it's part of the design, stadiums or even motorsports can be super loud and inconsistent with the background volume.
so by forcing the user to press it close to their mouth you will consistently get concise sound from the user without interference, which when you consider the vast majority of the time you just listen to the commentator rather than watching, you don't really need to see their face but you do want good sound clarity
plus it's much cheaper than needing to build a sound insulated space in an already cramped space... most TV studios that do highlights or full games like Sky sports for instance don't have their studio within the stadium seated area, just use cameras to project the view behind the crew, not always though, depends on which stadium and competition etc.
So this is a cricket match, and the series that's happening here is called the Ashes. It is a 5-game series that takes place every year between Australia and England. You can read up on why the Ashes were a thing here.
It is a fierce rivalry and each game requires the teams to tough it out over 5 days. And each game has extremely varying conditions so you have to be extremely fit and competitive. And there are occassions where their respective governments have chimed in on the result. The commentators are Matthew Hayden and Stuart Broad, ex-Aussie and ex-England players (Broad literally retired last year or so).
So this is from game 1 of this year, where England were literally obliterated. Nobody expected them to perform this poorly and a 5-day game was wrapped up in under 2-days (to put it in american basketball terms: imagine one team being up by like 80 points in the first half of a game resulting in the game being ended).
So why is this frustrating for Broad, because broad was one of the star players for England and has on occassion single handedly kept them in the game.
So imagine him having to comment on the match where his former teammates are playing so badly. To put it in American terms: this is like asking Michael Jordan to commentate on the Chicago Bulls vs Lakers game just after his retirement and he has to sit and watch the Lakers dominate the Bulls AND commentate on it so he can't walk off, he can't stay silent, and it's taking him all his self-control to not walk down and start playing.
PS: Not saying that Broad is on the level of Jordan. Broad is more analogous to Steve Kerr or reggie miller.
Can you explain the scoring? It said England had 172 (32.5 overs) and Aus had 132 (45.2 overs). To me, a cricket noob, 172 seems a lot better than 132. Are overs worth more or something, super confused lol
With a quick glance at your profile I think I can translate this to baseball well for you.
Instead of 3 outs per inning you get 10 outs per inning, and instead of 9 innings each, it's 2 innings each.
England got 172 in their first inning, and Australia got 132. Both of these are pathetic scores and at the end of each inning everyone thought the team that didn't just bat was in control of the game easily.
England in their second inning got 164 which is also pathetic and had a bit of a collapse. Australia then sorted themselves out and cruised to 205 runs which got them ahead again and they had only lost 2 wickets while doing so.
As for overs, that's just a duration thing. Each over is 6 pitches each. If an inning goes for 45.2 overs then there's (45 Ă 6) + 2 pitches = 272 pitches.
Ahh so I just missed the 2nd inning score so the final was 337-336 but could have been way worse because Aus only had 2 outs of their 10 they are allowed and England had used all 10? Also having more overs is a good thing because that means you are making the other teams pitchers get tired from all the pitches.
I guess I think they are called bowlers and maybe wickets instead of pitch, if you understand my comparisons lol
It's like in Baseball if you're in the bottom of the 9th and you take the lead while you still have outs you don't keep playing.
Hell if you're in the lead before the bottom of the 9th you don't even play it.
In this case for cricket we would say Australia won by 8 wickets because they had 8 wickets (outs) still up their sleeve. It's not fair to say they won by 1 run or to say they won 337-336 (a score formatting style you just don't see in cricket at all because it tends to mislead on how close games are when they can finish ) because who knows what run total they would've reached if they kept going.
If England had gotten Australia all out before they reached the total runs needed we would say England won by X runs because that's what they had up their sleeve spare still.
The over count isn't as big of a deal for exhaustion as you'd think. It matters, but of the 11 players in the team normally around half can bowl, so you'll alternate between two guys who pair well together for the situation at hand, and then you'll swap one or both of them for other bowlers to rest the guys who just had a long stretch bowling.
Each team has the option to bat or bowl and field. An innings is when your team completes batting or bowling and fielding.
Each innings has overs, where the bowling team bowls six times. This is like having the pitcher throw the ball. The players from the bowling team take turns bowling. The remaining players field (or attempt to prevent the batter from scoring or try to get them out).
