I've decided I am over cricket. There are a number of reasons and here they are:
I live in England, a world where Graeme Swann is celebrated and people hope Ricky Ponting will retire.
Cricket is a world where the fans are in uproar about potential match-fixing - for a couple of days. After that they are just "over it".
That there were match fixing allegations to begin with is enough to put me off cricket. Do people seriously get a kick out of betting on no-balls? The words "get a life" spring to mind.
I live in England, where the main sport broadcasting radio station promises to commentate on every match of an international cricket tournament, then does so on all matches except those involving Australia (and stops altogether once England are out of the competition).
I follow an international side whose governing body doesn't have a clue what it's doing and whose chairman of selectors is a complete prat.
I follow a state side whose captain is struggling and whose best players inevitably get nicked by the Bloody Vics or the Blues. Mitchell Marsh should be off any time soon.
Bloody Vics.
I live in England, where they develop amazing blind spots about cricket results.
Australia are having a huge break, during which I am getting very very bored. I think it is most rude of Cricket Australia to have such a break. Do they not care about us bloggers? I'm doing so badly, the blog is getting hammered by spam and another Aussie cricket blog has stopped folllowing me on Twitter!
Cricket is a world where Stuart Broad is allowed to get a century and people still insist that only Australians sledge.
Shane Watson
Graeme Smith
Andrew Strauss
Harbajan Singh
... plus, I live in England where they think it is acceptable to remind me that I am "just a convict".
So cricket is over for me.
Until Australia start playing in India, that is.
10 thoughts on this post:
Count me in. I'm getting bored like shit.
Did you hear about Sachin Tendulkar getting involved with flying? HAH! I got so jobless I was actually thinking to write something on that. Never mind.
Sid, you could write something about whackface (ask Wes) being completely whack so far for Hampshire. That should stimulate the writing follicles.
Lou
PS - Oh, the convict thing is so funny, isn't it?
I've lived here 14 years or so and I only got bored hearing it after about the thousandth time. Before that I laughed myself silly at the wacky, unique humour of it and praised the speaker for his/her -usually his - originality.
It usually only comes out when we beat them at something, which betrays that inferiority complex.
Kanaith, do not stoop to writing on Sachin flying. If you really are bored, make fun of the English. There's usually enough fuel there.
NOOOOO!!! Call the cops, the ambulance, the firefighers, the...
You can't give up on cricket Sid :(
See, I even allow you to make fun of the Saffers and Stanis if you're getting bored.
But if you don't want to, does that mean you won't blog until the series against India?
Champion's League starts any moment and 2 rubbish Aus teams are in it.
Bushrangers minus Cam White looks a bit beyond the pale and the Redbacks are minus all that made them good, ie Pollard.
lou
Sid, I share the pain about England, and the match-fixing, spot-fixing, fucking life-fixing shit. Let's get the Indian series started, so we can enjoy giving our intense dislike for Harbhajhan a damned good flexing. What an arse he is. But at least he's an honest arse.
Look forward to your next post then.
:)
I know you can't leave because Hauritz hasn't retired yet. You're trapped. As long as he...or his DNA is there, you're there. Hauritz will have a son (not with you), he will be a cricketer and you will still not be able to leave. Doohoohahaha
Sigh ... I might stay then. And Stani's right, until Hauritz retires I'm in it for the long haul.
You know, I'm thinking the bushrangers are looking ok in the champion's league. I might have to defect from the South Australians, I think.
Adrian, I have to admit that I don't always dislike Harby. Sometimes I think he is very cool, but I'm in a bad place at the moment so he's copping it.
Can someone please comment on the "pain" post, because if I get another spam on it I'm moderating all comments?? Apparently Shane Warne knows how to spell "embarressing" and I can never remember how it is ...
It's just not cricket. :-(
Can I just say...I used to get to watch more Aussie cricket when I was in India than when I am in Australia! What's with Channel Nine only airing the matches in summer??? Not happy! Not everyone can afford Foxtel you know. It sucks that I can't follow their tour in India...will have to catch up with it through your posts and the online news...
The same thing happened here, PB. Cricket moved from terrestial TV to Sky and only people who pay for Sky can now watch it at home. Of course, in England they didn't actually care until 2005 when England finally won something.
Since then, they have been up in arms about it.
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