Australian International Summer 2023/24

[woodublieve12]

Pat, shut the faark up and just play cricket.

yes, how dare someone answer a question he was asked.

[dedja]

Pat, shut the faark up and just play cricket.

yes, how dare someone answer a question he was asked.

Yes, how dare someone have an opinion that’s not the same as yours.

Oh, nearly forgot the

[Booney]

Sorry but woke is the most ridiculous adjective introduced, it should only be used as a verb.

I imagine anyone that uses it has a pencil with an eraser on the end in their pocket with their calculator.

Erasers just tell the world you know you're going to make mistakes.

[Lightning McQueen]

Sorry but woke is the most ridiculous adjective introduced, it should only be used as a verb.

I imagine anyone that uses it has a pencil with an eraser on the end in their pocket with their calculator.

They need a band-aid on the bridge of them

[Lightning McQueen]

Sorry but woke is the most ridiculous adjective introduced, it should only be used as a verb.

I imagine anyone that uses it has a pencil with an eraser on the end in their pocket with their calculator.

Woke post IMO.

Yep, I woke to write it

[dedja]

Woke can be a verb or adjective, but best used as a noun.

[woodublieve12]

Pat, shut the faark up and just play cricket.

yes, how dare someone answer a question he was asked.

Yes, how dare someone have an opinion that’s not the same as yours.

Oh, nearly forgot the

No issue you don't agree with me. Just find it weird people get so mad at someone who was asked him a question and he says he loves Australia.

[The Dark Knight]

https://www.cricket.com.au/news/3866123
Australia's T20 squad to play the West Indies
Mitchell Marsh (c), Sean Abbott, Jason Behrendorff, Tim David, Nathan Ellis, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Glenn Maxwell, Matt Short, Marcus Stoinis, Matthew Wade, David Warner, Adam Zampa

Will Sutherland added to the ODI squad replacing the injured Nathan Ellis.

[woodublieve12]

Don't get me started on the who no politics in sport comments.
They've been very close since forever

[dedja]

Don't get me started on the who no politics in sport comments.
They've been very close since forever

Yes, very sticky …

[The Dark Knight]

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/glen ... nt-1417785

Glenn Maxwell is set to avoid sanction from Cricket Australia's integrity unit, with the allrounder embarrassed but back at training after being hospitalised following a night out in Adelaide.

Maxwell will on Wednesday be named in Australia's T20 squad to face West Indies after being "managed" out of the three-match ODI series that precedes it.

Australian team staff are still looking into Maxwell's hospitalisation, but at this stage there is no plan for the integrity unit to become involved.

Instead, high-performance staff are concerned over any potential of a concussion to determine if protocols must be entered into, along with how the night has impacted Maxwell's fitness and his mental wellbeing.

AAP has been told Maxwell played a round of golf through the heat of Friday, before attending the gig where he was drinking. He passed out when in the green room after the show and he was taken to the emergency room of a hospital via ambulance and was later released without being admitted.

Maxwell informed chief selector George Bailey of the situation on Monday, and his manager Ben Tippett spoke with high-performance boss Ben Oliver on Tuesday.

"He's okay. I think a little bit embarrassed but that is fine," Tippett told AAP. "Maxi has spoken to George Bailey yesterday. We've spoken to them, they've spoken to us and it's done. It's more like 'you were in hospital and are you okay'?

"He's back in training yesterday. He had time off for about a week after the BBL and he is back into training doing some specific stuff on his leg which he needs to do."

CA also remain adamant the decision to rest Maxwell from the ODIs was made after the BBL, thus freeing him to travel to Adelaide to play in the golf event.

There remain some concerns over Maxwell's fitness following his broken leg last summer, with rods still in the 35-year-old's leg. Questions will no doubt be asked by team staff why Maxwell was out drinking when he should be managing the injury.

Australia captain Pat Cummins said Maxwell "potentially" had to look at his habits and actions.

But he said overall the behaviour of the team was impressive since a player-led approach had been installed.

"In terms of performance on the field you can't ask much more from how we have performed but also how we have gone about it," Cummins said. The team has shown incredible discipline and I think we have made a lot of people proud with the way we have gone about it.

"We are all adults and part of being adults is that you make your own decisions.

"In terms of this incident [Maxwell] wasn't on tour with Australia. He was over there for a private event so it was a little bit different but absolutely, any decision you make you have to own it and be comfortable with it."

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/aust ... ng-1417912

McDonald said Maxwell needed to have a look at the choices he was making after the selectors had given him an extra week off to rest before the T20I series.

"I've spoken to Glenn, had a good chat with him yesterday around the incident," McDonald told SEN. "Him looking after himself needs to be a consideration moving forward. We've given him the opportunity to rest and rehab in that period of time and I suppose the lessons for him around that would be to take up his end of the bargain in that space and take care of himself.

"We want to see Glenn Maxwell playing cricket for the next three to four years for Australia. Can he get to the next World Cup in 2027 in South Africa? Who knows. But he's a key player in our white-ball formats. When he is out there we're a far better team and on the back of that horrific injury that he did have, there's going to be some management things that are put in place around him.

