Beefy's Corner - The Off-Topic Chat Thread

Looks like Clarke is taking his anger out on the dressing room.

 

What price Haddin and Agar opening the second innings?

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23352708

Apologies if this has been posted before but Inverdale is a complete arse. He really should be sacked for this as I can see no difference between this and the casual sexism of Andy Gray and Richard Keys.

 

6 down!

On the review thing I don't believe you always know when you've hit it. If you're swinging hard at a ball you may not feel a really thin edge and the same applies if you hit your pad/boot/the ground at the same time as you nick the ball. Mikey's example seems a bit extreme though.

The talk of edges reminds me of an incident in the second match I played for my current team. I was bowling and the opposition opener edged one behind. You could clearly see the path of the ball change so I was more celebrating than appealing. The batsman just stood there. I turned and looked at the umpire (the opposition captain) who appeared unmoved. "WHAT?" I half-shouted. "I'm giving him the opportunity to walk" said the umpire, as our captain ran up from mid off and got in the his face. Hands on hips, I turned and looked at the batsman, who stayed exactly where he was. I looked back at the umpire who after a short pause loudly called down the pitch "Mike!* I said I'M GIVING YOU THE CHANCE TO WALK!" After a slightly longer pause, off went the batsman, who'd technically walked…


* I picked the name Mike out of the air, I can't remember the actual name

 

There's no way England will enforce the follow on if they bowl the Aussies out today. Makes no sense. Better to build a massive lead then use days 4 and 5 when the pitch is older and will turn more to bowl out the Aussies.

 

Nasser and Athers saying that "there isn't a hope in hell that England will enforce the follow on"...They reckon that Cook will "try to bat them out of the game and then bowl them out on a turning pitch".

 

And they're spot on. By enforcing the follow on you risk Australia scoring a big total and suddenly England find themsleves under pressure.

 

I can't see why they'd enforce the follow on. It's still only the second day, get the Aussie bowlers back out in the sun, try and bat til the morning of day 4 and set them an impossible run chase on a worn pitch.

 

"This is a wonderful day's cricket seeing Australia commit hari-kari after all those years where they were lording it over everyone. The game's gone for them unless someone plays exceptionally well. I didn't think they were that good but I didn't think they were that bad at batting. If you bat badly in a Test match you lose the game, you don't need to have exceptional bowlers if you bat decently."

Boycott gleefully rubbing salt into the wound.

 

Yeah, this came up a couple of weeks ago when he made his remark. I was actually a bit surprised at Inverdale because he's not some twerp of a presenter, plucked from obscurity, but someone who has been groomed carefully by the Beeb, and has grown into a sports presenter of authority.

On the one hand, yes it could be compared to Gray and Keys, but theirs was really quite an overt bit of sexism. Inverdale was being matter-of-fact in a very clumsy and impolite way. It's a fine line that is drawn. Comedians, for example, can talk about a specific person's genitals and get away with it, but another person on TV, incidentally giving an opinion about a sports-person's appearance, while talking about their skill potential, fills people with shock and horror.

Having written the above, he shouldn't have said it. He stepped over the fine line.

 

Hold on to your strawberries...got to love Bumble.

 

Run out. Goes from bad to worse for the Aussies. What a mess!

 

Jesus Christ this is calamitous stuff.

 

Now we have a shambolic run out. This is like a pub team batting.

 

Oh dear, this is hilarious. Can they pump out the Benny Hill theme at Lords?

 

[video=youtube;4GxY559Qfbc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GxY559Qfbc[/video]

 

From the sublime to the ridiculous for Agar...welcome to Test Cricket son!....

 

So 96-7. At this rate, England may not have to bat again in this Test.

 

They will bat again as England won't enforce the follow on.

 

Nice story Puck.On a similar note, I once bowled someone so plumb LBW that I just turned quietly to the umpire and mumbled "how was he?" The umpire stuck his finger up but the batman refused to walk "because the bowler hadn't appealed!" We soon put him straight. I got 5-16 in 4 overs in that match as well (a very long time ago!).