26 August 2009

Another Thing Missing From Cricket

Trouble on Green Street. I wonder if anyone's checked on the whereabouts of Elijah Wood. [That movie exceeds expectations, btw. Recommended.]

4 comments:

zim said...

we watched that when i was there last, as i recall.

yes, that cricket needs more LOTR actors is a given.

vijayanand said...

Shane Warne – The best bowler Australia has ever produced has opened up his mind to the media. He exposed his discontent regarding umpires. According to the ace spinner barring a few exceptions like Simon Tauter and ASAP Rauf other umpires went awry in terms of performance .Expressing disappointment that the standard of umpiring has deteriorated to the worst extent in the past twenty years of time he opined that though umpiring was a hard job, the performances of the umpires in the Ashes series had been consistently so ordinary. As far as Warne is concerned umpire Billy Bowden whom he expected to deliver correct judgments was also not consistent in performing his duty.
The spinner repents that there are too many instances of such bad judgments, which is increasingly becoming a cause of concern. He directly made a mention of names of umpires Daryl Harper and Billy Bowden, accusing them to be adamant in not confessing their wrong judgments. He also tried to strengthen his claim by mentioning that several players were not having a good opinion about those umpires in their minds. Warne insisted that the umpires should maintain a friendly attitude towards the players by shedding their high-handed attitude Warne also expressed his view repetitively that fifty over match should be withdrawn once for all as if such a change is brought about it would enable the players to spend more time with their families and relieve them from

zim said...

more balloons!

Rick said...

1) The idea of baseball players attacking umps by name is ... pretty out-there. I know it's happened, but it's an extreme mmeasure. May we here, once again, percieve in some way the effects of basebeall being the globally-prominent sport whcih plays the most regular-season games?

2) Not like there's a lot of assaults or stabbings surrounding NBA, MLB, NFL. Just sayin'....