"But we want Glenn Maxwell playing for Australia for as long as he can. We're going to have to do our end and Glenn is no doubt going to have to hold up his end of the bargain.

"All the information he's given, he's had a few drinks and clearly the night has ended the way that it did and that's less than ideal from his perspective and our perspective. It's an honest mistake. He needs to obviously have a look at what he's doing at his end and is that the right thing to be doing at that time? Thankfully there's no harm out of it. He's well now.

"That's the other thing to consider in these instances, yes you can point the finger but there's a duty of care from our end and he's doing well and he looks as though he'll return to play in that West Indies series in those T20 games which we're excited for."

McDonald explained that the decision to rest Maxwell from the ODI series was on the back of the incident that had happened in November 2022 when Maxwell broke his leg in a horrific accident at a 50th birthday party. Maxwell himself said he needed "to be a bit smarter" about his management after he had to fly home from the South Africa tour last year due to soreness in his leg. McDonald added it was something he will need to do for the remainder of his career.

"It's a discussion we've had for the last couple of weeks just around where he's at physically, on the back of that major injury he had," McDonald said. "It's well over 12 months ago now. But that injury hasn't allowed him to do the things that he's wanted to do over a period of time and recovery is one of the biggest problems that he has had, pulling up from games. He just started to flag that at the back end of the BBL.

"For those who know one-day international cricket well, it's probably one of the most demanding formats for any player. The amount of speed they have to move at in the field and with the bat. Obviously, Maxwell being a three-dimensional cricketer, we felt it was a prime opportunity just to give him a little bit of a chop out to get ready for the T20s.

"That's going to be an ongoing management problem with Glenn, we believe. We had some good results in the World Cup but also if you think back to before the World Cup, going to South Africa, we had to pull the same lever in terms of managing where his body is at. So it's got to be a consideration for him, how he looks after himself moving forward for the longevity of his career. But we've also got to weigh into that with the way that we manage him and we feel as though this is the best for him at this point in time."

[dedja]

Best to go back to the days when everything was covered up and some bullshit excuse was rolled out when someone didn’t play.

Hard to know what happened in this one. Some say he only had a couple, it could have been a medical episode (not related to alcohol), or maybe he just got tanked.

For all we know he could be an undiagnosed epileptic. Stranger things have happened.

[locky801]

Best to go back to the days when everything was covered up and some bullshit excuse was rolled out when someone didn’t play.

Hard to know what happened in this one. Some say he only had a couple, it could have been a medical episode (not related to alcohol), or maybe he just got tanked.

For all we know he could be an undiagnosed epileptic. Stranger things have happened.

Think they are now saying he had been out playing golf in all the heat and may have got sun stroke, then went had a couple of froffies which had an affect

[Jim05]

Best to go back to the days when everything was covered up and some bullshit excuse was rolled out when someone didn’t play.

Hard to know what happened in this one. Some say he only had a couple, it could have been a medical episode (not related to alcohol), or maybe he just got tanked.

For all we know he could be an undiagnosed epileptic. Stranger things have happened.

Breaks his leg at a mates party whilst drunk
Falls out of a golf cart whilst having a few
Passes out at a gig after having a few.
A lot of “bad luck”

[dedja]

Best to go back to the days when everything was covered up and some bullshit excuse was rolled out when someone didn’t play.

Hard to know what happened in this one. Some say he only had a couple, it could have been a medical episode (not related to alcohol), or maybe he just got tanked.

For all we know he could be an undiagnosed epileptic. Stranger things have happened.

Think they are now saying he had been out playing golf in all the heat and may have got sun stroke, then went had a couple of froffies which had an affect

Yep, heard that one.

New nickname is Cadburys

[dedja]

Best to go back to the days when everything was covered up and some bullshit excuse was rolled out when someone didn’t play.

Hard to know what happened in this one. Some say he only had a couple, it could have been a medical episode (not related to alcohol), or maybe he just got tanked.

For all we know he could be an undiagnosed epileptic. Stranger things have happened.

Breaks his leg at a mates party whilst drunk
Falls out of a golf cart whilst having a few
Passes out at a gig after having a few.
A lot of “bad luck”

Can’t hold his piss? See the post above.

[wenchbarwer]

Best to go back to the days when everything was covered up and some bullshit excuse was rolled out when someone didn’t play.

Hard to know what happened in this one. Some say he only had a couple, it could have been a medical episode (not related to alcohol), or maybe he just got tanked.

For all we know he could be an undiagnosed epileptic. Stranger things have happened.

Breaks his leg at a mates party whilst drunk
Falls out of a golf cart whilst having a few
Passes out at a gig after having a few.
A lot of “bad luck”

"Bad luck" does run in threes

[dedja]

So probably hadn’t had a few when he blasted that 200 in the World Cup then? At least not that morning.

[The Dark Knight]

Brathwaite win the toss and WI will bat first.

[Jim05]

Won the toss and bowling first again