• Welcome to the Cricket Web forums, one of the biggest forums in the world dedicated to cricket.

    You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join the Cricket Web community today!

    If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us.

A cheat is a cheat

T

Tom Flint

International Regular
stephen said:
Look, other teams have to have something to complain about when one side is dominant for so long. The West Indies were unsporting during the 80s with all of their bouncers. They bullied the umpires and were arrogant AF.

Waugh appeals for catches that may or may not have been grassed and now Australia are a bunch of cheats and bullies etc...

I watched both of those Waugh videos. The first one Waugh lost sight of the ball before he grabbed it. It's highly likely he thought it was genuinely out. The Lara video was so low res I couldn't properly see what was happening in it but it did look as though it may have made contact with his forearm as he was rolling over it, giving the impression that the ball was trapped between chest and arm. In both cases it's not Waugh's job to give it out or not out. It's the umpire's.

Do we call every bowler who ever appeals for edges onto the pads as being a cheat? Because Damien Martyn smashed the ball into his pads twice at crucial moments in the 2005 Ashes series and was incorrectly given out. That would make the entire English team cheats (which, ftr, they were Murray mint sucking cheats).

McCullum was as much of a cheat as anyone else it there. The kiwis are not the paragons of virtue they make themselves out to be. No side is.
Click to expand...
Your whole post is ruined by the fact you are still trying to suggest Waugh might not have realised that he didn't catch the ball����
 
Last edited:
NotMcKenzie

NotMcKenzie

International Debutant
Just to drag this thread back ... ahem ... on topic.

England seem to have the longest heritage in this catching business as far as I can tell:


1975!
 
TheJediBrah

TheJediBrah

Request Your Custom Title Now!
England have been cheating at cricket since WG Grace refused to walk when getting clean bowled first ball and got away with it, and they've never really stopped since
 
T

Tom Flint

International Regular
NotMcKenzie said:
Just to drag this thread back ... ahem ... on topic.

England seem to have the longest heritage in this catching business as far as I can tell:


1975!
Click to expand...
Haha yeah that was poor like I said at the start no country is innocent.
Every team has it's bad eggs, just that Steve Waugh appears to be a really bad egg. Miserable c*** too
 
Daemon

Daemon

Request Your Custom Title Now!
Yes England have poor form as well. Ball tampering, fighting, pitch tampering, colonialism etc.
 
Gnske

Gnske

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Daemon said:
Yes England have poor form as well. Ball tampering, fighting, pitch tampering, colonialism etc.
Click to expand...
Letting France exist as a country post-1815, letting Hitler get away with letting France exist as half a country.
 
Borges

Borges

International Regular
Post sandpaper, Starc and co appear to have lost their earlier magical ability to reverse the ball at will; England are the overwhelming favourites.

It's all Smith's fault: a perusal of this thread shows that cheating is fine, there's nothing new in it, even some non-Aussies cheat etc.
But why sheepishly own up to cheating? That is such an un-Australian thing to do; what on earth was he thinking?
Sand Paper Smith gets a 'D' for that press conference, and deserves to be called SPD Smith.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Top