Re: Australian International Summer (The Ashes) 2021/22
Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2021 5:14 pm
The Bedge wrote:Go home Mal, you’re drunk.
England are shit.
Go drunk Mal, you’re home.
The Bedge wrote:Go home Mal, you’re drunk.
England are shit.
am Bays wrote:whufc wrote:
You honestly don’t believe Chappell is the best commentator
Deadset spends every broadcast whinging about modern cricket and how he was around in the good old days.
Adds no value whatsoever.
Spent most last test saying how bill Lawry once told him bowing around the wicket to left handers never worked. Spent the whole shift critiquing the English about it. when the statistician told him how many wickets broad had around the wicket to lefties his reply was that’s not what bill lawry reckons though.
Yup which says a lot about the others IMO
I will admit to getting tired about him going on about administrators.
And yeah I heard that Bill Lawry comment I thought he said with a bit levity as if to say oh well Bill may not be right.
Why I think Chappell is the best along with Maxwell and to lesser extent Gilchrist, Lane and Ponting is they make their commentary about the cricket and keep their tone even. They do start yelling and trying to create false ion and drama.
All IMO of course.
whufc wrote:Is there any point in replacing Khawaja for Harris.
We are not going to lose the series, Khawaja is 36 and is barely going around another year. Might as well stick with Harris and give him every single oppurtunity before he is inevitably dropped.
whufc wrote:am Bays wrote:whufc wrote:
You honestly don’t believe Chappell is the best commentator
Deadset spends every broadcast whinging about modern cricket and how he was around in the good old days.
Adds no value whatsoever.
Spent most last test saying how bill Lawry once told him bowing around the wicket to left handers never worked. Spent the whole shift critiquing the English about it. when the statistician told him how many wickets broad had around the wicket to lefties his reply was that’s not what bill lawry reckons though.
Yup which says a lot about the others IMO
I will admit to getting tired about him going on about administrators.
And yeah I heard that Bill Lawry comment I thought he said with a bit levity as if to say oh well Bill may not be right.
Why I think Chappell is the best along with Maxwell and to lesser extent Gilchrist, Lane and Ponting is they make their commentary about the cricket and keep their tone even. They do start yelling and trying to create false ion and drama.
All IMO of course.
yeah agree about many bringing that false sense of intensity for sure. That's why I think Maxwell is still my favourite.
I'm a big fan of Dirk Nannes. I also liked Mark Nicholson and Bumble because they used emotive words rather than just a volume of noise to express the action.
Jim05 wrote:Richardson sore and is out.
Boland to debut
Cummins back in for Neser too.Jim05 wrote:Richardson sore and is out.
Boland to debut
Cummins said he was sore and that he has a small leg injury, nothing major though. They want to give him a full week off to get ready for the 4th test.amber_fluid wrote:Jim05 wrote:Richardson sore and is out.
Boland to debut
After one game?
Amazingly, Boland's a downgrade even on Neser.Armchair expert wrote:Boland is terrible
Neser should be rightly pissed
Brodlach wrote:Four changes to the Poms
England XI: Haseeb Hameed, Zac Crawley, Dawid Malan, Joe Root (c), Ben Stokes, Jonathan Bairstow, Jos Buttler (wk), Mark Wood, Ollie Robinson, Jack Leach, Jimmy Anderson
Out Broad, Pope, Burns and Woakes
In Bairstow, Crawley, Wood and Leach
The Dark Knight wrote:whufc wrote:am Bays wrote:whufc wrote:
You honestly don’t believe Chappell is the best commentator
Deadset spends every broadcast whinging about modern cricket and how he was around in the good old days.
Adds no value whatsoever.
Spent most last test saying how bill Lawry once told him bowing around the wicket to left handers never worked. Spent the whole shift critiquing the English about it. when the statistician told him how many wickets broad had around the wicket to lefties his reply was that’s not what bill lawry reckons though.
Yup which says a lot about the others IMO
I will admit to getting tired about him going on about administrators.
And yeah I heard that Bill Lawry comment I thought he said with a bit levity as if to say oh well Bill may not be right.
Why I think Chappell is the best along with Maxwell and to lesser extent Gilchrist, Lane and Ponting is they make their commentary about the cricket and keep their tone even. They do start yelling and trying to create false ion and drama.
All IMO of course.
yeah agree about many bringing that false sense of intensity for sure. That's why I think Maxwell is still my favourite.
I'm a big fan of Dirk Nannes. I also liked Mark Nicholson and Bumble because they used emotive words rather than just a volume of noise to express the action.
I've enjoyed listening to Dirk Nannes aswell and in the past I've like Simon Katich on ABC, obviously now he's on 7 and I like him and Ponting together and Greg Blewett is good too IMO. All those guys have played recent enough to understand the modern game, they call it as they see it, never come with ridiculous calls that will ever happen, never go over the top when calling and never go on and on about something relatively minor.
Chappell has become an absolute f**king pain to listen to, constantly negative and raves on about the same minor thing for an extended period of time.
He's a real 'back in my day' type operator and your post about his Bill Lawry story is a perfect example.
FlyingHigh wrote:The Dark Knight wrote:whufc wrote:am Bays wrote:[quote="whufc"]
You honestly don’t believe Chappell is the best commentator
Deadset spends every broadcast whinging about modern cricket and how he was around in the good old days.
Adds no value whatsoever.
Spent most last test saying how bill Lawry once told him bowing around the wicket to left handers never worked. Spent the whole shift critiquing the English about it. when the statistician told him how many wickets broad had around the wicket to lefties his reply was that’s not what bill lawry reckons though.
Yup which says a lot about the others IMO
I will admit to getting tired about him going on about administrators.
And yeah I heard that Bill Lawry comment I thought he said with a bit levity as if to say oh well Bill may not be right.
Why I think Chappell is the best along with Maxwell and to lesser extent Gilchrist, Lane and Ponting is they make their commentary about the cricket and keep their tone even. They do start yelling and trying to create false ion and drama.
All IMO of course.
yeah agree about many bringing that false sense of intensity for sure. That's why I think Maxwell is still my favourite.
I'm a big fan of Dirk Nannes. I also liked Mark Nicholson and Bumble because they used emotive words rather than just a volume of noise to express the action.
I've enjoyed listening to Dirk Nannes aswell and in the past I've like Simon Katich on ABC, obviously now he's on 7 and I like him and Ponting together and Greg Blewett is good too IMO. All those guys have played recent enough to understand the modern game, they call it as they see it, never come with ridiculous calls that will ever happen, never go over the top when calling and never go on and on about something relatively minor.
Chappell has become an absolute f**king pain to listen to, constantly negative and raves on about the same minor thing for an extended period of time.
He's a real 'back in my day' type operator and your post about his Bill Lawry story is a perfect example.