Jimmy Anderson Sayz (Spirit Of Cricket thread)

[GIMH]

I think it's a valid and natural reaction though. How can one say that your new mindset/attitude is there to stay? I for one don't believe Anderson has really changed but if he goes through the first few tests without sledging like he used to then full credit to him for working on his faults and improving himself.

Edit: I do agree with you though that once you have actually proven that you've changed, being judged on your past self is annoying.

I wasn't really talking about Anderson. Just a pet hate of mine.

For example I strongly encourage my daughter, who is in secondary school, to do her homework not at the last minute but as soon as possible. I was permanently disorganised at school and sometimes wound up with evenings where I had to do many pieces of work. Am I a hypocrite for wanting her to be different? I don't think so.

 

[Furball]

I wasn't really talking about Anderson. Just a pet hate of mine.

For example I strongly encourage my daughter, who is in secondary school, to do her homework not at the last minute but as soon as possible. I was permanently disorganised at school and sometimes wound up with evenings where I had to do many pieces of work. Am I a hypocrite for wanting her to be different? I don't think so.

Called "being a parent." She'll be doing the same with your grandkids.

 

[GIMH]

Called "being a parent." She'll be doing the same with your grandkids.

Haha well that's kind of my point. Not hypocrisy is it

 

[Burgey]

I don't think he's a hypocrite so much as a typical thin skinned bully who can give it out but can't take it. What a joke coming from this ponce. Fmd does he want Johnson to bowl with a tennis ball as well?

 

[Debris]

It always winds me up a bit when people say sledging is against the spirit of cricket. Sledging is an integral part of the traditions of cricket and the game would be lessened without it. There has always been sledging. WG Grace was sledging people before tests were even played.

 

[weldone]

It always winds me up a bit when people say sledging is against the spirit of cricket. Sledging is an integral part of the traditions of cricket and the game would be lessened without it. There has always been sledging. WG Grace was sledging people before tests were even played.

There is a difference between banter and sledging. The term 'sledging' got coined in Australia around Ian Chappell's time. It means hurling abuse at someone so hard that he feels like getting hit by a sledge-hammer.

 

[Daemon]

It always winds me up a bit when people say sledging is against the spirit of cricket. Sledging is an integral part of the traditions of cricket and the game would be lessened without it. There has always been sledging. WG Grace was sledging people before tests were even played.

This is why I felt Anderson was wrong when he said the series should be with less amounts of sledging because it's the 'right' spirit in which to play cricket. There is no 'right' spirit to play the game in. There is a line (albeit blurred) you don't cross, and anything within that is not in anyway superior or inferior to any other point within that boundary.

 

[Riggins]

There is a difference between banter and sledging. The term 'sledging' got coined in Australia around Ian Chappell's time. It means hurling abuse at someone so hard that he feels like getting hit by a sledge-hammer.

lol

 

[Spark]

Ah I see the sanctimonious, vacuous articles on "sledging" have started to appear. Naturally the first of whom is written by someone who has never written any other articles on cricket, whom I suspect views Australians as little more than untermenschen as is the norm, and believes that people saying mean things to each other is to blame for all the ills in the game.

 

[GIMH]

I don't think he's a hypocrite so much as a typical thin skinned bully who can give it out but can't take it. What a joke coming from this ponce. Fmd does he want Johnson to bowl with a tennis ball as well?

If he used a tennis ball he'd still probably go better than his last visit to these shores.

 

[Furball]

lol

I echo this sentiment wholeheartedly.