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  1. Matt79

    Broad cops up a bit of trouble.

    And this is the problem with this discussion - it rarely stays civil for long. AK - you're entitled to your opinion and I'm certainly not going to try and censor it, but I would ask that if you want to have this discussion, please be conscious that it's one that tends to get people on both...
  2. Matt79

    Broad cops up a bit of trouble.

    There's a difference between a debutant doing something you see as ****y and the greatest player of your generation doing it. Again, Broad's response was completely unacceptable either way though.
  3. Matt79

    The Myths & The Truth

    Not saying it's not true, just that I personally haven't seen an analysis, or even an account from a contemporary that details how often it happened. I'm not going to argue with SJS's library though! :)
  4. Matt79

    *Official* Pakistan in England 2010

    I don't follow English domestic cricket closely enough to know anything about the respective merits of Carberry and Lyth, but I don't think a tour of a Australia is the best place to debut a young batsman, if you have the option of a similarly in form experienced pro who knows their game inside...
  5. Matt79

    Rome wasn't built in a day

    To a degree, backbone and patience are no more inborn than being skilled and talented. You do ultimately either have it in you or not, but most people would develop it much faster and more successfully with a good role model and coaching. Looking at players like Steve Waugh and Ian Healy, they...
  6. Matt79

    Broad cops up a bit of trouble.

    A bit of irony in saying that you aren't going to talk about the ball tampering because you don't think the mods will like it, and then throw out a casual accusation of systematic discrimination by ICC officialdom based on nationality as a definite fact. I believe Asif IIRC during this series...
  7. Matt79

    Rome wasn't built in a day

    It's good to take some positives out of the performance today, but in fairness to disgruntled fans, when asking for patience, it is helpful if you display some signs of at least trying to learn from past mistakes and remedy them. Hopefully as you say, this performance is something that they can...
  8. Matt79

    Broad cops up a bit of trouble.

    I don't think the recent bereavement thing should make any difference to the penalty side of it, but some people might consider it on the "do you think he's a jerk" front.
  9. Matt79

    Better to watch=better player??

    Wouldn't say it necessarily makes them a better player, but it's entirely reasonable to say that you like a player more because you find them more attractive to watch (Watto, I'm thinking of you...). If, on the other hand, all other aspects of being a batsman between player A and player B are...
  10. Matt79

    Broad cops up a bit of trouble.

    Thought you followed AFL? Adam Goodes gave a very small finger wave at an ump on the weekend and got a fifty meter penalty given.
  11. Matt79

    The Myths & The Truth

    It was pretty early in his career, before he was established as an international. Whether today it would have been called clinical depression as opposed to the natural reaction of someone who lost a close friend in a car crash in which you were the driver, in his autobiog Sobers said he was...
  12. Matt79

    *Official* Pakistan in England 2010

    ****, I think I'm starting to look like Greig as he appears in that photo. I'm never leaving the house again!
  13. Matt79

    The Myths & The Truth

    I think this theory assumes that he wasn't as good a spinner as the specialist that might come in, and that he was no better a FM than the specialist who might come in. So if the conditions looked favourable to spin, it was better for the team to have the better spinner in the team, and have...
  14. Matt79

    Broad cops up a bit of trouble.

    But dozens of guys have got away with it without being pinged - pretty much every spinner since Shane Warne comes to mind. I'm not saying that it's a good state of affairs, but I don't think Broad not getting fined or whatever is the surprising situation you're suggesting.
  15. Matt79

    The Myths & The Truth

    Yeah, that gets trotted out a bit, and I can't recall seeing a reliable source for it, or a detailed analysis of when it took place, but the gist of it was that if the team had a selection choice to make between a specialist spinner and an extra quick, if the conditions looked favourable for...
  16. Matt79

    The Myths & The Truth

    According to Roland Perry he injured his back while wrestling with a mate during the war, and afterwards suffered pain from it that was quite fatiguing and distracting whenever his bowling workload got too heavy. Of course that's Perry talking, so he may well have just made that up.
  17. Matt79

    *Official* Pakistan in England 2010

    Until we demonstrate that the ranking system is deeply flawed over the summer. I'll give you the prediction now - 5-0 Australia.
  18. Matt79

    Broad cops up a bit of trouble.

    He's not exactly Robinson Crusoe there though. The two things are separate in my mind, in terms of punishments (potentially not separate in terms of whether as fans we like the cut of his jib).
  19. Matt79

    The Myths & The Truth

    On the other hand, Gilly and Flower gave you those extra runs at no real cost in terms of the quality of keeper, whereas some of the other 'batting wicket-keepers' that have been tried and failed easily cost their team a couple of wickets a match - Kamren Akmal anyone? They were allrounders in...
  20. Matt79

    Hadlee, Khan, Dev, Botham - Who was the best allrounder?

    HB, meet Mitch. Mitch likes Kookaburra balls, blondes, long cuddles, swapping hair and beauty tips with Shane Watson, and piercings in silly places on his face. Mitch does not like Duke balls, moving furniture, blondes fighting with his mummy and his mummy embarrassing him in front of...
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