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25 Responses to “Ashes 2010 – Ponting v Umpire (Possible Pietersen Wicket)”
@strangergoat if you were there, you would have seen (as the TV replays showed) that Kevin Pietersen did not walk and didn’t take his gloves off, instead stepping back, and then shaking his head to the umpire. I don’t think he knew.
I’m all for the DRS, especially here in Australia. Over the years the home team has received the overwhelming majority of questionable decisions in their favour. Warne and McGrath were terrific bowlers, but their excellent statistics were aided by who knows how many questionable or just plain wrong decisions. Andrew Strauss received so many dusty decisions here in 2006, he went on to be dropped from the test team altogether.
Thankfully, the days of Australia chiselling guys out is over.
Snicko didn’t show up anything, and as a batsman sometimes you generally don’t know when you’ve nicked the ball.
The URS is a good thing in general, it just means that completely obvious wrong decisions are eliminated from the game.
As for checking no balls on a wicket, why shouldn’t the umpries do that. Technology has been used in cricket for a long time, with run outs and stumpings, as well as checking if the ball has gone to the boundary, when fielders slide over the boundary rope.
The stumped picked up Harbhajan telling “Madarchod” which means motherfucker which Symmonds probably was anyways. But the asshole Aussies took this and said it sounded like “Monkey”…
@calvingmail There’s a distinction between ‘sledging/abusing’ and racial vilification. I can’t speak on behalf of the Australian cricket team, but there is no proof of any racist comments from the Aussie cricketers. There was blatant proof that Singh said what he said i.e. audio from stump cam, yet he got off. The point of my comment was not this though, it was just to say that I don’t think your statement was entirely correct. My guess is Symonds is far more successful than you :).
contd .. My major problem is the Umpire being able to check for no-balls after a wicket is taken, that is ridiculous! As Mark Taylor said, if it wasnt a wicket, no one would have bothered checking if it was a no-ball .. Maybe player reviews are ok, but definately not the Umpire .. just my opinion 🙂
@strangergoat Okay, thanks for your reply! 🙂 I agree with you in regard to the review system, I think it’s like if you dont want the Umpire’s decision to count, you dont have to accept it .. you knnow what I mean? You can make your own call, as to what you think.
@tiannahisawesome judging by the batsman’s response, i’m sure he thought he was out. and that’s enough for me to be pretty sure he was – as the batsman, you’d know if you nicked it or not, surely. still, umpire said out, so he’s out. I have massive issues with the review system – i feel like it encourages players to argue with the umpire’s decision.
@strangergoat So he was out you think? And the Umpire was wrong, but Ricky shouldnt have argued with him .. Just wanting to know if you think he was out or not 🙂
Aussies complaining about anybody sledging/abusing them is a joke. They are the masters of abuse and filth. Symmonds is a stupid monkey and chimpanzee…He is a huge cry baby.
@calvingmail You mean like when Harbhajan Singh got banned and then the Indian board threatened to abandon the tour until he was reinstated and allowed to play again with only a 50% match fee reduction despite racially abusing Symonds proof of which was captured on the stump mic? If so, then you’re absolutely correct. 🙂
Ponting is a class act with the bat, and will go down as a legend of the game. It’s just a pity that sometimes he doesnt think with his head, and does these very cringeworthy things. 40% was appauling, really- I think if Aleem Dar wasnt such a good sport and nice guy, Ponting would have faced a 100% match fine. I doubt they’d give him a match ban, not in an ashes series, would be unheard of.
Think Ponting regretted this as should the whole Aussie team, now they have been thrashed in thier own back yard a bit of humility wouldn’t go amiss, only experiencing what england have been going through in the past. Ponting still one of the greatest batsman of his generation………….but his time at test level is over………
@calvingmail You are joking aren’t you? Afridi eats a cricket ball on live tv and he gets a 2 match ban. The pakistanis are the biggest cheats in world cricket. But what can the players really do when the entire PCB is corrupt?
