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Armchair expert wrote:Spirit of cricket died tonight

Cry me a river.. probably the best use of the rules I’ve seen in the BBL ever - why they don’t retire players more is beyond me.

Strikers choked.. bowled poor, fielded worse.

Not that it matters to anyone on this forum, coz you **** were all off the wagon in Nov.

So you would be happy if a bowler faked a injury mid over if they were getting carted all over the park?

locky801 wrote:Head 3, 3, 3

I’ve said for as long as I can remember, if Head doesn’t open in T20 cricket, he shouldn’t be in the side. At any level.

The Bedge wrote:

Armchair expert wrote:Spirit of cricket died tonight

Cry me a river.. probably the best use of the rules I’ve seen in the BBL ever - why they don’t retire players more is beyond me.

Strikers choked.. bowled poor, fielded worse.

Not that it matters to anyone on this forum, coz you **** were all off the wagon in Nov.

Good thing about trains is they always come back past where you jumped off

Armchair expert wrote:Spirit of cricket died tonight

Always intrigued by the "spirit of cricket". If it's within the Laws of cricket, how can it be against the spirit of the game? What's worse from a spirit of cricket perspective ....
1. Silk retiring hurt
2. Ponting taking off his pads for the last ball, when he was at the non strikers end
3. A bowler mankading a batsman
All are within the Laws

Oh boy just saw the Carey first ball missed stumping

Soon enough retiring batsmen will be the norm.

10 off 15? Take a seat

I’m a little bit with Bedgy on this one, Yes my gut feel says ‘It’s not the right thing to do’ but ultimately it’s within the rules, the same set of rules that denied Smith playing, the Sixers are severely undermanned so they probably thought they needed something to go their way.

Unfortunately tonight, the strikers were terrible on my 2 pet hates in T20 cricket, the first is the perception that every ball has to go to the rope, No, No it doesn’t we have far to many dot balls. 17th over for example we got 10 off the over, but with 4 dot balls, far to many. You need to constantly rotate the strike that messes with players plans, changes in the field etc etc. and the second giving up 2’s, we’re terrible at it, we never have a mid wicket when it’s tight they roll it to mid wicket for an easy 2 every time releases the pressure you’ve built up.

Any way it’s footy season, go the Power!

The Bedge wrote:Soon enough retiring batsmen will be the norm.

10 off 15? Take a seat

Simmons in the T20 World Cup
Neilson a few games back
Fenwick in a SAMCA T20 final at Adelaide Oval

All come to mind.

Senor Moto Gadili wrote:

Armchair expert wrote:Spirit of cricket died tonight

Always intrigued by the "spirit of cricket". If it's within the Laws of cricket, how can it be against the spirit of the game? What's worse from a spirit of cricket perspective ....
1. Silk retiring hurt
2. Ponting taking off his pads for the last ball, when he was at the non strikers end
3. A bowler mankading a batsman
All are within the Laws

They played a player who had an injury going into the game, did not field for a large period of the game (should be denied a sub fielder imo), they went out to bat, to score runs, they "retired hurt" when it was his time to do something. If he was that "injured" we would not have gone out to bat to begin with.

It happened in the very first test match England v Australia in 1877
Charles Bannerman on 165 retired hurt with the score at 7/240

So the retired hurt rule has been happening for 3 centuries now

So what happened tonight with Silk is a legitimate law of cricket , you can retire hurt with an injury as Silk had
That the SS coach made him retire hurt ends up being a brilliant tactic, within the laws of cricket

The Bedge wrote:Soon enough retiring batsmen will be the norm.

10 off 15? Take a seat

I like the strategy behind it haha

Would you make them take a seat or go well they should have their eye in now so we won’t bring in a fresh batsmen that may take another 5 balls as well.

Would imagine you would have a designated batter aka baseball style that you would throw in at any point whose good to go big from ball 1.

whufc wrote:

The Bedge wrote:Soon enough retiring batsmen will be the norm.

10 off 15? Take a seat

I like the strategy behind it haha

Would you make them take a seat or go well they should have their eye in now so we won’t bring in a fresh batsmen that may take another 5 balls as well.

Would imagine you would have a designated batter aka baseball style that you would throw in at any point whose good to go big from ball 1.

Or a keeper who can affect a stumping from ball 1.

mal wrote:It happened in the very first test match England v Australia in 1877
Charles Bannerman on 165 retired hurt with the score at 7/240

So the retired hurt rule has been happening for 3 centuries now

So what happened tonight with Silk is a legitimate law of cricket , you can retire hurt with an injury as Silk had
That the SS coach made him retire hurt ends up being a brilliant tactic, within the laws of cricket

Class excursion mate?

The Bedge wrote:Soon enough retiring batsmen will be the norm.

10 off 15? Take a seat

Absolutely agree, so many examples of some batters having a bad night but not bad enough to get out so they just eat up dot balls which hurts the team big time, smart coaches will start doing this more IMO, last night it was very smart cricket.

George Garton continuing his form with the ball from playing for the Strikers to currently playing for England being their most expensive bowler with his 4 overs going for 57 in the T20 against the West Indies on at the moment.

Dutchy wrote:

The Bedge wrote:Soon enough retiring batsmen will be the norm.

10 off 15? Take a seat

Absolutely agree, so many examples of some batters having a bad night but not bad enough to get out so they just eat up dot balls which hurts the team big time, smart coaches will start doing this more IMO, last night it was very smart cricket.

I think we will see the 100 comp in England be the first to trial some form of retirement style rule.

They seem to be trying to create an extremely fluid version of the game where the game deals in balls and 'overs' are non existent. They already are doing this with bowlers so only a matter of time until they letter batters change depending on the situation, match up etc.

Smart bowling for T Chappell

mal wrote:It happened in the very first test match England v Australia in 1877
Charles Bannerman on 165 retired hurt with the score at 7/240

So the retired hurt rule has been happening for 3 centuries now

So what happened tonight with Silk is a legitimate law of cricket , you can retire hurt with an injury as Silk had
That the SS coach made him retire hurt ends up being a brilliant tactic, within the laws of cricket

Bannerman didn't walk out there injured, therein lies the difference. The Sixers took the piss and watch them piss and moan to get Smudge into their side for the finals. **** teeball.

regards,

REB

Armchair expert wrote:Spirit of cricket died tonight

In the BBL? Don't think so.