The Official Ashes 2013 Thread - ENG vs AUS

Alan said:
oh yeah 'stress'. Any members of other teams gone down with this condition besides members of the English team?
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Damien Martyn retired due to it IIRC.

Look I don't like the poms. But I would actually say that it's testament to their system that players can feel comfortable enough to admit to any sort mental illness without being ridiculed, while receiving the proper support. Other countries can learn a lot from this, and players often don't own up to it for fear of ridicule. Stress and mental illness is pretty serious, definitely nothing to laugh about because it can strike anyone.
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
Damien Martyn retired due to it IIRC.

Look I don't like the poms. But I would actually say that it's testament to their system that players can feel comfortable enough to admit to any sort mental illness without being ridiculed, while receiving the proper support. Other countries can learn a lot from this, and players often don't own up to it for fear of ridicule. Stress and mental illness is pretty serious, definitely nothing to laugh about because it can strike anyone.
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I agree to a point, but I think that they should rather have made up another reason for him going back home. This will put even more pressure on the rest of the team with the Ozzie media going nuts and just imagine the sledging on the pitch from the Ozzies?

This is a team sport and he has let his team down by admitting he cannot handle the pressure ( this time. ) "Groin injury"...go home and have some session with a sports headshrinker and come back next year.
 
Aus are 211/4. A bit of solid batting here and they can push closer to 350-400.
 
Cricket Australia was compelled to make an apology and hurriedly re-shape its social media policy after the governing body's official Twitter account posted a stock picture of four bearded, turbaned men dressed up as Teletubbies with the caption "will the real Monty Panesar please stand up?".

Posted in the hour before the start of the second Ashes Test match at Adelaide Oval, the tweet was subsequently removed and an apology posted in its place after the image and the reference to Panesar drew howls of outrage from around the world.

Later in the day the @cricketaus account was re-branded as CA Digital Media, "the independent news arm working out of Cricket Australia". A second account has been created under the name @CAComms, described as "official communication from Cricket Australia, the governing body for professional and amateur cricket in Australia".

"We certainly apologise for any offense caused with the tweet. It wasn't our intention to offend and it has promptly been removed from Twitter," a CA spokesperson said. "To reiterate, if the tweet was interpreted in a manner that offended Twitter followers, we certainly apologise for that. This has been addressed internally and CA acknowledges it was an error of judgement."

The tweet was described by numerous online critics as an example of "casual racism", while numerous English writers expressed their displeasure in no uncertain terms. Martin Samuel, chief sports writer for the Daily Mail, delivered a particularly stinging critique in a piece headlined: "So, all Asians look the same and we need to put them in Teletubbies outfits to tell them apart? That's not right, Cricket Australia, and Monty tweet is insulting and demeaning".

"They want to win the stupid banter battles, they want to be as edgy as the worst of the press box warriors, they want also to be the respected rule-makers and the natural home for lovers of cricket and lovers of fun. But they haven't got a clue," Samuel wrote. "By the time the first wicket had fallen in Adelaide, the comedians were in full retreat.

"The four Montys had been taken down, an apology was being hastily issued, but that really isn't good enough. Cricket Australia are not there to insult their guests, to affect mental disintegration with ham-fisted racial slurs and crude, misjudged attempts at humour. Their job is to run cricket. And with two Australian wins in the calendar year, and an Ashes Test starting in a half-built stadium, it could be argued they need fewer gags and more old-fashioned administration."

The tweet arrived days after CA had themselves stood down the ground announcer for England's tour match in Alice Springs, David Nixon, after he introduced Panesar to the middle in a manner that the governing body described as "inappropriate".

During the Lord's Ashes Test earlier this year, CA launched an internal investigation after a tweet was posted questioning an umpiring decision, followed by the hashtag "#bull****". The governing body has built a large digital and website team for the 2013-14 summer, with the intention of becoming a serious additional source of news on the game.
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:D:D:D
 
England being pummeled here

Aus: 570/9 Dec
England: 35/1

Close of play D2
 
England out for 172.
Mitchell Johnson 7/40.
The poms always made fun of Johnson, even ridiculing lillee for calling Johnson "a once in a generation bowler" but we as south Africans have seen how devastating he can be.
 
England are being thrashed out there. Great to see Johnson doing well again. He's in devastating form.
 
And Australia is coming to SA in Feb, South Africa have never beaten Australia in SA since re admission, and Australia is the last team we lost a series against. It's gonna be a cracker.
 
England lose Strauss and Trott in quick succession and all of a sudden their batting looks very brittle.

Their debutant is average at best.
 
DrYes said:
England lose Strauss and Trott in quick succession and all of a sudden their batting looks very brittle.

Their debutant is average at best.
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They won in India with that batting line up. Losing trott was massive.
 
Up near 40 degrees today and everyone is going to get another drink with another 45 minutes of play left today...
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...and humidity too. Good gosh! That has to be worse than playing the game in the UAE! :eek:
 
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