That is without doubt one of the worst onfield spectacles i have ever seen in test cricket and Ponting should have got at least a 1 match ban – karma got him though ;o) I wont remember what a great batsman – I remember him as the self appointed champion of the spirit of cricket – he’d take half a handful of dirt with the ball and claim a catch that dirty little cheat. It was obvious from Pietersen’s demeanour that he hadn’t hit the ball. Bye Bye Ponting and good riddance.
What a sore loser.. quite some incidents where they have resorted to such behavior.. 40% fees docked.. that’s a sham!!! Pointing is on his way down.. as much as I admire him, he is anything but a gentleman!!!
If Cricket happens to lose the tag ‘The ‘Gentlemen’s Game’, this Ponting-led Aus team might be the biggest culprits for it. Just watch Ponting’s expressions, his persistent arguments/queries with the umpire and Siddle’s gamely support to his skipper, not to forget Haddin, the wicket-beggar, who does not seem to know why he is appealing!!! Can you imagine our own MSD arguing with the umpire in such manner and escaping without a match ban?
that is at least partly the umpires fault – he’s not there to argue or explain. He should have just said ‘ball didn’t hit the bat – not out’ and walked away.
May 13th, 2010 at 5:14 pm
aussie are bad sport and ponting is the leader. THE BIGGEST LOSER.
May 13th, 2010 at 5:21 pm
@strangergoat learn something first and then learn again.
May 13th, 2010 at 6:16 pm
@strangergoat if you were there, you would have seen (as the TV replays showed) that Kevin Pietersen did not walk and didn’t take his gloves off, instead stepping back, and then shaking his head to the umpire. I don’t think he knew.
May 13th, 2010 at 6:39 pm
I’m all for the DRS, especially here in Australia. Over the years the home team has received the overwhelming majority of questionable decisions in their favour. Warne and McGrath were terrific bowlers, but their excellent statistics were aided by who knows how many questionable or just plain wrong decisions. Andrew Strauss received so many dusty decisions here in 2006, he went on to be dropped from the test team altogether.
Thankfully, the days of Australia chiselling guys out is over.
May 13th, 2010 at 7:01 pm
Snicko didn’t show up anything, and as a batsman sometimes you generally don’t know when you’ve nicked the ball.
The URS is a good thing in general, it just means that completely obvious wrong decisions are eliminated from the game.
As for checking no balls on a wicket, why shouldn’t the umpries do that. Technology has been used in cricket for a long time, with run outs and stumpings, as well as checking if the ball has gone to the boundary, when fielders slide over the boundary rope.
May 13th, 2010 at 7:49 pm
@Menzo20
The stumped picked up Harbhajan telling “Madarchod” which means motherfucker which Symmonds probably was anyways. But the asshole Aussies took this and said it sounded like “Monkey”…
May 13th, 2010 at 8:21 pm
@calvingmail There’s a distinction between ‘sledging/abusing’ and racial vilification. I can’t speak on behalf of the Australian cricket team, but there is no proof of any racist comments from the Aussie cricketers. There was blatant proof that Singh said what he said i.e. audio from stump cam, yet he got off. The point of my comment was not this though, it was just to say that I don’t think your statement was entirely correct. My guess is Symonds is far more successful than you :).
May 13th, 2010 at 9:03 pm
contd .. My major problem is the Umpire being able to check for no-balls after a wicket is taken, that is ridiculous! As Mark Taylor said, if it wasnt a wicket, no one would have bothered checking if it was a no-ball .. Maybe player reviews are ok, but definately not the Umpire .. just my opinion 🙂
May 13th, 2010 at 9:28 pm
@strangergoat Okay, thanks for your reply! 🙂 I agree with you in regard to the review system, I think it’s like if you dont want the Umpire’s decision to count, you dont have to accept it .. you knnow what I mean? You can make your own call, as to what you think.
