sportsbarIt's Official - England cheated us out of the Ashes!
August 25th 2008 07:33
For those who knewEngland could never beat us in cricket. Those who have been forever haunted by those late nights...
The memories you had locked away in deep dark places - never to be mentioned again. Perhaps we might finally get closure on this nightmare.
The winging Poms - those guys that hadn't beaten us dating back to 1989. They finally beat is in 2005 with some doggy umpiring decisions and now it seems underhanded tactics.
We knew they couldn't beat us.
Oh how they cheered, oh how they celebrated, who can ever forget those ghastly images of Freddy Flintoff, Kevin Pieterson and Michael Vaughn jumping about. I think I just threw up...
It brings tears to your eyes...
But now we know why...
plain and simple - they cheated.
Former England opener Marcus Trescothick has admitted in a new book that he illegally shone the ball by sucking on breath fresheners during the 2005 Ashes series.
The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper said on Monday the unplayable reverse swing generated by pace bowlers Simon Jones and Andrew Flintoff - which was crucial to England's 2005 Ashes triumph over Australia - may have been caused by Murray Mints, which, as with other artificial substances, is illegal.
The saliva from these mints aided swinging, Trescothick wrote in his autobiography Coming Back To Me.
"I was firmly established as the man in charge of looking after the ball when we were fielding," he wrote.
"It was my job to keep the shine on the new ball for as long as possible with a bit of spit and a lot of polish.
"And through trial and error I finally settled on type of spit for the task at hand," he added in an excerpt which appeared in Britain's News of the World newspaper.
"It had been common knowledge in county cricket for some time that certain sweets produced saliva which, when applied to the ball for cleaning purposes, enabled it to keep its shine for longer and therefore its swing."
This is an outrage! Swing bowling is credited as the masterstroke that beat us. Does anyone feel violated?
Sure Australia had the underarm - sure we have sleged... but everything we have done has been strictly under the laws of the game - even if they were moraly questionable...
But to blatantly cheat to get an edge... Smacks of desperation and un-sportsmanship...
It just isn't cricket!
The memories you had locked away in deep dark places - never to be mentioned again. Perhaps we might finally get closure on this nightmare.
The winging Poms - those guys that hadn't beaten us dating back to 1989. They finally beat is in 2005 with some doggy umpiring decisions and now it seems underhanded tactics.
We knew they couldn't beat us.
Oh how they cheered, oh how they celebrated, who can ever forget those ghastly images of Freddy Flintoff, Kevin Pieterson and Michael Vaughn jumping about. I think I just threw up...
It brings tears to your eyes...
But now we know why...
plain and simple - they cheated.
Former England opener Marcus Trescothick has admitted in a new book that he illegally shone the ball by sucking on breath fresheners during the 2005 Ashes series.
The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper said on Monday the unplayable reverse swing generated by pace bowlers Simon Jones and Andrew Flintoff - which was crucial to England's 2005 Ashes triumph over Australia - may have been caused by Murray Mints, which, as with other artificial substances, is illegal.
The saliva from these mints aided swinging, Trescothick wrote in his autobiography Coming Back To Me.
"I was firmly established as the man in charge of looking after the ball when we were fielding," he wrote.
"It was my job to keep the shine on the new ball for as long as possible with a bit of spit and a lot of polish.
"And through trial and error I finally settled on type of spit for the task at hand," he added in an excerpt which appeared in Britain's News of the World newspaper.
"It had been common knowledge in county cricket for some time that certain sweets produced saliva which, when applied to the ball for cleaning purposes, enabled it to keep its shine for longer and therefore its swing."
This is an outrage! Swing bowling is credited as the masterstroke that beat us. Does anyone feel violated?
Sure Australia had the underarm - sure we have sleged... but everything we have done has been strictly under the laws of the game - even if they were moraly questionable...
But to blatantly cheat to get an edge... Smacks of desperation and un-sportsmanship...
It just isn't cricket!
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