10th June - Group A - England v Australia

[Spark]

It's sad how ignorant some elite cricketers are about certain aspects of the game - umpiring, scoring, administration, etc

It makes for terrible commentary. Especially if you consider trying to sell the sport to casual cricket fans - imagine tuning in and just hearing these so-called 'experts' bash umpires and match officials and organisers as being dumb and incompetent. You'll think the sport was run by clowns. How could you take it seriously?

If you want to sell the sport you don't portray it as being shoddily run. You get people who really understand how things work into those positions and let them provide explanations and context behind what happens. This aspect of cricket media is sickening. Umpires are so essential and never get the respect they deserve.

it is

 

[TheJediBrah]

right my fault obviously

was going for the "tell a guy the joke he keeps telling isn't funny in the same post I make a repetitive unfunny joke" kind of irony but you just had to be the bigger man

 

[Black_Warrior]

strong coming from a guy whose country's best player wouldn't even make my reserve club side


dude, you're misunderstanding me. I'm not having a go at you, I was genuinely just trying to help because you didn't seem to realise that the reason the same joke you keep posting keeps falling flat is because it's just not funny.

It's not the joke that's funny..it's the fact that you get riled up every single time.

 

[cnerd123]

Good point by Nass. For a game that penalises captains for delays, there just isn't any attempt to get going and minimise delays outside of the game.

Nass has never sat down to read the Lawbook and the ICC Playing Conditions in his life

There is every effort made to minimise delays. But this isn't street cricket where you can just start when everyone is in place. There is timekeeping to be done, there are records to be kept, and there are more than the 13 players on the field who are needed to be in position and ready for the game to get underway. You cannot announce a start time and then keep delaying it because people aren't ready. You announce a start time at a point in the future where you estimate everyone and everything is in place to begin. This gets written down as official. This is used for future rain delay calculations, overrate tracking, and even scoring (w/regards to minutes batted and stuff). Also is needed to know when the scheduled breaks in play are.

Once you announce the time it's set in stone because ****ing going back and informing everyone in place to go and change all that just because everyone is read 100 seconds ahead of time is ****ing pointless.

 

[TheJediBrah]

It's not the joke that's funny..it's the fact that you get riled up every single time.

Do you really think that? When have I ever gotten riled up? Why would I get riled up by you repeating my own tired, worn out joke to me?

This is bizarre man

 

[Spark]

was going for the "tell a guy the joke he keeps telling isn't funny in the same post I make a repetitive unfunny joke" kind of irony but you just had to be the bigger man

It's not the joke that's funny..it's the fact that you get riled up every single time.

you guys both realise that trolling and baiting are infractable right

 

[cnerd123]

it is

Say what you want about administrators - but umpires, officials and organisers are not incompetent. Its a hard job that is a thankless job because no one understands the complexities of doing it.

They just see people standing our for 3 minutes and go 'oh what a joke'. Just **** off with that.

 

[mr_mister]

Oh my God nobody cares about infractions. We aren't children

 

[TheJediBrah]

you guys both realise that trolling and baiting are infractable right

didn't realise that joking fell under the category of "trolling" and "baiting" tbh

but then I don't really know what "infractable" means either

 

[Spark]

Oh my God nobody cares about infractions. We aren't children

that was my polite way of telling them to shut the **** up about the whole thing (the impolite way being, well, "shut the **** up about the whole thing")

 

[cnerd123]

Back to the cricket - what's the target score at 20 overs? 107? 112?

 

[hazsa19]

It's sad how ignorant some elite cricketers are about certain aspects of the game - umpiring, scoring, administration, etc

It makes for terrible commentary. Especially if you consider trying to sell the sport to casual cricket fans - imagine tuning in and just hearing these so-called 'experts' bash umpires and match officials and organisers as being dumb and incompetent. You'll think the sport was run by clowns. How could you take it seriously?

If you want to sell the sport you don't portray it as being shoddily run. You get people who really understand how things work into those positions and let them provide explanations and context behind what happens. This aspect of cricket media is sickening. Umpires are so essential and never get the respect they deserve.

You think that's bad you should hear some of the cop football refs take from comms in this country.

 

[Spark]

Back to the cricket - what's the target score at 20 overs? 107? 112?

DLS par scores for England v Australia | Photo | ICC Champions Trophy | ESPN Cricinfo

 

[cnerd123]

Need another 26 runs in the next 7 overs then. Excellent.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

was going for the "tell a guy the joke he keeps telling isn't funny in the same post I make a repetitive unfunny joke" kind of irony but you just had to be the bigger man

bodybuilding forum is craving for your presence

 

[Black_Warrior]

you guys both realise that trolling and baiting are infractable right

Couldn't have guessed tbh but go to know.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Say what you want about administrators - but umpires, officials and organisers are not incompetent. Its a hard job that is a thankless job because no one understands the complexities of doing it.

They just see people standing our for 3 minutes and go 'oh what a joke'. Just **** off with that.

All the reasons and stuff you said is great, and I'm sure it's important for some reason, but I think what people roll their eyes at is that they see all that stuff you mentioned as being affected by these minor time changes as not actually important

Not saying that's what I think, but how important is it really that they wait those 3 minutes? Is it really that terrible if they confuse a scorer for a few seconds trying to work out exactly how many minutes someone's batted for? Or that they have to move their over-rate calculations back by a minute? I mean really?

 

[hazsa19]

I wonder what Shane Warne makes of Head bowling before the leggie?

 

[TheJediBrah]

that was my polite way of telling them to shut the **** up about the whole thing (the impolite way being, well, "shut the **** up about the whole thing")

apologies, I often seem to be a target for this kind of ****posting

 

[Spark]

apologies, I often seem to be a target for this kind of ****posting

then report it and move on