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Ricky Ponting on the Glove and Moob controversy:

“I don’t think it was required, he changed it the over before, I don’t think they’d be too sweaty in one over.

I’m not sure what the physio was doing out there, I didn’t see anyone call for the physio to come out. As far as I’m concerned, it was pretty ordinary really.

But they can play whatever way they want to play.

We came to play by the rules and the spirit of the game, it’s up to them to do what they want to do.”

I won’t be saying anything about it.”

Is the spirit of the game to stand mid pitch and call Graeme Swann a fucking cunt? I’m not saying it isn’t, I’m just asking where in the ’spirit of cricket’ that part is.

And how can you finish a whole diatribe on something and then say I won’t be saying anything about it.

Then Andrew Strauss threw in this:

“There was a lot of confusion to be fair. We sent the 12th man out to let Jimmy and Monty know the fact there was time left, rather than the (number of) overs.

Then there were drinks spilt on his gloves and Jimmy called to the dressing room and we weren’t sure whether Jimmy wanted the 12th man or the physio, just a lot of confusion.”

Oh, that is ok then.

It was just that some of us didn’t realise the gloves were all sticky, and we didn’t know Jimmy and Montybot were too stupid to ask the umpires whether it was time or overs left.

Come on gentlemen, if you are going to piss all over us, at least pay us or give us a towel.

Ricky, stop being a hypocritical wanker and own the fact your team does dodgy shit all the time.

Andrew, just admit you were wasting time, it’s ok, we get it. If the umpires were too stupid to tell your 13th man and Bo Derek imitator to get off the ground, then that isn’t your fault.

Tagged as: andrew strauss, ashes, aussies, poms, ricky ponting

14 Comments

1. 2nd Slip  •  Jul 13, 2009 @03:21
   

   Did he really call him a fucking cunt or was he just asking if the sock bandage on his arm made him feel better?

   Anyways Siddle was half right he is a cunt – a funny cunt.

   And cunts are useful so its not really an insult.

2. marxkernow  •  Jul 13, 2009 @03:40
   

   gold! the spirit of cricket…always good fodder for a whinge or in order to gain the moral high ground for a dubious agenda. As for spilling drinks on the gloves, I love it. I will definitely be using this in a club match to annoy a bowler who’s troubling me after a drinks break…. Sticky gloves…so much sledging potential!

   marxkernow’s last blog post..credocricket: RT Top 7 batsmen: Eng. avg 31.93 Ozzies avg 91.43. Poms bowlers 6 wkts@112.33 each; Oz 19 wkts@36.16 each. A draw?! http://ff.im/-58Jwk

3. raj  •  Jul 13, 2009 @06:14
   

   The australian captain should officially change his name to Pricky Ranting

4. Matt  •  Jul 13, 2009 @07:50
   

   I reckon Ricky had a fair point but it was fairly pointless airing it – the umps should be empowered to crack down on all of that sort of shit – lets have a gurney rule – inside the last 1/2 hour, unless you are unconscious you stay at the crease and get on with it. Every mid-pitch gardening excercise between balls in the last 10 mins and you get bare bum spanked by the reanimated corpse of Screaming Lord Such, every glove change earns you a chinese burn – on the willy – from a set of dentures – operated by Hulk Hogan, and every time the phsio comes out unbidden and unnecessarily the whole opposing 11 can give you a nipple cripple equal to the lenght of the physios stay and if after that you manage to lose a couple of overs and save the match, we go to day 6 and the cost of opening comes out of your match fee…

   That being said I don’t think the aussies would have got up anyway

   Awesome game!- but shameful bullshit at the end – time for another JIihad methinks!

5. Leg Break  •  Jul 13, 2009 @07:54
   

   Has Dean Jones passed comment on England’s 12th man yet?

   Leg Break’s last blog post..Out of Jail

6. Hermit  •  Jul 13, 2009 @07:54
   

   Ponting and spirit of the game is an oxymoron

7. Russ  •  Jul 13, 2009 @08:16
   

   Matt, the umpires are empowered (at least in theory). If a batsman isn’t ready to face when the bowler is ready to deliver they can be warned for time-wasting. Subsequent infractions incur a 5 run penalty. Most of the time that is pretty inconsequential, but it might have mattered yesterday, if accumulated penalties had put Australia back in front.

8. Matt  •  Jul 13, 2009 @08:31
   

   Agreed Russ, just frustrated that umps are too gun shy to implelement these things- and I reckon the sight of Hulk Hogan approaching from fine leg and whipping out the dentures for a bit of chop chop would sort it very quickly!

9. Rob  •  Jul 13, 2009 @09:01
   

   If Ponting thinks England got away with a draw because of it he had sadly missed the point. Misdirection from his own incompetance?

   Rob’s last blog post..High drama in Cardiff

10. maza786  •  Jul 13, 2009 @09:15
    

    PS contribute on maza m8.

    gday !

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11. Steve  •  Jul 13, 2009 @10:02
    

    “Incompetence” is the England team for 4 days, Ponting for 1 hour.

12. Rob  •  Jul 13, 2009 @11:21
    

    1 hour? Even Strauss would have bowled his bowlers….

    Rob’s last blog post..High drama in Cardiff

13. jrod  •  Jul 13, 2009 @15:20
    

    Rob, you mean like how Strauss bowled an injured Freddie into the ground to get a result in the Windies even though Stuart broad had been the best bowler that day by a mile…

14. Dave  •  Jul 13, 2009 @22:03
    

    Speaking of bowling an injured Freddy into the ground, guess who’s injured and likely to miss the Lord’s match?

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