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*Official* World Test Championship Final at The Oval – June 7–11, 2023

Prince EWS

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This isn't me being salty here but the commentators talking about how great Boland's (it wasn't) ball was and how good smith's catch was (it wasn't) and refuse to acknowledge that the batsman played a leeroy Jenkins drive to a ba that would've reached Steve Smith even if he'd left it is really annoying me. I'd have hoped gavaskar would be honest enough to tear into bad batting technique but he's just become another one of the 'never criticise Indian players' tribe.
Boland's set-up was good tbf. The ball in isolation was meh, the catch was theatrical.. and yeah the shot was particularly crap. The shot had much more to do with the wicket than anything else IMO.

Jadeja got a good one though.
 

OverratedSanity

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Boland's set-up was good tbf. The ball in isolation was meh, the catch was theatrical.. and yeah the shot was particularly crap. The shot had much more to do with the wicket than anything else IMO.

Jadeja got a good one though.
It was the cricketing equivalent of someone asking you to pull your finger.

11th stump!
 

Daemon

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Bharat's batting is comedic. Looks like he has half a second less than every other batsmen.
 

TheJediBrah

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This isn't me being salty here but the commentators talking about how great Boland's (it wasn't) ball was and how good smith's catch was (it wasn't) and refusing to acknowledge that the batsman played a leeroy Jenkins drive to a ball that would've reached Steve Smith even if he'd left it is really annoying me. I'd have hoped gavaskar would be honest enough to tear into bad batting technique but he's just become another one of the 'never criticise Indian players' tribe.
This is an issue, and always has been, with commentary everywhere, from every country. There are individual exceptions that are non-biased but in my experience Aus, NZ and Indian commentators are probably the worst at it. Everything is seen through the lens of your team, so if they have a success or something good happens it's because your team did a good thing, not that the other team did a bad thing. And vice versa if something bad happens it must be because your team did something wrong, not because the opposition did good.

You see the same thing but even worse with supporters
 

Prince EWS

Global Moderator
This is an issue, and always has been, with commentary everywhere, from every country. There are individual exceptions that are non-biased but in my experience Aus, NZ and Indian commentators are probably the worst at it. Everything is seen through the lens of your team, so if they have a success or something good happens it's because your team did a good thing, not that the other team did a bad thing. And vice versa if something bad happens it must be because your team did something wrong, not because the opposition did good.

You see the same thing but even worse with supporters
The opposite happened here though. Gavaskar credited Boland and Smith instead of shitting on Kohli for his crap shot.
 

Fuller Pilch

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"Two wickets was the last thing India wanted to see... and on the other hand, exactly what Australia wanted to see."
~DK

Batting team in not wanting to lose wickets shocker.

At least he didn't say anything about the IPL I guess.
One DK is a terrible commentator, while the other DK was a worse bowler than Matthew Hoggard.
 

social

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
This is an issue, and always has been, with commentary everywhere, from every country. There are individual exceptions that are non-biased but in my experience Aus, NZ and Indian commentators are probably the worst at it. Everything is seen through the lens of your team, so if they have a success or something good happens it's because your team did a good thing, not that the other team did a bad thing. And vice versa if something bad happens it must be because your team did something wrong, not because the opposition did good.

You see the same thing but even worse with supporters
It’s the producers catering to the viewers
 

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