Cricket......

[Shebeen]

meanwhile down under, there's a big plot twist to the Ashes.

What began in tears and scandals ends amid the same. The shock of the camera glare. The disbelief. The raw emotion.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/cricket/tim-paines-reign-started-and-end-in-tears/news-story/5cc4bea1b757a5dc35e3fd1858864273

 

once again australian moral compass only works once you're caught.

[justinafrika]

 

[gemmerbal]

[gemmerbal]

On 11/20/2021 at 11:38 AM, justinafrika said:

 

Seems CA knew about his tollie-gate when they appointed him after Sandpapergate. ????

[justinafrika]

1 hour ago, gemmerbal said:

I see that the “glass houses” and “ let those without sin” idioms are still in business.

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/azeem-rafiq-ashamed-after-historic-anti-semitic-exchange-comes-to-light-1290047

 

PS.  One thing: Ain’t no person ever pulling any skeletons from any of my closets,  I’ll tell them first.  ????

 

Edited November 21, 2021 by justinafrika

[gemmerbal]

19 hours ago, justinafrika said:

I see that the “glass houses” and “ let those without sin” idioms are still in business.

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/azeem-rafiq-ashamed-after-historic-anti-semitic-exchange-comes-to-light-1290047

 

PS.  One thing: Ain’t no person ever pulling any skeletons from any of my closets,  I’ll tell them first.  ????

 

All of a sudden I'm worried about an incident in 2005 where I sent an England U/19 batsmen to the shower with some directions as to how to wash his hair after I cleaned him up. My English team mates were pissing themselves because they thought the shower gesture above my head had something to do with monkeys (they thought I was going off in Afrikaans). Needless to say when I came in to bat without a helmet, I could park off comfortably on the back foot; the good old days... beers after the game was par for the course. What happens in the middle stays in the middle.

Jeez, only time in my life I was given a warning was in England, second ball of the innings I sent one past the batsman's ears and the local umpire warned me for intimidating bowling.... I said wtf its not like he's a number 11 batsman, plus you're allowed 2 short balls in an over. He just stood there and said, first warning. I gave my skippers a hard time that's for sure  And this coming from the country that introduced Body Line to the game...

JASS how I miss those years...

[Steven Knoetze (sk27)]

41 minutes ago, gemmerbal said:

All of a sudden I'm worried about an incident in 2005 where I sent an England U/19 batsmen to the shower with some directions as to how to wash his hair after I cleaned him up. My English team mates were pissing themselves because they thought the shower gesture above my head had something to do with monkeys (they thought I was going off in Afrikaans). Needless to say when I came in to bat without a helmet, I could park off comfortably on the back foot; the good old days... beers after the game was par for the course. What happens in the middle stays in the middle.

Jeez, only time in my life I was given a warning was in England, second ball of the innings I sent one past the batsman's ears and the local umpire warned me for intimidating bowling.... I said wtf its not like he's a number 11 batsman, plus you're allowed 2 short balls in an over. He just stood there and said, first warning. I gave my skippers a hard time that's for sure  And this coming from the country that introduced Body Line to the game...

JASS how I miss those years...

Gemmerbal, are you actually Shaun Pollock??

 

[gemmerbal]

18 minutes ago, Steven Knoetze (sk27) said:

Gemmerbal, are you actually Shaun Pollock??

 

hell no... I wish...

[justinafrika]

9 hours ago, gemmerbal said:

What happens in the middle stays in the middle.

Love when some of the bants gets out though, especially Quinny’s offside bants at Kingsmead to Warner about his missus and SBW.  Not so witty, but cutting. 

My fave cricket-related quip results from a banquet at which a mischievous blonde Afrikaans friend was seated next to Curtly Ambrose.  She leaned closer to ask him “I love your height Mr Ambrose, is everything in proportion?” “Lady, if everything was in proportion I’d be nine foot tall” he shot right back.

Edited November 22, 2021 by justinafrika

[gemmerbal]

5 hours ago, justinafrika said:

Love when some of the bants gets out though, especially Quinny’s offside bants at Kingsmead to Warner about his missus and SBW.  Not so witty, but cutting. 

My fave cricket-related quip results from a banquet at which a mischievous blonde Afrikaans friend was seated next to Curtly Ambrose.  She leaned closer to ask him “I love your height Mr Ambrose, is everything in proportion?” “Lady, if everything was in proportion I’d be nine feet tall” he shot right back.

HAHAHA! Gotta love Sir Curtly!

 

Edit: You know that guy is a real gentle giant. Didn't often see him p-ed off, except for that one time at band camp (Port of Spain) against a certain Mr Waugh... joh that was rof. Test Cricket at its finest!

Edited November 22, 2021 by gemmerbal

[gemmerbal]

“It was a pitch with a lot of grass on it,” said Ambrose. “It was a difficult pitch to bat on. It was conducive to fast bowling, and I was really on top of the Australians. Steve Waugh got 60-odd in the first innings and he played very well. On a normal day that could have been 150. But he was struggling, playing and missing a lot and he got frustrated. One of my teammates told me as I was walking back, because I’d given him a stare, and then I go back to my mark, and one of my teammates told me ‘Steve Waugh said to “Eff off”, or “Eff off and get back to my mark”, or something along those lines. But honestly I didn’t hear him.”

It was only after the interval that Ambrose’s anger bubbled over. “After the break, I bowled at him again and he kept missing. So as I follow through, something snapped in me” he said. “I asked him the question, ‘Did you swear at me?’ And he didn’t say yes, he didn’t say no, he just said “I can say whatever I want to say” and that to me was a yes. And that’s when all hell broke loose. And I said to him, ‘I don’t have to play cricket, I have no career left, I will knock you out right here and now. And if they ban me, I don’t really care.’ But of course I didn’t say it that gently, there were a few expletives in between. I was really heated.”

 

https://wisden.com/stories/curtly-ambrose-didnt-hear-steve-waugh-comment-that-nearly-sparked-punch-up

[Shebeen]

On 11/21/2021 at 5:18 PM, gemmerbal said:

Seems CA knew about his tollie-gate when they appointed him after Sandpapergate. ????

They only sorry that they get caught, not for the actual act.

 

The biggest one for me from sandpaper affair was how it was "only this time".

Meanwhile mitchell starc had been reversing from over 25 earlier that summer in the Ashes.

[justinafrika]

17 hours ago, Shebeen said:

Meanwhile mitchell starc had been reversing from over 25 earlier that summer in the Ashes.

… and their reverse swing subsequently disappeared (after sandpapergate).

Edited November 26, 2021 by justinafrika

[Shebeen]

On 11/21/2021 at 5:15 PM, gemmerbal said:

that's not true. everyone knows the English connotation of "Kevin" is the afirkaans version of BOX

 

 

 

['Dale]

Beyond belief - Strike rate 335.5

 

Edited November 25, 2021 by 'Dale

['Dale]

“I can’t forget the day I was playing against India in India and the crowd was cheering for me.” - ABD