Happy 1st Ball Changeversary

[Molehill]

How will you be celebrating this day? Maybe you'll have a little moan, or a whinge, or perhaps a full scale investigation into corruption within the International Umpire community?

But please my Australian friends, don't take your dogs for a walk, you're really not very good at holding on to leads!!

 

[Ali TT]

Was there a judicial review into this in the end?

 

[trundler]

 

[SteveNZ]

I mean, you'd sook if it happened to your team, let's be honest. It was pretty rank.

 

[GIMH]

Great bit of umpiring

 

[Burgey]

How will you be celebrating this day? Maybe you'll have a little moan, or a whinge, or perhaps a full scale investigation into corruption within the International Umpire community?

But please my Australian friends, don't take your dogs for a walk, you're really not very good at holding on to leads!!


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I’ll spend the day celebrating with the Ashes. How about you?

 

[Hungry Llama]

I'm pretty sure the ashes are still at Lords. But the ashes trophy is the most pathetic i've ever seen.
They shoud get a proper sized urn burn the bails and stumps [remove all the electric gismos first]
in the last test of the next series and let the winner keep it til the next time. of course that wood mean
that it stayed in oz or melbourne probably 90% of the time but it would look so much better than
holding up that silly little replica eggcup thing.

 

[Shri]

22 men fighting about a 3 inch knob for 100 years who tf cares

 

[TheJediBrah]

22 men fighting about a 3 inch knob for 100 years who tf cares

So if I grow another inch maybe I can have 22 men fighting over it?

 

[Burgey]

I'm pretty sure the ashes are still at Lords. But the ashes trophy is the most pathetic i've ever seen.
They shoud get a proper sized urn burn the bails and stumps [remove all the electric gismos first]
in the last test of the next series and let the winner keep it til the next time. of course that wood mean
that it stayed in oz or melbourne probably 90% of the time but it would look so much better than
holding up that silly little replica eggcup thing.

This is the post of someone who knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing.

They could play for a cup of hot fat with a hair in it and it would still be more significant than any other trophy the countries play for across the sport, because of the history attached to it.

 

[ankitj]

Petition to create a separate subforum for Aussie-English trash talk.

 

[SteveNZ]

Naw, I want to find it everywhere. Passion for the cricket that really matters is all we have

 

[Molehill]

I’ll spend the day celebrating with the Ashes. How about you?

Mainly thanks to the rain in Manchester. I was kind of hoping I could celebrate it watching Day 5 of the Test with the Windies, but we wrapped up the clean sweep in 3 days. How did you go against the Caribbean rabble?

The tide is turning, we can all see it.....

 

[Burgey]

lol we hear this shite every four years form the blow hard brigade. The "tide turning" for your lot will be winning a single test here and the players writing a dozen articles on how they've changed test cricket by losing 4-1 instead of 5-0. Have a breather.

 

[Coronis]

Windies are closer to having saved test cricket than England ever will be.

 

[Molehill]

lol we hear this ****e every four years form the blow hard brigade. The "tide turning" for your lot will be winning a single test here and the players writing a dozen articles on how they've changed test cricket by losing 4-1 instead of 5-0. Have a breather.

You're probably right, but I do feel like we're starting to put together a youngish fast bowling squad that might just be suited to Aussie pitches (notably Atkinson). Add to that the fact the Aussie bowlers are not exactly fresh faced kids (and I'm not sure who the obvious next in line are either), 2 elderly openers as well.

Anyway, India first for both teams.

 

[nick-o]

lol we hear this ****e every four years form the blow hard brigade. The "tide turning" for your lot will be winning a single test here and the players writing a dozen articles on how they've changed test cricket by losing 4-1 instead of 5-0. Have a breather.

You don't get it do you? They've changed test cricket by saying they've changed test cricket. Winning and losing is for losers. You're way behind.

 

[Burgey]

You're probably right, but I do feel like we're starting to put together a youngish fast bowling squad that might just be suited to Aussie pitches (notably Atkinson). Add to that the fact the Aussie bowlers are not exactly fresh faced kids (and I'm not sure who the obvious next in line are either), 2 elderly openers as well.

Anyway, India first for both teams.

I like the look of Atkinson. My only worry re him out here is his trajectory seems a bit skiddy, which doesn’t always bode well in our conditions. Certainly a good prospect though.

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

lol we hear this ****e every four years form the blow hard brigade. The "tide turning" for your lot will be winning a single test here and the players writing a dozen articles on how they've changed test cricket by losing 4-1 instead of 5-0. Have a breather.

Correction: recently we've only been losing 4-0.

Haha checkmate.

 

[BazBall21]

I am against ball changes before the 80th over but it's same rules for everyone.