Cricket: T20 World Cup

[FalseBayFC]

Snigger! The physio/medic's manbun is cringe.

[FalseBayFC]

Durban lad Conway showing his South African fielding genes.

[Sandstorm]

Sandtner bowling pies

[ScarfaceClaw]

Sandtner bowling pies

He’s even cutting it up for them so it’s easier to tuck in.

[FalseBayFC]

Malik is an alpha Chad.

[ScarfaceClaw]

That’s torn it. Well played Pakistan.

[FalseBayFC]

Snigger! The physio/medic's manbun is cringe.

Pakistan physio.
Wycliffe Andrew Deacon
BORN

June 23, 1980, Kroonstad, Orange Free State

Wycliffe!!!

[convoluted]

Ah well ...

[Paddington Bear]

Pakistan look the business

[OomStruisbaai]

Black Caps at least show some fight against the hosts.

[FalseBayFC]

I feel really shit for Temba Bavuma here. He's responded as well as he could here. QDK is sounding more and more like a poes. I still don't agree with the directive but QDK has shat the bed here, a selfish move. Time for him to FIFO. With our current environment, across every part of our society, the last thing we need is another bone to pick and cause division.

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/sa-v ... ee-1285382

[Torquemada 1420]

Oh boy - I'm really not going to enjoy this match with Pakistan.

Can't help but feel their win over India is going to have them 100 feet high with confidence. Ferguson out for the whole tournament (he is the new Shane Bond injury wise) and as a team we seem to be well undercooked.

Fingers crossed though.

Best bowling attack in the comp. Pity the batting is flakier than Simon Weston's scalp.

[Torquemada 1420]

Pakistan looking best on show so far.

And then daylight to the next team.

F**k off with your mockers.

[Torquemada 1420]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/202 ... fusing-do/

Things that ought to be a matter of conscience - such as how one expresses one's disapproval of racial prejudice - are now not treated as such by some cricket boards. And so the South African board has felt it right to make it mandatory for its players to 'take the knee' before matches in a forced display of virtue signalling about race: and Quinton de Kock, in exercising his absolute right not to have his conscience dictated to....

It is not a way to treat serious adults. And he may well also be sophisticated enough to realise that such a gesture, especially when forced and thus made insincerely, assists in no way in the elimination of racism from cricket, sport in general or the wider world.

In fact, it does the reverse.

[sorCrer]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/202 ... fusing-do/

Things that ought to be a matter of conscience - such as how one expresses one's disapproval of racial prejudice - are now not treated as such by some cricket boards. And so the South African board has felt it right to make it mandatory for its players to 'take the knee' before matches in a forced display of virtue signalling about race: and Quinton de Kock, in exercising his absolute right not to have his conscience dictated to....

It is not a way to treat serious adults. And he may well also be sophisticated enough to realise that such a gesture, especially when forced and thus made insincerely, assists in no way in the elimination of racism from cricket, sport in general or the wider world.

In fact, it does the reverse.

Of course it does. And forcing anyone to do it is dehumanizing which ironically is what racism is.

[Sandstorm]

A white guy taking a knee for 5 secs before a cricket match is probably one of the four easiest and least affecting things he’s ever been asked to do.

De Kok is a cock.

[Gumboot]

A white guy taking a knee for 5 secs before a cricket match is probably one of the four easiest and least affecting things he’s ever been asked to do.

De Kok is a cock.

Shirley de Kock was well aware of CSA's edict before this tournament began, yet Bavuma has implied that his move took everyone by surprise. If that's the case it was a dick move and I hope CSA do the right thing and send de Kock's sorry arse home.

[FalseBayFC]

A white guy taking a knee for 5 secs before a cricket match is probably one of the four easiest and least affecting things he’s ever been asked to do.

De Kok is a cock.

Agreed. Dude earns 5 bar in club salary for 10 weeks in the IPL. This move will only endear him to a whole heap of Indian fans who don't seem to happy with the kneeling idea either He can afford to be a cock.

Trouble is SA cricket can't afford this. They're already in deep dwang and this isn't going to help. Sponsors don't like this kind of thing.

[convoluted]

A sprawling dive might have been a better option than the baseball slide. 90-4

About 20 minutes afterwards, there was a replay, and the commentator too expressed surprise that Williamson hadn't dived. He then suggested it was self-preservation from the throw that had led to that most ungainly of reaches for the crease.
My thought to that was it's not for us to critique anyone protecting themselves.

