The toboggan run.
We have seen a feisty little Exchange between Ricky Ponting and Andrew Strauss, at the end of the first day - the kind of confrontation which would probably lead a fight mass if it happened at Upton Park.
Why celebrate these instincts competitive cricket but deplore them in football? It is double standard double? Or is - this just as cricketers sometimes emerge with killer lines like "at least I'm the best player in my own family." (James Ormond in 2001 Oval Mark Waugh.)
Footballers are less likely to turn into an Oscar Wilde to butt in the chest.
History
Close flagrantly exception, ash were played on the same grounds for more than a hundred years. Yes, the choice of Cardiff for the first test of 2009 was a scandal of the same school as Qatar-door, and expanded Swalec stage was there a white elephant soulless. But at least it was a one-time event. At the World Cup, happens every time.
The ball
When ash, we don't go by endless discussions on how, all players must adapt their techniques to cope with a different ball than that they used the last time. What is c? OH, well. In addition, move quickly...
Fans
Barmy army can grow a little tedious with their song "where we come from? (I once heard an Australian nine year old answer "You come Pub.")
But to adapt the Routard Guide to the Galaxy, they are mostly harmless. And it is the best thing, arguably, large groups of English abroad. Where football fans have a reputation for throwing beer glasses, the worst atrocities committed by the Barmies are one of their plastic "beer-snakes" collapsed under a shower of pomace.
Sound effects
Barmy army have a secret weapon: trumpeter Billy Cooper, classically-trained ejected from the Gabba, four years ago. This year, Cricket Australia control freaks have signed the barmy army as a "trading partners" and Cooper one party accredited in their package of entertainment.
These blokes could enjoy a snowball fight. Yet, a few bars of Jerusalem should always be preferred over the vuvuzela - not so much an instrument like a migraine in physical form.
Technology
It is not quite perfect yet, as Ryan Harris lbw decision shows. But at least the cricket is to involve issues that arise when viewers have more information that corresponds to officials.
Winners
Nobody has ever argued with a result of ash. After five days, multiplied by five tests, you can request to have been robbed by the end of everything.
(Although Australians continue to think that the Bodyline was a more serious and more sinister than the assassination of JFK conspiracy.) In football, Spain were worthy winners of World Cup this year. But it was a rarity.
Absenteeism.
The average World Cup is supposed to for wiping £ 3 off the coast of leaves of our assets in sick-days.
Fortunately, a series of ash overseas interferes only popular nights. No economist has yet pronounced on the damage caused by unforeseen NAPs, despite the number of fans of cricket in the hollow eyes Jockey Zs in the loo.
Corruption (presumed)
This year, every year, cricket can hardly boast about his reputation as a fair-play. But has never been allegations ofmatch-fixation on ash, not even when Dennis Lillee and Rod Marsh supported in England to win 500-1 odds Headingley.
The same cannot be said of the last verdict Fifa - described by many as a policy blatant sewing-up. The International Cricket Council has rarely examined if Holiness.
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