Scarves Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 Is that a Aussie trait? I wonder if bullying is a natural way of growing up there. Happens in every sport. You should see football in Europe or the MLB, NBA in the States. A lot of trash talking there. Every sport there is trash talking but for some reason cricket is the lone one where this is seen as a problem.
omidagr8 Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 Happens in every sport. You should see football in Europe or the MLB, NBA in the States. A lot of trash talking there. Every sport there is trash talking but for some reason cricket is the lone one where this is seen as a problem. Cricket is called gentleman's game for a reason
MCGGG Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 I'd rather teach a batsman how to keep than teach a keeper how to bat, fimd a great young fielder who can bat and teach him to keep, that's my recipe, especially for ODIs and hit and giggle cricket.
MCGGG Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 Cricket is called gentleman's game for a reason I thought that was golf, and have you seen Happy Gilmour?
Scarves Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 Cricket is called gentleman's game for a reason Yeah because rich stiffs played it back in the day. Rich stiffs were called gentlemen even though they exploited the **** out of people, sleep around and get drunk.
MCGGG Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 Yeah because rich stiffs played it back in the day. Rich stiffs were called gentlemen even though they exploited the **** out of people' date=' sleep around and get drunk.[/quote'] Yep, was like polo after WWI, only the rich could play, everyone else had to work to eat.
coffee_rules Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 Yes, the Aussie trait is to play hard and sledge, but also to go cry to umpires and MRs, when they are at the receiving end, bunch of sorry wusses when they lose. Case in point, Watto.
MCGGG Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 Yes' date=' the Aussie trait is to play hard and sledge, but also to go cry to umpires and MRs, when they are at the receiving end, bunch of sorry wusses when they lose. Case in point, Watto.[/quote'] I've seen stickies about umpires on this site, and they aren't posted by AUSSIES. Now go cry some more.
coffee_rules Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 ^not crying , padosi, just pointing to the hypocrisy in the definition of aggressive cricket. Now, read this true Aussie speak the truth, http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/coarse-tongues-leave-stain-on-the-cup-20150330-1mb9q3.html Evidently, Haddin is one. Speaking on minimal sleep on Sydney radio on Monday morning, he said Australia had been discomfited by New Zealand's courtesy when the two played in Auckland earlier in the tournament. "I said in the team meeting, 'I can't stand for this any more, we're going at them as hard as we can', " he said. "It was that uncomfortable. All they were was that nice to us for seven days. I said, 'I'm not playing cricket like this. If we get another crack at these guys in the final I'm letting everything (out)'. " Just possibly, Haddin was speaking with thick tongue in ruddy cheek. But the mindset was unmistakeable; niceness is a failing. It is un-Australian. This is not about the everyday rough and tumble of high stakes international sport. No one objects to zest and enthusiasm. Not many object to meaningful stares, back and forth. In the famous duel between Pakistan's Wahab Riaz and Australia's Shane Watson in the Adelaide quarter-final, they were essential to the mise-en-scene. No one objects to banter. When McCullum took strike in the first over of Sunday's final, Haddin asked him if he was going to have a crack that day. "Too right I am," McCullum replied. What is objectionable is the snark, the cattiness, the hissing, the goads and provocations, the infantilism. What is objectionable is the faux offence taken should an opponent be so impertinent as to reply. What is objectionable is to rub a dismissed batsman's nose in his dismissal, rather than let the wicket speak for itself. For 18 years, Vettori has been a grand competitor at international cricket, and this day was playing his last New Zealand game in any form. He deserved a salute; he got a gobful.
MCGGG Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 ^not crying , padosi, just pointing to the hypocrisy in the definition of aggressive cricket. Now, read this true Aussie speak the truth, http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/coarse-tongues-leave-stain-on-the-cup-20150330-1mb9q3.html That's how we roll bro, Haddin would give his grandmother a send off in a backyard test match, as most of us would, but when it comes to drinks after the game we'll greet you as a friend.
HippoSucks Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 Sledging occurs fairly often in cricket nowadays, yet people always reprimand Australians for doing it. I don't see what is wrong with sledging. It increases the competitiveness of the game and some players get "pumped up" by doing so. I don't see an issue with this as long as what happens on the field stays there. If the players go out and have dinner with each other later, why do you object? Is that a Aussie trait? I wonder if bullying is a natural way of growing up there. Indians and many others sledge quite a bit. No need to make such grandiose generalizations. If Kohli sledges, will you be OK with someone genaralizing that all Indians are poorly brought up?
bulbul Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 Sledging occurs fairly often in cricket nowadays, yet people always reprimand Australians for doing it. I don't see what is wrong with sledging. It increases the competitiveness of the game and some players get "pumped up" by doing so. I don't see an issue with this as long as what happens on the field stays there. If the players go out and have dinner with each other later, why do you object? Indians and many others sledge quite a bit. No need to make such grandiose generalizations. If Kohli sledges, will you be OK with someone genaralizing that all Indians are poorly brought up? he always pushes Danda upto Kohli's ar$e,will you do it for OZ players? :cantstop:
Deleted_User_1 Posted April 2, 2015 Posted April 2, 2015 Mate its a wc final against our neighbours and rivals the kiwis, you dont give an inch down here, yes we are a society of heavy sledgers, only the weak would call the haddin send offs as anything other than playing the game tough. It was far from bullying, maybe you need to look up the definition, it was giving your opposition an enthusiastic send off in a hard fought game, is the nation you support guilty for doing the same thing. You need to harden up mate. Pleeeeeaase spare me the fecking lecture on hardening. I came to a foreign land with little money and promise of success and made a life good enough for myself. I have encountered hardships and dealt with them ALONE. Bullying and acting like jackass doesn't make one tough necessarily. Maybe that's how you roll in Oz, but that doesn't mean right for everyone. BTW, Haddin is a *****. NZ is too nice to me, it is making me soft. We need to go out and act like aussholes!! What ever! !!
Deleted_User_1 Posted April 2, 2015 Posted April 2, 2015 Sledging occurs fairly often in cricket nowadays, yet people always reprimand Australians for doing it. I don't see what is wrong with sledging. It increases the competitiveness of the game and some players get "pumped up" by doing so. I don't see an issue with this as long as what happens on the field stays there. If the players go out and have dinner with each other later, why do you object? Indians and many others sledge quite a bit. No need to make such grandiose generalizations. If Kohli sledges, will you be OK with someone genaralizing that all Indians are poorly brought up? I never endorse unprovoked attacks. I do not like that part of Kohli's character.
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