I can't believe you guys responded to rabbitohs. It was a stupid comment for sure, but some of you sure matched him with your responses,
"Andrew Symonds. Born in Birmingham, selective memories these bitter aussie minnows. Maybe we should give the aussies a 3 test series instead of 5?"
"Bitter aussie! ! How's your pakistani number 3 getting on? Keppler Wessels? Pot kettle."
Well let's see, Khawaja and Symonds both have very strong aussie accents because they have been here since they were very young, they probably don't even remember living anywhere but Australia. Kepler Wessels really? If SA had been allowed to play test cricket he would not have played for Aus, and, in fact he went straight over to SA at the end of apartheid. I bet you thought for a long long time about this and you could only come up with three names, two of which were entirely bogus. In 30 secs I can think of Hick, Kieswetter, Trott and Dernbach. That's not even classing the players who come into the same class and Symonds and Khawaja, if you want to have a go at them then you have to question what Pietersen, Strauss, Morgan and Prior are doing in the England team. Fact is that England do have more players who are questionably English than any other nation.
"The rest of the cricketing world are going to have trouble excepting we are going to dominate world cricket for years and will come up with all the excuses under the sun to justify their pathetic existence in the world of cricket."
I think you will find most people fully accept that England are the best test team in the world currently.
Duncan I think you have completely missed the point. We know that Trott is not 100% English but we are trying to show that it is a petty and ridiculous excuse by other nations to belittle what has been a startling turn around by the English team. They are English, they are recognised as English, they play for England, end of story.
It is just amusing that jealous people use that as an excuse for our absolute dominance, but as amusing as it is it does get tiring. Also by the petty peoples logic, it doesn't matter if Khawaja (sp?) and Symonds have Aussie accents, they are not fully Australian if you apply it to the rules that jealous people harp on about. However in my eyes they are Aussie as they have been accepted into their team and play for them with pride.
I agree with your other comment though, we are the greatest in the world right now. Though if I were in charge of the ECB I would start trying to organise a trip to SA to truly test our no.1 credentials. We should not fear any team and should be actively seeking out and challenging the other 'great' teams to further cement our new position and silence the petty, jealous, and childish critics.
Ha! Ha! Ha!... Gotta laugh at Duncan.....comes on here having a go at those for taking the bait and then goes on a rant...
In all honesty.... Congratulations England for there efforts over the last couple of years in reaching No.1 test playing nation......as far as I'm concerned test cricket is what it is all about and I particulary love the ashes series regardless of what position either Eng or Aus are sitting, it is good banter and nothing else beats it in my books.....cheers boy's
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posted on 14/8/11
I can't believe you guys responded to rabbitohs. It was a stupid comment for sure, but some of you sure matched him with your responses,
"Andrew Symonds. Born in Birmingham, selective memories these bitter aussie minnows. Maybe we should give the aussies a 3 test series instead of 5?"
"Bitter aussie! ! How's your pakistani number 3 getting on? Keppler Wessels? Pot kettle."
Well let's see, Khawaja and Symonds both have very strong aussie accents because they have been here since they were very young, they probably don't even remember living anywhere but Australia. Kepler Wessels really? If SA had been allowed to play test cricket he would not have played for Aus, and, in fact he went straight over to SA at the end of apartheid. I bet you thought for a long long time about this and you could only come up with three names, two of which were entirely bogus. In 30 secs I can think of Hick, Kieswetter, Trott and Dernbach. That's not even classing the players who come into the same class and Symonds and Khawaja, if you want to have a go at them then you have to question what Pietersen, Strauss, Morgan and Prior are doing in the England team. Fact is that England do have more players who are questionably English than any other nation.
posted on 14/8/11
"The rest of the cricketing world are going to have trouble excepting we are going to dominate world cricket for years and will come up with all the excuses under the sun to justify their pathetic existence in the world of cricket."
I think you will find most people fully accept that England are the best test team in the world currently.
posted on 14/8/11
Duncan I think you have completely missed the point. We know that Trott is not 100% English but we are trying to show that it is a petty and ridiculous excuse by other nations to belittle what has been a startling turn around by the English team. They are English, they are recognised as English, they play for England, end of story.
It is just amusing that jealous people use that as an excuse for our absolute dominance, but as amusing as it is it does get tiring. Also by the petty peoples logic, it doesn't matter if Khawaja (sp?) and Symonds have Aussie accents, they are not fully Australian if you apply it to the rules that jealous people harp on about. However in my eyes they are Aussie as they have been accepted into their team and play for them with pride.
I agree with your other comment though, we are the greatest in the world right now. Though if I were in charge of the ECB I would start trying to organise a trip to SA to truly test our no.1 credentials. We should not fear any team and should be actively seeking out and challenging the other 'great' teams to further cement our new position and silence the petty, jealous, and childish critics.
posted on 15/8/11
Ha! Ha! Ha!... Gotta laugh at Duncan.....comes on here having a go at those for taking the bait and then goes on a rant...
In all honesty.... Congratulations England for there efforts over the last couple of years in reaching No.1 test playing nation......as far as I'm concerned test cricket is what it is all about and I particulary love the ashes series regardless of what position either Eng or Aus are sitting, it is good banter and nothing else beats it in my books.....cheers boy's
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