Proper Mannies Cricket

[irnbru1903]

Nothing better than celebrating a dodgy victory and passing it off as a great one. Insufferable.

[Jupiter]

And how was that throw that deflected off the batsman for 4 allowed to count?

England really are jammy f@cking b@stards.

[Mason89]

[InversneckieDob]

And how was that throw that deflected off the batsman for 4 allowed to count?

England really are jammy f@cking b@stards.

That's what gets me.
That 4 overthrows got the Wendys back in the game.
It's within the rules but the rules are wrong.
That simple.

[LED]

That's what gets me.
That 4 overthrows got the Wendys back in the game.
It's within the rules but the rules are wrong.
That simple.

Not that I support England, but that overthrow are OK. Given the state of play, I don't understand why the kiwi fielder there to the stumps.

Would have never happened in Aberdeen grades cricket.

[57vintage]

That's what gets me.
That 4 overthrows got the Wendys back in the game.
It's within the rules but the rules are wrong.
That simple.

Poor fielding. Stokes was so wide of the crease when he dived home that there’s every chance the return would have gone for overthrows. Poor fielding too when the boy forgot to check his position and trod on the boundary rope when trying to catch Stokes’s skied effort. These are basic fielding errors caused, probably, by the adrenalin and nervous energy these guys were running on. That straightforward dropped c&b too was NZ’s own doing.

The rules are clear, and are accepted by all teams who enter the tournament, which despite my preference for the Proper Mannies’ athletic chess of a five-dayer, provided the most outrageously-exciting hour of cricket since that Sunday morning at Edgbaston in 2005.

I felt sorry for New Zealand. I thought their fielding, especially the placement of boundary-denying men inside the inner boundary, really pinned England’s shot-makers down, and I saw it going the same way as the Headingley test v Sri Lanka, which was a brilliant day out.

It’s been a terrific tournament, and now the Ashes to follow. Yas.

[StandfreeFM]

.... and now the Ashes to follow. Yas.

Proper. Mannies. Cricket.

[Donanddusted]

That's what gets me.
That 4 overthrows got the Wendys back in the game.
It's within the rules but the rules are wrong.
That simple.

https://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket...e04cff9b7cb105

Cricket World Cup 2019 final: Simon Taufel claims ‘clear mistake’ made awarding England six runs

They should be made to hand the trophy over to NZ.

[StandfreeFM]

https://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket...e04cff9b7cb105

Cricket World Cup 2019 final: Simon Taufel claims ‘clear mistake’ made awarding England six runs

They should be made to hand the trophy over to NZ.

Interesting. I did think this at the time. If they had completed another run while the ball was heading to the boundary, would this have been 7 runs? Kane should have questioned it

[57vintage]

https://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket...e04cff9b7cb105

Cricket World Cup 2019 final: Simon Taufel claims ‘clear mistake’ made awarding England six runs

They should be made to hand the trophy over to NZ.

Old news min. This was debated hours after the finish.

I want the 1979 League Cup then, since Ian Foot swicked us oot of it, and the victims will want the 1990 Scottish Cup as we had an extra player in the box when Dobbin scored the winner.

[Donanddusted]

Deal.

[Devanha Red]

"Bobby Moore, Bobby Moore running from the Den,
Bobby Moore, Bobby Moore he had *** with men,
Queer as they come,
He took it up the bum,
Bobby moore, Bobby Moore is no more".

Horrid little ditty sung by some Millwall homophobes to the tune of 'Robin Hood".

[StandfreeFM]

I'm not sure this counts as Proper Mannies Cricket, but technically it's the first test of the summer so here goes.

England v Ireland today at Lords. One off 4 day test, 98 overs in a day, very much has a weird experimental feel about it. In that vein, England are batting and Jason Roy's first test innings goes as well as you would expect and he's out for 5. Potential World Cup hangover might be avoided as the teams are vastly different. England should win easy, around 150 run victory i reckon.

England: Jason Roy, Rory Burns, Joe Denly, Joe Root (capt), Jonny Bairstow (wk), Moeen Ali, Chris Woakes, Sam Curran, Jack Leach, Stuart Broad, Olly Stone.

Ireland: William Porterfield (capt), Paul Stirling, Andy Balbirnie, James McCollum, Kevin O'Brien, Gary Wilson (wk), Mark Adair, Andy McBrine, Stuart Thompson, Boyd Rankin, Tim Murtagh.

27/1 after 7.4 overs

[StandfreeFM]

...Potential World Cup hangover might be avoided as the teams are vastly different. England should win easy, around 150 run victory i reckon...

England 43/7

[StandfreeFM]

85 all out. Fu(kin pish fae England. Roooooooooot Oooooooooooot