"The Gentleman's game"- Cricket - World Cup 2019 Special

Is it because of Shaun Marsh? I bet it's because of Shaun Marsh.

The team isn't conditioned for away matches lol. Got trashed against India and now Australia.

Hope we can take advantage of a bit of Australian slump but I highly doubt england can make over 250 atm

So It's Shaun Marsh then.

Amazing turnaround. Knight Root if we win this ffs

Well that didn't work

LOOOOOL

Woke up and saw it was over in the 1st session itself

rip

Absolute joke man

England 368-4.
England 403 all out.

Australia 368-4.
Australia 549-4.

Welcome back lads, Im back again after quitting that shit sport called Soccer.

Does Tendulkar still play?

No but you did smash SA today though.

RealGunner wrote:No but you did smash SA today though.

Just found out a part time chess player smashed SA batsmen with 5 wickets, check m8 lads

Anyone following Australia's cheating(ball tampering) scandal ?

Out of the blue ffs.

They seem pretty casual about it. I admit to cheating, but only because we got caught. CA seem to be much more harsh.

I don;t quite understand it. I read one account that said they were trying to roughen and damage the ball so much that the umpire will replace the ball with the balls in storage that for some reason are able to reverse swing.

If that was the case, wouldn't it be really obvious looking back on the previous tests that when Australia needed to "replace" the ball, it was likely because they also ball tampered?

Australia have always been a team with pos in it tbh. Actually not that surprised.

I saw the whole incident a few hrs ago

This Bancroft dude is probably the dumbest cheat ever. The way this whole 'plan' was played out was so miserable. Then for Smith to come out and say 'it wont happen again' like a school boy was so cringe-worthy ffs.

The only positive you can to take from this whole fiasco is they admitted to it.

Reports that Smith might be facing a year long ban.

i find it amazing that people watch cricket tbh. fair play to them.

BREAKING: Cricket Australia confirm captain Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft were the only three players with prior knowledge of ball-tampering against South Africa. More now on Sky Sports News. #SSN

— Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) March 27, 2018

Bullshit lmao

They all knew it. That's why it was leaked.

Oh yeah. Especially the coach. How does anyone think he didn't know...

Smith and Warner banned for 1 year apparently. Wow

Cant believe Lehmann has come out of this unscathed. But i suppose Cricket Australia were too concerned about losing money from sponsors and TV deals so they took the easy way out and scapegoated a couple of their players instead of going for a full blown investigation.

Huge black mark on Steve Smith's career though especially since he's at his peak more so than Warner. Lead test batsman in the world, creating records comparable to Bradman , now all of that will be a forgotten memory and instead he will have to come back being known as the player/captain who employed cheating tactics to win games.

ffs

They are manhandling him all the way to the flight like he gunned down a bunch of people or something

I am not particularly a fan of him at all but this is pretty sad to see tbh. Feel for him at this moment.  The 1 year ban was really harsh on him too. Banned from IPL as well. Maximum punishment any player has got for ball tampering is a 2 match ban but i guess Australia just want to set a precedent for anyone looking to bend the rules.

dumb question here from someone thats never watched a game of cricket but how does a little scratch on the ball make any difference to the flight

El Gunner wrote:The more older and deteriorated the ball becomes the more likely it is to swing. Just has something to do with the make up of a cricket ball.

Without getting too scientific about it: the more scuffed and rough one side of the ball is, the more turbulent the air that passes by when it's in flight. That then forces the ball to move in the opposite direction to where it's supposed to be.

So a bowler will bowl with a grip and seam position that will make the ball move away from the batsman (outswing), but because one side is so rough, it moves towards the batsman instead (inswing) - hence the name "reverse swing".

Conventional swing will stop happening as the ball gets older and harder to polish, so teams rely on reverse swing instead (which is much harder for batsmen to predict by looking at the bowler's grip and seam position). But reverse swing is difficult to accomplish without tampering with the ball by intentionally damaging it.

Just about every team in cricket will discretely try to rough the ball up, usually by bouncing the ball in instead of throwing it to someone's hand. Players might tread on the ball with their spikes as well while fielding. It's only really obvious incidents - like using tape - that get punished.

Tbh, Smith and Warner's punishment is in a direct proportion to the outrage rather than the level of offence. Ball tampering is punishable by a one game ban in the rulebook, but people were angered that a captain knowingly cheated and I guess Cricket Australia had to put their foot down.