You know what really grinds my cricketing gears?

[Burgey]

Yeah, it's like when someone says, "he's been proven to have a weakness against good swing bowling on helpful wickets"...just like every other batsman in history.

Not really a problem.

When he has a weakness against **** swing/seam bowling on flat decks then he has become Mike Hussey.

Fix'd

 

[Spark]

Good point, although some are more vulnerable than others (Marcus North and Michael Hussey say hello)

 

[Prince EWS]

When people start going on and on about a certain batsman's weakness being 'the good length away swinger just outside or on offstump.'

NEWSFLASH. This is, and has been, every test batsman in existence's weakness. Ok, some may be slightly better at facing them than others, but (for example), Dravid occasionally nicking a beauty does not mean he has suddenly developed an achilles heel.

It means he got a damn good delivery and got out.

Chris Martin is probably one of the best international batsmen at combating this, tbh. Not good enough to get the edge, so it's not a weakness of his.

 

[Jayzamann]

ok, already knew that...

But, we didn't know just how much it grinded on Irish Openers gears

 

[Flem274*]

Harbhijan Singh. Worst **** to deny you a victory. The piece of **** will probably bowl us out too. Why couldn't he just have another bitchfight with Sreesanth and piss off?

 

[Prince EWS]

Harbhajan has been mis-spelt more than normal today. Deliberately showing him no respect or something?

 

[Flem274*]

Harbhajan has been mis-spelt more than normal today. Deliberately showing him no respect or something?

Didn't know the splling tbh, but I prefer to guess it as c-o-c-k-f-a-c-e.

 

[Prince EWS]

Peter Roebuck

Stop writing articles about multiculturalism and pretending they're about cricket FFS. Does it relentlessly.

 

[ankitj]

Commentators at the end of a close limited over game: "<winning team> held its nerves to win the game". They invariably say that even if the winning run came from an outside edge. Hate it.

 

[Blaze 18]

Listening to Arun Lal and Laxman Sivaramkrishnan - two of the worst commentators around.

 

[Julian87]

Playing with lazy ****s.

 

[ankitj]

Listening to Arun Lal and Laxman Sivaramkrishnan - two of the worst commentators around.

This.

 

[andyc]

Articles like this.

 

[ankitj]

Articles like this.

If you can't appreciate that, please meet Bagapath

 

[Spark]

What really grinds my gears?

People calling players "soft". Nah, there isn't such a thing as form, or being outplayed, or whatever. It must be them being "soft". **** it annoys me.

Also people using this series as an excuse to push their own tired ****ty agendas "LOL Ponting is a **** player LOL" "LOL Clarke should never have played tests LOL". GAGFC.

 

[GIMH]

Saw you'd posted last and had a feeling what it would say

 

[Uppercut]

Bit of a Bothamism. Applied to any Southern English cricketer to lose their wicket.

 

[Spark]

Saw you'd posted last and had a feeling what it would say

I was going to add "broken record, etc." after the post, but I forgot

 

[BoyBrumby]

Chuckers

Might come as a surprise to some () but they really do enervate me considerably. Now, for the purposes of CW atmos/sanity, I'll exclude Murali from the discussion as his crooked elbows and elastic wrists muddy the waters, but as far as I'm aware the likes of Botha and Ajmal have no congenital elbow malformations yet, blow me, if they don't look to be the filthiest of throwers.

One of the very basic tenets of our beloved sport is that we have bowlers rather than pitchers, yet the aforementioned (plus Shillingford, Shoaib Malik, Kane Williamson, etc) all seem to chuck with impunity.

Being reported seems to have very little effect and (I think) has only ever resulted in one meaningful ban for the egregiously awful Shabbir Ahmed.

Chucking is cricket's dirty little secret and it barely even draws comment anymore. Something needs to be done and done soon.

 

[vcs]

Chuckers

Might come as a surprise to some () but they really do enervate me considerably. Now, for the purposes of CW atmos/sanity, I'll exclude Murali from the discussion as his crooked elbows and elastic wrists muddy the waters, but as far as I'm aware the likes of Botha and Ajmal have no congenital elbow malformations yet, blow me, if they don't look to be the filthiest of throwers.

One of the very basic tenets of our beloved sport is that we have bowlers rather than pitchers, yet the aforementioned (plus Shillingford, Shoaib Malik, Kane Williamson, etc) all seem to chuck with impunity.

Being reported seems to have very little effect and (I think) has only ever resulted in one meaningful ban for the egregiously awful Shabbir Ahmed.

Chucking is cricket's dirty little secret and it barely even draws comment anymore. Something needs to be done and done soon.

How do you feel about Harbhajan's action?