Don't want to comment on the spirit of cricket thingy but this is potentially the funniest thing I've seen on cricket field 
ICC Cricket World Cup 2023
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
Exactly, his helmet broke at the crease, and his first instinct - not unreasonably at all - is to sort it out.
Umpires needed to use some very basic common sense here - what did they expect him to do? Not put his own saftey first? What if the spinner decided to chuck in a bouncer for the lols?
ICC ODI WC aren't going anywhere atleast till 2031
Though the future is T20. Just had a look and apparently 24 teams are qualifying for 2024 which is quite good.
Expecting USA to have some naturalised players till then.
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looks like the cricketing pieces of shit list needs updating-
- australia cricket team - bairstow incident and general exisiting
- ashwin - mankading
- ben stokes - scoring 4 legitimate runs in an odi world cup final
- indian woman’s cricket team - mankading
- pakistan - spot and match fixing
- bangladesh and shakib - timing out matthews for wishing to exchange a faulty, life saving piece of equipment
- brendon mccullum
- england cricket team (men’s)
- england cricket team (women’s)
- the hundred
Really poor decision. He's at the crease ready and then his equipment breaks. It's nothing to do with 'the spirit of cricket', it's a safety issue and he should be given time to sort it.
Saying he could just bat for an over without one until it's sorted isn't right, it's not fair to penalise someone for putting safety first. Might not even be able to, I think it's in English players contracts that they have to wear one at all times.
Saying he could just bat for an over without one until it's sorted isn't right, it's not fair to penalise someone for putting safety first. Might not even be able to, I think it's in English players contracts that they have to wear one at all times.
All professional cricketers playing in England have to wear a helmet I believe.
Good score. I hope Sri Lanka mankad a Bangladesh player or two
Need some Naagin dance
Don't neutralise them for God's sake.
They will have to neutralise a lot of opposing players to stand a chance.
Fake news.
There is not much the umpires can do if an appeal is made because it breaches the laws of the game. The issue is that the appeal should not have been made and maybe Mathews given a friendly warning first.
I don't have the timeout rule but it does not make sense in modern day cricket anymore where so much time is wasted between overs by bowling & batting sides.
Seems like the timeout happened before the helmet strap issue, so Angelo was penalized for being unusually late to the crease. I wonder if that's indeed true, how they time it exactly, and how much time batters usually take to walk out in general, if anyone keeps such stats.
BBC has listed the previous timed-out dismissals, some interesting reasons
| Andrew Jordaan | Eastern Province v Transvaal at Port Elizabeth | 1987-88 | Was not out overnight but delayed getting to ground because of floods |
| Hemulal Yadav | Tripura v Orissa at Cuttack | 1997-98 | Talking to team manager and did not attempt to reach crease |
| Vasbert Drakes | Border v Free State at East London | 2002 | Was still flying from the West Indies |
| AJ Harris | Nottinghamshire v Durham UCCE at Nottingham | 2003 | Was suffering with a groin injury and was unable to move quickly |
| Ryan Austin | Combined Campuses and Colleges v Windward Islands at Kingstown, St Vincent | 2013-14 | No obvious reason |
| Charles Kunje | Matabeleland Tuskers v Mountaineers at Bulawayo | 2017-18 | Unknown |
They said in mid innings break here that Angelo was late even before the helmet broke.
Timed out Pathetic by Bangbros to uphold the appeal.
Would be hilarious if we see a mankad or an appeal for a batter picking up the ball.
Pathetic by Bangbros to uphold the appeal.Would be hilarious if we see a mankad or an appeal for a batter picking up the ball.
According to the BBC website he was at the crease in the specified timeframe for this match (2 mins)
This is not on the umpires, they had no choice, Bangladesh could have called him back to the crease but from what I read they actually had a team huddle, presumably to decide what to do, this is what professional sport is these days, win at all cost, it's no different to not walking when you know you've nicked it or claiming a catch you know has it the ground first
Bairstow stumping saved us from a series defeat, no problems here!Very poor from the Bengalis.
An English fan on BBC Sport trying to equate the Bairstow ashes stumping with this.
I think Bangladesh might have figured out the only way to get Kohli out this tournament.
Why is this guy being allowed 5 mins for a cramp? The innings has barely started.
20 wickets for Madushanka 
Have SL even managed 40 in total?
Have SL even managed 40 in total?Seems to be a really good find for them. Excellent bowling.20 wickets for Madushanka
ICC is arranging champions trophy in 2025. Looks like odi are going to remain big attraction for ICC.
I'm not sure - they've lost their appeal somewhat, but I think they're still a happy middle road between test and t20. Bringing back the tri-series in this format could work.
‘Can a loss be a win’Bad outcome for England. Now they need to either trash Holland or win both to finish top 8.
Who cares, they've been shite and are out anyway
They miss out on the Champions Trophy if they don't finish top 8. That would be scandalous.
I don't think anyone in the squad cares
Yeah I can’t see them qualifying now. They’ll have to beat Pakistan which this side just won’t be able to do.
Not very likely that two of Ban, SL and Ned win another game. So trashing Holland by a very big margin could be enough.
But losing against Pakistan could mean India can throw the Holland match to eliminate England.
I mean, Pakistan need to win by a significant margin to have a remote chance of going through to the SFs (and hope that New Zealand lose their game vs Sri Lanka). Following Pakistani cricket my whole life - this is what will happen:
1) New Zealand lose to Sri Lanka
2) Pakistan lose to England
1) New Zealand lose to Sri Lanka
2) Pakistan lose to England
If Aussies win tomorrow I can see them throwing the Bangla game. They're actually petty enough to sabotage for England.
We can have our own tournament with West Indies, Ireland and Zimbabwe instead!
Or replace India when they refuse to travel to Pakistan
Or replace India when they refuse to travel to Pakistan
Suspect this will be the only way England will play in the CTOr replace India when they refuse to travel to Pakistan
It's funny how the sports teams we support and derive our highs from also traumatize us.
That would not be out of character for Pakistan at all, just like choking in the semis wouldn't be out of character for SA or India at all. And we hold on to these 'characteristic' predictions even when the current performance indicates that things will be different (more so in the case of India this WC than Pak, I'll concede) because it's less disappointing when you don't let your hopes get up.
We didn't have to look to cricket for this either, United fans are used to not getting their hopes up when a manager has a run of good games in the first season, we 'know' the collapse is coming.
Or Pak boycott thw tournament because ICC wants venue changed as India refuse to travel and the tournament is held in a different country with England replacing Pak. So many possibilities.