Cricket

[Baloo]

Just another PC Load of Wank killing my interest in Sport, along with the obviously contrived PC quota system of female commentators and pundits everywhere.

For the most part the females that get pulled into for commentating really know their *smile*. Daisy a great example. Much angst, tears and calls of tokenism but she's easily one of the better analysts of the game on TV.

In this case I reckon PC stands for Prehistoric Craig

 

[TrialByVideo]

Just wondering if anyone here knows much about Scott Boland. ..... worked with a bloke 30 years ago, he was a chippie and a bit of a hard bastard, first name Mick, lived in Parkdale, had a toddler son.
I believe Scott comes from that area too and keep thinking he could be that son.

Been able to answer my own question. ..... just saw him on the news and apart from the grey hair looks in good nick. Poor bloke apparently turned up late and missed the action.

Asked for someone to get him a beer. ....... from memory, it will have been the first of plenty.
Good fella and so happy for his family!

 

[bigwow]

Probably quite a few happy to get Covid so they don’t have to play the next test

Jos Buttler won't be able to catch it.

 

[bigwow]

Just another PC Load of Wank killing my interest in Sport, along with the obviously contrived PC quota system of female commentators and pundits everywhere.

I don't mind Lisa Sthalaker or Isa Guha, they at least played test cricket, and are knowledgable, same can't be said for Brayshaw or Jason Richardson whose roles seem to be who can scream the loudest.

 

[TigerForce]

Boland could've done a Dean Polo and it looks like he'll be dropped for next Test.

 

[23.21.159]

Yes I posted about how so many of the modern batsmen are not that good. Sure this was a greenish wicket that seamed more by the day and even increased in pace. However, I wonder if so much short-form cricket has led to poorer and poorer techniques so that they just can't handle challenging conditions far removed from virtually flat tracks. Few batters who can really tough it out these days. So many can't even defend their off-stump. Two bowled not playing a shot - Green in T1 and Leach T3.

I used to enjoy going to the BD test on the 3rd or 4th day, but wouldn't risk the $$ for pre-tickets these days.

It's an open secret inside English cricket administration that they were so desperate to win a World Cup that they prioritized white-ball cricket to the exclusion of all else. There was even talk of "phasing out the red-ball game altogether". I have a hard time believing that but it's a source I have in the old dart.
You reap what you sow.
While I prefer the red-ball game, I don't mind watching the white-ball stuff and think it has its place. But I still think it's an artificial commodity which, despite its financial independence, will never take hold in the public psyche the way the red-ball game has.

 

[CarnTheTiges]

I don't mind Lisa Sthalaker or Isa Guha, they at least played test cricket, and are knowledgable, same can't be said for Brayshaw or Jason Richardson whose roles seem to be who can scream the loudest.

Mel Jones is pretty good, too.

 

[23.21.159]

This is the time when we need LTRTR.

Has there ever been an innings victory before when you only scored 267 in your 1st innings?

How embarrassing.

There have been seven smaller totals that have been enough for an innings win.
The more interesting question might be how often has a total of 27 runs from numbers 3, 4 and 5 in the order been enough to secure an innings win? (Yes, I know Lyon was a nightwatchman).

 

[Sintiger]

PC shitt can GAGF, what was wrong with the terms Batsman and Batswoman.

I think batsman is incorrect use of a plural because there is only one bat

Should be Batman and Batwoman

 

[Tigers of Old]

The gap between these teams..absolutely embarrassing for England. Can't remember a worse touring team.

 

[TigerMasochist]

Call me a traditionalist but the term Batter now used in cricket reeaaalllly grinds my gears

It aint Baseball even though the modern Batting Technique looks more akin to an MLB Hitter standing at the plate.

PC shitt can GAGF, what was wrong with the terms Batsman and Batswoman.

Just another PC Load of Wank killing my interest in Sport, along with the obviously contrived PC quota system of female commentators and pundits everywhere.

I'm surprisingly o.k. with the term Batter.
We've never had bowlermen, it's always been bowlers. So why was there ever a need to call them batsmen? Batters n Bowlers, covers both the mainstream genders n the in betweeners as well.
Batsmen, Batswomen, Batsthingumybob????? Nah just Batters will do.

