The Ashes

PowerBug · July 14, 2013, 12:49:35 AM

JOE flowerING ROOT!!!!!!!!!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Rain not far from Trent Bridge aswell. :-\

elephants · July 14, 2013, 12:51:36 AM

hoping we are 2 for by tomorrow morning...

Cicjose · July 14, 2013, 01:12:57 AM

Cowan = worst opener in 20 years

Bill Manspeaker · July 14, 2013, 01:23:59 AM

counting down each run. edge of my seat

Mr.Craig · July 14, 2013, 01:27:07 AM

Quote from: brad on July 14, 2013, 01:23:59 AM
counting down each run. edge of my seat

On the edge of my quilt.

Bill Manspeaker · July 14, 2013, 01:29:45 AM

haha edge of anything... as long as it's not the edge of the bat

Bill Manspeaker · July 14, 2013, 01:33:26 AM

so soft Chris.. so soft. A GIFT

cmon Smiddy

Mr.Craig · July 14, 2013, 01:33:39 AM

Flower.

Nails · July 14, 2013, 01:34:00 AM

Bring in Agar

BratPack · July 14, 2013, 01:35:20 AM

And that's why he's only played one test before now

Bill Manspeaker · July 14, 2013, 01:44:07 AM

signin off fellas, gonna go watch the rest of the day in bed. CMON BOYS

Nige · July 14, 2013, 02:09:55 AM

Hmm...

England are cheats they said.

Broad should have walked they said.

Aleem Dar should be sacked they said.

Our own players have done they same thing in the past but that's fine they never said.

BratPack · July 14, 2013, 02:58:31 AM

KNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(

BratPack · July 14, 2013, 03:02:06 AM

And Fail Hughes strikes again

SAVE US AGAR

AFEV · July 14, 2013, 03:20:42 AM

Quote from: PowerBug on July 13, 2013, 06:24:19 PM
Guys, let's take our Aussie-biased hats off for a few minutes, here and look at every party involved.

1. Stuart Broad. Should he have walked? I say yes, only because he hit the cover off that one. But then it can be looked at it this way. Noone walks, those that do are excellent sportspeople, but it's not normal for a cricketer to walk. I have NEVER seen a footballer tell the ump that the opposition should have the free kick, because they did something wrong, and in football you can fix your mistakes, in cricket, you can't, once you're out you're out. So Broad obviously tried to hope that the ump would miss it, which for him he did. He still should've walked imo.

2. Aleem Dar. Howler? of course. He missed it, it happens. He heard a noise, he also saw the ball come off Haddin's gloves.

3. Australia and the use of DRS. And this is what it all comes back to. DRS was introduced as a way that teams can remove the blantanly obvious mistakes from the game. Australia, did not do that. They tried to be sneaky, and gain a wicket through calls that were clearly not howlers. If they (and it's not just their fault, everyone does it) used DRS for the reason it was introduced, this wouldn't be a problem. And also, it's like this is teh first time not having DRS available has cost teams wickets, it happens so often, and will probably happen again this series if the captains don't change teh way they use the system. Australia were their own worst enemy in this situation unfortunately.

tl;dr? Everyone was at fault, the way DRS was implemented into the game wasn't.

I thought you played cricket PB..you've seriously never seen people walk?
I have walked, and have seen others do it too (on multiple occasions). Once I know I'm out (ie I see them take the catch etc.) you just start walking off, you don't stand around and wait for the umpire.

That being said I don't really give a damn what Broad wants to do, it's the Ashes and he has a right to choose competitiveness over sportsmanship - it's a hostile rivalry after all.

As for nige, sure, bring up and incident from 5 years ago to try and distract from the issue in this test match..Even if it has no relevance. Cool beans.