Aussies Taunt England Cricketer.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/international/theashes/10464262/Ashes-2013-14-Stuart-Broad-inspired-by-Australian-taunts-to-give-England-day-one-advantage.html

/// Roughly half of the Gabba’s 40,000 crowd, as Broad marked out his run-up, chanted their assertion that he practises onanism. But he reacted as one accustomed to abuse and unruffled by it. ///

Are our cricketers made of sterner stuff than some of our footballers?

[Zeuhl]

Game playing again aog?

One question in the guise of another

We can see right through you....

[youngmafbog]

Depends on the footballer.

Some are made of stern stuff others are overpaid nancy boys.

[ChillDoubt]

Not sure what Zeuhl is alluding to (I'm guessing there is another AOG question in a similar vein elsewhere) but yes, in some instances cricketers are made of sterner stuff.

Some know that when going into bat they may well have to 'wear a few', that is taking short balls to the head, chest and arms. They see it as part and parcel, you either hit it or you wear it.
Unfortunately, footballers have a propensity to fall over when not even touched, but as the authorities are more than willing to turn a blind eye, it will continue ad nauseum.

[ChillDoubt]

But sometimes, they can take sledging a bit too far.
The Australian slip cordon love to get stuck into opponents, like in 1993, when they chanted 'Choo Choo', as New Zealand all-rounder Chris Cairns took to the crease. This doesn't seem too bad, but poor Cairns' sister had just been killed in a train accident.

[Baldric]

He seemed to stick rigidly to the job in hand,
and ignored the taunting.

[Zeuhl]

Fair does Chill - i was being a bit cryptic...

I was disheartened by the attempt to reignite the 'people who are racially abused should just smile and shrug it off' argument thinly disguised as a question on Stuart Broad's fine performance in the Ashes match

[Gromit]

The guilty usually are hard faced.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/cricket/article-2362314/Ashes-2013-Stuart-Broad-banned-says-Michael-Holding.html

[ChillDoubt]

Ah right.
Not really got an opinion on that, some deal with it, some don't.
But if I had a quid for every time I was called sheep shagger, Taffy, Druid, leek f*cker or just simply "that Welsh c****" when I was in the Army, I'd have a few bob!
I put most of it down to wearing a red hat and beret though.....

[Zeuhl]

LOL Chill

racist stereotypes!

but I expect having the fine singing voice makes up for it?

[ChillDoubt]

Ah, poor Michael Holding. 'Not in the spirit of the game', eh?

Just like in his hayday, when some felt the same at him sending half pitched rip-snorter's into rabbits at the tail end, before helmets were the norm.

Opinions are like a***holes. Everybody has got one.

[ChillDoubt]

To be fair, my colleagues liked me playing to the stereotype though, what with my quips about "Whose coat is this jacket?" and "There was no bread so we had to have toast", in my feigned South Walian accent.

Oh the halcyon days......

[Gromit]

Chill

My point was that the Aussies have a good reason not to like Broad. He should have walked in the test but didn't.

[ChillDoubt]

My point was that the Aussies have a good reason not to like Broad. He should have walked in the test but didn't.
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Absolutely not! Bar the great Adam Gilchrist, when have you ever seen an Aussie walk? It's not in their DNA.
Broad is not required to give up his wicket.
It is the sole responsibility of the umpires to give him out, plain and simple.
Everyone gets good and bad calls, they even themselves out over a career.
Isn't all this holier than though rubbish from the Aussies a bit much? Trevor Chappell should have ignored his brother and bowled overarm. Ricky Ponting shouldn't have harrangued Aleem Dar the last time we were in Oz.

[ChillDoubt]

Yes trigs, but Ramdin lied and said he hadn't dropped it when he clearly had.
Broad wasn't asked to provide an explanation by the Match Referee or anyone else.
Neither did he claim he hadn't hit it. He stood his ground and simply awaited the umpires decision.

[tellboy]

Better than being a " Banker " though ?

[ChillDoubt]

Ramdin lied when questioned by match officials.

Broad wasn't summoned by anyone to explain his actions.

That's the difference.