2023-24 Big Bash League

[ataraxia]

Oh ok, are T20s now officially not allowed to be on good pitches? Good to know.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Oh ok, are T20s now officially not allowed to be on good pitches? Good to know.

Haven't watched it have you? It's a bad pitch

still should have kept playing though

 

[ataraxia]

Haven't watched it have you? It's a bad pitch

still should have kept playing though

No, I haven't, but I was looking forward to watching it. That means it's a good pitch.

 

[Starfighter]

FFS, if everyone can agree that it's one end that is so bad just bowl all the overs from the other one.

 

[TheJediBrah]

FFS, if everyone can agree that it's one end that is so bad just bowl all the overs from the other one.

This is the sport that refused to move the lunch break for any reason for over 100 years

 

[TheJediBrah]

No, I haven't, but I was looking forward to watching it. That means it's a good pitch.

Still good to watch tbh. But it's pretty bad. Not just a bit of sideways movement/up and down. The wicket is clearly too wet, balls are stopping and ballooning. Big risk of someone breaking a finger maybe but that's always a chance in a game of cricket.

Disappointing result.

 

[Burgey]

Still good to watch tbh. But it's pretty bad. Not just a bit of sideways movement/up and down. The wicket is clearly too wet, balls are stopping and ballooning. Big risk of someone breaking a finger maybe but that's always a chance in a game of cricket.

Disappointing result*.

*no rssult

 

[Qlder]

Great start to the BBL, 2 of first 4 games abandoned

 

[social]

Pitch wasn’t good but I didn’t see a single delivery that could be defined as dangerous

Should never have started if they thought it was too wet

 

[ashley bach]

That's got to be somewhat embarrassing for someone or some party.

 

[Starfighter]

Lotta shaggy dog stories going on on 'the other forum'. Unless he thinks Inglis' neck is what most people call the 'waist'.

 

[social]

That's got to be somewhat embarrassing for someone or some party.

Umpires are the ones who started the game

 

[Stefan9]

Embarrassing for the bbl.

 

[Shady Slim]

i mean if the spot where it rears up is over eleventh stump then it's not really dangerous is it lol

 

[Starfighter]

Also it a big factor in the appearance of unplayability was Hardie's hopeless playing of Roger's outswingers. If you get beaten by swing it's your own fault.

 

[TheJediBrah]

These pitches show up in club cricket around the country all the time. A lot of the time you don't even start on them unless the pitch and run ups dry out later in the day. But if you start you generally play out the game. Only time you might abandon a game in my experience is if the run ups are deemed dangerous and a fast bowler has enough of a whinge

 

[Starfighter]

These pitches show up in club cricket around the country all the time. A lot of the time you don't even start on them unless the pitch and run ups dry out later in the day. But if you start you generally play out the game. Only time you might abandon a game in my experience is if the run ups are deemed dangerous and a fast bowler has enough of a whinge

I suppose the defence is that club bowlers are not as fast, though no one actually seems to have made that.

Oh well, they got in just enough of a match to not give people refunds, so it's all hunky-dory.

 

[ashley bach]

Hunky ****ing-dory no way, where's our refund.

 

[Spikey]

Geelong should be ashamed of themselves

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Hunky ****ing-dory no way, where's our refund.

the punters are left geeshort