Unpopular Cricket Opinions

[Prince EWS]

tbf GAS is also posting his unpopular opinion about Shady

I don't think it's that unpopular, doesn't really belong in this thread.

 

[Daemon]

I don't think it's that unpopular, doesn't really belong in this thread.

That's just like, your unpopular opinion, man

 

[nightprowler10]

Kids, put away the Nerf guns.

 

[sayon basak]

Unpopular opinion:- Earth is actually the satellite of the Moon, not the other way around.
(Not related to cricket, but both looks like cricket balls anyway)

 

[capt_Luffy]

Unpopular opinion:- Earth is actually the satellite of the Moon, not the other way around.
(Not related to cricket, but both looks like cricket balls anyway)

Silly boi!!! You think the Earth is REALLLL!!!??????

 

[Ali TT]

Unpopular opinion:- Earth is actually the satellite of the Moon, not the other way around.
(Not related to cricket, but both looks like cricket balls anyway)

Well the Moon is big enough such that the barycentre - the centre of mass around which both orbit - is closer to the Earth's crust rather than its core.

 

[Adders]

Too many Coopers by GAS last night I think.........bizarre posting.

 

[Chubb]

This might not be an unpopular opinion but I don’t really want to start posting in the sub forum for Aus-Ind.

You should never criticise a batsman for getting a golden duck unless they do something manifestly stupid/reckless. I’ve noticed some cricket journos are including Smith in criticism of the Aussie top order in Perth and I really don’t think it is fair. Any batsman can get a golden duck whatever form they are in. It’s just how cricket is.

Smiths form is a concern for Aus but you simply cannot tell what shape he is in off a golden duck.

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Too many Coopers by GAS last night I think.........bizarre posting.

Putting aside anything else, I stand behind my general view of anyone supporting the bans being completely and utterly wrong 100%. Absolute electric chair for a parking ticket type stuff

Credit for getting my preferred beer choice right though

 

[the big bambino]

i think it personally did, and i would like to think i of all people have an outsized natural sense of justice. i agree that CA should've been taken to task for letting that culture foment, but there's just something to me which is so icky about bringing sandpaper onto the pitch to alter the condition of the ball, which feels to me personally just, dirtier than the murray mints, heck dirtier than afridi taking a bite

I can't share where one form of cheating is dirtier than the other, but I think your analogies underscore the overreaction to sandpapergate. The Afridi incident was just so gormlessly funny but he still copped a deserved penalty. The contrast with Murray mints is even starker. Eng basically got away with it without censure. I think Tresco even had a jokey brag about it in his book.

Now contrast that with the punishment for Smith and Warner for the same transgression. It's wildly unfair. You don't even need to compare cases - what is the usual sanction for such actions? Anything more than the proscribed penalty is unfair.

 

[Adders]

Putting aside anything else, I stand behind my general view of anyone supporting the bans being completely and utterly wrong 100%. Absolute electric chair for a parking ticket type stuff

Credit for getting my preferred beer choice right though

I agree with you on the bans tbh and you could have easily put up a credible argument against them instead of unnecessarily ripping into Shady for posting a perfectly reasonable (unpopular) opinion.

You're from Adelaide right......do you ***** down there drink anything else? Decent drop though tbf.