The batting team bats, this is like the batter in baseball, you are at crease and try to strike the ball coming at you and try to not get out. You can score in increments of 6(home run), 4(home run but the ball touches the ground on the way), singles (similar to running between bases only that you have two ends as opposed to four in baseball). The score denotes how many runs the team has scored and how many wickets have fallen. For example if you see 5/70 or 70/5 - it means the team has scored 70 runs for the loss of 5 wickets.
The bowling team tries to take wickets by either striking at the stumps (analogous to a out) - and instead of four outs before a walk, you have this thing called a wicket (the three lines you ll see behind the batsman) and if the bowler hits the wickets or the stumps directly then it is an out, or you have the batsman directly lobbing the ball into the fielderâs hands (very similar to baseball), or run out (the bowling team catches the batsman in the middle of a run before he makes either crease), or lbw which is kinda tricky to explain but basically means that the batsman is out because he tried to foul by blocking the stumps with his leg.
You have three variants of an inning- one where you have 20 overs per inning aka t20 which is very short (the game lasts like 3 hrs or so), 50 overs per inning aka odi aka one day (since the game takes pretty much a day) or test match. In a test match you have five days (earlier it used to be unlimited- hence the name âtestâ match since it tests the teamâs resolve), an innings is when your team completes one round of batting/bowling. And each team gets two innings.
So england made 172 ij 32.5 overs - england played 10 players and made 172 runs in total (or 17.2 runs per player which if you think about it is horrible, ) and lasted only for 32.5 overs - this is bad because in a game where they could have played for five full days they lasted for a total of four hours.
Test matches has two innings. Eng had 172 and Aus had 132 in the first innings. In 2nd innings eng lost half their batters being 5 down with a total lead (1st innings+2nd innings) of 116 which is not much. In the end Eng got all out for 164 and Aus went on to win the match chasing 205.
So the disappointed is most likely because Eng a good chance to win it after the first innings.
Yes, itâs most likely a lip-ribbon mic. Theyâre designed to be held to the mouth to minimize bleed of unwanted sound. Theyâre commonly used for sport commentators
English fellow on the left, just retired, suffering as Australia blast through the order - the batsmen. He's referenced by his co-commentator, his name is Broad, but seems at a loss for words.
this vid's brutal! Looks like Stu's legit dyin' inside. But ya gotta admit, there's somethin' kinda poetic 'bout watchin' a guy face his own disaster like that.
Itâs a test match, itâs normally for people to bat for whole days of play. Englandâs 5 best batters are out 20 overs in to first day of five, each with a minimum of 90 overs a day.
Literally came here to post this clip. Opened up the subreddit and this was the first thing I saw. As an aussie, I think I actually enjoy this clip more than Aus winning the first test.
The guy dying inside's team is getting absolutely cooked. Pre game he said the guy that got bowled out during this clip would get a century batting, but got out for 0 in the first innings and then 8 in the second.
The guy with the bat (batter/batsman) who had the ball hit the sticks behind him (sticks are called stumps, meaning he's out and can't bat anymore - there are other ways a batter can go out like having the ball caught on the full (without hitting the ground first) after hitting it with the bat, or a few other ways that I won't confuse you with right now) has to be replaced with the next batter in the team - total of 11 batters who go out in descending order of best to worst. Once 10 batters are out, that is the end of that team's innings and then the other team bats while they now bowl/field.
This particular batter was hyped up by the guy in the clip who is sad (both English cricketers) who said he would score at least 100 runs (points) but he went out with a score of 0 runs the first time he batted (in the first innings) and 8 runs the second time he batted which is well under 100 runs.
Having 5 of your 11 total batters out for 76 runs is very very low in any cricket game, especially in the long form version of the game (test match cricket) which can run over 5 days. Due to having a lot more time, test match batters usually play more conservatively/safely and grind out lots of runs over time. In this instance Australia has bowled and fielded very well/England has batted very poorly.
I hope that kind of helped a little.
Here this might help lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwII4y5vpyU
The video doesn't capture everything.. like you can also score runs by the ball crossing the rope which circles around the ground near the fence(4 runs), or by hitting the ball over the rope on the full (6 runs). It doesn't talk about things like no-balls (poor bowling which arrives too wide or too high) which also award 1 run. It covers the basics though.
