Cricket

Was thrilling watching him bowl just now! Dude's the most exciting young cricketer on the PLANET

Yeah, it's great isn't it? Massive grin and zooming plane celebration.

And now Umar Gul to get walloped. Want to see Kaneria bowling now tbh

never, ever, ever in doubt

haha er, yeah...

also lol @ sky sports news broadcasting and commentating on two of the aussies players (haddin and someone else) having a wrestle in the grass for 2-3 minutes.

australia may have lost, but in defeat they had the stink of born winners - a very hard thing to achieve

just kept on refusing to die, still shooting while the mortal blood flowed from their wounds

From the Beeb:

The 35-year-old was uncertain whether he would return to England as Australia captain in 2013 but when asked if Pakistan would beat Andrew Strauss's team in the four-Test series beginning on 29 July he said: "Let's hope so."

I heard that, well said Ricky!

good to know he's not in any way bitter!

Anyone watching the end of this Test between India and Oz? India 207-9, need 9 to win.

India won by one wicket! Wow. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/shared/fds/hi/statistics/cricket/scorecards/2010/10/86064/html/scorecard.stm

124 for 8 at one stage, chasing 216

Quite a display from Shane Watson to finish on the losing side. VVS is immense, averages 55 against Australia

cricket has been especially crazy these past few days, culminating in the Pakistan wicketkeeper going missing before a match

Gayle on 331 against Sri Lanka in the Windies first innings. (559-4)

Hopefully Gayle will start swinging like it's a Twenty20 when he hits 400.

is there an ashes thread yet?

there's two!

yeah Cricket : Graeme Swann, The Wizard In Oz! Winter 2010/11 The Ashes!

333 for Gayle, I remember when gooch hit 333 (i remember him being dropped earlier on in the innings too)

thanks

FREE AMIR

*AAMER, AAMIR ETC

It'll cost you

you think he's innocent or just sympathy for a young exciting talent who bowled no balls for $

just a kid. gave england, what, 2 or 3 runs? yeah it was in pursuit of money but he was lured into it by seniors who should have known better. let him off ffs.

the rhetoric 'cheating', 'match-fixing' etc in relation to this appals me. it was neither of these things; it was a swift buck. obviously by extension it compromises the 'spirit of the game' and threatens greater crimes, but Aamer especially has suffered enough. let him play cricket again you heartless fucks!

a final warning is the least they can do for him (and probably the other two as well, although I think the greatest of their crimes was allowing Aamer to participate in their scheme - and for this I would be reluctant as Pakistan board to ever pick them again)

The rozzers are involved now tho

this situation really didn't need the rozzers. they just bowled a few no-balls, wasn't like they weren't trying to win

i feel perspective has been jettisoned. people calling for a life-ban on aamer. wtf. cricketers have done SO much worse and come back within months!

I'm with you on this one

im not

There's a turn up

it's a fucking criminal conspiracy LJ. just because the MCC and the preface to the rules of cricket have got it covered doesn't mean it's not of interest to the CPS/the state. up to cricket if they want to ban him, but there's a bigger issue.

cricketers have done SO much worse and come back within months!

and that's why it keeps happening!

xp
caek OTM

the state should fuck off and leave my sport alone. yeah ok there's betting corruption at play - this is a different issue, and is unrelated to the cricket itself - not that the bookmakers have been substantially defrauded or that anybody is really the victim of this, except the young dude who did it because his two most obvious father-figures within the squad were doing so. let him off with a warning. sometimes the law is an overly literal ass. by sometimes i mean 'all the time'.

and age is no excuse.
If he gets let off then other kids will get targeted and be told that theres no risk as they wont get a life ban.

fucks sake

you've got no heart

corrupt cricketers should fuck off and leave evertones sport alone

everyones

The Evertones <---------- surely a doowop group??!!??!

scapegoating is the most barbaric fucking thing and you'd think we'd be over it by now but no

yeah lets all let cheats do what they like and let them away with it

are you ian wright?

i get your point LJ that in the context of cricket the specific thing they did didn't really affect the game and in a weird sense isn't that big of a deal.

on the other hand, they were part of a criminal conspiracy to defraud. if they were under pressure or are being scapegoated in some way then presumably that will come out in the trial. saying nobody is really a victim of a gambling conspiracy is ridiculous: (1) there are truly victimless crimes that are still crimes (2) had it worked, this would not have been a victimless crime.

it's heartbreaking w/ amir but ppl shld know if u go down this road u may never play again

it's just not cricket

caek totally otm again

basically, this shit has been happening CEASELESSLY, especially w/ the Pakistan cricket team, since the 90s. don't blame the individuals, blame the system. help the individuals. sure, punish them or whatever for their conspiracy (although what sort of punishment could fit something as puny as this? in fact when does state punishment ever really work DIFFERENT THREAD), but don't ban the kid who was 18 from ever playing again! he's not the problem! what kind of message does THAT send anyway - 'don't trust anybody or you'll end up banned'

ffs

no, let's NOT let people ride roughshod over the systems of betting (unless they're robert redford amirite) to gain an unfair advantage over those unaware of the conspiracy, and let's combat this by stripping them of their illicit earnings, but unless they're either cheating (which this ISN'T, you're being very crude in your analysis) or destroying the competitive element of sport, or fostering (i.e. not naively participating in) a climate of dishonesty, they are still an asset to the game.

let's be clear, I am all for the PCB handing out life-bans to Asif and Butt, fuck them

don't fuck around, play cricket, is the msg

you cant let one guy off just because he is a special player. what kind of message does that give out??

banning those two and keeping aamer is a positive message. 'we forgive those who were led into corruption, but we cannot forgive those who lead there'* - it's not that aamer is a more special player (asif is just as good) but it's that HE'S A KID

*I am all for eventual forgiveness here too but it'd be very hard to imagine these two trusted on a cricket field again, especially Asif with his record