The end of another overly long ODI series
There were a lot of good things about this series, apart from us winning it 5-0 and extending our home record against the West Indies. There was also Mitch Starc’s bowling, the return of Ussie, Our George’s general awesomeness, Adam Voges and Shaun Marsh getting my hopes us yet again, Cricket Australia’s generosity in finally giving people a reason to go to Canberra and the creation of the Maxwell dilemma – do we like him, is he really good enough and why the hell doesn’t someone supervise his girlfriend when she shops for formal wear?
There were bad things, too, though. There was some iffy batting and some odd DRS incidents; Mitch Johnson’s hair was out of control, Pup got injured, Twatto batted pretty well and there were a couple of dropped catches (actually on both sides – you can breathe now Voges!).
Nothing, however, is quite so traumatising as Twatto’s mug. After a first ball quack and then not bowling at all, he got to do this:
Things will never be the same again.
I need whisky.
Oh dear, the snipes at the deadly piece of second hand shower curtain that Maxwell’s woman wore is in for a long run I fear (HOPE!).
Yay for Voges! He played splendidly and he’s got a better ODI average than just about anyone else now but they’ll tell him to **** off back to the gormless Warriors for the rest of his career, you just watch.
Since Adam Gilchrist retired there just hasn’t been enough wingnuts playing for Aus, we need Voges for that reason if no other.
Yes, the wing nut quota is on the low side. We have the bad hair and the buck teeth, I think we need to get some big ears back in there. It seems there’s only so long I can go on drawing mirth from Twatto before the masses attack me, I need more targets.
I was so hoping that the Windies would win last night so that there wouldn’t be a ‘winner’s interview’ with a jubilant Twatto (I refuse to call him Captain). No such luck.
I think Channel 9′s commentary team has reached a new low-water mark this summer. I’m even looking forward to Shastri.
I couldn’t bring myself to stick around for the post match Twat. I knew It’d foster in me the desire to drink bleach. That photo was enough.
They have gone beyond very annoying and gone into an whole other realm of weird shit speaking. I think the ACC should do a bloody investigation into that lot bar Mussey and Lawry.
I mean, is it me or has Ian Healy given up on English and made up another language all his own which he speaks at top speed?
Mike Hussey seems to be the only one who is interested in watching the game of cricket that they are covering and talking about it instead of roaring incomprehensibly, growling, gibbering on about golf, getting off on David Warner whether he’s on screen or not, and trying to flog some crap that no-one could ever be interested in buying.
Yes, I think you’re right about Heals. He has been pretty hysterical all summer – I mean, a very irritated Lawry even ripped into him on-air a couple of times – but he got considerably worse after he was forced to publicly recant his completely over-the-top criticism of Wade. Now he sounds frantic and hysterical, and his warp-speed gibberish is only interrupted by psychotic-sounding giggle sessions with Slats (possibly the most tiresome sports commentator on earth).
I don’t know when CA can re-negotiate their television rights contract(s), but when they do, they simply must ascertain better quality of the coverage: at the moment, Channel 9 is simply interrupting its broadcast of endless cross-promotions, awkward Vodafone polls, weird Toyota sh*t, and dodgy products sales with the most miniscule amount of cricket – usually in the form of hour-long whinging about whether or not something was or wasn’t a wicket (I have come to abhor Hotspot) and unhelpful spider-cam shots (who wants to watch that many close-ups of Twatto or My Little Tattooed Pony, anyway?!). It’s exceptionally poor sports coverage. I have no idea how CA can allow this continue. Of course people are turning away from cricket in droves: unless you’re a die-hard cricket tragic already, why expose yourself to six woeful hours of an especially annoying kind of breakfast/infotainment show?!
I saw a couple of times during this last month or two that channel 9 didn’t even show the cricket in WA – and one of those times was an ODI at the WACA. I don’t know if there was a genuine reason behind it (like delayed telecast in QLD due to flood coverage) because I’m going on FB chatter. And those polls are bloody annoying. More so when they are irrelevant to anyone not in Australia.
I think you might be being too harsh on Heals though. He is the only thing in Australian cricket that unites the entire cricket watching world.