Ponting Takes It Like A Baby
Here I was, earlier in the week, proposing that I should take the number one Google ranking for “aussie cry babies” when I get such brilliant material out of the Second Ashes test.
Ponting was admittedly given out in a dodgy decision by “Slow Death” Rudi Koertzen.
By the way it was reported in the Sydney Moaning Herald (gotta love my own work some time), you would have thought Koertzen was an Islamic militant who had let off a bomb in the Aussie changing room.
The headline was: Unlucky Punter’s Rudi surprise. Yep, no other cricketers have been unlucky before.
Mind you, with their home umpires, I can understand why the Aussies might find this a bit of a surprise and newsworthy.
The article opens with:
AUSTRALIA collapsed in a heap when the real Jimmy Anderson revealed himself with a destructive display of swing bowling at Lord’s, where the touring team failed to recover from the controversial dismissal of Ricky Ponting.
The fact that seven other wickers were lost seems to have overlooked the writer.
Later on:
Koertzen’s decision could have been overturned if the umpire referral system had been in place for the Ashes, but the ICC decided not to introduce the system until October.
Yep, and so it would be for all the others as well. But the ICC have delayed it until after the Ashes to intentionally piss the Aussies off.
Wait for, it Chloe the Cry Baby has only just warmed up:
The South African umpire did call on the third umpire to determine whether the ball had carried to Andrew Strauss, but the confusion was heightened by the fact that Ponting hit his boot with his bat and Anderson appeared to be making a worthy appeal for lbw while the men behind the stumps shouted for the edge.
None of this consoled Ponting, who was denied a chance to improve on his mediocre record at Lord’s and had to watch from the balcony as wickets tumbled during the afternoon.
The 2005 series will be remembered for, among many other dramas, several dreadful umpiring calls, and the Ponting decision could yet change the course of the Ashes.
Funny, because if you Google “Aussie Cry Babies” you get this priceless gem:
HYPOCRITICAL Australian players had behaved like “cry-babies” by whingeing about racism when they had been cricket’s worst sledgers, according to Pakistan great Wasim Akram.
As you could imagine, picking a team to support from the Aussies and the Poms is a lot like trying to work out how you give the IRD more tax!
Anyway, it looks like we’re with the Poms from here on in.
