Can you really believe how long it took Australia to bowl 2 balls?
I understand South Africa only needed 8 off 2 and Albie the destroyer was at the crease, but was a 3 minute chat really required.
Hilfy and Ponting should have decided the ball in 8 seconds, taken 15 seconds to set the field, and then got on with it.
It didn’t need Algonquin round table with Bracken and White there.
Surely the plans for Albie were in place before they hit the field, all the needed to do was agree to which plan and then set the field accordingly.
Instead it seemed to be a discussion topic, i was half expecting King Probot to come over with a clip board and start taking notes.
And then, after that one ball, which Albie slapped for a single, and South Africa could not win, there was another long delay.
Why?
Surely the message was as simple as this, don’t bowl a noball or a wide.
Yet Hilfy and Ponting still had a chat, before White ran over to tell Ponting that he looks good in green.
Teams bowling second in white ball games seem to be able to make the innings take as long as they deem necessary.
South Africa in the first 2020 game were appalling.
While Johan Botha looked lost, every second South African was moving the field, and the innings seemed to go for a month.
I am sure the ICC are right on this though, and any day now they will come up with runs penalties, or something similar for sides who can’t fit their overs into the alotted times.
After all we know how good they are at fixing the problems of world cricket.
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Maybe they were talking about how incredibly shithouse our middle order batting performance was. That could have gone on for hours.
They were clueless until Bracken came over and told them what to do. Then they got on with it.Bracken’s the man!Except he looks like a girl with that hair thing. Jeez mate get a fkn haircut.
They were clueless until Bracken came over and told them what to do. Then they got on with it.Bracken’s the man!Except he looks like a girl with that hair thing. Jeez mate get a fkn haircut.
Yeah, but he looks like a dog ugly girl who’s too lazy to get a proper hair cut and does it herself in the kitchen now and then and only washes it once a month if she’s lucky and even then only with some shit she bought from the two dollar shop.And then he wonders why he can’t get a spot in the test team. Idjit.
In exactly the same circs (7 needed from one ball) Greg Chappel took a tenth of this time to decide what to do. Of course he decided to tell his little bro to bowl it underarm, so maybe he should have had a conference, but still.And Bracken wears the Alice Band beacuse his WAG (is the singular WOG?) is a hair stylist or something and she makes him do it. With the number of times he has nabbed Tubby or Slats on the boundary for an interview I’m wondering if she hasn’t also been in his ear about getting his head on the box more often.
In exactly the same circs (7 needed from one ball) Greg Chappel took a tenth of this time to decide what to do. Of course he decided to tell his little bro to bowl it underarm, so maybe he should have had a conference, but still.And Bracken wears the Alice Band beacuse his WAG (is the singular WOG?) is a hair stylist or something and she makes him do it. With the number of times he has nabbed Tubby or Slats on the boundary for an interview I’m wondering if she hasn’t also been in his ear about getting his head on the box more often.
Ned Kelly.Not quite right. The conference before the underarm ball lasted for a long time too.Especially when Marsh butted in to tell them they were being fucking idiots.
small mercies: no telecast after boucher’s 6.