Paid Members Cod Eye Posted August 18, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted August 18, 2017 Sorry for the post while the game is going, but has anyone noticed that some of the West Indies Batsmen have small cannabis leaves on their pads? I know it's very much a part of their culture, but surprised they allowed them on their international kit, especially with how in the public eye drugs in sport is at the minute. Saying that, the way the bowlers have bowled this past few days, it looks like they have been hammering the weed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted August 20, 2017 Moderators Share Posted August 20, 2017 (edited) Donald vs Athers As much as I love Allan Donald he was a prick here. Bowling short express around the wicket to a right hander. Out of order. Edited August 20, 2017 by PowerButchi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted August 20, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted August 20, 2017 Atherton trumped him though Butch by giving him the gloves he wore during that innings and signing them just by the big red mark where he had gloved it, at Donald's benefit dinner a few years later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted August 22, 2017 Author Paid Members Share Posted August 22, 2017 Don't think we're going to be getting Sir GLY anytime soon. http://www.espncricinfo.com/england-v-west-indies-2017/content/story/1117472.html?CMP=chrome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fog Dude Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 Boycott was either feigning ignorance about the honours system to make a lame joke or being genuinely ignorant about it, but not in a malicious way. He made the comments at a Q&A so the person asking the question was probably under the false impression that Sobers, Richards, Ambrose etc. had all been given British knighthoods. The people piling on to take professional offence probably know even less about how gongs are awarded. He didn't exactly put it in a very sensitive way but we've come to expect that from him, haven't we? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted August 22, 2017 Author Paid Members Share Posted August 22, 2017 I think the honours system interpretation is probably of less importance than the blackface comment though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fog Dude Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 (edited) Yeah, to be fair he came out straight away and said that was unacceptable. We don't know whether someone asked him a question on that subject to get him to say something untoward (like with the prank on TMS a few weeks ago) and he just didn't mince as words as much off air, or if they were looking to have their own baseless prejudices confirmed and Boycott merely obliged. Neither motive is especially palatable, mind. ETA: Specifically and so it doesn't look like I'm defending him, it bothers me that the outrage about the blackface suggestion has obscured the issue by allowing the myth of disproportionately ennobled* Caribbean cricket players to go relatively unchallenged. The Minstrels – although horrendously insensitive – were actually a thing, whereas knighthoods being handed out to black cricketers like confetti were not... and I prefer it when public opprobrium is based on facts. *not a euphemism, BTW Edited August 22, 2017 by Fog Dude neurotic hole-digging Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted August 23, 2017 Author Paid Members Share Posted August 23, 2017 I don't think any of those cricketers are undeserving though. Which England cricketers during their lifetime do you think should have been given knighthoods? I can't really think of many off the top of my head that might be deserving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Gus Mears Posted August 23, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted August 23, 2017 (edited) Outside of the fucking stupid 'blackface' comment, my two pennies worth is that if you're that obsessed with getting a knighthood that you, and your surrogates, whine on about it for seemingly decades, you're probably a bit of a twat. I find Boycott very entertaining and spent £60 for tickets for me and Dad to see part of his 100th hundred tour, but he's also got a rich history of being a bit of a tosser. Boycott saying stupid things when he perceives he has been hard done by is hardly new. On missing out on the England captaincy "even the Yorkshire Ripper got a fair trial in the dock but I've not been given a single chance". On the knighthood aspect, I don't think the WI players have been disproportionately rewarded really. A couple of the more questionable choices in terms of playing career did some good things in administration. The last English player knighted was Ian bloody Botham. Boycott's achievements are immense, but if you're only going to give one out per generation as it seems, Beefy should be first. Captured the imagination of a nation more than Boycott ever did and removed of relative playing merits (you can make a case for both), has done considerably more for charity since he retired. EDIT: According the ever reliable Wikipedia, Botham was knighted specifically for his charity work. Edited August 23, 2017 by Gus Mears Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted August 23, 2017 Author Paid Members Share Posted August 23, 2017 I reckon Alistair Cook will probably get one but who else really deserves one for us? inb4 Butch stakes a case for Sir Graeme Hick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted August 23, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted August 23, 2017 If Jimmy gets past Glenda McGrath in test wickets then I reckon he's a shout. He'd be the leading test wicket taking fast bowler. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Gus Mears Posted August 25, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted August 25, 2017 England win the toss and bat in the second test. Root better be saving up some of these calls for the Ashes, don't think I can face another 5 tests where we get batted into oblivion. Can't see anything other than a repeat of the first result. Windies were so out of their depth and must be short on confidence in addition to their poor skill levels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted August 31, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted August 31, 2017 OK, so someone has fired an arrow into the Oval this afternoon and it landed on the strip next to where they were playing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 Maybe Thibaut Courtois has given up penalty taking and taken up archery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted August 31, 2017 Moderators Share Posted August 31, 2017 Seeing where it landed, on the square but off the wicket, it was probably Steve Harmison. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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