God help me - the Cricket thread

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Reply #1965 – November 11, 2026, 08:50:02 am

Aus Cricket Board went over the top with their punishments. ICC suspended them for one match (from memory) - in line with the other players from other countries.

There is not a bowler who doesn't have interest in the condition of the ball from international to F grade park cricket - they all would have seen it and noticed if it had changed.

I'm so over the beat up.

Re: God help me - the Cricket thread

Reply #1966 – November 11, 2026, 12:06:50 pm

Yep, so over this, don't know who to believe anymore and sick of the the outright f#####g hypocrisy from others, let's not talk about match fixing and manipulation, shoulder charging players, overt racism or straight out cheating through diddled pictures. It's like the middle east - there are no "good" guys and "bad guys" they're all bent.

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Reply #1967 – November 11, 2026, 11:36:30 pm

I bag the media, but they are a million times smarter than Khwaja!

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Reply #1968 – Today at 01:31:08 pm

Just an aside a bit of an anecdote.

I had heard about sweets being used before, but as a young cricketer I first overheard about a very particular brand / type of sweet used to varnish the pill from Tony Grieg. We were in the practise nets at VFL park where I had been acting as a net bowler for the WSC players. It wasn't because they were using or discussing the use of the sweets in WSC, but because he was explaining to someone how they did not work for the coating on the white cricket balls of that era.

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Reply #1969 – Today at 02:16:30 pm

So basically he said she said, and still no closer to the truth.