The Cricket Thread.

[buttsie]

Originally Posted by Motorboater

The way Australia are going against Pakistan atm. Just emphasises how impressively bad England were last summer. Freddie Flintoff was on Australian tv on Thursday night saying England would win the series next year. If you blokes have gotten over Johnson, it could be a case of who's least shit will win.

I wouldnt be using anything Australia does on the continent as a barometer for what they might be like in England because they've always been bad against spin on the continent.

Luckily for them Saeed Ajmal was recently suspended for a suspect bowling action
Thats the guy who took 24 wickets during Englands 3-0 thrashing there.


Johnson & Harris versus Anderson & Broad will decide the series

Hard to see Lyon & Ali having any real impact

Alis performances would be worth more if they were against a strong touring side
but India are anything but that.

Both sides have deficiencies in their batting which should make it a competitive series

I'd favour Australia slightly because of what they did in South Africa against the
Worlds number 1 team

[victor meldrew]

It would appear the BCCI want blood out of the stone and if this runs its full course could be the death knoll for West Indian cricket.

Hopefully some form of common sense will prevail in these money mad days.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cricket/29861772

On the cricket field Pakistan running the Aussies ragged, time to get the Subbuteo Cricket out.

[Oswald]

USD42M! There is no way that the West Indies Cricket Board have access to that amount of money. Even if they paid it back in instalments over a 5 year period there would still be interest to pay. It leaves West Indies cricket staring into an abyss.

[scoundrel]

Originally Posted by victor meldrew

It would appear the BCCI want blood out of the stone and if this runs its full course could be the death knoll for West Indian cricket.

Hopefully some form of common sense will prevail in these money mad days.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cricket/29861772

On the cricket field Pakistan running the Aussies ragged, time to get the Subbuteo Cricket out.

The world has changed somewhat. I don't remember the Indians and the MCC getting into a legal bunfight over the cancellation of the England tour in 1989, when the issue was the selection of Graham Gooch, who had broken the UN sporting embargo of South Africa. Neither do I recollect there being a court case when the South Africans called off the 1970 England tour because the MCC had selected Basil D'Oliveira to be in the touring party; but the South Africans paid dearly for this decision and were excluded from genuine international cricket for nearly a quarter of a century.

I wonder exactly what court would be competent to hear this case. If it is an Indian court, how will it convince the world that the judgment was unbiased? Also, how will it enforce any financial penalty against a body which operates in the West Indies? The Board of Cricket Control India has indeed been wronged here and the West Indies are in the wrong and should indeed be punished for this. But there is a limit to what is sensible and fair and on the face of it the BCCI is grossly exceeding that limit. This may of course be an opening gambit to put the Fear of God into the WCCI and make them feel extremely keen to negotiate this shit away. If so, that's fair enough.

[victor meldrew]

Originally Posted by scoundrel

The world has changed somewhat. I don't remember the Indians and the MCC getting into a legal bunfight over the cancellation of the England tour in 1989, when the issue was the selection of Graham Gooch, who had broken the UN sporting embargo of South Africa. Neither do I recollect there being a court case when the South Africans called off the 1970 England tour because the MCC had selected Basil D'Oliveira to be in the touring party; but the South Africans paid dearly for this decision and were excluded from genuine international cricket for nearly a quarter of a century.

Had these occurred in the current day some form of financial compensation would have been sought as is the norm these days for anything from an accident to slander.

I fear any court case would be in favour of the BCCI, who would probably not see a penny of the financial award. However given the power the BCCI weald it would be of no surprise if they were able to force a world wide ban on the West Indies through the ICC.

The West Indies would also be hit hard with no further fixtures against India, which would leave them seriously out of pocket and struggling to exist financially.

[Oswald]

These day international tours are awarded, organised and financed through a business procedure. With high finance involved comes the legal contracts - just like in any business venture. The BCCI do have the legal muscle to, at the very least, embarrass the WICB financially. How determined will they be to receive this compensation? This case could end up being heard in the High Court in London.

[scoundrel]

Originally Posted by Oswald

These day international tours are awarded, organised and financed through a business procedure. With high finance involved comes the legal contracts - just like in any business venture. The BCCI do have the legal muscle to, at the very least, embarrass the WICB financially. How determined will they be to receive this compensation? This case could end up being heard in the High Court in London.

Fair point. There will certainly be a signed contract and in the contract there will certainly be a clause stating which country and which court shall have jurisdiction in the event of a breach of contract. I note that Ian Bishop, the former West Indian fast bowler, has commented on the naivety of the West Indian players in withdrawing their labour without considering how far reaching the consequences would be. But perhaps the WICB should also have reflected that the players need to be compensated for their labour and that a strike would threaten the very existence of West Indies as a test "nation".

"It must be a wake-up call because any team who was going to invite the West Indies to their shores - this will be at the back of their mind,"..."I don't think the players understood the ramifications of such a move."
Speaking on BBC Radio 5 live, Bishop also says the threat of legal action by the Board of Control for Cricket in India could be crippling.
"[The BCCI] must be aware that if they bankrupt West Indies it reduces the spectacle of world cricket," he said.
In addition to threatening legal action against the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), the BCCI has suspended tours to West Indies, including scheduled fixtures in the Caribbean in February and March 2016.
"The revenue that the West Indies cricket board would have gained would have spilled into their grassroots cricket," added Bishop, who played 43 Tests and 84 ODI.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cricket/29733887

[marrow]

Misbah has equalled the fastest test hundred in the 2nd Test Pakistan v Australia. 56 balls. Australia set 603 to win off 138 overs.

[Motorboater]

Is any non-Australian enjoying Pakistan's comprehensive destroyation of Australia atm? I'm an Australian and even I'm enjoying it!

[old alal]

I'd even enjoy Liverpool FC beating the Aussies, and I can't stand them.

I have never heard the term destroyation so I looked it up in the urban dictionary. (I knew it would not be in a traditional one)



destroyation
to completely and utterly destroy someone beyond belief. this is the idea of an amazingly epic act of destroying such as in a facebook or myspace comment off. the whole idea about destroyation is to make the person you are trying to kill verbally feel absolutely and completely terrible about themselves. destroy own pwn epic revenge
if someone leaves a completely unneccesary and ridiculously stupid comment on a picture or on the wall of your facebook or myspace, you leave a comment that is so amazing and thought out...that every person that reads that will feel their insides slowly rotting out and their self esteem drop down to the fiery depths of hell. this is the perfect way to own someone with epic revenge.
"On friday night, I did some ill destroyation on Kari's picture comment. That fucking cunt got owned."

Please excuse the language in the last paragraph, not mine.

I am not sure any of that should EVER be applied to Cricket.

In addition the "related" words showed the following:- destroyer pussy awesome god killer destroye destroyers penis the cock coloncancer death hobss wyvers destroy evil beast cunt sexy warrior
Random Word

Thank God for "Urban" not.


back on topic. Some great Cricket being played though. Very entertaining.