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MD Jazz said:
It’s funny I found some old cricket club minutes from 2001 season and read them to a guy at work. He laughed, it was all the same issues his club had. Sponsorship, training numbers, social functions (to attract wives/partners), who was running bar after the game, who was running the pub raffle, chasing new recruits, need for helpers at milo cricket....

And it all involves someone giving up their time,for nothing other than the reward of being part of a club.
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Reckon 99% of clubs face the same set of problems, which is why I'm skeptical of claims about "gatekeepers" etc.

The diversity comment is a giveaway, it's just another arm of cultural warfare. Cricket has never been the friendliest environment for homosexuals and you can bet your bottom dollar it's a factor here.
 
Former England spinner Monty Panesar makes shock ball-tampering revelation - May 25th 2019

Monty Panesar has made bombshell claims about the England cricket team that question whether its treatment of the ball in the field was legal throughout his international career.
The former England spinner, who played 50 Tests between 2006 and 2013, played a crucial role in ball-maintenance for the likes of James Anderson.

“We found that mints and sun cream had an effect on the saliva, and that helped the ball to reverse,” he revealed in an excerpt of his book ‘The Full Monty’, which appeared on the Daily Mail.

“I might also have ‘accidentally’ caught the ball on the zip of my trouser pocket to rough it up a little.”

He added: “Whether we broke the laws depends on how you interpret them.

“That was probably a hairline fracture of the spirit of the game, even if the laws said you were allowed to ‘use your uniform’.”

South Africa captain Faf du Plessis was once found guilty of ball-tampering by the International Cricket Council after using mints to alter the condition of the ball against Australia in 2016.

Law 42.3 of the MCC’s Laws of Cricket states that a fielder is free to polish a ball “provided that no artificial substance is used”.

du Plessis has also been fined for rubbing the ball on the zipper of his trousers against Pakistan in 2013.

Panesar became a national hero in 2009 when he helped England defend the Ashes on home soil with an unlikely, match-saving stand with James Anderson in the first Test at Cardiff.

https://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket/former-england-spinner-monty-panesar-makes-shock-balltampering-revelation/news-story/b5333dca8062bca1156b5c0758222e26
 
Smith and Warner are coping it in England, and will continue to during the WC and Ashes. Fair enough, they cheated.

However people in glasshouses shouldn't through stones.

Mike Atherton in 1994 was using dirt kept in his pocket to alter the condition of the ball. Not only did he retain the captaincy, he was awarded an OBE 3 years later. He even came out last year and said that the premeditated nature of Sandpapergate left an "Odious stink" which differs from his dirt in the pocket. Err...I'd say a pocketful of dirt makes it premeditated Mike. Now Panesar comes out revealing he and the English test team were ball-tampering.

Don't get me started on Faf du Plessis who has been caught twice ball tampering. A month after his second incident, he was awarded the captaincy of the S African test team.

Contrast this to Smith who lost the captaincy, and was kicked out of cricket for 12 months.

The hypocrisy of the English is mind-blowing.
 
West Indies have smashed the Kiwis all over the park, currently 8/413 after 48 overs. They're $21 to win the world cup, pretty good value i reckon.
 
Ben Stokes is a tosser but this catch is beyond words
https://youtu.be/6Ekf5tph0Tg
 
tigertim said:
Ben Stokes is a tosser but this catch is beyond words
https://youtu.be/6Ekf5tph0Tg
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Screamer. Even better than this similar Matty Hayden catch from 1993:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkavgPqyD8A
 
In between our disastrous game v North last night I switched over to some cricket from the opening game of the World Cup.

Windies walloped Pakistan who were all out for 105. Windies made short work of that with Gayle smacking a quick 50.
 
tigertim said:
Ben Stokes is a tosser but this catch is beyond words
https://youtu.be/6Ekf5tph0Tg
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It’s actually not as good as some of Paul Collingwood gully catches.

He had time as our near boundary. Still a heck of a catch though.
 
The Afghan bats giving the Aussies some stick. We had them 5/77, now 5/156.
 
Finch looked in very good touch last night. He is the key to us winning the WC.
 
MB78 said:
Finch looked in very good touch last night. He is the key to us winning the WC.
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Big statement. I reckon he’s close to our weakest link! Maxi, Warner and smith - of the batsmen. And Cummins
 
Maxwell came through at crunch time. AGAIN.
looks like he will carry on from his previous world cup, when he was close to the most dominant batsman in the comp.
 
Brodders17 said:
Maxwell came through at crunch time. AGAIN.
looks like he will carry on from his previous world cup, when he was close to the most dominant batsman in the comp.
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Que?
He came in at a time where we needed 3 to win off 92 balls with 7 wickets in hand.
Faced one ball and hit it for four.

I'm far from anti-Maxwell but in terms of him "coming through at crunch time", that innings means absolutely nothing.
 
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