Sandpaper is probably still seen as worse given it has more relevance to a builder's yard than a cricket pitch.
Smith did have a better PR team for sure.
Agree with all of that. Also the teams who throw the ball in on the bounce at every opportunity needs looking at.
In Warner's defense he did not have any PR and did very little interviews, did his time in silence then went back to the IPL.
The punishment consistent for ball tempering. I believe that CA harshly punished Warner and Smith for their roles in that contract dispute.
I genuinely felt more sorry for Warner as the abuse he and his family got was way worse than anything he deserved. That was crossing the line for me.
Same here, his wife said that she suffered miscarriage due to the stress of those events. That was genuinely heart breaking
Yep. And the thing KM mentioned about Broad and Anderson stopping the ball with the spikes of their boots. None of it is good but it all largely fades after a little while because of the suspicion that actually every team does it. Which given pretty much every team has been caught doing it, seems believable.
Someone asked him on twitter when that song will be released as a single. Guessing that was you?
Haha nope
Suspect he will end up at 3 or 4 after the Ashes if not sooner.
That one is at least kinda understandable with cricket ball on wood sounds.
Starc is not good in English tests and is a bit out of form.
This is what England need though, bat time, let the middle order loose against tired bowlers. Root needs to do as he's doing, channel his inner steely Yorkshireman, dream of being Geoff Boycott.
Are you serious? Of course it's relevant.
Do one. I don't represent anyone but myself and my opinion is that booing when someone reaches a milestone is pathetic.
How the players act or have acted in the past is entirely irrelevant to my point. For what it's worth I don't endorse that over the top sledging either, it's quite pathetic too.
But if we are going to play tit-for-tat, pray tell what's worse - talking about ruining careers or actually coward punching someone? An act that has caused brain damage and even killed people in the past.
Oh i'm not complaining, he's doing a grand job... and to be fair he's actually stepped it up since i made that post.
Yep, I think he won't get much more stick, if any. Neither will Bancroft. Warner will get abused throughout the whole series.
As much as I hate to say it, hes in a class of his own. I checked his stats yesterday and hes acquired over 3500 runs against India and England. Weirdly, hes an average test batsman against every other nation - IIRC averaging 40-45 against the lot.
I need the toilet.
Good point.
But it was worth it!
