The Canberra Times have the bizarre news that with no rain, decent light, and 45 runs needed for victory the teams at Manuka have decided they don’t feel like playing any more.
But at 0-100, with dropped Test batsmen Usman Khawaja on 56 runs and Phil Hughes on 42 runs, both teams agreed to end the match with 45 runs still required for the victory, citing possible injury concerns prior to the upcoming Boxing Day Test.
The match has been declared a draw.
A truly meaningful match then.
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Was there an entry fee charged to spectators? If so there’d have to be grounds (sic) for a refund non?
The practice game last week was alsop a draw. Is someone being polite?
The match was suspended due to lack of interest. The 12th men had retired to the bar, the outfield were asleep or flirting with spectators and the bowler had to sing out before each run-up to get the batsman’s attention. When the umpires began sledging the boring play, it was decided to play the rest of the match in the bar.
There were a fair few boos and calls for refunds (not to mention slurring the visitors as ‘crooks’) when stumps were pulled.
In all honesty, the game fizzled out towards the end and was not much more than a net session writ large.
No surprise really given the Indians threatened to walk out on Monday during that morning’s heavy rain!
Ed Cowan is probably the only bloke to get anything out of the match.
Holden Caulfield said :
The Indians treat cricket with contempt.
Sounds like a good one to have missed!
As I’m not a cricket fan I must have missed the memo, but could someone let me know why it is now the “Chairmans XI” instead of the “PMs XI”?
Rusalka said :
There’s 2. The Chairman’s (of Cricket Australia) XI and the PM’s XI which is against Sri Lanka on Feb 2nd.
Thumper said :
That puts me in the same camp as the Indians, and I played a bit of competitive cricket a long time ago.
Cricket isn’t special though. It’s a great game, but like most professional sports these days it appears (at least to my jaundiced eyes) to be riddled with gambling related corruption, excessive salaries paid to fools, fools behaving very badly in public, fools behaving behaving very badly in private which then becomes public (Monaghan!!), general craziness (cf recent AIS female cyclist saga) etc etc etc.
I love sport and I engage in a number of amateur sporting activities, as do all my family. But adding money to the mix just seems to suck out everything that is good and noble about decent and honest competiition, and replaces it with crapola.
I only saw the footage on the news, but I did not see one seat in the stands taken. The noise Win attributed to the spectators sounded like their camera guy swearing.
Rusalka said :
The PM’s XI is a different game – this one hasn’t replaced it. The PM’s XI is a one day game – this one was a 3 day (or, as it turns out, more a 1 1/2 day) warm up match.
BimboGeek said :
Politically Correct, probably.
The Indians, with so much money and therefore influence over the game internationally, can pretty much do what they want.
And they do. The rest of the international cricketing community pretty much panders to their every whim.
I have tried to find out how much time was left. Any Rioters know ?
I have only ever heard of games being stopped by mutual consent when the consensus is that there is not enough time to realistically expect a result.
Ah I see. I was rather confused when the PM turned into a Chairman. Thank you all for enlightening me.
welkin31 said :
India’s sporting declaration probably had a bit to do with it. My understanding is there would have been several hours to play.
welkin31 said :
Three hours. I think that’s what I heard Tim Gavel tell listeners on the news this morning.
Holden Caulfield said :
There was plenty of time, India simply didn’t want to play any longer.
After all, it wasn’t a first class match, simply a practice match, ie, a net session in the middle.
Rusalka said :
About the same time Kevin 07 came to power. <==== Insert "groan" here:)