Ricky Ponting should be sacked

[Flying Fish]

The Indians are just sore losers always have been. They will come up with any excuse to villify there claims. The facts are they were trounced, no two ways about it.

 

[nomore4s]

And so it should be I think - particularly regarding racist slurs. ....
Having said that - its a shame that some of the fun seems to have gone out of the game.... some of the sledges I found here are just hilarious.
Best Cricket Sledges site

For umpires - seeing there are 3 already - why don't they rotate on and off the pitch - so each can spend a session in the shade, watching the TV monitors everyday???? might just help to take some pressure off.

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LOL they are gold Dukey!!

They are good but Number 10 left out the best bit, Bothams reply.

"The wifes fine but the kids are retarded"

 

[Prospector]

What about the 'catch' Ponting tried to claim which actually hit the ground? Or where he raised his finger to signal to the umpires that Ganguly had been caught out?

Punter is a great leader and player, but lets not get carried away about him being a good sport, because that he is not.

Nor is he a good role model to children. Theres only one in the team who seems to have this character: Hussey.

I remember not so long ago the Australia used to be a very sporting country, which made me envious as an Englishman.

Now it seems Australia has turned into an over patriotic bastardized child of the USA, where it's the winning at all costs which counts, and not the taking part.

As for sulking, I did note that the India squad came out onto the field after defeat and congratulated Australia. Nor did they criticize the umpiring. It was a far cry from the sulking which I've witnessed from the Australia cricket team upon defeats abroad.

Yup, have to agree with all of that! Ponting knows he is out and doesnt walk - ok, that is fine because as my cricketing husband says, you are often given out when you are not out, so that is a 50/50 thing. But then to carry on like a total jerk when he is given out and is not out, well, he wants his cake and eat it too.

I think Brett Lee has the right values too. One thing which totally bugs me about some Australian bowlers - eg McGrath, MacGill, is the ANGER they show when they get someone OUT! Like all they should have to do is bowl a ball and the player should get out, and get cross with them when they dont! Bad attitude.
Pyrrhic Victory I think!

 

[Prospector]

Hey, that number 10 best comebacks is incomplete! The best part of it is what Marsh said back to Botham! - he totally turned it back on Botham

But I dont think I can actually write what was said in response - very politically incorrect.

 

[arminius]

good to see some interesting comments here.

look, dont get me wrong, we have a great team that succeed where others might not. yet the national cricket team is more than just 11 blokes on an open space, and captaining that team is much more than telling his fielders where to stand. who sends india into bat on the 5th day having to face only 2 overs before lunch? yes they got jaffa, but our local under 15's coulda got him.

ponting will never get the sack, and he has presided over a good streak, but he will go down in history with a negative footnote.

ive never been one for electronic aid for umpires, esp lbw, but gee they were bad. i admit i was hoping india could hold on, after i had visions of y singh smashing 50 off 40 and setting up a nail biting win for india, and im not surprised the indians at home are going nuts. its not good. dukeys idea is good. rotate the 3 umps. we all know bad decisions are part of the game, but few expected so many crucial one sided errors. tends to focus the issue.

context is everything with the h singh thing. i doubt he was being viscious. heat of the mo stuff. again, ponting erred. he is not mature enough. 9/10 previous captains would have done things differently. his tactics would have failed on many occasions if the team did not produce brilliance on a regular basis. one should never rely on brilliance or luck though. if symonds was given out on 30, india win easily.

no one would say it, but i did. ponting is a poor captain, and though he wont get the hook, i think no other national skipper is more deserving.

if nothing else, i'd love to see the spotlight fall on pontings captaincy in games to come.

lets hope perth restores some dignity to the game.

 

[Pommiegranite]

we will just need to send Australia A to do that Frink. LOL

Haha!!..I think your under 18's could manage that.

When England won the Ashes in 2005, I was telling mates "Shut up....stop overdoing the celebrating....England are touring Australia next year".

The rest is history.

 

[Gspot]

The Aussies lost the 2005 Ashes through some bad decisions.
Damien Martin getting out twice, when he clearly wasn't in the second test, that we lost by a couple of runs. Went on to lose series 2-1.
Did we cry and whinge, saying we are going home early? No, we were humble and congratulating in defeat, then smashed them the next chance we got.
Unfortunately our media didn't headline and taint those games like they do now. Why do we eat our own, especially when we're doing well? Tall poppy syndrone is bigger than ever in this country.
Well done to the Aussies, Champions by a long way.

 

[theasxgorilla]

Australia = ruthless.

That's okay, you need a bit of the mongrel/b@stard in you to be a winning world-class cricketer. This has been the case for a very long time. That the Australian on-field 11 has had this in spades for over a decade goes a long way to explaining why they've also dominated this period of cricketing history.

 

[Damuzzdu]

Breaking news.

India has suspended it's Tour of Australia pending the outcome of the appeal against Singh.

I say sorry if you don't like decision, go home

Geez theese guys have short term memory problems. They gave us heaps in 2001 with some shocking decisions of our tour of the sub-continent, but Australia whilst not happy, kept on playing.

And if Kumble is so high and mighty about saying "That there was only one team playing within the spirit of the game yesterday" when he saw the Ponting LBW decision in the 1st dig, why didnt he rush down to the Umps and say "Oh he's not out, pls recall him" Oh no nothing like that.

 

[doctorj]

So does the list of ‘cheats’ according to Kumble’s Indian team now look something like this:
Proctor
Benson
Bucknor
Ponting
Gilchrist
Symonds
Clarke
Hayden
Jaques
Hussey
Lee
Clark
Johnson
Hogg

Sounds like it’s about time the Indians take some responsibility for their loss and focus on the next match. The ICC needs to lay the smack down on the BCCI for bringing the game into disrepute.

