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LandOfHoopsAndGlory said:
I go offline for one hour and game gets interesting.
Still reckon if match rained out with 2 days to go, then boooring. Sorry, but I need closure in the form of a result or at least a completion.
Sure there were good parts, the aforementioned tons by Root and Khawaja and several nice shots and wickets, but in between, bit hard to watch. Even some of the crowd were asleep on the second day. That's why powers that be introduced T20s and before that, one dayers.
It gets good when a result is imminent, even though a draw eventuates, but as I said before, when the game gets terminated days early then, yaaawn ...pardon me.
Having said that, it has become interesting again with early wickets. And I hope the rain stays away and it's a nail biter on the fifth day, whoever wins.





As long as it's the Aussies :emoticon-0116-evilg (I know, but I couldn't resist).
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You don't get Test cricket do you?
 
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I can understand some sledging ........... whether it be on an LBW that has not been given and the bowler thinks its definitely out, other times, bowler & batsman can have some running niggles throughout an innings but l fail to see why any player from any team needs to blatantly mouth off like Robinson did after a batsman is given out. They're going, let is be.

Cricket is supposed to be a game for the gentlemen but it seems not too many gentlemen continue to play nowadays.
Yes, l know some Aussies have excelled in giving it out but it seems like all countries are making a fist of it.

Adam Gilchrist was a rare talent for honesty, pity there aren't more like him all round.
 
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Didley Squat said:
I can understand some sledging ........... whether it be on an LBW that has not been given and the bowler thinks its definitely out, other times, bowler & batsman can have some running niggles throughout an innings but l fail to see why any player from any team needs to blatantly mouth off like Robinson did after a batsman is given out. They're going, let is be.

Cricket is supposed to be a game for the gentlemen but it seems not too many gentlemen continue to play nowadays.
Yes, l know some Aussies have excelled in giving it out but it seems like all countries are making a fist of it.

Adam Gilchrist was a rare talent for honesty, pity there aren't more like him all round.
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I'm pretty sure Kawawawawa screamed '**** off' during his celebration of his century and Robinson was just returning the favour.

Aussies complaining about sledging is a bit like the Pope criticising religion!
 
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rangercol said:
I'm pretty sure Kawawawawa screamed '**** off' during his celebration of his century and Robinson was just returning the favour.

Aussies complaining about sledging is a bit like the Pope criticising religion!
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As l said, we are all in the same boat.
There is no one lessor than the other.

I was just talking about the way & reasons sledges are done.
 
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Didley Squat said:
As l said, we are all in the same boat.
There is no one lessor than the other.

I was just talking about the way & reasons sledges are done.
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I'm wondering if I mis heard it now. No one has mentioned that Kawawawawawa shouted "**** off", so maybe he'd said something else.
 
Didley Squat said:
I can understand some sledging ........... whether it be on an LBW that has not been given and the bowler thinks its definitely out, other times, bowler & batsman can have some running niggles throughout an innings but l fail to see why any player from any team needs to blatantly mouth off like Robinson did after a batsman is given out. They're going, let is be.

Cricket is supposed to be a game for the gentlemen but it seems not too many gentlemen continue to play nowadays.
Yes, l know some Aussies have excelled in giving it out but it seems like all countries are making a fist of it.

Adam Gilchrist was a rare talent for honesty, pity there aren't more like him all round.
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Sorry Didley, but I have to disagree with this game being a gentlemen's game. For decades now, there's been hostility, on and off, between combatants for all sorts of things including sledging as the dismissed batsman is walking off. These days it's all about winning, no place for friendliness when money is involved. No amateurs anymore. If you can get under the opposition's skin in any way, then you're on your way to winning.
It seems there's been some reversal with cordiality between adversaries in cricket compared to say rugby league. All we see these days is league players talking sociably to their opposite players after the match. Thirty odd years ago, the players would shake hands, often begrudgingly and leave the field asap and occasionally have a swipe at the opposition. I liked it when players felt real bad about losing. It showed their passion and pride in their jersey and their want to improve in the next games.
How I miss those days, .... aah humph.
 
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