Re: God help me - the Test Cricket thread
Reply #154 –
Can't agree more, what Smith was doing was mind bogglingly stupid, so why do it? Since when do players from the fielding side scratch at the wicket? The only defence he has is that the umpires didn't pull him up instantly ob it, so it wasn't deemed to be in a place considered "in play"?
Stupid ? Probably. Cheating? Most definitely not. Smith comes across as being a little bit OCD, very quirky. He'd be the type of bloke who walks around the house playing cricket shots (Air batting). I think his explanation was fair enough if you ask me. Media beat up yet again. As they said on SEN this morning, Paine's apology was a joke, basically apologising to the Twitter minority. FFS he called a bloke two feet away from him a DH. No racial slurs, no taboo topics like wives, kids, family etc. The country is stuffed I tell ya. Pandering to nuffies.