Jonny Bairstow and English coach Brendon McCullum (nz keeper) have both made the same play themselves in their careers, and now they say it's not in the spirit😂
Long-time cricket fan and writer/editor here. The "spirit of cricket" has always been a noble lie. Think about it: when did it actually enter the game? It wasn't there at its inception when Spofforth was punching Poms on the proboscis and Grace was steadfastly staying at the wicket even after being given out. In the 1930s this elusive "spirit" of unknown provenance was being invoked by the Aussie press as Larwood tactically tore the Aussies apart at Jardine's request. For a while, bowling bumpers at tail-enders was frowned upon because it violated the fabulous spirit of the game, but this "unspoken law" was soon dispensed with if that tail-ender was presumptuous enough to flout that "spirit" and score a run too many. Once, Lindwall knocked a man out with a bouncer because he insultingly took block outside of his crease. Trueman was hardly a paragon of puritanical rectitude and was proud of it. "Mad" Jack Flavell didn't protest his sobriquet. He wanted to destroy every man be bowled at. Let's test the spirit. What exactly has been the greatest threat to it - just so we know its location? What was the boundary situation? Was it the abovementioned Bodyline series? What Jardine did was within the rules. It was mainly the Aussie press who demonised and denounced him and Larwood, using the "spirit of the game" as their high horse.
Was it Vinoo Mankad in 1947-48, who noticed non-striker Bill Brown backing up too far? Instead of releasing the ball, he stopped and broke the wicket. He’d sufficiently warned Bill, having already dismissed him likewise in a tour game, yet the huffing press almost labelled it impertinence, ensuring his name entered cricket’s lexicon as a byword for dishonesty. But do you know why Mankad was so "impertinent"? Because he was sick of his own countrymen deferring to the Aussies and the English. Those who dusted off the "spirit of cricket" back then actually had their pens at the ready to criticise ANY bowling from those funny little Subcontinental people that amounted to more than a mere tribute offering. Was India's decades-old doctoring of pitches a violation of this "spirit"? What about the West Indies' real and implied threats of on-field, and sometimes off-field, violence to batsmen all over the Commonwealth when they were at their zenith? It seems that this "spirit" includes acceptable cheating. Adam Gilchrist was actually criticised by many of these same upholders of cricket's "spirit" when he decided he WOULD walk, despite being the only man on the field to know he'd nicked it. A batsman was actually somehow acting within the bounds of this amorphous thing called cricket's spirit when he never admitted he was out. It's rather indefinable really, isn't it, old chaps, this "spirit"? Honestly, Piers and Geoffrey and the Lord's members look and sound like dribbling, drivelling privileged Pommy prats when they long for a fantasy bygone era and talk about tarnishing a game that was never exempt from human nature, and ceased being some kind of pastoral idyll the moment men like Spofforth and Grace entered the scene, bringing spectators with them.
A lack of respect by the batsman to wait until the play had settled before walking up to talk to the other batsman, a bit like a rugby league player not bothering to play the ball with his foot.
The poor form shown by a number of members at Lords has uncovered a dark side of that place which would warrant turfing out the bounders and interlopers. The question which demands an immediate answer is whether the so-far quiet membership has the breeding to see off those common ratbags. The reputation of the MCC is at stake.
Piers Morgan. The stumping is not in the spirit of the game when the winging poms say so (Prisoners Of Mother england Sooks it is in the rules the yous can not tamper with the ball. it is in the rules that you must stay at the crease until the ball is dead. are you going to play the dummy spit or are you going to change the rules so stupid players can get a free ride. from BOB Jonny Bairstow and English coach Brendon McCullum (nz keeper) have both made the same play themselves in their careers, and now they say it's not in the spirit below
Jonny Bairstow and English coach Brendon McCullum (nz keeper) have both made the same play themselves in their careers, and now they say it's not in the spirit😂
Rules are rules … and the irony is that Bairstow is a wicket keeper and probably would have down the same thing.
Piers busting a gonad over sweet FA again 😂😂😂😂
What's the "spirit" of cricket? Is that a fart in the wind?
Didn't the cricket lords consider asking Sir Don to use a smaller bat? 🤣🤣🤣 Bloody Jardine!
Long-time cricket fan and writer/editor here. The "spirit of cricket" has always been a noble lie. Think about it: when did it actually enter the game? It wasn't there at its inception when Spofforth was punching Poms on the proboscis and Grace was steadfastly staying at the wicket even after being given out. In the 1930s this elusive "spirit" of unknown provenance was being invoked by the Aussie press as Larwood tactically tore the Aussies apart at Jardine's request.
