*Official* First Test (Edgbaston, Birmingham) 16–20 June

[mr_mister]

Thats not practical

Ollie is a despicable human though especially when you consider his early work on twitter. Also barely bowling a ball over 80 mph and then giving a send off to a bloke who made 140 is piss weak. Absolute **** ****

I dunno how to explain it properly but it just doesn't feel right that you can say whatever you want to someone and as long as it's in "the heat of battle" there's no consequences

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Not like Robinson was saying about breaking someone's arm. Get over it. It was nothing.

 

[Gob]

Not like Robinson was saying about breaking someone's arm. Get over it. It was nothing.

He'd have hard time doing that bowling 78 mph

 

[mr_mister]

Not like Robinson was saying about breaking someone's arm. Get over it. It was nothing.

That was out of line too though

 

[Adders]

He'd have hard time doing that bowling 78 mph

Look mate, your entitled to your opinion on the sendoff and on Ollie Robinson.....but just have a think that you're essentially sledging him for not bowling over 80mph.......from your couch with your bucket of fried chicken.

 

[chris.hinton]

You live there?

yes mate. It did rain overnight

 

[MW1304]

Typical Aussie moral arbiters. Comical how little there is in this.

 

[Adders]

yes mate. It did rain overnight

I hope you know what you've just done Chris? Should have left that well alone mate.

 

[MW1304]

Also if it takes bring called a prick or something to fire them up, they should hire a motivational coach to call them wankers every morning.

 

[Starfighter]

it just doesn't feel right that you can say whatever you want to someone and as long as it's in "the heat of battle" there's no consequences

Head got fined for swearing at no-one in particular, so something must come out of it.

 

[Daemon]

Why should anyone be punished for over the top celebrations or send offs? Let the market decide how stupid/cringe you look and judge you accordingly. That should be punishment enough.

Clarke's hard man sledge to a tailender, Kohli's whoops and shrieks and Watson's gibbon like behaviour are forever etched in youtube history. That's way worse than having 20% or whatever of your match fee deducted.

 

[mr_mister]

Typical Aussie moral arbiters. Comical how little there is in this.

This is not an Aussie judging Brits thing, I've played club cricket and seen it all from Aussies and was equally baffled. I've gone up to someone after a game and asked why they were abusing my teammates and was told "that's sport"

And we were all meant to have a beer after and pretend it was normal healthy behaviour lol

 

[mr_mister]

Why should anyone be punished for over the top celebrations or send offs? Let the market decide how stupid/cringe you look and judge you accordingly. That should be punishment enough.

Clarke's hard man sledge to a tailender, Kohli's whoops and shrieks and Watson's gibbon like behaviour are forever etched in youtube history. That's way worse than having 20% or whatever of your match fee deducted.

There's celebrations and there's hurling insults for no reason. Calling someone a ****ing prick when they're not acting like one is what I have issue with

 

[Nintendo]

Thats not practical

Ollie is a despicable human though especially when you consider his early work on twitter. Also barely bowling a ball over 80 mph and then giving a send off to a bloke who made 140 is piss weak. Absolute **** ****

I agree with the latter part of this post but this bit is horse****e. The guy made some "Haha women in kitchen" jokes as a 17 YO 12 years ago. Don't see how that makes him a despicable human being at the age of 30. Not like he's pulling a hales and doing blackface in his early 20's or the crap Joe Clarke pulled.

 

[social]

I agree with the latter part of this post but this bit is horse****e. The guy made some "Haha women in kitchen" jokes as a 17 YO 12 years ago. Don't see how that makes him a despicable human being at the age of 30. Not like he's pulling a hales and doing blackface in his early 20's or the crap Joe Clarke pulled.

Yep

He was coached by Dizzy at Sussex after being punted by Yorkshire and he speaks very highly of him

The stuff yesterday was more embarrassing for him than anything & the chances of Uzi (or any of the Australians) being offended were zero

I had a teammate who did something similar to a test player in a grade game after he dismissed him for 196

We still give him stick about it and it was 30 years ago

 

[Burgey]

I hope you know what you've just done Chris? Should have left that well alone mate.

I’m not saying anything. Yet.

 

[Burgey]

This is not an Aussie judging Brits thing, I've played club cricket and seen it all from Aussies and was equally baffled. I've gone up to someone after a game and asked why they were abusing my teammates and was told "that's sport"

And we were all meant to have a beer after and pretend it was normal healthy behaviour lol

But it is

 

[Burgey]

Let the market decide how stupid/cringe you look and judge you accordingly.

Your face is stupid/ cringe.

As are your posts.

 

[Burgey]

Head got fined for swearing at no-one in particular, so something must come out of it.

 

[subshakerz]

It's the part Burge mentioned about Khawaja being the most self-effacing player that makes Robinson's behaviour unacceptable for me

Some players/people relish combative situations, confrontations and being the centre of attention, some don't. It's not fair to cop that when you're not out there looking for it/starting ****. It's not Steve Waugh and Ambrose out there

Ponting was bad with this too. Remember him going way too hard on Srinath one time after the latter struck him with a bouncer and went to check on him. So uncalled for

I watched the clip and I am literally wondering what people are talking about. Ollie was a bit fired up but he did nothing really odd or over the top. This was nothing.