The International Cricket Thread

[olaftab]

There was blatant piss taking when he pulled up on Siraj’s second ball in the last over. Siraj was not going to send down 5 balls in about 150 seconds so there was no need for it. It angered the opposition for no gain. And whilst the brainless batter was quick to pick up an imaginary movement behind the bowlers arm he completely missed the obvious false  flag. He had to only think about defending two options, a full length toe breaker or a bouncer and he couldn’t manage it. Siraj was not going to send down anything else.

[PaulWinch again]

Well that’s not true, it was nipping about so he could have gone on a good length too. The delaying stuff is entirely reasonable, India have done it too. It was a really good ball, it happens, Crawley has batted pretty well in this Test match. He was outdone by quality bowling on this occasion.