The Cricket Thread 2013

[beness]

It's a good job there wasn't much riding on the game, there surely has to be room for some common sense in a situation like this.

Agreed.

[beness]

think Bell will get man of the series for England. Not sure about the Aussie man of the series.

[eastie]

So what happened to Warnes crap about the Aussies being brave and not afraid to lose - they were begging to go off - pathetic!

[jcsutv]

It's a good job there wasn't much riding on the game, there surely has to be room for some common sense in a situation like this.

Agreed.

That's the thing with test cricket, there is no common sense. I think the Aussies deserved the draw for making a game of it. Good stuff all round.

[bertlambshank]

It's a good job there wasn't much riding on the game, there surely has to be room for some common sense in a situation like this.

Agreed.

That's the thing with test cricket, there is no common sense. I think the Aussies deserved the draw for making a game of it. Good stuff all round.

Nah,dont go for a win and start crying when it looks like you are gonna lose.

[jcsutv]

Don't play for a draw until you get a sniff of a win, then moan that the light goes.

[KevinGage]

Interesting comments from Flower after the game when asked about rumours that this is last match in charge.    "We'll see. Now is not the time to talk about it,"   or words to that effect.

Could be something and nothing, but if he was certain of staying why add fuel to the fire.

[bertlambshank]

Don't play for a draw until you get a sniff of a win, then moan that the light goes.

We didn't need to go for the win but did,Clarke made himself look like a bit of a prick

[Ad@m]

Don't play for a draw until you get a sniff of a win, then moan that the light goes.

We didn't need to go for the win but did,Clarke made himself look like a bit of a prick

Clarke would've looked a bigger prick if they'd lost after declaring twice.

[spangley1812]

Don't play for a draw until you get a sniff of a win, then moan that the light goes.

We didn't need to go for the win but did,Clarke made himself look like a bit of a prick

Clarke would've looked a bigger prick if they'd lost after declaring twice.

He looked like a prick when he was begging the umpires to go off and arguing with them.............

[jcsutv]

Don't play for a draw until you get a sniff of a win, then moan that the light goes.

We didn't need to go for the win but did,Clarke made himself look like a bit of a prick

Clarke would've looked a bigger prick if they'd lost after declaring twice.

He looked like a prick when he was begging the umpires to go off and arguing with them.............

He was brave and made a game of it. Give him some credit.

[spangley1812]

Don't play for a draw until you get a sniff of a win, then moan that the light goes.

We didn't need to go for the win but did,Clarke made himself look like a bit of a prick

Clarke would've looked a bigger prick if they'd lost after declaring twice.

He looked like a prick when he was begging the umpires to go off and arguing with them.............

He was brave and made a game of it. Give him some credit.

He as a captain had a good series, positive bowling changes, good field settings as for today he was positive but only due to the fact that he was desperate to get a bit of momenteum into the winter

[taylorsworkrate]

Clarke did look a bit of a nob arguing with the umpires, but then I'm sure any captain would have done exactly the same in the circumstances.

The anger should be directed at the ICC, who despite their declarations of ensuring that test cricket remains the pinnacle, obviously couldn't give a stuff about it. It should be extremely embarrassing for them that its in their rules that you can go off for bad light with high quality floodlights on.

Also, why was it one of England's sub fielders who brought the lightmeter onto the field? What the hell were they playing at?

[SoccerHQ]

Seems pretty poor to me that floodlights are at all pretty much the major venues now and you still get these bad light issues all for the stake of what an extra 10 minutes England needed to get the 20 odd runs to win the game?

[bertlambshank]

Don't play for a draw until you get a sniff of a win, then moan that the light goes.

We didn't need to go for the win but did,Clarke made himself look like a bit of a prick

Clarke would've looked a bigger prick if they'd lost after declaring twice.

He looked like a prick when he was begging the umpires to go off and arguing with them.............

He was brave and made a game of it. Give him some credit.

Not brave enough to field with the floodlights on. He lost any credit with his tantrum.