It's a lot but certainly not a record. It's an excellent achievement which happens every so often. The record is 400 which is crrraaazy.. set by a man named Brian Lara who played for the West Indies side.
"Holy fuck let me spend thousands on watching 22 men running around kicking a ball and let me spend a couple thousands more on their merch.. my life is awesome"
"Holy fuck I had rectangular green pieces of paper with some old people printed on them yesterday and I don't have any of those today my life is ruined!" yes importance of anything at all is relative (AKA depending on context), glad we could clear that up.
The ashes is a big deal in cricket - it started when Australia beat England in 1882, they didn't take it well, the ashes of the stumps (wooden things the bowlers aim at - which were burned after England's loss) were interned in a trophie 'the ashes' now we play a regular series against each other to see who gets to keep the ashes until the next one.
In the game played yesterday England lost comprehensively, innings often last days but England was bowled out for less runs than individual batters often score. Australia then cruised to an easy victory. English commentators usually talk a big game before the ashes start, and they definitely did this time too, including the younger bloke in the commentary box.
England's only won the series 5 times in the last 35 years - just needed to add that incase a pom reads my comment and decides to chirp about how the wind was blowing the wrong way or England were cheated or the English team saw a strange shadow and were too spooked to bat properly.
For the record, most every English person/ pom who likes cricket goes into the ashes in Australia expecting an absolute hammering. If it's not a white wash I come away surprised, I will say though the commentators can often be completely deluded. I often listen to the coverage and their optimism borders on insanity.
Yeah dude no clue how cricket is played either. I know I love NBA basketball but totally understand that some people think itâs the most boring sport created.
âDid you see that ludicrous display last night?â
âHooray, heâs kicked the ball⌠now the balls over there.
That man over there has it now, thatâs an interesting development. Maybe he too will kick the ball. He has indeed. Apparently that was worthy of applause.â
Everything is a social construct. Unless you also hate art, music, literature, TV, movies, or anything else that isn't work or sleep, you have no right to talk
Relax dude.. lol itâs a quote and running joke from The IT CrowdâŚ
Also. I DO in fact have a right to talk, everyone is entitled to have opinions about things. People are allowed to not like something you like, and youâre allowed to not like things others like. Also, I just quoted a show⌠you donât even know what my opinion is! You donât know the reference so you donât understand my sentiment. So wtf are you even talking about?
People complain about sports for having no inherent value to society, when in reality there are many things we all love and enjoy that don't. It's ok to not like sports, we all like what we like. It's just that acting superior for it makes you a loser, just as much as dweeb who say art is pointless
Man of left, English. Man in middle, Australian. Watching England vs Australia cricket match. England do bad, Australia do good. England man not happy.
While he was having his turn commentating, many bad things for English happen, Australian man wants him to stay there for more bad luck for English.
England Australia cricket rivalry very strong and passionate, and been going ~130-140 years.
Broad used to play (and captain) international test cricket for England
England have a rivalry with Australia, and they contest a biennial test series called The Ashes
This year is an Ashes year, and in their first match England got beat by Australia in 2 days (in context, an average Test match runs for 3-5 days), one of the fastest defeats in International test cricket, even despite having an amazing start by decimating Australia in their first inning
In American speak this is like Tom Brady watching the Patriots put up a decent defence against the Bills only to get crushed 51-7 with no way of making it back in the 2nd Quarter
This is a simplistic explanation, it isnt very detailed, but should give you the basics
He also claimed this is the best English team and the worst Australian team ever....
Despite Australia winning every major trophy and being ranked number 1 in the world, whilst England have been an embarrassment and ranking 6th.
The level of copium will be studied for years to come.
England lost their first test series at home when Australia beat them in 1882. An English sports newspaper published a mock obituary mourning the death of English cricket, saying âthe body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia.â When England next played Australia their captain said they were travelling to Australia to âregain the ashesâ.
Now whenever Australia play England in test cricket the series is referred to as The Ashes. They play every two years, so a year when that happens is an Ashes year.
To add to the tale, when the English team came over after that, a lady presented a small Urn to the English team and let them know it contained the ashes. So thats the trophy (don't know if its still the same urn) since then.
Also kind of like the Tom Brady Super Bowl comeback from 28-3, England were in the box seat to win this test and just shat the bed. Tom Brady = Travis Head.
