Society & Culture Things in life you just don't understand - Part 5

[LeakyValve]

Probably apocryphal, but Peter Willey facing Michael Holding:
The bowler's Holding......the batman's Willey.
Another unfortunate one is when Pakistan just beat the weather to defeat England for the first time
in England.
The game ended with dark storm-clouds descending on the ground and as excited Pakistani fans swarmed onto the oval, the commentator remarked:
"The game ends with a dirty, black crowd all over the ground."

 

[rocker_oz33]

Didn't they bring the boundaries in .
Because young player might of been Shaun Young broke he's leg on the fence .

 

[nobbyiscool]

Didn't they bring the boundaries in .
Because young player might of been Shaun Young broke he's leg on the fence .

Brad

 

[rocker_oz33]

Brad

Half right.
Or.
Half wrong .
.

 

[revo333]

Ian Healy I couldnt stand in the comm box .

Him and Slater insufferable.

 

[revo333]

Didn't they bring the boundaries in .
Because young player might of been Shaun Young broke he's leg on the fence .

The association I played in 7-8 years ago had to bring in a rule that all grounds be coned off from the boundary fence because a fielder injured himself and sued for about 700k.

 

[rocker_oz33]

Him and Slater insufferable.

Slater was on my tour in 05.
Seemed better in person.

 

[revo333]

Slater was on my tour in 05.
Seemed better in person.

Couldn't stand Howie this summer, yells into the mic when something happens.

 

[rocker_oz33]

Couldn't stand Howie this summer, yells into the mic when something happens.

He too much some times.
I'm not a fan.

 

[blueboy25]

Couldn't stand Howie this summer, yells into the mic when something happens.

Howie forgets to swtich from his Triple M radio personality where you go over the top to when he should be more professional when he is doing his fox footy/cricket work.

 

[rocker_oz33]

The association I played in 7-8 years ago had to bring in a rule that all grounds be coned off from the boundary fence because a fielder injured himself and sued for about 700k.

Wow..

I thought there was a cause when we sign up to play .

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

Howie forgets to swtich from his Triple M radio personality where you go over the top to when he should be more professional when he is doing his fox footy/cricket work.

He seems to have taken over from Eddie Everywhere.

 

[Sinjin Smith]

Him and Slater insufferable.

When Slater first started he was actually very good, he then turned to shit.

 

[MP_]

I can’t stand mark waugh as a commentator, comes across as arrogant and smug.

 

[Ivelisse]

Speaking of cricket commentary and the "good old days", is anyone else perplexed by all the wistful reflections on the 'classic four' lineup of Australian cricket commentary (Richie Benaud, Bill Lawry, Tony Greig and Ian Chappell), lamenting that the current commentators aren't a patch on them?

Maybe I'm wrong, but I can't actually recall anyone particularly enjoying Ian and Tony's contributions in particular. They simply benefit from two things (in my opinion):

1. The explosion of one day cricket over the 80s and 90s: every match over the Australian summer was a huge event and so anyone born between, say 1965 and 1990 has very vivid and fond memories of their summers growing up watching the Aussies play in ODIs and that core quartet being essentially the voices of their summer.

2. The popularity of the 12th Man, which made it fun for us all to do lame impressions from those albums (and, while undeniably funny, I think it's fair to say Billy Birmingham's impressions were very hit and miss - so it's often a bad impression of a pretty bad inpression).

With all due respect, anyone my age who'd never seen that group as players wouldn't have cared in the slightest at the time if Chappell and Greig had been replaced by others, we look back at it fondly because we miss being kids in the summer.

Definitely some "I miss my youth" thing going on. Not getting to watch when the match was in your city doesn't get mentioned. Similar to people talking about Ten & Nine having the AFL and making delayed games every round sound much more fun than I remember.