 

[UKTiger]

Anyone buying a ticket to watch any of the Ashes series matches for day four or five must be a supreme optimist!

 

[UKTiger]

The gap between these teams..absolutely embarrassing for England. Can't remember a worse touring team.

The England 'team' certainly are an embarrassment this year, I have seen more fight and commitment from my local village team

 

[Born_a_Tiger78]

I think batsman is incorrect use of a plural because there is only one bat

Should be Batman and Batwoman

I always thought it was ownership.

The Bat's Man, The Bat's Woman, The Bat's Men, The Bat's Women. Or, as in the case of yesterday & today, The Bo(w)land's Englishmen.

 

[tigerman]

Call me a traditionalist but the term Batter now used in cricket reeaaalllly grinds my gears

It aint Baseball even though the modern Batting Technique looks more akin to an MLB Hitter standing at the plate.

PC shitt can GAGF, what was wrong with the terms Batsman and Batswoman.

Just another PC Load of Wank killing my interest in Sport, along with the obviously contrived PC quota system of female commentators and pundits everywhere.

If one was to have ones cricket career again, one would like to be a specialist third person.

 

[Baloo]

If one was to have ones cricket career again, one would like to be a specialist third person.

Bring a unicycle and you can be a third wheel

 

[Streak]

Call me a traditionalist but the term Batter now used in cricket reeaaalllly grinds my gears

It aint Baseball even though the modern Batting Technique looks more akin to an MLB Hitter standing at the plate.

PC shitt can GAGF, what was wrong with the terms Batsman and Batswoman.

Just another PC Load of Wank killing my interest in Sport,

I'm with you on this Craig. The term batter should only be used to describe the coating on my Friday fish and chips.

I get that there is this group of people out there focussing on enforcing this non-sexist language in every facet of public life when I think there are quite frankly far bigger inequity issues based on gender that need to be addressed. But the term batter is just wrong.

The term Chairman came under the same spotlight for being sexist, implying leadership is a strictly male domain. I have had heard the term Chairwoman used which is quite frankly condescending and pathetic. Thankfully, commonsense prevailed and the term Chairman is often shortened to Chair, although there are plenty of women out there who still prefer the title and maintain Chairman is the appropriate term.

The interesting thing is though that the term Chair does serve an actual purpose because most Chair positions can be held by either males and females, so the non-gender definition in the term is appropriate in my opinion.

But the last time I checked in cricket, male and female forms of the game, at least at state and national levels, are gender exclusive. So I don't see a problem with calling a batsman if the person is male, or a batswoman if they are female.

But to appease everyone, which means no one will be happy, lets just call the person batting a Bat. That is non-gender specific and works in well with the cricketing vernacular. For example

"The bowler needs to pitch it up to get the Bat playing at the ball".

"The English Bats are woefully out of form".

though not to be confused with "The Umpire is as a blind as a bat", as a number of bespectacled English players might get upset at that. The phrase should probably be said as "The Bat is as blind as an umpire" although it does lack conviction.

Realistically, the only thing that comes in to play with the term Bat is the sensitivity to coronavirus origins in a post-covid world.

So I vote that the term batsman is replaced with Bat, and we *smile* off the term batter.

And let's not start on the term manhole..........

 

[Baloo]

So I vote that the term batsman is replaced with Bat, and we *smile* off the term batter.

So we then have the Bowl, the player with the ball?

 

[royce67]

I don't mind Lisa Sthalaker or Isa Guha, they at least played test cricket, and are knowledgable, same can't be said for Brayshaw or Jason Richardson whose roles seem to be who can scream the loudest.

You have got to be kidding me. Brayshaw played first class cricket for 10 years averaging over 40 and comes from WA cricket royalty. If you don't think he has some insight into top level cricket you are fooling yourself. As for his on air personality that is a different question...

 

[Streak]

So we then have the Bowl, the player with the ball?

Not sure how you would draw that conclusion.

The term bowler does not as far as I can tell evoke any gender specific differentiation.