Australia v India

[NTA]

Shit gets wickets

[NTA]

Rohit is a rubbish captain

[NTA]

Labiashame fucks up the simplest of pokes back past the bowler, then Head leaves one headed for top of off.

Konstas' innings making these old farts look awful

[sparky]

Kohli fined 20% of his match fee. Maybe he was trying to give Konstas a "welcome to the NFL" greeting, but he ended up looking like a petulant, unsportsmanlike dickhead.

[NTA]

This post is deleted!

[NTA]

@sparky said in Australia v India:

Kohli fined 20% of his match fee.

Financial penalties don't even touch the sides

[sparky]

@NTA He knew exactly what he was doing. He knew it would be a top-end Class II sanction, rather than a Class I sanction. Cunning and calculating.

[NTA]

[MajorRage]

Who cares?

Aussies been treating opposition like shit for years on their home territory. Anybody want their fuckin arm broken?

Don’t condone it, but no interest in Aussies getting pissy about it.

[NTA]

@MajorRage said in Australia v India:

Who cares?

Clearly at least 4 people in this thread

Put the boot on the other foot: if this had happened to an Indian player it would have been burnt effigies and protests and claims of racism.

As it is, we just think Kohli is being a petulant flog.

[NTA]

@MajorRage said in Australia v India:

no interest in Aussies getting pissy about it.

Of course. But we're the Custodians Of The Game.

[MajorRage]

@NTA said in Australia v India:

@MajorRage said in Australia v India:

Who cares?

Clearly at least 4 people in this thread

Put the boot on the other foot: if this had happened to an Indian player it would have been burnt effigies and protests and claims of racism.

As it is, we just think Kohli is being a petulant flog.

Did not expect to agree with all of your reply to this!

[MN5]

Kohli trying desperately to stay in the headlines now his form has dried up.

I imagine he’ll get an earful when he comes out to bat.

[voodoo]

@MajorRage said in Australia v India:

Who cares?

Aussies been treating opposition like shit for years on their home territory. Anybody want their fuckin arm broken?

Don’t condone it, but no interest in Aussies getting pissy about it.

Really?

I thought it was really fucking average behaviour. The captain of the most popular cricket team on the planet intentionally shouldering a 19yr old kid on debut because he was slapping their bowlers around a bit. What a complete piston wristed gibbon.

And what a pathetically (yet totally expected) weak sanction.

He should have been banned from the 5th test as a minimum. This wasn’t a few words about his mum, this isn’t getting into his head. It was deliberate physical contact.

And don’t get me started on the way he carried on like a wounded pork chop who’d been on the receiving end of a Jerry Collin’s special

Complete fuckwit, how could you look your wife and kids in the eye after that?

[voodoo]

Btw - the very best thing about Konstas yesterday was when they asked him about the incident and he said “what happens in the field stays on the field” - so good, makes Kohli look even smaller

[Donsteppa]

Virat is turning into an ageing pantomime villain.

[MajorRage]

@voodoo see the first 3 words of my last paragraph.

Think you are being way over the top with your critique myself. It’s not cool, but sheesh can’t look your family in the eye? Get a grip.

Top level cricket, especislly vs Aus at home, has always been top tier tough. Kohli looks pretty petulant here but that’s about it.

[voodoo]

Get a grip?

You’re a man in your 40’s, let me know the next time you shoulder a 19yr kid because he’s making your teammate look a bit silly

It’s fucking embarrassing is what it is, and I’d feel like a complete fuckwit if I’d done it

[MajorRage]

@voodoo can you read?

Why would I do something I don’t condone?

[Smudge]

Ultimately, cricket is a non-contact sport, where the ball is the vessel through which contact is made (from the bowler's hand, onto the batter's bat or body, or into the fielder's hands). Kohli deliberately and clearly crossed that line.

The very light punishment sets a precedent, I fear.