I don't get to hear cricket commentary any more (Aussie living in China now) so the rare times I get to hear any I am stoked. I have heard snippets here and there but not more than that for over 10 years, but I think I have heard a little of her and was impressed. Not sure who she is though
This is the stuff that's haad! It's nails! It's roight now and it's happenin' in front of you!
Edited for correctness.
Wait til he finds out how boring cricket is đ¤Ł
Broad Stuart
Why do these guys talk into their microphones like they're about to eat it?
it's part of the design, stadiums or even motorsports can be super loud and inconsistent with the background volume.
so by forcing the user to press it close to their mouth you will consistently get concise sound from the user without interference, which when you consider the vast majority of the time you just listen to the commentator rather than watching, you don't really need to see their face but you do want good sound clarity
plus it's much cheaper than needing to build a sound insulated space in an already cramped space... most TV studios that do highlights or full games like Sky sports for instance don't have their studio within the stadium seated area, just use cameras to project the view behind the crew, not always though, depends on which stadium and competition etc.
low input volume to prevent audience interference
How about try an enlosed announcers booth?
Why spend time and money building new infrastructure when they can just put the mic closer to their mouth like they are doing
Maybe it's a thing in other countries because I've NEVER seen that done in the U.S. Although I also saw it in episodes of Ted Lasso!
Do you wanna pay for that? Cuz Iâm not paying for that.
Dies inside
for those who don't know cricket. This game goes on for 5 days straight.
Not this one
Ok, America here⌠Whatâs happening ?
Mexican here! I have no fucking idea!
Lol
So this is a cricket match, and the series that's happening here is called the Ashes. It is a 5-game series that takes place every year between Australia and England. You can read up on why the Ashes were a thing here.
It is a fierce rivalry and each game requires the teams to tough it out over 5 days. And each game has extremely varying conditions so you have to be extremely fit and competitive. And there are occassions where their respective governments have chimed in on the result. The commentators are Matthew Hayden and Stuart Broad, ex-Aussie and ex-England players (Broad literally retired last year or so).
So this is from game 1 of this year, where England were literally obliterated. Nobody expected them to perform this poorly and a 5-day game was wrapped up in under 2-days (to put it in american basketball terms: imagine one team being up by like 80 points in the first half of a game resulting in the game being ended).
So why is this frustrating for Broad, because broad was one of the star players for England and has on occassion single handedly kept them in the game. So imagine him having to comment on the match where his former teammates are playing so badly. To put it in American terms: this is like asking Michael Jordan to commentate on the Chicago Bulls vs Lakers game just after his retirement and he has to sit and watch the Lakers dominate the Bulls AND commentate on it so he can't walk off, he can't stay silent, and it's taking him all his self-control to not walk down and start playing.
PS: Not saying that Broad is on the level of Jordan. Broad is more analogous to Steve Kerr or reggie miller.
I recognized that look of, âdo I need to get my shit on and go down there?â from a recently retired athlete.Â
I think the only edit I have is that Michael Jordan would be probably very pleased to see that a team is way worse without him!
Would have probably bet some money too đ
Thank you so much for explaining!
Can you explain the scoring? It said England had 172 (32.5 overs) and Aus had 132 (45.2 overs). To me, a cricket noob, 172 seems a lot better than 132. Are overs worth more or something, super confused lol
With a quick glance at your profile I think I can translate this to baseball well for you.
Instead of 3 outs per inning you get 10 outs per inning, and instead of 9 innings each, it's 2 innings each.
England got 172 in their first inning, and Australia got 132. Both of these are pathetic scores and at the end of each inning everyone thought the team that didn't just bat was in control of the game easily.
England in their second inning got 164 which is also pathetic and had a bit of a collapse. Australia then sorted themselves out and cruised to 205 runs which got them ahead again and they had only lost 2 wickets while doing so.
As for overs, that's just a duration thing. Each over is 6 pitches each. If an inning goes for 45.2 overs then there's (45 Ă 6) + 2 pitches = 272 pitches.
Ahh so I just missed the 2nd inning score so the final was 337-336 but could have been way worse because Aus only had 2 outs of their 10 they are allowed and England had used all 10? Also having more overs is a good thing because that means you are making the other teams pitchers get tired from all the pitches.