If the Indian Cricket team were traders they’d be broke long ago – the psychology clearly isn’t there!

Perhaps now the rules will be changed to allow a the use of the term ‘monkey’ a'la the straightening of the elbow rule. Will Proctor/Bucknor/Benson go the way of Hair?

 

[Broadside]

The Aussies lost the 2005 Ashes through some bad decisions.
Damien Martin getting out twice, when he clearly wasn't in the second test, that we lost by a couple of runs. Went on to lose series 2-1.
Did we cry and whinge, saying we are going home early? No, we were humble and congratulating in defeat, then smashed them the next chance we got.
Unfortunately our media didn't headline and taint those games like they do now. Why do we eat our own, especially when we're doing well? Tall poppy syndrone is bigger than ever in this country.
Well done to the Aussies, Champions by a long way.

Not tall poppy, just ungracious and poor sportsmanship. It's pretty simple really. Did you hear the Aussies give any credit in the post match interview for the other team? Ponting has no class, simple.

 

[Aussie2Aussie]

Well I find test cricket amazingly boring and am not a big fan of the sport; I do find our cricketers to be the biggest bunch of pompous drama queens around.

I can not think of one level headed, mature national player since Mark Taylor...
maybe McGrath.

 

[surfingman]

I do find our cricketers to be the biggest bunch of pompous drama queens around.

I think soccer could be in hot contention for this prize.

 

[Whitsy]

Well I find test cricket amazingly boring and am not a big fan of the sport; I do find our cricketers to be the biggest bunch of pompous drama queens around.

I can not think of one level headed, mature national player since Mark Taylor...
maybe McGrath.

not so sure about McGrath being level headed...can remember countless times he used to talk and curse himself walking back to his mark.

do agree with you on tubby...he was/is a champ

 

[chops_a_must]

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[doctorj]

Rumour has it Hogg has been reported by the Indian team to the match referee for calling a player a "bastard" and they're now claiming the use of the word "monkey" was actually a compliment as it is a revered hindu god.

Or so the story goes.

 

[Aussie2Aussie]

Very, very funny Chops.

 

[godzillaismad]

Well people, stop the debate. Ponting's team will achieve the most consecutive wins of all time. EA or Codemaster should release a cricket game to commenmorate their 'great' achieve, especially in achieving their 16th win... here' some suggestion for the Ponting special edition:

Shift + L = sledging while fielding
Shift + C = claiming a catch which is clearly not
Shift + A = appeal in agony and at all cost while using Brett Lee as a bowler, even the bat has clearly missed the ball or a ball going down leg for LBW
Shift + W = whole team appeal in agony for no apparent reasons
Shift + R = report other teams for sledging because they can't take it while they are the ones giving it to them. Note this feature is only available at the end of a test match.

Note those features should only be available when you use the Ponting team. No other teams have such features.

Anyone wants to add more? We should this to EA or Codesmaster soon.

 

[doctorj]

EA or Codemaster should release a cricket game to commenmorate their 'great' achieve, especially in achieving their 16th win... here' some suggestion for the Ponting special edition:

There wouldn't be an Indian team in the game because they'd all be too busy sulking!

 

[chops_a_must]

Rumour has it Hogg has been reported by the Indian team to the match referee for calling a player a "bastard" and they're now claiming the use of the word "monkey" was actually a compliment as it is a revered hindu god.

Unfortunately because of the way the Aussies have dealt with this, they are no longer going to be able to say anything to their opponents at all. Especially seeing as any derogatory comment is automatically now a racist one.

Yeah you get bad decisions in every sport, but when they so clearly effect the outcome of the game, like they have done here, it is a problem. I'd say the biggest cause for concern is that Australian cricket games aren't allowed to be umpired by the best umpires, Australian ones. It's kind of a bad indictment when the ICC themselves admit by proxy that umpires aren't impartial.

Speaking of cricket teams sulking... anyone remember when Australia A almost beat Australia?

If Sachin said Harbajhan didn't say anything, I would be more prepared to believe him. Given the player's reaction at the time, they just seemed to be totally confused. So, given the Aussies preparedness to win at all costs, it could well have been a ploy to get rid of the one bowler that has torn through them over many years. Anyone thought of that as the reason India is so steamed up?

It's surely a joke for Ponting to say to media to not question his integrity. I mean, he gave someone out FFS. Speaking of umpiring! And what integrity is there in that? Relying on someone who refused to walk when he nicked it to slips!!!! Something Kumble brought up. To me that says is all!

I just refuse to believe anything that the Australian cricket team says. Especially when it appears to be totally contrary to what Sachin appears to have said to his team, and the tribunal. One of the true champions, and fairest players ever to have played the game. I'd be more inclined to believe Kumble than I would any Australian player anyway (aside from Gilchrist).

I was watching squash last night, and there were some iffy calls with lets and strokes. But what got the players through it was good sportsmanship. Admittedly, to have a safe and good game of squash, you need to co-operate, but still, it led to little animosity between the players.

If you look at it another way, Australian domestic players earn more than international players of other countries earn. Yet, they seem unwilling to show any good good will at all. Disgusting.

Australia, you've gone too far. You are reaping the seeds of poor sportsmanship you have sewn. When people stand up to you, you behave like children, and monkeys, you can't handle it. Get some credibility back, show some respect and dislodge the cricket bat handles from your arses. And lead by way of example into a new generation of cricket and sportsmanship. One act does not a good sportsman make.

I fear when Australian cricket gets handed over to Michael Clarke. That will be an incredibly sad and dangerous day for sport in this country.