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Given the significant list changes over the pre-season, who do you guys think are the top 5-10 (preferably in order) most influential/important players at your club (including injured players) in 2011? For the 1. J. Brown* 2. S. Black 3. D. Rich 4. M. Clark 5. J. Drummond * =...

longer than Australia I reckon. This is directed at Ricketts (and not the reasonable Australian supporters): Suck it!

Mainly your humour mate (But that's not to say your knowledge of the game is lacking). Just love the outrageous analogies, comparisons, predictions and exasperated statements that you come up with. Always look forward to seeing a post from you on this board to see what you come up with next. I...

LtD - I love your work and get a laugh from your posts but you are just showing your n00b status when you keep harping about Dhoni 'losing his nerve'. The fact is Australia got off to a flyer, Dhoni rang the changes and then India picked up 5/9. Not a bad outcome from supposedly 'losing his nerve'

In response to your post, how about if I typed this: Before you have a go at me, I am an Australian myself and I don't believe the above - I typed it as an example of how anyone can make those kind of statements and also to point our hypocrisy with respect to China vs Zimbabwe. Are our...

Ok, fine - they are all good points. But then why do countries who want to boycott Zimbabwe try to make it seem like a political issue then?: Surely their cause would gain a lot more traction if they tried to make it as non-political issue as possible, because then that would negate that...

just out of interest, how many of you who are supporting the boycott of Zimbabwe due to political/human rights abuses would also support a boycott of the Beijing Olympics?

Thanks for your reply. But could I please ask you for your thoughts if you were looking at it from a administrative decision makers point of view (and not a cricket fan - because fan's are all entitled to their own opinion on this and they don't really have to justify it) Cheers, I might do...

The issue of sports and politics mixing has troubled me for some time. I'd love to hear some other people's views on the matter. Firstly some questions: 1. Do you believe countries should boycott the Olympics? 2. Do you believe countries should boycott cricket tours to Zimbabwe*? I guess...

Don't need any replays to see that the Dravid one wasn't even close to being out.

Also, to those who have gone ultra-defensive about Gilchrist, can I just say, that the worst that Gilchrist can be called as a result of this thread is someone who shows 'selective sportsmanship'. That's not that bad. Think about it - if that's the worst that you can be called, that's really not...

ugh. why do you some of you have to bring up these umpiring decisions from the past into it. There's plenty of others threads to post that stuff. Can't you please, please keep that discussion to those threads and leave this one on topic? I thank all those who have contributed meaningful...

Good post :). And you've swayed me a little. At the time, I, like almost, everyone was full of admiration for what he did in 2003. But since 2003, Gilchrist often been talked about as the ultimate player who demonstrates sportsmanship - a level above other players if you like. But there have...

An example for you: I'm sure a selective walker who walks when his team are dominating can point to lots of times when he's walked (conveniently when his team has been on top) or the times when he's shaken the hands of an opponent after they've made centuries etc (ie other examples of good...

Thanks Nip/Tuck. :) Happy to agree to disagree on that one. As I said, this is something that I've slowly noticed after such a big deal was made of his walking in 2003. And I was happy to give him the benefit of the doubt until yesterday. The incidents yesterday were the tipping point. Fair...

Can we please keep this thread free of personal insults and discuss the point at hand? Fair enough, but it doesn't do much for your personal integrity or credibility of sportsmanship does it? I have no doubt that a lot of players around the world do the same - but they aren't described as...

Fair enough then, sounds like he's like most of the other players then. Not a great ambassador for sportsmanship as he has been made out to be in the last few years. As I said before, none of those players are lauded for being pioneers of walking and great sportsmanship as Gilly is. You...

as silly as praising how sporting someone is for "walking" then? Key difference? Gilly threw the ball up before the umpire had raised his finger. Harbhajan's celebration was after the umpire had raised his finger. Anyway, no one talks about Harbhajan as a great pioneer of sportsmanship...

If the Dhoni incident was in isolation, I would have been more than happy to give the benefit of the doubt to Gilchrist. But when it came on the back of Gilchrist appealing with such conviction for something something as blatant as the Dravid dismissal, it makes it pretty hard to give him the...

I have not complained about a single umpiring decision in this entire thread. If you want to have a go at people who do, please the countless other threads in the forum, where it would be relevant.

Plenty of keepers don't appeal when the ball comes off pad, thighpad, shoulder. And often, when they do it is more a question, than an appeal of conviction. If you have a look at the video above, and the way Gilchrist reacted and threw the ball up in the air, he acted as if there was no doubt in...

Selective walkers are worse than non-walkers. Pretty easy to walk when your team is dominating. It's when the pressure is on that you see the true colours

There are countless articles on the internet and posts on this forum that laude Gilchrist for his "sportsmanship" as I said, doesn't it all come down to sportsmanship in the end? especially in the case of appealing when there's clear daylight between ball and bat/glove?

Have a look at this replay: z125uLHDlUU (at Time: 2:50) Don't have to think too long and hard about that one.

Sorry mate. In all seriousness, I'm not. As I said, I've been watching this for a while (well, ever since he walked in 2003 because at the time I thought it was an admirable things to do). However, a few of his antics have just been eating away since then. And yesterday we saw two blatant...

No, but how many of them are painted as the ultimate pinnacle of sportsmanship that people like to paint Gilchrist as? Sorry, this isn't about the result of the match or Harbhajan. I think there's enough posts about those subject elsewhere on this forum. Please don't derail this thread.

OK, after watching Gilchrist's appeals behind the stumps over the years, this has been bugging me for a while. But I decided to give Gilchrist the benefit of the doubt and believed that Gilchrist was an all round good sportsman and bloke because everyone said so. Until yesterday. Everyone...

so is what you are doing legal m0nty?

Senegal 1 France 0 2002 World Cup. That would have to be up there, but I'm not sure if it is a bigger upset than Bangladesh beating Australia

should be ok for next week?