I guess I think they are called bowlers and maybe wickets instead of pitch, if you understand my comparisons lol
Exactly.
It's like in Baseball if you're in the bottom of the 9th and you take the lead while you still have outs you don't keep playing.
Hell if you're in the lead before the bottom of the 9th you don't even play it.
In this case for cricket we would say Australia won by 8 wickets because they had 8 wickets (outs) still up their sleeve. It's not fair to say they won by 1 run or to say they won 337-336 (a score formatting style you just don't see in cricket at all because it tends to mislead on how close games are when they can finish ) because who knows what run total they would've reached if they kept going.
If England had gotten Australia all out before they reached the total runs needed we would say England won by X runs because that's what they had up their sleeve spare still.
The over count isn't as big of a deal for exhaustion as you'd think. It matters, but of the 11 players in the team normally around half can bowl, so you'll alternate between two guys who pair well together for the situation at hand, and then you'll swap one or both of them for other bowlers to rest the guys who just had a long stretch bowling.
Thank you for taking the time to explain, it all makes a ton more sense now haha
Cricket is analogous to baseball.
Each team has the option to bat or bowl and field. An innings is when your team completes batting or bowling and fielding.
Each innings has overs, where the bowling team bowls six times. This is like having the pitcher throw the ball. The players from the bowling team take turns bowling. The remaining players field (or attempt to prevent the batter from scoring or try to get them out).
The batting team bats, this is like the batter in baseball, you are at crease and try to strike the ball coming at you and try to not get out. You can score in increments of 6(home run), 4(home run but the ball touches the ground on the way), singles (similar to running between bases only that you have two ends as opposed to four in baseball). The score denotes how many runs the team has scored and how many wickets have fallen. For example if you see 5/70 or 70/5 - it means the team has scored 70 runs for the loss of 5 wickets.
The bowling team tries to take wickets by either striking at the stumps (analogous to a out) - and instead of four outs before a walk, you have this thing called a wicket (the three lines you ll see behind the batsman) and if the bowler hits the wickets or the stumps directly then it is an out, or you have the batsman directly lobbing the ball into the fielderâs hands (very similar to baseball), or run out (the bowling team catches the batsman in the middle of a run before he makes either crease), or lbw which is kinda tricky to explain but basically means that the batsman is out because he tried to foul by blocking the stumps with his leg.
You have three variants of an inning- one where you have 20 overs per inning aka t20 which is very short (the game lasts like 3 hrs or so), 50 overs per inning aka odi aka one day (since the game takes pretty much a day) or test match. In a test match you have five days (earlier it used to be unlimited- hence the name âtestâ match since it tests the teamâs resolve), an innings is when your team completes one round of batting/bowling. And each team gets two innings.
So england made 172 ij 32.5 overs - england played 10 players and made 172 runs in total (or 17.2 runs per player which if you think about it is horrible, ) and lasted only for 32.5 overs - this is bad because in a game where they could have played for five full days they lasted for a total of four hours.
Test matches has two innings. Eng had 172 and Aus had 132 in the first innings. In 2nd innings eng lost half their batters being 5 down with a total lead (1st innings+2nd innings) of 116 which is not much. In the end Eng got all out for 164 and Aus went on to win the match chasing 205. So the disappointed is most likely because Eng a good chance to win it after the first innings.
This helped a lot. Thanks for taking the time đ
Oh my goodness. Thank you for taking the time to explain!
Si helpful!
If only I knew what this meant
Hayden is an absolute flog. Much prefer the ABC
I miss Richie
Benaud was a gentleman.
What is with that microphone does it only work if itâs touching your lips?
Yes, itâs most likely a lip-ribbon mic. Theyâre designed to be held to the mouth to minimize bleed of unwanted sound. Theyâre commonly used for sport commentators
Theyâre really tough too. The BBC has some that are over fifty years old and are still working.
https://martinmitchellsmicrophones.wordpress.com/2023/01/31/bbc-l2-stc4104-a-lip-ribbon-microphone-circa-1955/
Never saw these before in the US
And the Frumble hit the LickitySplit, giving Blowsbery on Rye the lead at 22 downers vs 3 riggits!
r/ihatesportsball
Crikey, they are just a cockswomble away from a toad in the hole!
Do you think this is worse than six sixes in a row?