May 13th, 2010 at 9:52 pm
@tiannahisawesome judging by the batsman’s response, i’m sure he thought he was out. and that’s enough for me to be pretty sure he was – as the batsman, you’d know if you nicked it or not, surely. still, umpire said out, so he’s out. I have massive issues with the review system – i feel like it encourages players to argue with the umpire’s decision.
May 13th, 2010 at 10:04 pm
@strangergoat So he was out you think? And the Umpire was wrong, but Ricky shouldnt have argued with him .. Just wanting to know if you think he was out or not 🙂
May 13th, 2010 at 10:44 pm
@Menzo20
Aussies complaining about anybody sledging/abusing them is a joke. They are the masters of abuse and filth. Symmonds is a stupid monkey and chimpanzee…He is a huge cry baby.
May 13th, 2010 at 11:42 pm
@calvingmail You mean like when Harbhajan Singh got banned and then the Indian board threatened to abandon the tour until he was reinstated and allowed to play again with only a 50% match fee reduction despite racially abusing Symonds proof of which was captured on the stump mic? If so, then you’re absolutely correct. 🙂
May 13th, 2010 at 11:51 pm
i was there – pietersen started to walk – he had his gloves half off. it was a bs decision. but everyone knows you shouldn’t fight with the umpire.
May 13th, 2010 at 11:58 pm
Ponting is a class act with the bat, and will go down as a legend of the game. It’s just a pity that sometimes he doesnt think with his head, and does these very cringeworthy things. 40% was appauling, really- I think if Aleem Dar wasnt such a good sport and nice guy, Ponting would have faced a 100% match fine. I doubt they’d give him a match ban, not in an ashes series, would be unheard of.
May 14th, 2010 at 12:32 am
Think Ponting regretted this as should the whole Aussie team, now they have been thrashed in thier own back yard a bit of humility wouldn’t go amiss, only experiencing what england have been going through in the past. Ponting still one of the greatest batsman of his generation………….but his time at test level is over………
May 14th, 2010 at 12:55 am
@calvingmail You are joking aren’t you? Afridi eats a cricket ball on live tv and he gets a 2 match ban. The pakistanis are the biggest cheats in world cricket. But what can the players really do when the entire PCB is corrupt?
May 14th, 2010 at 1:16 am
That is without doubt one of the worst onfield spectacles i have ever seen in test cricket and Ponting should have got at least a 1 match ban – karma got him though ;o) I wont remember what a great batsman – I remember him as the self appointed champion of the spirit of cricket – he’d take half a handful of dirt with the ball and claim a catch that dirty little cheat. It was obvious from Pietersen’s demeanour that he hadn’t hit the ball. Bye Bye Ponting and good riddance.
May 14th, 2010 at 2:10 am
What a sore loser.. quite some incidents where they have resorted to such behavior.. 40% fees docked.. that’s a sham!!! Pointing is on his way down.. as much as I admire him, he is anything but a gentleman!!!
May 14th, 2010 at 2:58 am
@damnedvideonasty Well that’s not true… Your PM is a woman. Enjoy watching your economy crumble you dirty thieving bastard.
May 14th, 2010 at 3:44 am
@tomi1990
buddy … you don’t own jack shit … you’re broke!!!! Hahaha … enjoy the (even) lower living standard…..
May 14th, 2010 at 4:23 am
If Cricket happens to lose the tag ‘The ‘Gentlemen’s Game’, this Ponting-led Aus team might be the biggest culprits for it. Just watch Ponting’s expressions, his persistent arguments/queries with the umpire and Siddle’s gamely support to his skipper, not to forget Haddin, the wicket-beggar, who does not seem to know why he is appealing!!! Can you imagine our own MSD arguing with the umpire in such manner and escaping without a match ban?
May 14th, 2010 at 4:39 am
that is at least partly the umpires fault – he’s not there to argue or explain. He should have just said ‘ball didn’t hit the bat – not out’ and walked away.
May 14th, 2010 at 4:42 am
no where near
May 14th, 2010 at 4:44 am
aussie aussie aussie oi oi oi – Indian Aussie 🙂