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Cricket 2024-25 Thread
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He recently turned 40
India will struggle to get to 200, imo. We should be fine. If we can get to 400, game over.
People are being pretty harsh on Kohli. Yes, he crossed the line and should have probably dipped a suspension for it, but Ponting did worse shit during his career.
Kohli is by all accounts a great bloke off the field. Did wonders for that Indian team when he was captain, including doing a lot to improve the standing of Muslim players in the Indian set up. ABD, Smith, Maxwell… most opposition players seem to really like the guy off the field, tbh.
Kohli is one of those guys who gets white line fever and can go a bit over the top on occasions… although most of the time he pushes the envelope without crossing the line.
He was dead set in the wrong today, but he didn’t shoot Konstas… and while he probably should have copped a one test ban, I’m not overly disappointed if he escapes it and gets a farewell Australian test in Sydney. As I said in another post, I think the days of players being suspended for shoulder contact are in the past thanks to the Rabada incident half a dozen years ago.
Kohli is by all accounts a great bloke off the field. Did wonders for that Indian team when he was captain, including doing a lot to improve the standing of Muslim players in the Indian set up. ABD, Smith, Maxwell… most opposition players seem to really like the guy off the field, tbh.
Kohli is one of those guys who gets white line fever and can go a bit over the top on occasions… although most of the time he pushes the envelope without crossing the line.
He was dead set in the wrong today, but he didn’t shoot Konstas… and while he probably should have copped a one test ban, I’m not overly disappointed if he escapes it and gets a farewell Australian test in Sydney. As I said in another post, I think the days of players being suspended for shoulder contact are in the past thanks to the Rabada incident half a dozen years ago.
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VheRAT has a very punchable face imo.
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Who's the senior player? One of the jobs of senior players is to protect the young fellas from themselves. It's called leadership. A problem is that Khawaja is so willing to give up the facing of the first ball. That tells me a lot about him.
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ICC saw how the NRL pitifully handled the Ezra Mam suspension & said hold me beer.
How corrupt are sporting organisations these days?
So what happens if this sort of crap starts up in junior cricket when they get back from break? Are they going to fine them too?
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Can you please tell me what you are taking? It must be great stuff?
This wanker keeps doing crap over & over again & keeps getting away with it. Twice he has tampered with the ball & twice he has shouldered players. The f@#$%ing ICC keep protecting him. There are several other incidents as well.
This is the India protection scheme.
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People are being pretty harsh on Kohli. Yes, he crossed the line and should have probably dipped a suspension for it, but Ponting did worse shit during his career.
What did Ponting do on field that was worse than shouldering people (twice) & fiddling with the ball (twice) like Kohli has?
Ok, I’m guessing one of the alleged ball tampering instances refers to the time he was seen putting his finger into his mouth and shining the ball…. No conclusive evidence he had any sort of sweet or illegal substance in there, and the visiting team didn’t file a complaint, so I’m not sure why you think the India protection scheme got him off. For ball tampering charges to be levelled, a report by match officials or complaint needs to be lodged within five days. It’s all there in the laws of the game. Not sure what the other incident you’re referring to might be.
Even if he did it, does that really make him unique. Every team tampers with the ball, or has done so at some point, and most of them get away with it. It will keep happening unless the ICC decides to finally get tough on it. But to this day there is no clear evidence that Kohli ever tampered with a cricket ball.
Ponting waved bats threateningly in the direction of opponents, argued with and aggressively remonstrated with umpires on multiple occasions, tried to tell umpires how to do their jobs on multiple occasions.
it’s amazing how whether a cricketer is perceived as a national hero or Jeffrey Dahmer can hinge on the national emblem he is wearing.
as for the shoulder contact, never said he didn’t cross the line at times, but he has been playing the game at international level for close to 15 years, so I think my summation that those instances were the exception and not the rule is accurate.
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Incredible effort to keep pushing body at that age.
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So any of the Aussie players happy enough to lose 20% of their match fee can shoulder Kohli during his innings?
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Not just India Chisdog, the other 3 sub continental nations as well.
Murali was protected from the moment the ICC changed the arm flex to 14 degrees.
Inzamam refused to bring his team back into the field after a Tea adjournment at the Oval. Darrel Hair gave them the opportunity to come back onto the field and when they didn’t, he called the game off.
That incident was the beginning of the end for Hair, with Sri Lanka already on his case for calling Murali at the MCG.
At the same ICC meeting that the West Indies were awarded fhe 2007 World Cup, Hair was removed from the International Panel. It’s obvious what happened, WI vote was canvassed by the 4 sub continental nations to give a 5 to 4 majority and the World Cup was their icing in the cake.
Since then I’ve never trusted the ICC and their match referees to make the right decision against those nations.
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Well, the batting is already looking easy. Reckon we need to bat out at least the first session, look to add 80 or so runs. The real test will be when Bumrah comes back on.
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I should say I’m not a big fan of Kohli. However, I have been warming to him, and I was really happy for him that he scored his 100, after a long drought, against the Aussies in the second Test. Therefore, you should preface your comment by saying Kohli is, outside Aussie players, your favourite player. The bias is really apparent my man. IMHO it doesn’t matter what he is like off the field. The fact he has been around the game for a long time, the fact he is so highly regarded in India, and the fact his accomplishments are second to none, makes his actions the worse. He is a statesman of the game and physically bullied a 19 year old on his Test debut. Just woeful. He deserves to be suspended, which you, to your credit agreed with, but the outrage is definitely warranted.
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Yup, don't have to hate the man to disapprove of the behaviour, and have an expectation of reasonable accountability. Bullying behaviour is not on.
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Well done smith, another 100