The way England were collapsing and then the way they were thrashed in the second innings, yes
Well hey, Whoâdâve thunk fly swatting in test cricket wouldnât workâŚ
I donât understand what is happening.
English fellow on the left, just retired, suffering as Australia blast through the order - the batsmen. He's referenced by his co-commentator, his name is Broad, but seems at a loss for words.
Some innit bruhv type shit
Lmao youâre totally right. I donât understand whatâs going on either
Bloody bunch of gallahs those poms
I donât know why but this comment has me crying laughing.
Hard to watch that performance in the ashes by England
I found it very enjoyable. may or may not be Australian
As a Saffer, yeah mate.
6 broad sixes
Lost a bet
Almost looks like hes gearing up mentally to have to listen to old mate Haydos.
Now this one is truly dying inside
this vid's brutal! Looks like Stu's legit dyin' inside. But ya gotta admit, there's somethin' kinda poetic 'bout watchin' a guy face his own disaster like that.
Read this like the guy that yells about eating your meat on the wall
Carnage in cricket đ impossible
Hard to beat 5/76 though (good or bad idk)
Itâs a test match, itâs normally for people to bat for whole days of play. Englandâs 5 best batters are out 20 overs in to first day of five, each with a minimum of 90 overs a day.
Itâs very bad for England.
Can someone explain this comment but with eagles, beer, and guns?
It's a homerun derby but instead of 40 pitches they get 10 outs per inning, it usually lasts days.
England was struck out in under a day.
Why didn't OP just say that? I understand now.
Youâre a hero. Thank you
That comment is probably what my wife hears when I start talking about American football
Literally came here to post this clip. Opened up the subreddit and this was the first thing I saw. As an aussie, I think I actually enjoy this clip more than Aus winning the first test.
He looks like he is hungover AF too
If youâve come all the way to Australia to lose cricket match that quickly Iâd be on the piss too.
Broad's face is like "Brb, gotta question my life choices real quick
What? What's happening?
The guy dying inside's team is getting absolutely cooked. Pre game he said the guy that got bowled out during this clip would get a century batting, but got out for 0 in the first innings and then 8 in the second.
I still don't know enough about cricket to make sense of this explanation lol.
Somehow read that explanation and got more confused
The guy with the bat (batter/batsman) who had the ball hit the sticks behind him (sticks are called stumps, meaning he's out and can't bat anymore - there are other ways a batter can go out like having the ball caught on the full (without hitting the ground first) after hitting it with the bat, or a few other ways that I won't confuse you with right now) has to be replaced with the next batter in the team - total of 11 batters who go out in descending order of best to worst. Once 10 batters are out, that is the end of that team's innings and then the other team bats while they now bowl/field.
This particular batter was hyped up by the guy in the clip who is sad (both English cricketers) who said he would score at least 100 runs (points) but he went out with a score of 0 runs the first time he batted (in the first innings) and 8 runs the second time he batted which is well under 100 runs.
Having 5 of your 11 total batters out for 76 runs is very very low in any cricket game, especially in the long form version of the game (test match cricket) which can run over 5 days. Due to having a lot more time, test match batters usually play more conservatively/safely and grind out lots of runs over time. In this instance Australia has bowled and fielded very well/England has batted very poorly.
I hope that kind of helped a little.
Here this might help lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwII4y5vpyU
The video doesn't capture everything.. like you can also score runs by the ball crossing the rope which circles around the ground near the fence(4 runs), or by hitting the ball over the rope on the full (6 runs). It doesn't talk about things like no-balls (poor bowling which arrives too wide or too high) which also award 1 run. It covers the basics though.
Is that a lot? Like that would be a world record?
I also watched about 1.5 hours of YT videos on cricket and I'm still lost...lol
It's a lot but certainly not a record. It's an excellent achievement which happens every so often. The record is 400 which is crrraaazy.. set by a man named Brian Lara who played for the West Indies side.
Is 100 called a century in Cricket like in snooker? Seems like I have heard it called that but wondering if I just am thinking snooker.
Yep. And it is very fun. There is a guy who has scored a century of centuries over his career.
Former English cricketer is on the left former Australian cricketer on the right. Australia bowled out the English batsman.
The Poms got rinsed!
In other news water is wet
Water is water. What water touches is wet.
