Sri Lanka

Cheating w4nkers

 

poor sportsmanship and

how do they get away with slinging the ball from waist hight

 

RE: poor sportsmanship and

2 slingers and a guy who cant play properly within the rules despite being a very good cricketer, very very disappointing especially considering i have enjoyed watching them play throughout the tournament

 

They did nothing outside of the rules. Sportsmanship doesn't win you matches. If England did the same we wouldn't complain. The thoughts about the actions of the bowlers is old news and allowed or they wouldn't play. Lets just admit we are going out and not good enough. Flintoff and Vaughan have been shocking in the whole tournment.

 

old news agreed but still relevant and wrong. i dont need to be told the rules as i am a qualified cricket coach, however they were laying just within the rules and the wry smile on the bowlers face told a thousand words. saying we are simply not good enough is something a lot of people say without thinking about and is a picture painted by the media in particular to the public, england do possess quality and i for one am totally gutted about the end result today

 

Gutted as well mate. Well done to KP, Bell, Bopara and Nixon on making it closer than it should have been.

 

one last word, glad you said that shows your an england fan and also very well done bopara a real innings and showed he has the potential and hopefully ability to be there a long time at the top of international one day cricket.

 

Yeah it's great for our multi cultural society that we have a team with Bopara, Saj and Monty in all doing fairly well.

 

what the final score? couldn't take it any longer, and ugly betty was on e4!!

 

Ugly Betty sounds better than cricket lol. Lost by three runs due to too many experienced batters flopping.

 

The side-on shot of the ball Malinga got Nixon with was a cast-iron throw,

Its an absolute disgrace that he is able to get away with this.</p>

We should have won in the end though , the last ball was there to be hit and it was the only one where Bhopara seemed to lose his concentration and just close his eyes and swing the bat.</p>

 

RE: The side-on shot of the ball Malinga got Nixon with was a cast-iron throw,

totally agree about Malinga. it surely cannot be legal is action. he does keep his arm straight but slinging it from the side is a disgrace.</p>

im betting if an england player did that they would be band from playing cricket.</p>

and dont get me started with Murali, because he IS a CHEAT!!!</p>

 

His arm isnt straight,

I dont have a problem with the low arm if itis straight, the ball to Nixon was a throw.</p>

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RE: His arm isnt straight,

quite right. He can bowl the ball underarm if he wants as long as the arm is straight if not it's a chuck.

 

Sorry Dave but...

Underarm is illegal in cricket.</p>

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Since when? I'm a bit out of touch.

 

Since World series cricket I think...

it was one game where the batting side needed 6 to win off of the last ball and the bowler (a new zealander I think) rolled the ball underarm across the wicket obviously stopping the batter from being able to hit it airborn.</p>

 

I wasn't far off..... Wikipedia

An infamous incident involving an underarm delivery occurred on February 1, 1981 when Australia was playing New Zealand in a One-Day International, the third of five cricket matches in the final of the Benson &amp; Hedges World Series Cup at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.</p>

New Zealand needed six runs to tie the match from the final ball, with eight wickets down. The Australian captain (Greg Chappell) ordered the bowler (his brother, Trevor Chappell) to bowl underarm: rolling the ball along the ground to avoid the possibility that the No. 10 New Zealand batsman (Brian McKechnie) would score a six from the last ball to tie the match.</p>

Australia won the game, but the New Zealand batsmen marched off in disgust, and since that day the underarm bowling incident has been a source of discussion, both heated and jocular, between Australians and New Zealanders.</p>

It was described as &quot;the most disgusting incident I can recall in the history of cricket&quot; by the then Prime Minister of New Zealand, Rob Muldoon, who also observed that &quot;It was an act of cowardice and I consider it appropriate that the Australian team were wearing yellow&quot;. Even the Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser, called the act &quot;contrary to the traditions of the game&quot;.</p>

Brian McKechnie bears no ill will over the incident<sup class="reference">[1]</sup> but both Chappell brothers have publicly stated their embarrassment over the incident and, over 25 years later, are still reluctant to discuss it.</p>

As a direct result of the incident, underarm bowling was banned in limited overs cricket by the International Cricket Council as not within the spirit of the game.</p>

 

The next to last "ball"....

by Fernando was pure gamesmanship. If it had been a Pakistani I bet we'd have been crying foul so loudly they would have heard it down t' Well! (wnkr)

 

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excellent tactics