DieselDaisy Posted April 24, 2015 Author Share Posted April 24, 2015 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 I've been looking for my Body line DVD. A doc about that test series. Maybe it was VHS and was lost in the great flood of 91. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted April 26, 2015 Author Share Posted April 26, 2015 Bodyline is just a term used by a bunch of moaning convicts. It is really 'leg theory' and was practiced in English counties since time immemorial I have you know. Jardine,If there was ever an Englishman to wind up Australians it was Jardine. Detested colonials. Public school background. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Just bouncers aimed at the body. Find the division in the mat in the nets and kick off that. I batted against Patel in the nets at Worcester. He's a spinner and it was like fast bowler to me. I played county cricket but that was another level. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted April 30, 2015 Author Share Posted April 30, 2015 (edited) I am reading KP's book haha. A lot of it was serialised in the papers of course, his hatred of Prior (''the big cheese''), Peter Moores and Andy Flower. He loves the IPL and cannot resist some swipes at CC which loses me instantly. I have a feeling that if Kevin Pieterson was a generation younger, say in his early-mid 20s now, he would have just been a Twenty20 franchise wander and not a first rate cricketer. It is ironic as he is slagging off some England players who were up for auction and not selected (e.g. Jimmy Anderson) and taking some potshots at CC and the whole English cricket system, the ECB, yet the same thing happened to himself, this season after the book was released haha. He was not bought at auction and where is he now, back at Surrey?Still he has some good arguments. The ECB, who see the IPL as a crassless money machine, is the same organisation which sold cricket's broadcasting rights exclusively to Sky for wads of cash, thus taking cricket from terrestrial television. And this was after the 2005 Ashes had captured the hearts and minds of a country! There is hypocrisy (and a missed opportunity to proliferate Cricket).Anyway, back to the book. It is not really an autobiography, just a rant about the whole English cricket set up. He writes a little about meeting his wife, then goes back to ranting again. It is all over the place chronologically. Edited April 30, 2015 by DieselDaisy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sturginho Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 Also the same ECB which got into bed with Allen Stamford Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted May 1, 2015 Author Share Posted May 1, 2015 KP suffers from Axl's ''out ta get me'' complex - not quite as bad because he does admit his own flaws now-and-then, but it is definitely there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted May 3, 2015 Author Share Posted May 3, 2015 Well played WI to draw the series. Very enjoyable little series. England bowled out for under 130 in the second innings; I would drop Trott and either include Alex Hales, moving Root up the order, or put in Adam Lyth with Cook and see how that works. I would have probably played two spinners (Rashid?) on that pitch also - Ali had a shocker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris1989 Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 Are we shit again? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted May 4, 2015 Author Share Posted May 4, 2015 Semi-shit. Better than we were than in 2013/14 but Australia will win this up and coming Ashes. Our specialist batting looks iffy but you have to give a lot of credit to the West Indies who look like a competent set up for the first time in ages with Simmons and Walsh.Finished Pietersen's book. It is hilarious. Pure soap opera. It rips apart the Moores/Flower era, whether or not any of it is true or not is a matter of opinion. According to Kev, the dressing was dominated by a bowlers' clique led by Prior who called himself ''the Big Cheese''. He had under him numerous ''little cheeses'' which included Broad and Swann who ruthlessly bullied the batsmen - particularly the younger players. Anderson is an introvert and a nice chap but sort of went along with it as one of the bowlers. Flower was a tyrant. Strauss was tight with Flower but at least tried to be independent of action. Cook hates confrontation so when Cook came in, it conceded ground to Prior's clique. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sturginho Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 Trott has retired, well done ECB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted May 5, 2015 Author Share Posted May 5, 2015 (edited) He was in pretty good knick for Warwickshire last season, averaging about 45 and scoring three tons.PSDurham got a pasting at Lords. Fuck. Edited May 5, 2015 by DieselDaisy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
streak Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 I wouldn't be surprised if KP is telling the truth. He comes across as a bit of twat, but I personally think he was OK. I hate cliques.LOL at the big cheese though!Im glad someone is giving credit the Windies though. They aren't a bad side, just need 1 or two batsman really. I hope they do well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted May 11, 2015 Author Share Posted May 11, 2015 Durham are playing some shitty cricket. Come on yee cunts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris1989 Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 So did KP just score 300 sndtheb get told by Strauss he's never being selected for England? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted May 12, 2015 Author Share Posted May 12, 2015 (edited) He is in a position to make Strauss and England very embarrassed if the Ashes do not go England's way.PSI cannot see Pietersen ever returning now that Strauss is hired. If you read his book, he depicts Strauss as Flower's stooge. They were friends initially but that fell apart; Strauss does not get hammered like Prior - but it turned ugly over text-gate. Edited May 12, 2015 by DieselDaisy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
streak Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 I think he should be in the squad.I think they all need to have a meeting and a good dressing down. Tell the 'big cheeses' to settle down and play as a team or fuck them off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sturginho Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 So did KP just score 300 sndtheb get told by Strauss he's never being selected for England? 326 not out, but in fairness it was against Leics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
streak Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 And he was dropped about 4 times Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sturginho Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 So Strauss has come out and said that KP won't be considered because of "trust" issues but at the same time says that he offered him a role as a consultant..... O_o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
streak Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 I don't blame Strauss for not wanting him in the team really. He did a pretty cunty thing to him.Why the fuck offer him a role as a consultant then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sturginho Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 (edited) I giggled: Edited May 12, 2015 by sturginho Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted May 13, 2015 Author Share Posted May 13, 2015 (edited) You only have to read his book to realise he will never play for England again. There is just no way it will happen - especially now Strauss is back. I mean Broad is still there and he was one of Prior's ''little cheeses'' haha.PSDurham victory. Horray the lads. Mark Wood, nightwatchman, making a half century. Edited May 13, 2015 by DieselDaisy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spunko12345 Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 Flintoff was talking to Darren Gough on talksport saying how Pieterson wouldn't even make the top ten of disruptive players he's played with. It seems like he's upset the wrong people. A bit of an old boys network in the ECB. Would he improve the team? Yes. If he was told to score runs for Surrey and he would be considered like anyone else then he has been shafted especially when he has given up a lucrative contract to do so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
streak Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 It seems to me that his fellow teammates just don't like him, his personality and the way he is.I think the text messaging fucked him up though. After that, the ECB/players just needed an excuse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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