Ride around on your kangaroos all day!
We will. Itâs fun
Something cricketish đ¤ˇđťââď¸
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You play video games, đ thatâs enough said đ
I bet you unironically call it "sports ball"
"Holy fuck let me spend thousands on watching 22 men running around kicking a ball and let me spend a couple thousands more on their merch.. my life is awesome"
"Holy fuck I had rectangular green pieces of paper with some old people printed on them yesterday and I don't have any of those today my life is ruined!" yes importance of anything at all is relative (AKA depending on context), glad we could clear that up.
You're comparing the importance of money to watching sports đŠ
I think he hit a stick with a ball but whatever
This guy crickets
Same đ
Oh fuck off, almost as if everyone doesn't react the same for every sport ever
It's not that I don't understand what the carnage is, it's just that... That um. Yeah I don't understand what the carnage is.
âTaking wickets galoreâ is the same as â hold my beer, mateâ isnât it?
Getting several players out in quick succession
I'm too American to understand this
Just imagine the Raiders loss to the Orioles in â07 - comparable to that
Close but not quite. Itâs more like the time Tom Brady was in the booth calling the game when the Yankees lost to the Lakers in the Super Bowl
I don't watch basketball.
None of that was basketball đ
Get out of here... I had no idea.
OK so how about this instead... France v Brazil in World Cup 98 final.
Folk expected it to be closer and most were hyping Brazil up, before France proceed to very comfortably brush them aside before half time
The ashes is a big deal in cricket - it started when Australia beat England in 1882, they didn't take it well, the ashes of the stumps (wooden things the bowlers aim at - which were burned after England's loss) were interned in a trophie 'the ashes' now we play a regular series against each other to see who gets to keep the ashes until the next one.
In the game played yesterday England lost comprehensively, innings often last days but England was bowled out for less runs than individual batters often score. Australia then cruised to an easy victory. English commentators usually talk a big game before the ashes start, and they definitely did this time too, including the younger bloke in the commentary box.
England's only won the series 5 times in the last 35 years - just needed to add that incase a pom reads my comment and decides to chirp about how the wind was blowing the wrong way or England were cheated or the English team saw a strange shadow and were too spooked to bat properly.
For the record, most every English person/ pom who likes cricket goes into the ashes in Australia expecting an absolute hammering. If it's not a white wash I come away surprised, I will say though the commentators can often be completely deluded. I often listen to the coverage and their optimism borders on insanity.
I mean one of the English batsmen literally complained about a concierge from the members section moving around
The pommy fans coming to Aus for the ashes are way too cocky. Itâs a beaut seeing them go down and their stupid chants.
I don't know dick about cricket, but I know when the spirit has left a man's body.
Yeah dude no clue how cricket is played either. I know I love NBA basketball but totally understand that some people think itâs the most boring sport created.
Itâs a great game. Fun to play in the backyard and genuinely impressive to watch at the top level.
This guy is currently a beast bowler
https://youtu.be/8ANFn4O9J_Y?si=jm8gENUzmBYda_LI
"You are taking wickets galore" sounds like what they were saying about my wife
Or a hip new drug
Youâre just thinking if whipits
Iâm so used to sitting down and watching a five day slog-fest for a test match. This was like a highlight reel.
I had a whole weekend planned around this match. Video games and beer it is.
I know I had to totally replan my day today as result of no cricket thanks to Englandâs collapse
Yes, so much for my day on the couch today!
Happy cake day
I entertained myself with the rugby all morning đ
âDid you see that ludicrous display last night?â
âHooray, heâs kicked the ball⌠now the balls over there. That man over there has it now, thatâs an interesting development. Maybe he too will kick the ball. He has indeed. Apparently that was worthy of applause.â
This is how I feel with all sports.
Everything is a social construct. Unless you also hate art, music, literature, TV, movies, or anything else that isn't work or sleep, you have no right to talk
Relax dude.. lol itâs a quote and running joke from The IT CrowdâŚ
Also. I DO in fact have a right to talk, everyone is entitled to have opinions about things. People are allowed to not like something you like, and youâre allowed to not like things others like. Also, I just quoted a show⌠you donât even know what my opinion is! You donât know the reference so you donât understand my sentiment. So wtf are you even talking about?
