You know what really grinds my cricketing gears?

[simmy]

Right.

It's McGrath's arrogance. "We will win 5-0 before every series"... "I will target batsman X and Y"

Why not just let his cricket do the talking? Probably the greatest bowler of all time... he doesnt need to chat such rubbish.

 

[Barney Rubble]

People who don't rate Kevin Pietersen

Seriously, grow some eyes FFS.

 

[simmy]

People who don't rate Kevin Pietersen

Seriously, grow some eyes FFS.

I don't think there are many left now...

Well only South Africans.

 

[Pratters]

Taito. Worst nickname. VERY irritating.

 

[PhoenixFire]

Taito. Worst nickname. VERY irritating.

Yes agree 100% there. Sounds to much like potato as well.

 

[Richard]

Games against University sides. I'm sure they're all well and good for practice, and for improving the University players, but it irritates me that the season is so stop-start. Kent just get going (in a manner of speaking) against Sussex and Surrey, and then they're stuck playing Cardiff University.

It's actually telling how poorly Kent have played so far this season, in that we've basically put out our first team to try and get some form together...

People who don't rate Kevin Pietersen

Seriously, grow some eyes FFS.

Damn straight. Uni-vs-county games are something I've never understood, less still that certain of such games have First-Class status, and Pietersen-dislikers, well...

Glenn McGrath. I hate that dickhead.

**** poor.

 

[Richard]

Spinners and dumb batsmen. Absolute filth.

A spinner walks 5 paces lobs the ball up and an idiot batsman ties to hit it out of the park and mistimes it (or just plain misses it) and gets out. Filthy, filthy, filthy.

Fast bowlers pound their body into the ground and pour blood, sweat and tears on the field in the effort to get a wicket. Risking future hip replacement and not being able to pickup their grandkids in the future due to wear and tear, whilst the athletic equivelent of a cricketing hippo puts in little physical effort and relies on the idiocy of the batsman for many wickets.

Absolutely damn straight.

Though it's even worse when such bowlers are part-timers.

 

[Pup Clarke]

Pointless Cricketing Interviews

The same phrases are repeated again and again...Plus the stupid and most obvious questions the interviewer poses the player.

 

[Richard]

Manipulation of stats

Selecting certain periods, or deselecting teams etc is all well and good. But when people start saying, "if you take out all Pietersen's scores above 4, he actually averages 0.75"

I mean, so what?

Hmm, if anything I tend to get more annoyed by people who say "his overall career average is RM.YH and therefore NOTHING else has ANY relevance because you're "manipulating" those stats.

Err, well, no, I'm not really. I'm pointing-out something that the stats DO show. Yes, there are silly examples (like "if you take out all his scoring strokes he averages 0") but IMO an overall career average for a decent length career is pretty worthless - you need some breakdowns to tell you any real stories.

 

[Fusion]

Murali-bashers.

Second that. So very annoying.

 

[Smudge]

Spinners and dumb batsmen. Absolute filth.

A spinner walks 5 paces lobs the ball up and an idiot batsman ties to hit it out of the park and mistimes it (or just plain misses it) and gets out. Filthy, filthy, filthy.

Fast bowlers pound their body into the ground and pour blood, sweat and tears on the field in the effort to get a wicket. Risking future hip replacement and not being able to pickup their grandkids in the future due to wear and tear, whilst the athletic equivelent of a cricketing hippo puts in little physical effort and relies on the idiocy of the batsman for many wickets.

Kinda tells you which one out of the spinner or fast bowler is smarter.


(Proud member of the Leg-Spinner Society for the last 14 years)

 

[Mister Wright]

Illiterate People

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.

Ahh...I miss Richard vs TEC. Those were the days.

 

[Richard]

Kinda tells you which one out of the spinner or fast bowler is smarter.


(Proud member of the Leg-Spinner Society for the last 14 years)

Yeah, the fast bowler. Just need to look at Kev and me for the evidence there.

 

[Richard]

Ahh...I miss Richard vs TEC. Those were the days.

Check a few threads down the front page as of the time of this post, pal...

 

[Mister Wright]

Check a few threads down the front page as of the time of this post, pal...

I missed one? But I created a thread especially for you two so I could keep up to date with the arguments. How disapointing.

 

[Richard]

That thread died long before Russel Arnold's career, TBH.

 

[Mister Wright]

That thread died long before Russel Arnold's career, TBH.

Haha. Nice burn.

 

[Smudge]

Yeah, the fast bowler. Just need to look at Kev and me for the evidence there.

Hmmm, comparing Kev and himself in the same sentence.

Nice try, Richard - but you're not as smart as you think.

 

[Prince EWS]

Yeah, the fast bowler. Just need to look at Kev and me for the evidence there.

......

I'm a spinner, for the record.

 

[shortpitched713]

Spinners and dumb batsmen. Absolute filth.

A spinner walks 5 paces lobs the ball up and an idiot batsman ties to hit it out of the park and mistimes it (or just plain misses it) and gets out. Filthy, filthy, filthy.

Fast bowlers pound their body into the ground and pour blood, sweat and tears on the field in the effort to get a wicket. Risking future hip replacement and not being able to pickup their grandkids in the future due to wear and tear, whilst the athletic equivelent of a cricketing hippo puts in little physical effort and relies on the idiocy of the batsman for many wickets.

Work smarter not harder is what they say.