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Certified Legendary Thread The absolute brilliance that is the C9 commentary team. CC: Brad McNamara
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Hang on,he'll let us know when he's next on.I'm sure he'll find some reason to rant about him.
I wonder if Greg didn't get along with Dhoni when he coached India.Maybe Greg has said something to Ian about him because Ian sure has a massive bug up his butt over Dhoni.
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Batters. Thanks Pup/big bro. It's now commonly used by the majority of commentators and deemed acceptable cricket terminology. WTF.
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The correct terminology is batsmen/batsman. Annoys the hell out of me when people say batters.
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So what do you use when watching womens cricket?
Inb4 nobody watches womens cricket.
Is Brett Lee really 187cm? That's 6ft 1.6"
He doesn't look that tall.
I reckon he's a bit dumb and bland as a commentator
He doesn't look that tall.
I reckon he's a bit dumb and bland as a commentator
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Batswoman/batswomen? Women have been playing cricket for a long time and calling men who bat batsmen has never been an issue before.
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Batters doesn't really bother me. Vernaculars change with time.
Well, I have to say it's devastated me, and my family. My kids. My hairdresser, my poodle.. The low standard of commentary on offer this year. It's offended all of us, and I don't actually know how we'll recover.
I'm genuinely depressed when I sit down for one of my three days off in a row, open a VB and settle in on the couch, and hear nicknames, or someone getting excited, or someone talking about non-cricket topics, or someone telling old cricket stories. All I want to do is watch the cricket accompanied by a low, deep, perhaps deadpan voice that only calls the game. But no, the entire world is against me, and they're all annoying. I even woke up in a cold sweat because I was having night terrors the other night, because the commentary just isn't right.
I muted the telecast and put the ABC radio on, and it felt so amazing, It was so liberating. I stuck it to the whole team. They would be distraught to learn that a middle aged bloke with a five o clock shadow and an epic gut chose not to listen to them. They would be saddened to learn that someone who rests, gut hanging, floating in and out of actual thought, would choose to make them, the actual former cricketers, the object of his disdain.
But you know what? I have. So there. I urge anyone who is of the opinion that almost all of the 9 commentators are crap, to turn off and seek the green pastures of the ABC - because that is where they are all awesome, and I can enjoy my beers without my entire life being ruined.
I'm genuinely depressed when I sit down for one of my three days off in a row, open a VB and settle in on the couch, and hear nicknames, or someone getting excited, or someone talking about non-cricket topics, or someone telling old cricket stories. All I want to do is watch the cricket accompanied by a low, deep, perhaps deadpan voice that only calls the game. But no, the entire world is against me, and they're all annoying. I even woke up in a cold sweat because I was having night terrors the other night, because the commentary just isn't right.
I muted the telecast and put the ABC radio on, and it felt so amazing, It was so liberating. I stuck it to the whole team. They would be distraught to learn that a middle aged bloke with a five o clock shadow and an epic gut chose not to listen to them. They would be saddened to learn that someone who rests, gut hanging, floating in and out of actual thought, would choose to make them, the actual former cricketers, the object of his disdain.
But you know what? I have. So there. I urge anyone who is of the opinion that almost all of the 9 commentators are crap, to turn off and seek the green pastures of the ABC - because that is where they are all awesome, and I can enjoy my beers without my entire life being ruined.
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Seems the term 'levers' is catching on. Have heard both Waugh and Ponting use it during the BBL tonight.
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Yeah, I think of either baseball or cooking when I hear the term.
Mind you, generational change in commentators seems to mean the new breed think they have to change terminology.
Eg -
We now have a wicket, deck or track instead of pitch
We don't get movement or swing any more, we get "shape"
The ball now "decks" off the pitch, once upon a time it used to cut or seam
And so on.
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I still say batsman. To me batsman doesn't mean "man", it's just the name of the role of batting.
Agreed, batters is a baseball term.
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I remember a woman who plays women's football being asked what they call ruckmen in the women's game and she replied, 'Ruckmen!" 
All of these terms are used by all grades of cricketers every week. I don't actually have a problem with them being used. Language evolves all the time.
Side note. I still despise Slater and Healy. Just saying
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I don't view it as evolution, I view it as change for change's sake.
"Back of a length" is another one. Apparently "short of a length" was too ambiguous.
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As long as i understand what they are saying, I don't care
Batsman.
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what do ch 9 call "mankind"?
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Agree wholeheartedly with your first couple of paragraphs. I seriously cannot listen to this pack of jokers anymore, & that ****ing Brayshaw makes me want to destroy my tv. & I love that tv.
Really is criminal there is no alternative coverage, ABC or whoever.
They like to talk about Dhoni's life a lot.
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A bigger deal out west.
You really get the feeling Chappeli despises Dhoni's captaincy.
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Chappelli into Dhoni again.
To be fair, he's possibly the worst captain in world cricket history.
Now he's calling Healy a fat campaigner, which is fine by me.
To be fair, he's possibly the worst captain in world cricket history.
Now he's calling Healy a fat campaigner, which is fine by me.
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Clarke must know he's finished.
Golumless
A bigger deal out west.
Pretty hard to see him going past the next Ashes... good call to be commentating when your injured.