People complain about sports for having no inherent value to society, when in reality there are many things we all love and enjoy that don't. It's ok to not like sports, we all like what we like. It's just that acting superior for it makes you a loser, just as much as dweeb who say art is pointless
Your comment gives off a similar feeling off worthlessnessÂ
Uhh. Okay. Lol
You clearly donât get the reference and thatâs fine.
What was Wenger thinking sending Walcott in that early? Thing about Arsenal is that always try to walk it in.
Ironically that is what we're [England] like with Bazball
I dont recall anyone asking for a pretentious opinion?
Nice.
Someone get this guy a medal!
Such an underrated show!
https://youtube.com/shorts/LIBqZMVdkk8?si=hs6F7UAosDOSIIB_
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Useless sack of expired cum, holy fucking shit lmfao
Explain like I am American? Please?
Man of left, English. Man in middle, Australian. Watching England vs Australia cricket match. England do bad, Australia do good. England man not happy.
While he was having his turn commentating, many bad things for English happen, Australian man wants him to stay there for more bad luck for English.
England Australia cricket rivalry very strong and passionate, and been going ~130-140 years.
Hope that helps.
Ohh he card read good.
Why use many words when few words do trick
Thank you. This seems pretty spot on. Lmao
This is similar to american football. Some colleges have been rivals since the 1880s.
Lafayette and Leigh played today actually, rivals since 1884.
Harvard and Yale also played today and is even older since 1873.
I love how the concept of a rivalry can only be understood with American football
Sure not what i meant at all but hey neveer miss a chance to shit on the US and sportsball right
Broad used to play (and captain) international test cricket for England
England have a rivalry with Australia, and they contest a biennial test series called The Ashes
This year is an Ashes year, and in their first match England got beat by Australia in 2 days (in context, an average Test match runs for 3-5 days), one of the fastest defeats in International test cricket, even despite having an amazing start by decimating Australia in their first inning
In American speak this is like Tom Brady watching the Patriots put up a decent defence against the Bills only to get crushed 51-7 with no way of making it back in the 2nd Quarter
This is a simplistic explanation, it isnt very detailed, but should give you the basics
He also claimed this is the best English team and the worst Australian team ever.... Despite Australia winning every major trophy and being ranked number 1 in the world, whilst England have been an embarrassment and ranking 6th. The level of copium will be studied for years to come.
What's an "Ashes year"?
England lost their first test series at home when Australia beat them in 1882. An English sports newspaper published a mock obituary mourning the death of English cricket, saying âthe body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia.â When England next played Australia their captain said they were travelling to Australia to âregain the ashesâ.
Now whenever Australia play England in test cricket the series is referred to as The Ashes. They play every two years, so a year when that happens is an Ashes year.
To add to the tale, when the English team came over after that, a lady presented a small Urn to the English team and let them know it contained the ashes. So thats the trophy (don't know if its still the same urn) since then.
It is the same urn. Would be nice if we, Australia, could house it.
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We do The Ashes every second year. So an Ashes year is one when the test is being played, not the off year.
Also kind of like the Tom Brady Super Bowl comeback from 28-3, England were in the box seat to win this test and just shat the bed. Tom Brady = Travis Head.
I was so confused until I got to the American part! Hahaha thank you.
Broad telling himself itâs not worth an assault charge no matter how much bullshit haydos spews
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Haydos hand is the size of broad's face lmao
Makes it SO much better that he was closest to camera!
Broad is actually a legit commentator.
That woman has such an annoying voice. Commentators really ain't as good as they used to be.
I don't get to hear cricket commentary any more (Aussie living in China now) so the rare times I get to hear any I am stoked. I have heard snippets here and there but not more than that for over 10 years, but I think I have heard a little of her and was impressed. Not sure who she is though
Grown man is upset that another grown man hit a stick with a ball because another grown man didn't hit a ball with a stick.
Thereâs always one buzzkill. What a loser
I didn't even say anything insulting!
F off. Sports are emotional and exciting for some of us. Whatâs it to you?
We all have hobbies. Thanks for participating in mine. I genuinely hope you get many years of enjoyment out of watching and playing stickball.
Participating in your hobby? Which isâŚ.. trolling people on the internet? Sounds productive
As productive as stickball!
Builds communities, friendships and motor skills and coordination.
Enjoy your trolling, you mud-button.