equatorEvery one day series should have a major controversy in the first game, you know, just to keep us interested.
Enter Brad Haddin.
Neil Broom is newly into the kiwi team.
He is batting behind Grant Eliott, so the kiwis obviously don’t have such high hopes for him.
Then he is facing the door knobs of Michael Clarke and he misses one.
Dot ball.
You’d think, but magical wicket keeping can change cricket games.
Brad Haddin seeing the ball was going to narrowly miss the stumps decided to give Clarke an “assisted bowled”.
It was done with the grace of mobsters doctor.
He just eased his hands in front of the stumps (illegal) and then when taking the ball hit the stumps and bails with his gloves (majorly fucken illegal).
It was something you would expect of a Victorian Wicket keeper in a final.
The super slow mo is interesting, with Haddin looking straight down at the stumps for a while, and then eventually making his way over to the huddle.
This may be the first time I thought Haddin had what it takes to be Australia’s keeper.
Thommo says:
Ponting is a two head and his petulant spray vis a vis Vettori just proves it
Utter Bastardtry.
In the old days would be down in the beautiful folklore of trans tasman cricket, but this should give Ronchi a chance to play against the country of his birth.
Would also like to say great umpiring from square leg, with the third umpires helping out with stumpings, surely they could notice little things like the keepers gloves being inches in front of the stumps.
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Haddin didn’t keep the Australian Way.
Historically, when Aussies cheat they win. This is the final insult.
BTW, no coincidence who the bowler was. As if he wouldn’t have known.
Funny story LB, i bowled a wrong un one day, and the keeper was caught by surprise by it, and had his gloves infront of the stumps, and it hit his gloves and then went onto the stumps. I saw it all, and never said a thing, the keeper let the batsman get half way off before telling him.
Perhaps you’re lucky you lost anyway. Judging from talkback radio here today we’d be dredging out our Greg Dyer effigies and burning them in the streets by now.
And it all happened on Feb 1 too.
BTW, there’s no “e” in Broom. He’s a sweeping instrument, not some inbred West Australian town.
Unreal. Hadding is an example of the level of cheating Aussie will go to in order to win a game. He knew dam well that in the least, it could be a close call. Ponting mentions Haddin said without doubt that he had been bowled, what a joke. It takes two seconds to say to the ump, “just double check that for us, we’re confident, but have a look anyway…”…How long does that take, and protects everyones integrity during the situation. To come out and say he is 100% confident is a load of shit.
Bunch of cheats..Look at the way they behavede when NZ won the Rugby LEague final, bunch of cry-babies. I hope Braddin gets a serve in the next game.
Sounds like something Ian Healy would do – perhaps Haddin’s had lessons in being a bastard?
LMAO As an Aussie I’d just like to say ” Go the Kiwis “! Ponting is a two head and his petulant spray vis a vis Vettori just proves it . He learnt the art of spin doctoring from Steve Waugh but is only half as shifty . Andrew Symonds has a 2 digit IQ , he is to use an English term ” a braindead tosser “
well you gotta do whatever it takes to win. how is this any different from appealing for LBW when the batsman has nicked the ball? of course, ponting was positive it was out. just ask him!
healy would indeed be proud
Healy would have done that and got away with it. Haddin still has a lot of things to learn about being a nasty prick. Ponting seems to think he can get away with murder. hope someone whacks him in the balls. hard. just for the fun of it. not to teach him a lesson or anything.
Look what Ponting has to say:
http://content-eap.cricinfo.com/ausvnz2008/content/current/story/388680.html
LOL…
@glen – 100% confident? man, that is what is wrong with this team. if bollinger was in the team they would be 150,000% confident!
bloody cheating aussies….
This is some serious shit.
This is to Haddin:
Why would you do it when you know that there are dozens of camera watching your every movement which get beamed to millions of people including people like me in far off countries like India who are just waiting for that one chance to bag you and your two headed constantly in denial chump of a captian.
Thank God you lost or else there would have been some seriously angry NZ bloggers writing angry though excellent posts on you, your predecessors and their “under handed” tactics. Really, why even try??
Yes it was dubious, at least nowadays it gets highlighted. Ray Jordon was very lucky to escape 40 years ago with something more flagrant. Speaking of Victorians……
http://monkeyatthecricket.blogspot.com/2009/02/haddin-and-jordon.html
Video footage of the dismissal here
Aussie Aussie Aussie!!!
Cheat Cheat Cheat!!!!
jrod, dont you get, likel, lynched for calling Aussies cheats?
YM, be careful what you say about the great Slug Jordon he was a god.
I am pissed that “Haddin caught cheating” link went to a non-reality-p0rn site.