You know what really grinds my cricketing gears?

[slippyslip]

Commentators who think you can be given out "for not offering a shot". And yes, I'm mainly referring to Bill Lawry. Whenever a ball hits a batsman's pads without a shot being played, Lawry especially screams "that has to be close" regardless of where the ball is.

Ugh.

 

[wfdu_ben91]

Hayden's almost completely lost the top of his hair.

 

[Spark]

Dropped catches.

 

[aussie tragic]

Cricket Rant...

ok, I just saw the ICC ratings for Allrounders where Shane Watson is currently 12th in the World...even behind Harbhajan Singh and Sehwag ffs

...so I'm friggin fed up with Watson opening the batting, when he could be more of a Keith Miller clone by batting in the middle order and therefore bowling more overs...

...especially when we have Hughes, Jaques and Rogers sitting on the bench...

so my top 6 would be:

Hughes
Katich
Ponting
Watson
Clarke
Hussey/North (to fight it out, but Hussey for now)

...just my rant for today, anyone else....

 

[andyc]

If it ain't broke don't fix it. If we needed Watson to bowl more, he would, but I think the fact is that our four frontline bowlers are more often than not doing the job anyway.

 

[Spark]

Don't want Watson bowling much tbh. Leave him where he is, he has the technique and the attitude.

 

[Jono]

IPL Commentators referring to sixes as "DLF Maximums".

Oh, come on, now. One tries not to be too much of an old fart, but eff off do.

That is the greatest delayed rant ever

 

[Jono]

If it ain't broke don't fix it. If we needed Watson to bowl more, he would, but I think the fact is that our four frontline bowlers are more often than not doing the job anyway.

Might work against Pakistan and West Indies' batting line-up, but the time may come where Watson will have to bowl more overs.

Last thing Australia want is him bowling lots of overs whilst also playing a long innings on a reasonably regular basis.

 

[GIMH]

That is the greatest delayed rant ever

First year it's been aired on proper channels in England tbf

 

[Jono]

Yeah true, good point.






**** you.

 

[GIMH]

 

[zaremba]

People on CW using the word "raped" to mean "beaten".

No. No. No.

 

[Life on Limbrick]

Darren Gough dancing

Ronnie Irani's batting stance only used in one day games,

Poor legspin bowling

Bacon and Egg suits

Signed cricket memorobillia going for peanuts

bombs

under use of the long barrier

billy bowden spasmodics

Gladstone Small not getting the gig as a film villan

an Ian Austin tribute group on facebook having only 12 members

aero pads

the phrase 'hands like cows ****' not being used to describe good slips fielders

IPL

Umar Gul's hairdo

 

[Stapel]

That is the greatest delayed rant ever

It was new to me. And apart from that a very good rant!

The IPL is the only cricket I can watch at home. So I watch it a lot. And I like it a lot!
However, I find the IPL commentary quite ridiculous. Just anything is great, awesome, never seen something like that, amazing, whaddaplayah, best ever seen, most talented.... One cannot say a top edge going for 6 is a great shot......

 

[Stapel]

aero pads

Why is that??

 

[Life on Limbrick]

because they make the wearer look like a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle action figure.

 

[Jono]

People on CW using the word "raped" to mean "beaten".

No. No. No.

I've never seen it on CW actually. Happens more off the boards I thought.

Interesting though.

 

[andyc]

I've never seen it on CW actually. Happens more off the boards I thought.

Interesting though.

Never really thought about it that much till we had a 'men's night' here at college where we got fed wine and cheese and the like while listening to a few speakers, one of whom was talking about how to react if/when a (normally female) friend comes to you saying she's been ***ually assaulted. Was a really interesting talk, and one of the things he said towards the end was to try to avoid using the word 'rape' in that sort of context as it trivialises it, especially given that a fairly high percentage of women do encounter ***ual assault at some stage and they might be listening for all you know. Certainly food for thought, and I've definitely tried to take it on board.

 

[zaremba]

Darren Gough dancing

Ronnie Irani's batting stance only used in one day games,

Poor legspin bowling

Bacon and Egg suits

Signed cricket memorobillia going for peanuts

bombs

under use of the long barrier

billy bowden spasmodics

Gladstone Small not getting the gig as a film villan

an Ian Austin tribute group on facebook having only 12 members

aero pads

the phrase 'hands like cows ****' not being used to describe good slips fielders

IPL

Umar Gul's hairdo

 

[Jarquis]

because they make the wearer look like a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle action figure.

Just the look I was going for!!
Though I haven't actually used them outside of nets.

How many Brits on here actually play cricket?