[Cricket] The Ashes- England v Australia- 2nd Test, Lords, June 28 - July 02, 2023

[Neville's Breakfast]

Just seen McGrath’s comments on the dropped catch yesterday. Utter nonsense. As biased as they come.

yep. Mark Taylor has just acknowledged that not out was the correct decision. McGrath just doesn’t know the rules of the game.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

Think the ashes are gone with that wicket. Virtually impossible to win this game now. Virtually impossible to win the ashes from 0-2 down. Oh well, at least it’s entertaining.

Some hope still with these two at the wicket.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Pontin still going on about the disallowed catch ffs. And they call us whingeing Poms.

Before the wicket Taylor was doing the other classic Aussie moan of insisting a rule that's been in place for as long as anybody can remember should be changed just because it happened to go against Australia.
Like Geoff Lemon writing a piece in the Guardian in 2019 demanding the Bowled law should be changed after the ball clipped the stumps without dislodging the bails. Twats.

 

[KZNSeagull]

The Duckett wicket was very clever from Carey standing down the leg side. Stokes should have alerted Duckett really, although non-Bazball dictates that Duckett should have left it alone anyway.

 

[Eeyore]

Taylor is a very intelligent and rational commentator. He was a top captain too.

I agree with him about the catching law. It was a perfectly good catch yesterday, although it fell foul of the rules. That's rightly ruled out.

 

[Munchkin]

One of them is @Munchkin

Unfortunately not. But 100% the truth about Wednesday. I’m honestly not bothered if people don’t believe me!

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Taylor is a very intelligent and rational commentator. He was a top captain too.

I agree with him about the catching law. It was a perfectly good catch yesterday, although it fell foul of the rules. That's rightly ruled out.

How can a catch be perfectly good and against the rules at the same time?
I don't see any way in which anybody could view that as Out. He grounded the ball.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

How can a catch be perfectly good and against the rules at the same time?
I don't see any way in which anybody could view that as Out. He grounded the ball.

Indeed. And I definitely don’t want the rules changed to allow players to use the ground to steady themselves when trying to catch. The ball needs to not go to ground.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Bairstow

 

[Pevenseagull]

For the sake of all things f***

 

[The Wizard]

Cheating filth, im well aware technically it’s out but it’s poor sportsmanship

 

[jakarta]

f***ing Aussie Cheats...

 

[Bold Seagull]

Classless cheats.

 

[A1X]

Aussies cheating yet again in this test

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

Bunch of f***ing cheats. They shouldn’t have appealed.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Cheating filth, im well aware technically it’s out but it’s poor sportsmanship

How is that cheating? It is just dense.

Ball was not dead

 

[pasty]

No issue with that. In football terms, play to the whistle.

 

[Mr Smggles]

How is that cheating? It is just dense.

Ball was not dead

It’s not cheating. It just completely lacks class and sportsmanship

 

[The Wizard]

How is that cheating? It is just dense.

Ball was not dead

Define when the ball is dead?

Either way it’s absolutely classless and desperate behaviour from the Aussies

 

[Eeyore]

Perfectly fair dismissal. And credit to Carey because he's obviously seen this on previous occasions. I've not seen England do this from behind the stumps, but they have definitely done it with their close fielders.