Why the rebuke? Maybe he's not giving the Windies enough credit, but he didn't say one word of a lie.That was going over legstump. Saw it live in a pub on the way home from food shopping.
Same as Broad, Harmison...
Why dont you go roll over the Windies huh? show them how its done
Cricinfo lied
It was probably 2-3mm above legstump, not much but enough not to give it out.
Just teasing...
There is no deterrent for using silly referrals, apart from losing a challenge. Teams will still try it on, especially when they are running out of wickets (from a batting sides perspective). Reducing it from 3 to 2 will not mean they will just use them in obvious cases!
I think today we saw what happens when you have just 2 referrals actaully. If you lose one, you think very carefully before using your second one. There have been 3 silly referrals in this match. Two of them came at the very end of the innings, and one of them was poorly used by Andrew Strauss and he's paid for it since. There were a couple of occasions when there were close shouts that England probably would have used a referral, except they only had one remaining.
I appreciate what the reduction in referrals is aiming to do, and it is certainly an improvement on the three they initially had. However, I think there should be a better system to eradicate the major bloopers that are made, and that is quite simply to offer a penalty that will only make the captain use the referrals in definite cases.
Hey, at least he's no Chris Martin, in fact his batting average is more than twice as good
That might be a fair assessment of English cricket, however I wouldn't be writing them off in the Ashes just yet, its hardly like Australia are playing great cricket atm. The reality is the 2009 Ashes will likely be played by two pretty mediocre sidesYep these two are everything that's wrong with English cricket, ATM. I'm getting fairly depressed about it, to be fair. We've no chance against the Aussies.
I don't like to write off English bowlers, particularly if they're young, but enoughs enough
Agreed, they're not quite the cheerleaders most of the C9 team are; with the notable exceptions of Benaud & Taylor
Scaly me old mate, I appreciate your frustration & you make some perfectly valid points. However I've never ever ever ever seen you give credit to the opposition when England play. Are you that one-eyed that you can't ever appreciate that two teams play this game & not just one.
"Not getting as much assistance"... you're really letting Monty off the hook. It's not the pitch's fault that he barely turned a delivery. It's exactly the same pitch Benn bowled on, and Monty chucked pies while Benn bowled fantastically.
Just an over or two before he played drive underneath a ball from Edwards and almost edged it. The issue then is that he spent 20-30s replaying the shot when it was clearly a ball you shouldn't be driving, instead of forgetting about the ball and moving on. You could see mental frustration from Sidebottom too when he missed a couple going down leg. From there, Prior threw his wicket away and sidebottom got lucky with a dodgy pull shot an over later.
