badgerx16

Salts

Not bothered, I don't need advice or 'learning' from you anyway. Be careful of those splinters.

https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/cricket/12913817/bairstow-tries-same-stumping-trick-on-labuschagne

I look ve the way they rarely describe something as dangerous, merely 'technical'.

Given that the "first subject" was completely and demonstrably bollox, and given Icke is at best a snake oil salesman, ( being extremely generous ), I saw no benefit in considering the rest. Why can't you provide any evidence that suggests you may have a point ? I can research just about everything he rants on about and find plenty to support and justify my position. ( Nicely edited after my post btw ).

So you can't answer. OK.

Which things ? And given you hold such a balanced view, which things has he been proved wrong on ?

Well, this is a forum for Southampton fans, so....Duh !.

Smallbone could do with putting on a few pounds.

I suspect as Players they have a huge win bonuis lined up for the series, which probably motivates them.

Difficult at present as Elon has locked it down.

Want to inform the Daily Mail ? "A trans woman activist who appeared on ITV News as a 'struggling mother' has shared a photo of her breastfeeding her child and said she only stopped doing so after she had a cancer relapse. "

Yes, chemo therapy is quite normal for cancer treatment.

Do you think the Australians see The Ashes as sport, in the sense you mean ?

Tacks on the road again. Thankfully tubeless tyres are unlikely to catastrophically blow out.

Under Law 41.10.1 the batter must be ready to receive when the bowler is at the start of his run up. Perhaps England's response at Headingly should be for the bowlers not to wait if Smith does his between delivery walkabout routine. ( Maybe after one warning - to keep it in the 'spirit' ).

If it had been called 'over' the appeal would be void as it would be dead ball. The umpires are totally responsible for the situation if they have cocked up.

Obviously not. If they did the appeal would have been refused.

Sandworm

https://www.lords.org/mcc/the-laws-of-cricket/dead-ball

If you stay sat on that fence you will get splinters in your arse. Saying Icke is wrong, a charlatan, a lunatic, or whatever is not being "unprepared for all possibilities". It is the position one takes when having assessed both sides you come to the clear and obviously correct decision.

Using sandpaper to doctor the ball is only one slight step beyond Mike Atherton having sand in his pockets, or English bowlers with vaseline in their eyebrows. All of which is not only against the "spirit" of the game but the Laws. What happened yesterday may have been unsporting but was entirely legal. The easy way to defuse it would have been for the umpire at the bowler's end to have refused the appeal as the ball was dead. Once he did not Bairstow was out. Set's Headingly up nicely though.

Yes, but only for a split second because he isn't.

If the umpires on the field had ruled the over was 'over' they would not have permitted the appeal on the grounds that the ball was dead. They were the people responsible for asking for the third umpire's review. It might have been against the 'spirit' of the game but it was well within the Laws.

Stage 1 fought out by the Yates twins. Stage 2 gives COFIDIS their first win since 2008. More worrying - some twats scattered tacks across the road towards the end of today's stage, causing several punctures.