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So, the cricket (controversy! Woo!)
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Feb. 2nd, 2009 | 02:26 pm
Damn, New Zealand. Way to make chasing 180 as difficult as possible. We won, which is absolutely fabulous, but what I'm really curious to find out is what is going to happen with Haddin.
Because you know what? He cheated. There are a LOT of grey areas in cricket. Not walking when you get an edge, appealing when you know the batsman's not out. However, what Haddin did went beyond that in my opinion. Because it's likely I'm the only person who saw the game with Toriko in Japan, Broom (kiwi batsman) was given out bowled. What really happened was that Haddin (Australian wicketkeeper) knocked the bails off with his gloves. The ball went OVER the bails. He knew exactly what had happened - the replays showed that he saw it happen and his reactions are pretty damning - and not only didn't he say anything but appealed the wicket and celebrated it. Pretty damn shocking, and the Australian commentators went quiet on the topic very quickly.
Vettori mentioned it in the post play, just as he should have. And Ponting ... well. He's a sour, pissy man of late. I used to love Ponting, but he really doesn't wear losing well, and when you defend a cheating team mate and try and turn it back onto the other team, that's just tasteless. Additionally, Ponting pretty much flaunts his disdain for the over rate rule. It's not a choice, Ponting. You can't make the decison that it's worth deliberately slowing the game down and spending ages with field placings even if it means a fine. It's pretty damn obvious that he does it whenever he wants to and doesn't care about the punishment, and quite frankly I think he deserves another two game ban because it's a blatant and continuous disregard for the rules.
Man, Ponting. I used to LOVE you. Especially when you did that series of deodorant commercials with Steven Fleming.
Arg. Bring back Brett Lee, we need some good natured cheer back in the Aussie team again so I can go back to loving them again.
Because you know what? He cheated. There are a LOT of grey areas in cricket. Not walking when you get an edge, appealing when you know the batsman's not out. However, what Haddin did went beyond that in my opinion. Because it's likely I'm the only person who saw the game with Toriko in Japan, Broom (kiwi batsman) was given out bowled. What really happened was that Haddin (Australian wicketkeeper) knocked the bails off with his gloves. The ball went OVER the bails. He knew exactly what had happened - the replays showed that he saw it happen and his reactions are pretty damning - and not only didn't he say anything but appealed the wicket and celebrated it. Pretty damn shocking, and the Australian commentators went quiet on the topic very quickly.
Vettori mentioned it in the post play, just as he should have. And Ponting ... well. He's a sour, pissy man of late. I used to love Ponting, but he really doesn't wear losing well, and when you defend a cheating team mate and try and turn it back onto the other team, that's just tasteless. Additionally, Ponting pretty much flaunts his disdain for the over rate rule. It's not a choice, Ponting. You can't make the decison that it's worth deliberately slowing the game down and spending ages with field placings even if it means a fine. It's pretty damn obvious that he does it whenever he wants to and doesn't care about the punishment, and quite frankly I think he deserves another two game ban because it's a blatant and continuous disregard for the rules.
Man, Ponting. I used to LOVE you. Especially when you did that series of deodorant commercials with Steven Fleming.
Arg. Bring back Brett Lee, we need some good natured cheer back in the Aussie team again so I can go back to loving them again.