• Welcome to the Cricket Web forums, one of the biggest forums in the world dedicated to cricket.

    You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join the Cricket Web community today!

    If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us.

The "Channel 9 Commentary Is Hurting Brain" Thread

vic_orthdox

vic_orthdox

Global Moderator
His action looks a bit all over the place, some balls he's nice and tall and others he falls away a little bit, body pulls towards the off-side.

EDIT: Not saying it's a bad action, just that I don't think that he's executing it as consistently as he'd like. He used to be arms and legs everywhere back in junior cricket, he's much more refined now than what he was back then.
 
robelinda

robelinda

International Vice-Captain
Prince EWS said:
He'd look even dorkier with a mo I reckon. Full-on beard might work, but it'd probably take a couple of years to grow in. :ph34r:
Click to expand...
Cant be much dorkier than KP's porn star mo, what a shocker. Ever see that picture from the 1994 tour to Pakistan? Where the whole team grew mo's? Healy and Robertson had more hair on their palms. Classic stuff!
 
Spikey

Spikey

Request Your Custom Title Now!
George looks so much like a kid who works at my local supermarket it's ridiculous
 
Prince EWS

Prince EWS

Global Moderator
Oh FFS, has Lawry ever seen Bell bat before? What he said about him couldn't have been any less true. "Not as stylish as some, but a fighter." Groan!
 
vic_orthdox

vic_orthdox

Global Moderator
Prince EWS said:
Oh FFS, has Lawry ever seen Bell bat before? What he said about him couldn't have been any less true. "Not as stylish as some, but a fighter." Groan!
Click to expand...
Depends what you mean by stylish, though. He's like a twitchy version of Kallis; yeah, his technique is very solid and he's straight out of the coaching manual, don't really think that it's natural or "stylish".
 
benchmark00

benchmark00

Request Your Custom Title Now!
vic_orthdox said:
Depends what you mean by stylish, though. He's like a twitchy version of Kallis; yeah, his technique is very solid and he's straight out of the coaching manual, don't really think that it's natural or "stylish".
Click to expand...
Yeah exactly.

Crabb, your version of stylish, believe it or not, is quite different to most of the cricket watching population.

To most, Mark Waugh was stylish, Shane Watson is not.
 
Julian87

Julian87

State Captain
Worst bit of commentary was Lawry being puzzled as to why left arm orthodox bowlers bowl from around the wicket to right handers. Was facepalming tbh.
 
robelinda

robelinda

International Vice-Captain
Julian87 said:
Worst bit of commentary was Lawry being puzzled as to why left arm orthodox bowlers bowl from around the wicket to right handers. Was facepalming tbh.
Click to expand...
Its just painful. He's been like this for his whole commentary career too, not just lately. I hadnt watched any 80's stuff in ages, some time in the early 2000's i dug out some 84/85 stuff ball by ball, Bill's commentary was woeful, I just didnt realise it back in the 80's as i was too young.
 
Furball

Furball

Evil Scotsman
vic_orthdox said:
Depends what you mean by stylish, though. He's like a twitchy version of Kallis; yeah, his technique is very solid and he's straight out of the coaching manual, don't really think that it's natural or "stylish".
Click to expand...
Bell in full flight is glorious to watch.

How often that's happened in his career, is of course, another story.
 
vic_orthdox

vic_orthdox

Global Moderator
Ian Healy referring to Steve O'Keefe as underbowled, after spending all yesterday decrying how Steve Smith needs to get overs under his belt, and this was the perfect opportunity for him to do so... :dry:
 
Furball

Furball

Evil Scotsman
vic_orthdox said:
Ian Healy referring to Steve O'Keefe as underbowled, after spending all yesterday decrying how Steve Smith needs to get overs under his belt, and this was the perfect opportunity for him to do so... :dry:
Click to expand...
He just got worse. If Australia A bat well, they could leave England with a tricky day and a half.

I know we're playing our back up bowling attack, but I don't quite see Australia smashing 700 off 3 overs.
 
andyc

andyc

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
GingerFurball said:
He just got worse. If Australia A bat well, they could leave England with a tricky day and a half.

I know we're playing our back up bowling attack, but I don't quite see Australia smashing 700 off 3 overs.
Click to expand...
Was under the impression that he was talking about them having a day and a half in the field, tbh.
 
Furball

Furball

Evil Scotsman
Giving Healy far too much credit IMO.

None of the commentary team could answer Tony Greig's question about where Panesar played his county cricket.

Now I don't expect them to have an encyclopaedic knowledge of every England player's career, but jeez, is it to much to ask them to do some basic ****ing research and at least know where each of the touring squad plays their cricket domestically?
 
Prince EWS

Prince EWS

Global Moderator
GingerFurball said:
Giving Healy far too much credit IMO.

None of the commentary team could answer Tony Greig's question about where Panesar played his county cricket.

Now I don't expect them to have an encyclopaedic knowledge of every England player's career, but jeez, is it to much to ask them to do some basic ****ing research and at least know where each of the touring squad plays their cricket domestically?
Click to expand...
Haha that's just the tip of the iceberg regarding what they don't know about touring teams.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Top