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AFLW 2024 - Round 9 - Indigenous Round - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
What does chappell think of dhoni?
The correct terminology is batsmen/batsman. Annoys the hell out of me when people say batters.Batters. Thanks Pup/big bro. It's now commonly used by the majority of commentators and deemed acceptable cricket terminology. WTF.
So what do you use when watching womens cricket?The correct terminology is batsmen/batsman. Annoys the hell out of me when people say batters.
So what do you use when watching womens cricket?
Inb4 nobody watches womens cricket.
Yeah, I think of either baseball or cooking when I hear the term.The correct terminology is batsmen/batsman. Annoys the hell out of me when people say batters.
I still say batsman. To me batsman doesn't mean "man", it's just the name of the role of batting.So what do you use when watching womens cricket?
Inb4 nobody watches womens cricket.
Agreed, batters is a baseball term.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.
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.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.
I don't view it as evolution, I view it as change for change's sake.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
So what do you use when watching womens cricket?
Inb4 nobody watches womens cricket.
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.
Clarke must know he's finished.