For a while, bowling bumpers at tail-enders was frowned upon because it violated the fabulous spirit of the game, but this "unspoken law" was soon dispensed with if that tail-ender was presumptuous enough to flout that "spirit" and score a run too many. Once, Lindwall knocked a man out with a bouncer because he insultingly took block outside of his crease. Trueman was hardly a paragon of puritanical rectitude and was proud of it. "Mad" Jack Flavell didn't protest his sobriquet. He wanted to destroy every man be bowled at.
Let's test the spirit. What exactly has been the greatest threat to it - just so we know its location? What was the boundary situation? Was it the abovementioned Bodyline series? What Jardine did was within the rules. It was mainly the Aussie press who demonised and denounced him and Larwood, using the "spirit of the game" as their high horse.
Was it Vinoo Mankad in 1947-48, who noticed non-striker Bill Brown backing up too far? Instead of releasing the ball, he stopped and broke the wicket. He’d sufficiently warned Bill, having already dismissed him likewise in a tour game, yet the huffing press almost labelled it impertinence, ensuring his name entered cricket’s lexicon as a byword for dishonesty. But do you know why Mankad was so "impertinent"? Because he was sick of his own countrymen deferring to the Aussies and the English. Those who dusted off the "spirit of cricket" back then actually had their pens at the ready to criticise ANY bowling from those funny little Subcontinental people that amounted to more than a mere tribute offering.
Was India's decades-old doctoring of pitches a violation of this "spirit"? What about the West Indies' real and implied threats of on-field, and sometimes off-field, violence to batsmen all over the Commonwealth when they were at their zenith?
It seems that this "spirit" includes acceptable cheating. Adam Gilchrist was actually criticised by many of these same upholders of cricket's "spirit" when he decided he WOULD walk, despite being the only man on the field to know he'd nicked it. A batsman was actually somehow acting within the bounds of this amorphous thing called cricket's spirit when he never admitted he was out.
It's rather indefinable really, isn't it, old chaps, this "spirit"?
Honestly, Piers and Geoffrey and the Lord's members look and sound like dribbling, drivelling privileged Pommy prats when they long for a fantasy bygone era and talk about tarnishing a game that was never exempt from human nature, and ceased being some kind of pastoral idyll the moment men like Spofforth and Grace entered the scene, bringing spectators with them.
Morgan defamed British troops at a time of war, & was fired for it...
If we've learned nothing, how come you have you knickers in a knot?
Go Aussie 🇦🇺
LOL
England: !the convicts aren't allowed any wins!
Piers get over it. Poms invented cricket, Aussies taught them how to play.
A lack of respect by the batsman to wait until the play had settled before walking up to talk to the other batsman, a bit like a rugby league player not bothering to play the ball with his foot.
LOL. Gotta watch out for us sneaky Aussies!
The poor form shown by a number of members at Lords has uncovered a dark side of that place which would warrant turfing out the bounders and interlopers.
The question which demands an immediate answer is whether the so-far quiet membership has the breeding to see off those common ratbags.
The reputation of the MCC is at stake.
What's the "spirit" of cricket? Is that a fart in the wind?
NO SAUCEPANS FOR YOU!
Sorry, but I am not a cricket fan. Somebody once asked me about the ashes, I told them that I would proudly give them some from my fire.
Piers Morgan... jealous big brother, stooping as low as you can go... stamp your feel a little harder Piers. AUSTRALIA HAS RETAINED THE ASHES!!!!
I have not seen one explanation yet of the rule in this case, who cares about facts these days, no one apparently.
Bit rich an upper class Toff like Piers telling Aussies that they havnt learnt anything as a Country.
Does the umpire signal when the over is completed and the ball is dead ?
Albo would have been hiding in a corner
Poor Piers.... ***Don't touch me Cricket or Royal s*** Or the Colonist Empire
Picking up the lunch shift hm?
Quack quack, Dom.
You simpleton freak. Go get bashed 😆
Bodyline a bouncer into Pier's head...might knock some sense of pommy cricket history into him.
Interesting the number of folk who fail to see Morgan's humour and attempts at promoting himself...
is it just me or as piers gets older he starts to look like a mutant from the hills have eyes or the goonies
More tea vicar?
This guy was a joke
Piers Morgan. The stumping is not in the spirit of the game when the winging poms say so (Prisoners Of Mother england Sooks it is in the rules the yous can not tamper with the ball. it is in the rules that you must stay at the crease until the ball is dead. are you going to play the dummy spit or are you going to change the rules so stupid players can get a free ride.
from BOB Jonny Bairstow and English coach Brendon McCullum (nz keeper) have both made the same play themselves in their careers, and now they say it's not in the spirit below
morgan the creep making excuses for dirty huw earlier.
Piers your tears are delicious
only boomers care what the controversial figure Piers Morgan thinks
Piers is below my contempt, and I'm not sure, many of his countrymen like him, either
its just not cricket is it mate