***Official*** 1st Test at Brisbane

[S.Kennedy]

Vaughan seems to think the rain interval favours the Aussies, someone else seems to think it favours the English.

 

[Starfighter]

I'd love C9 to break new ground and show highlights from a match we lost.

Wasn't Martin McCague such an inspired selection? Especially with Fraser available.

 

[Tangles]

2 new batsmen that were doing ok. Delay favors Aus. Just need 1 break in concentration.

 

[Cow]

any update?

 

[stephen]

Geez M Waugh and Slater were fun to watch.

 

[stephen]

This sucks. I'd planned on watching an hour of cricket over my lunch break. It's now 1:30 and I'm hungry

 

[S.Kennedy]

2 new batsmen that were doing ok. Delay favors Aus. Just need 1 break in concentration.

Yes but that wicket is not getting better.

 

[cnerd123]

We'd play in that amount of rain in my grade matches.

look, the real reason they won't go on even in a little bit of rain is because it then sets a precedent. The players will need to cope with a wet field, wet pitch, wet ball, and then if the umpires don't come back on the next time it's raining they will moan and complain about how it's not fair, and how they did it last time, and they should do it now.

Once you agree then to resume play every time its raining, then people begin to argue about how much rain is okay to play in. No one is accurately measuring how much it's raining in any way that can be used to set a line in the sand of how much rain is too much. It becomes subjective. Plus, the level of rain varies over the course of the shower. It may start as a drizzle but get heavy. It may start heavy, but then slow down. You are now creating more grey areas and more doubt within which players, team managers, and casual internet fans on forums can bitch and moan about how the umpires are crap and how one team is being robbed by being forced in play in wet weather while the other isn't, or how it isn't fair one side gets denied time to take wickets/chase runs but the other doesn't, and it's just a big mess that isn't worth getting into.

So if it's raining, there is no cricket

Plus the whole safety aspect - fast bowlers and fielders running hard on slippery surfaces. Plus the ball gets wet easily and gets ruined. When the stakes are high you absolutely cannot allow these to be factors.




But the answer I want to say is that this is further evidence that cricket administrators care more about your grade cricket than the Ashes tbh

 

[stephen]

any update?

Red hair, while looking fantastic on a pretty woman makes Bairstow look like an overgrown carrot.

 

[stephen]

Meanwhile it's still not raining in the cbd.

 

[Cabinet96]

Rain delay from 3-4am is grim stuff.

 

[Cabinet96]

BT showing Brisbane 2010. Is Hussey that series the best a left hander has ever played Swann?

 

[Starfighter]

Shower just dying out without having moved its whole lifetime.

 

[Cabinet96]

Covers coming off apparently.

 

[stephen]

One of the few games with McGrath, Warne and McDermott. Would have lived for Billy to play a bit longer to see more of that combo.

 

[stephen]

De Fraitus had a bad enough Mo to be playing for the current Australian side.

 

[stephen]

Wtf was that M Waugh?

 

[Starfighter]

Quarter of an hour.

 

[stephen]

I don't remember Tuffers being anything more than a pie chucker but he's bowled really well in this highlights package.

 

[stephen]

I always forget just how bloody good Warne's pre-shoulder-op flipper was.