You know what really grinds my cricketing gears?

[Richard]

The team you support losing

The pain is slightly lesser if you were an Englishman and were expecting it from the start.

 

[Spitfires_Fan]

Boycott's incessant use of the phrase 'I'm a great believer in...'

And Dermot Reeve in general. Especially his obsession with the 'corridor of uncertainty'.

Must say though, although they're both annoying in their different ways, they were often hilarious when commentating together on C4. Like the time Boycott told Reeve his opinion wasn't valid (paraphrasing here...) because he only played in 3 test matches. Genius!

 

[Pratters]

Wrong analogy methinks.
The nude scenes are incidental to the movie, not necessarily a central theme.
A better one, in my opinion, would be if someone watched a porn movie and said he ejoyed only, ah.. one aspect.

Haha. Fair point.

 

[marc71178]

15 threads in a row with the same last poster.

 

[Perm]

15 threads in a row with the same last poster.

 

[Sir Redman]

LBW replays
FFS, why do they always pause the replay a foot before the ball actually hits the pad?

Also, I friggin hate Mark Nicholas' fawning idolisation of the Australians. His orgasmic "Yes, yes!!!" call when one of them got an lbw the other day was particularly nauseating.

 

[Mister Wright]

LBW replays
FFS, why do they always pause the replay a foot before the ball actually hits the pad?

Also, I friggin hate Mark Nicholas' fawning idolisation of the Australians. His orgasmic "Yes, yes!!!" call when one of them got an lbw the other day was particularly nauseating.

Nicholas is just nauseating all the time.

 

[Dasa]

Commentators who don't have basic cricket knowledge. FFS learn something about the game.

 

[Smudge]

The New Zealand non-cricket media, particularly the meat-heads that host talkback. By and large, we do pretty well for the size of our country, and the number of players we have (considering our grade cricket numbers are shrinking by the year). They only ever take notice when there's a chance for them to bag our players.

 

[Dasa]

Murali-bashers.

 

[superkingdave]

Yorkshi*e

 

[Perm]

Illiterate People

Now I'm not the best in the world at spelling or grammer but using fullstops and capitals make your posts so much easier to read and respond to. NONE OF THIS CRAP!!!!!! Because that is just as bad as is people who just write like this and continue for sentence after sentence without having any form of punctuation so you dont know when one sentence ends and where the other begins when people tlk in txt spk 2 dat reli pisss me off 2 da xtrem coz it jst so lzy. This is especially bad on a cricket forum where people actually want to read and respond to your posts with some intelligent debate, instead they are put off by your inability to make sense.

 

[Prince EWS]

i am sorry if u guys feel that way.
but i have always found them boring for some reason. i havn't said they aren't good batsman.they are but they aren't entertaining to watch.

For you.

They aren't intrisically boring to everyone though.

 

[shortpitched713]

Honestly, most Indians couldn't care less if there are no Bengalis in the national side if they're winning.

Tell that to all the Ganguly fans.

 

[andmark]

Ashley Giles.

 

[Spitfires_Fan]

Damien Fleming's thick accent. There's an 'l' in 'Australia', it's not 'Ustraya'. That wound me up earlier in the world cup.

 

[pasag]

Damien Fleming's thick accent. There's an 'l' in 'Australia', it's not 'Ustraya'. That wound me up earlier in the world cup.

Yeah he's getting a bit better though. He'll be horrendous during the India and SL series over the summer no doubt.

 

[Richard]

Illiterate People

Now I'm not the best in the world at spelling or grammer but using fullstops and capitals make your posts so much easier to read and respond to. NONE OF THIS CRAP!!!!!! Because that is just as bad as is people who just write like this and continue for sentence after sentence without having any form of punctuation so you dont know when one sentence ends and where the other begins when people tlk in txt spk 2 dat reli pisss me off 2 da xtrem coz it jst so lzy. This is especially bad on a cricket forum where people actually want to read and respond to your posts with some intelligent debate, instead they are put off by your inability to make sense.

TBH, I'd guess just about everyone who posts properly dislikes that.

With minor exceptions, I tend to take those that post very-much improperly (ie no CAPS, txtspk, etc.) less seriously than those that do.

 

[Richard]

15 threads in a row with the same last poster.

Which is sometimes going to happen whether you like it or not.

Long as it's not always, most people don't have a problem with it.

 

[Perm]

TBH, I'd guess just about everyone who posts properly dislikes that.

With minor exceptions, I tend to take those that post very-much improperly (ie no CAPS, txtspk, etc.) less seriously than those that do.

Agreed, it's hard to take people who post like that seriously because it is so difficult to read their point of view.