5th Test Border Gavaskar Trophy January 3-7 1000hrs @ the SCG

[ABAB]

Why did Konstas need to get involved? He had no business getting involved and simply should of said nothing. Simple as that.

Bumrah asked the question with both his arm open.

 

[FlowersByIrene]

Bumrah had both his hand out and all Kontas said was "he is not ready" and that's being a smartass????

Ignore him. He's a self flagellating fool.

 

[chriso11]

Why are people saying Konstas stuff backfired he did nothing wrong it's his partner up the other end who couldn't keep his head. This is all Khawaja being a bunny for Bumrah, if Konstas was facing the Last ball probably would have ran down the pitch and driven it through the covers, that ball was straight and did not move off the seam, Khawaja was just really poor in a really big moment.

End of the line for Usman, been a great late career revival but it’s time to give someone else a go.

 

[Blackhawk42]

Awful by Usman, might be time to call it on his career, been completely hopeless this entire series.

8, 4, 13, 9, 21, 8, 57, 21, and now 2.

Simply not good enough, he has been shielded by the poor play of other players but the heat needs to rise on Khawaja's spot in this team.

Matty Wade's career was ended with better scores than that in his final series, when he was playing as an opener as well.

 

[beatnik]

What reason is acceptable to mouth off at Bumrah? He's one of the fairest players in cricket.
It makes our reputation worse than it is. We are cheats with sandpaper remember.

I used to think that…I had hoped he could follow Cummin’s leadership example and improve the sportsmanship shown by this touring party but he’s shown himself to be just as hysterical and entitled as the rest

When there are never any consequences for poor behaviour, you get more poor behaviour and that is probably why Gambir is currently pulling his hair out trying to get some accountability in the Indian locker room

This is the boorish, bullyboy face of cricketing entitlement…these are the Ugly Indians

 

[Ohitsthatguy]

Why did Konstas need to get involved?

To prevent another over being bowled

 

[Lunchtime]

Why shouldn’t Konstas rattle the cage a bit?

India kicked it off via Kohli. Now they’re sooking because he isn’t afraid of them.

There are other ways in cricket at getting back at the opposition. For a batsman it's scoring runs.

Sometimes there is no need to go down the path of yapping/chatter/sledging.

 

[Mr Meow]

Why did Konstas need to get involved? He had no business getting involved and simply should of said nothing. Simple as that.

You see much worse things in almost every other match of every other sport. He said "he's not ready". Carrying on about this incident is worse than carrying on about an actual sledge or an aggressive appeal.

 

[Stax on the mill]

Bumrah had both his hand out and all Kontas said was "he is not ready" and that's being a smartass????

Pay no heed to Aristotle. If it was the other way around he would be lambasting the Australians for bullying tactics against a young Indian player. Aristotle is a self loathing individual, who hates his own country.

 

[SC_Power]

And India hasn't? He is just matching their energy. The only difference is he is in their heads and they aren't in his head.

Would have been a better response to say “Yes he is, but he can be what he wants to be”. That makes sense, and absolutely he should keep being who he wants to be,

Trying to argue “yeah but you were first” is such a nothing response. I see a lot of it on this forum from both sides, trying to blame the opposition for their teams’ own behaviour.

 

[revo333]

India is very hierarchical, and a 19 year old behaving like he belongs on the same field as a peer is probably insulting enough, let alone getting lippy.

Agree but I bet they had no issue when the 17 year old Turbanator gave Ponting a send off.

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

Hey champ, Have a read of all the countries that have been done for ball tampering in the last 20 years.

None as rank as us

 

[swingdog]

I think the English will get a hold of him at some stage.

He won't be averaging below 15 against them.

Flat pitches, small grounds, aggressive batters will damage that average.

 

[Lunchtime]

Bumrah asked the question with both his arm open.

Doesn't mean Konstas has to say anything. He could of kept his mouth shut. He DOESNT HAVE to get involved at all. Let his bat do the talking - score runs. Best way to get at the opposition.

 

[SC_Power]

Pay no heed to Aristotle. If it was the other way around he would be lambasting the Australians for bullying tactics against a young Indian player. Aristotle is a self loathing individual, who hates his own country.

Australian teams HAVE been bullying other teams for decades, and we all loved it.

 

[revo333]

None as rank as us

Cheating is cheating

 

[revo333]

Australian teams HAVE been bullying other teams for decades, and we all loved it.

Not all, I never liked McGrath or Lee for the way they played the game.

 

[Young Redleg]

What reason is acceptable to mouth off at Bumrah? He's one of the fairest players in cricket.
It makes our reputation worse than it is. We are cheats with sandpaper remember.

Conveniently forgetting that Tendulkar and Dravid were caught ball tampering in 2001. You should realise it's ok to occassionally defend Australia when they are involved in alteractions. You're just coming across as very holier than thou by framing them as the villians every single time.

 

[beatnik]

None as rank as us

Why do you pretend to be an Australian cricket fan?

 

[Lunchtime]

Australian teams HAVE been bullying other teams for decades, and we all loved it.

Yep. Australia has been doing this for years. The words. The psychological battles. But it got worse in the past 15 odd years I think.

In terms of India - Captain Surav Ganguly was the one to match it with Australia.

 

[Swanny69]

Yep. He needs to focus on his game and fly the flag when needed..can't do it all the time. In fact he can fly the flag the best way possible - scoring runs.

He had no business intervening and yapping at Bumrah.

A bit high on his own supply and loving playing up to the adoring crowd .. will learn the adoration will last as long as a couple of failures ..

 

[Jimthegreat]

If Konstas can bat for an hour+ score relatively quickly then he can really get further into their heads. The longer he bats then more he'll upset them. If you can get under Bumrah's skin, the last person you'd think would fire up, then you're doing well.

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

Conveniently forgetting that Tendulkar and Dravid were caught ball tampering in 2001. You should realise it's ok to occassionally defend Australia when they are involved in alteractions. You're just coming across as very holier than thou by framing them as the villians every single time.

Bring a square of sandpaper onto the ground in your underpants and a thumbs up from the captain is way worse than any other indisrestion and you know it.

 

[revo333]

Conveniently forgetting that Tendulkar and Dravid were caught ball tampering in 2001. You should realise it's ok to occassionally defend Australia when they are involved in alteractions. You're just coming across as very holier than thou by framing them as the villians every single time.

They have no clue, they never come on here to talk actual cricket.

The flog typed that out feeling good about themselves thinking only the Aussie had ball tampered hehe!

 

[revo333]

Bring a square of sandpaper onto the ground in your underpants and a thumbs up from the captain is way worse than any other indisrestion and you know it.

But mints in the pocket all good...