Was out yesterday afternoon so missed the drama - day one of learning how to play cricket youre taught not to ground the ball like that when you’ve taken a catch. Sheer idiocy from starc. No sympathy, would be furious with our own player if they did that.
This is what I said. I was always taught (the very low level I have played) to turn your hand over when taking a tumbling catch. Use the back of your hand and wrist/forearm to steady yourself. Its still second nature now.
Starc only has himself to blame. I think they should drop him for the mistake!
I was in the ground listening to tms and it was mentioned, so not just pieterson who mentioned the fact that ‘if’ he got hit, he could say he has concussion, get a sub and field a full strength side.
It’s clearly been misconstrued along the line but I thought it was more about the Aussies doing ‘anything in their power to win’ including cheating / bending rules to suit them.
I don’t think anyone thought or suggested he would put his head in the way to get hit on purpose.
I was in the ground listening to tms and it was mentioned, so not just pieterson who mentioned the fact that ‘if’ he got hit, he could say he has concussion, get a sub and field a full strength side.
It’s clearly been misconstrued along the line but I thought it was more about the Aussies doing ‘anything in their power to win’ including cheating / bending rules to suit them.
I don’t think anyone thought or suggested he would put his head in the way to get hit on purpose.
By Glenn McGrath - I note the Aussies didn't mention that!
I was in ground listening to tms and it was mentioned, so not just pieterson who mentioned the fact that ‘if’ he got hit, he could say he has concussion, get a sub and field a full strength side.
It’s clearly been misconstrued along the line but I thought it was more about the Aussies doing ‘anything in their power to win’ including cheating / bending rules to suit them.
I don’t think anyone thought or suggested he would put his head in the way to get hit on purpose.
By Glenn McGrath - I note the Aussies didn't mention that!
I then repeated it here after reading his comment!
I was in ground listening to tms and it was mentioned, so not just pieterson who mentioned the fact that ‘if’ he got hit, he could say he has concussion, get a sub and field a full strength side.
It’s clearly been misconstrued along the line but I thought it was more about the Aussies doing ‘anything in their power to win’ including cheating / bending rules to suit them.
I don’t think anyone thought or suggested he would put his head in the way to get hit on purpose.
But the assumption is that, because it's the cheating Aussies, should he have been hit on the head then they would straightaway shout "concussion". Why, if the England players believed that would happen, was every ball to Lyon, short and targetted at the body? Why give the Aussies that excuse when they had as much chance getting him out pitching the ball up given his lack of mobility? If English commentators are throwing that out there as such a positive by product of that happening, why didn't the players act accordingly? It must have entered their heads surely and potentially cost them far more than an extra few runs?
I see they got Maxwell in early on TMS, desperate to bring a wicket obviously. Nearly worked, second ball. Plenty happening now he's on. Stokes won't survive 15 minutes of Maxwell.
Can anyone explain why Hawkeye (or whatever the brand name is nowadays) can't be used as an aid to umpires when judging the height of short-pitched "wides"?
If the technology can pinpoint the precise location of a delivery at any point in its trajectory, it can't be difficult for the technology to determine whether the ball was higher than the top of a batsman's head as it reaches the batting crease.
It's very difficult for a square leg umpire properly to be able to determine the height, amongst flailing bats, helmets, gloves and so forth. But perfectly simple for ball-tracking technology.
Stokes is the key IMO - if only because of what he did to the Australians in Leeds four years ago. The longer he’s out there, the more it will annoy them.
Even still, Bairstow needs to get at least a half century himself.
And neither he nor Stokes is trying to pull and hook virtually every ball that is at their head and above. Unlike us on Friday.
Thoughts on the Aussies inability to play the short ball yesterday?
There is a difference between an inability to play a very good targetted short ball and taking on any short ball, regardless. As I said on Friday, if it was right to do that as we did and our best ever batsman got sucked into doing so too, even after he had a let off, why did Stokes then refuse to do so? He hasn't done it in this innings either.
Lose either of these two and it could be over a bit quickly.
In reality both of these have to get the majority of the runs. Can any of the England tail "do a Leach" against the likes of Starc (who didn't play in Headingley 2019 incidentally)?
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Starc only has himself to blame. I think they should drop him for the mistake!
If the technology can pinpoint the precise location of a delivery at any point in its trajectory, it can't be difficult for the technology to determine whether the ball was higher than the top of a batsman's head as it reaches the batting crease.
It's very difficult for a square leg umpire properly to be able to determine the height, amongst flailing bats, helmets, gloves and so forth. But perfectly simple for ball-tracking technology.
And neither he nor Stokes is trying to pull and hook virtually every ball that is at their head and above. Unlike us on Friday.
Lose either of these two and it could be over a bit quickly.
At least ground your bat.
Not cheating but poor sportsmanship, withdraw your appeal.