God help me - the Test Cricket thread

[Professer E]

Tired of excuses for Starc....if you can't bowl at a test standard consistently, then time to try somebody else.

[ElwoodBlues1]

Tired of excuses for Starc....if you can't bowl at a test standard consistently, then time to try somebody else.

He plays for the right State, the players now have the easy push over coaching staff they wanted and all his mates are in the same team.Its a closed shop, no outsiders allowed in, you can make a squillion runs in shield cricket or take wickets every game but it doesnt matter...see Neser, see Bancroft . You would have thought this was the test to play the hometown kid Morris on the track he knows and in front of his family and fans vs average opposition who would have been hating facing 150km deliveries with the bounce and lift in that track.
Khawaja can disappear too if he wants to bring politics into cricket, its not a podium for his political views, its a place you go to enjoy a game of cricket away from all that stuff and where everyone gets along and is there for the same reason and thats to enjoy the game.

[Professer E]

Typical Warner. Hundred or bust.  How you going to talk out of this one Candice?

[Gointocarlton]

Khawaja can disappear too if he wants to bring politics into cricket, its not a podium for his political views, its a place you go to enjoy a game of cricket away from all that stuff and where everyone gets along and is there for the same reason and thats to enjoy the game.

Whilst I agree, I have to ask why they allowed the players to take a knee in support of Black Lives Matter, it seems inconsistent to me.

[ElwoodBlues1]

Whilst I agree, I have to ask why they allowed the players to take a knee in support of Black Lives Matter, it seems inconsistent to me.

Fair point , I don't want any political messages, banners, speeches, knees etc at cricket games and I don't want that stuff in my country outside Parliament house or clogging my main streets or have to read or see it on players boots, bats, hats whatever.
Cricket has always transcended politics, skin colour, religious differences etc and that's how it needs to remain.

[kruddler]

Fair point , I don't want any political messages, banners, speeches, knees etc at cricket games and I don't want that stuff in my country outside Parliament house or clogging my main streets or have to read or see it on players boots, bats, hats whatever.
Cricket has always transcended politics, skin colour, religious differences etc and that's how it needs to remain.

Remind me why south africa was banned for so long?

[ElwoodBlues1]

Remind me why south africa was banned for so long?

How did that workout how's South African cricket going? It's new sponsors/owners are the same who own the IPL...politics destroyed the game over there. The local  white business owners won't invest in the game ....see Graeme Smiths views on the game.

[DJC]

Remind me why south africa was banned for so long?

"Cricket diplomacy" is the use of cricket to strengthen or weaken the relationships between cricket playing nations and has been used constantly since international cricket matches began.

There are myriad examples apart from South Africa's apartheid ban; the omission of Basil D’Oliveira from a South African tour after the SA PM threatened to ban the England team, the inclusion of Afghanistan, the boycott of Afghanistan by Australian cricketers earlier this year, the cancellation of Zimbabwe's 2009 tour of England, India-Pakistan matches, Narendra Modi hosting Albo at the former's stadium, the Indian team wearing army caps, "taking the knee", Moeen Ali wearing a "save Gaza" wristband in 2014, Henry Olonga and Andy Flower's protest against Mugabe, South African players walking off in protest against apartheid, Pat Cummins calling for UN aid for Sri Lanka, and many more ...

[kruddler]

How did that workout how's South African cricket going? It's new sponsors/owners are the same who own the IPL...politics destroyed the game over there. The local  white business owners won't invest in the game ....see Graeme Smiths views on the game.

Cricket has always transcended politics, skin colour, religious differences etc and that's how it needs to remain.

Simply, bollocks.

Don't care about the latest stuff that kicked off this discussion. But your statement is flat out wrong.
DJC providing some other examples, but i think the South African ban is about as obvious an exception in the history of world sports.

[Professer E]

Hey Candice, he can't even slog .... shush!