.
Another is that poor excuse of a cricket journalist called Malcolm Conn, who specialises in bashing BCCI and India for everything in cricket and gives such a one eyed view of things that it could give Cyclops a complex. A gem was that ICC is facing leadership crisis without the services of the Australian former CEO Malcolm Speed.
Another is that poor excuse of a cricket journalist called Malcolm Conn, who specialises in bashing BCCI and India for everything in cricket and gives such a one eyed view of things that it could give Cyclops a complex. A gem was that ICC is facing leadership crisis without the services of the Australian former CEO Malcolm Speed.
andruid
Cricketer Of The Year
They should executed and buried in the same mass grave as 7 match ODI series.
FFS play against someone else!
Uppercut
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Maybe they could bury it next to whoever's idea it was to pit England and New Zealand against each other in consecutive test and one-day series. The two dullest cricket teams around... playing each other... forever...
andruid
Cricketer Of The Year
And that after being in the same triseries and the same WOrld Cup groupMaybe they could bury it next to whoever's idea it was to pit England and New Zealand against each other in consecutive test and one-day series. The two dullest cricket teams around... playing each other... forever...
Manee
Cricketer Of The Year
Sreesanth - His behavior on the pitch is a joke.
Monty's celebrations/interviews/high pitched voice - Have some dignity, FFS,
The LBW "pitched outside leg" law - I don't care how you do it, but give the left handed bowler some room to work with.
The under appreciation of pace - Stuart Broad bowls 90mph in ODIs and 80mph in Tests - spot the difference in performance.
Ignoring domestic records - stop assuming that someone will suddenly improve just because you've shifted them to a higher level.
Bowling into my own or other people's footholes - What can I do?!
Spinners who don't spin the ball/very very slow bowlers - Go and get ****ed
The keeper standing up to me - Always useful to give batsman incentive to stay stable at the crease whilst eliminating the caught behind dismissal.
Monty's celebrations/interviews/high pitched voice - Have some dignity, FFS,
The LBW "pitched outside leg" law - I don't care how you do it, but give the left handed bowler some room to work with.
The under appreciation of pace - Stuart Broad bowls 90mph in ODIs and 80mph in Tests - spot the difference in performance.
Ignoring domestic records - stop assuming that someone will suddenly improve just because you've shifted them to a higher level.
Bowling into my own or other people's footholes - What can I do?!
Spinners who don't spin the ball/very very slow bowlers - Go and get ****ed
The keeper standing up to me - Always useful to give batsman incentive to stay stable at the crease whilst eliminating the caught behind dismissal.
Langeveldt
Soutie
Agrees with Sreesanth, Monty and the LBW law.. Pietersen really is one of the best cricketers around at the moment, and him being built up to high heaven by the English media is something they do all the time.. I just hope his fall is as hard as his rise has been..
Pup Clarke
Cricketer Of The Year
What exactly is he meant to have done wrong exactly?
BoyBrumby
Englishman
Have no especial gripe with his celebrations or speaking voice myself, but could do without the appealing for every single bleedin' ball. It's counter-productive ultimately too; witness the Fat Gray non-LBW in the third test, which (short of actually hitting the stumps) couldn't have been much more out but which was probably turned down almost out of force of habit following 57 previous appeals in the spell.What exactly is he meant to have done wrong exactly?
Pup Clarke
Cricketer Of The Year
Well yeah, obviously some of his appeals are way OTT and his body language after said appeals, don't understand what Manee was getting at with regards to his voice in interviews.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
So why does it annoy you?
It's a great advantage and any bowler should always encourage the wicketkeeper to do it wherever he feels he can.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
No, Conn specialises in bashing anything that isn't Australian.
Pup Clarke
Cricketer Of The Year
Ego thing?
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Performance > the ability to maintain one's ego.
Never entirely sure what a bowler gets out of forcing a wicketkeeper to stand back anyway. Utter waste of time. If the wicketkeeper stands back and batsmen repeatedly advance and smash you time and again that should damage the ego of most bowlers far more than if he stands up and you bowl much more economically.
Never entirely sure what a bowler gets out of forcing a wicketkeeper to stand back anyway. Utter waste of time. If the wicketkeeper stands back and batsmen repeatedly advance and smash you time and again that should damage the ego of most bowlers far more than if he stands up and you bowl much more economically.
Pup Clarke
Cricketer Of The Year
Y'know some bowlers do bowl with pace.
Manee
Cricketer Of The Year
My comments are unreasonable, that's the joke - there's nothing sinister in it.What exactly is he meant to have done wrong exactly?
Manee
Cricketer Of The Year
Makes me feel claustrophobic at the crease, eliminates the caught behind and I've never actually had a stumping off me in my life.So why does it annoy you?
It's a great advantage and any bowler should always encourage the wicketkeeper to do it wherever he feels he can.