Comments on: Strauss’ catch http://cricketwithballs.com/2009/07/19/strauss-catch/ just another bullshit cricket blog Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:29:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Sunny http://cricketwithballs.com/2009/07/19/strauss-catch/comment-page-1/#comment-16586 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:59:00 +0000 http://www.cricketwithballs.com/?p=6247#comment-16586 @robert – oh yeah…punter has never claimed a bumped catch?!

]]> By: Jonathan http://cricketwithballs.com/2009/07/19/strauss-catch/comment-page-1/#comment-16585 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:32:46 +0000 http://www.cricketwithballs.com/?p=6247#comment-16585 Homer, it’s fair enough to compare this umpiring with the KP incident (or Hauritz, or a million others…), but isn’t Moses’ point that you somehow left the KP incident out of the other half of your comment? What is the difference in the fielder’s actions?

]]> By: The Village Cricketer http://cricketwithballs.com/2009/07/19/strauss-catch/comment-page-1/#comment-16584 Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:56:19 +0000 http://www.cricketwithballs.com/?p=6247#comment-16584 Sorry if my spelling upset you Steve, I’m happy to admit that a true whinger would know best how to spell ‘WHINGEING’. I can spell ‘WE WON’ though.

]]> By: Eddie http://cricketwithballs.com/2009/07/19/strauss-catch/comment-page-1/#comment-16583 Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:26:59 +0000 http://www.cricketwithballs.com/?p=6247#comment-16583 I can’t believe no one has spotted the elaborate plan. Strauss (born in South Africa) has teamed up with Koertzen (another South African) to screw over Australia and Billy Doctrove went along with it as he is still pissed that Australia replaced the West Indies as the world’s leading cricketing power house. It’s quite simple if you think about it really.

]]> By: Alan http://cricketwithballs.com/2009/07/19/strauss-catch/comment-page-1/#comment-16582 Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:54:18 +0000 http://www.cricketwithballs.com/?p=6247#comment-16582 I hope Strauss never comes to Australia. We don’t want his kind here. I compare him with Jardine

]]> By: Apples http://cricketwithballs.com/2009/07/19/strauss-catch/comment-page-1/#comment-16581 Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:30:23 +0000 http://www.cricketwithballs.com/?p=6247#comment-16581 Steve, I don’t think spelling has ever been an issue for this site. And I reckon they would ‘ave been picking grass outa the seem after the Strauss “catch”. It was great listening to the Teev commentators trying to convince themselves it was up.

]]> By: Steve http://cricketwithballs.com/2009/07/19/strauss-catch/comment-page-1/#comment-16580 Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:36:56 +0000 http://www.cricketwithballs.com/?p=6247#comment-16580 Village idiot.

Can’t spell, either, can you? It’s “whingeing”.

Typical illiterate pom.

]]> By: The Village Cricketer http://cricketwithballs.com/2009/07/19/strauss-catch/comment-page-1/#comment-16579 Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:11:13 +0000 http://www.cricketwithballs.com/?p=6247#comment-16579 Whinging Aussies! Strauss isn’t a cheat, he claimed what he thought was a fair catch, and the umpire gave the guy out. If Doctrove had any doubt he’d have consulted the video umpire. Any of you remember the Waugh ‘catch’ to remove Lara,? Yes the one that bounced three times and Waugh picked it up off the turf… obviously not.

]]> By: Chris Weston http://cricketwithballs.com/2009/07/19/strauss-catch/comment-page-1/#comment-16578 Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:03:57 +0000 http://www.cricketwithballs.com/?p=6247#comment-16578 I don’t think it’s possible to discern whether it was grassed or not from the video. I think the third ump would not have given it, though. The ball didn’t appear to rise into the hands as it did with Hauritz yesterday, but it’s possible that it rested on a few blades of grass as Strauss grabbed it…

]]> By: Lou http://cricketwithballs.com/2009/07/19/strauss-catch/comment-page-1/#comment-16577 Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:30:17 +0000 http://www.cricketwithballs.com/?p=6247#comment-16577 But surely it is the umpire’s fault, rather than Strauss, though I must admit he is showing a proper ‘win at all costs’ mentality that I never expected from him, but don’t blame him for. He isn’t a orphan.

How can Doctrove who is so very keen on not-outing people decide emphatically that this one was out after the Hauritz episode? It is so easy for the umpires to be consistent in these particular cases and they have not been at all. The Hussey one was a completely honest mistake if completely wrong and when things aren’t going right….

It makes me laugh to see Swann getting more dodgy decisions in his favour, after the Windies tour, I thought he had used up his quota for the year.

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