But a moment ago, reading the morning paper printed and delivered just prior to the game commencing, the byline reads 'Williamson trying to nurse aching elbow through heavy schedule for Black Caps'. So it would have been his elbow he was shielding by not diving.

[sorCrer]

A white guy taking a knee for 5 secs before a cricket match is probably one of the four easiest and least affecting things he’s ever been asked to do.

De Kok is a cock.

Fme Sandy, all trolling aside, you really have no clue

[sorCrer]

A white guy taking a knee for 5 secs before a cricket match is probably one of the four easiest and least affecting things he’s ever been asked to do.

De Kok is a cock.

Shirley de Kock was well aware of CSA's edict before this tournament began, yet Bavuma has implied that his move took everyone by surprise. If that's the case it was a dick move and I hope CSA do the right thing and send de Kock's sorry arse home.

It was issued the night before the game. They woke up to it.

[Calculon]

A white guy taking a knee for 5 secs before a cricket match is probably one of the four easiest and least affecting things he’s ever been asked to do.

De Kok is a cock.

Shirley de Kock was well aware of CSA's edict before this tournament began, yet Bavuma has implied that his move took everyone by surprise. If that's the case it was a dick move and I hope CSA do the right thing and send de Kock's sorry arse home.

Issued 5 hours before the match and since qdk was well known for not taking the knee it's somewhat difficult to believe it took everyone by surprise

[sorCrer]

"The instruction from the board came this (Tuesday) morning, and a meeting was convened. That message was passed on to us, and then, before getting on the bus to travel to Dubai, that message was passed on to the players," he said.

"I think the trip was about an hour and a half to two hours. On that trip, I guess that's where Quinton made his decision. I found out as the captain when we got to the changeroom.

[Gumboot]

A white guy taking a knee for 5 secs before a cricket match is probably one of the four easiest and least affecting things he’s ever been asked to do.

De Kok is a cock.

Shirley de Kock was well aware of CSA's edict before this tournament began, yet Bavuma has implied that his move took everyone by surprise. If that's the case it was a dick move and I hope CSA do the right thing and send de Kock's sorry arse home.

It was issued the night before the game. They woke up to it.

Ah right, I stand corrected.

What exactly is de Kock's objection to taking a knee?

[Grandpa]

Shirley de Kock was well aware of CSA's edict before this tournament began, yet Bavuma has implied that his move took everyone by surprise. If that's the case it was a dick move and I hope CSA do the right thing and send de Kock's sorry arse home.

It was issued the night before the game. They woke up to it.

Ah right, I stand corrected.

What exactly is de Kock's objection to taking a knee?

Maybe it conjures up bad memories of playing the sweep shot badly?

[Sandstorm]

A white guy taking a knee for 5 secs before a cricket match is probably one of the four easiest and least affecting things he’s ever been asked to do.

De Kok is a cock.

Fme Sandy, all trolling aside, you really have no clue

Please explain it to me.

[Gumboot]

It was issued the night before the game. They woke up to it.

Ah right, I stand corrected.

What exactly is de Kock's objection to taking a knee?

Maybe it conjures up bad memories of playing the sweep shot badly?

[convoluted]

^^^ re. last few pages: a victory for the Good Guys with de Kock refusing to submit to woke dictates ... unfortunately followed up almost simultaneously with decree that henceforth, from this day onward, in the game of cricket the term 'batsman' will be instantly obliterated from usage and be replaced with the gender-neutral 'batter'.

"Conway will be battering at 5 instead of opening"

[convoluted]

And surely of far greater general concern and of more burning urgency than De Kock's stance is the current concern that lesbians have with transexuals pressuring them to agree to sex. Would lesbian refusal be grounds for the charge of transphobia to be levelled against them?

[Gumboot]

^^^ re. last few pages: a victory for the Good Guys with de Kock refusing to submit to woke dictates ... unfortunately followed up almost simultaneously with decree that henceforth, from this day onward, in the game of cricket the term 'batsman' will be instantly obliterated from usage and be replaced with the gender-neutral 'batter'.

"Conway will be battering at 5 instead of opening"

As opposed to him "batsmanning at 5"?

[sorCrer]

A white guy taking a knee for 5 secs before a cricket match is probably one of the four easiest and least affecting things he’s ever been asked to do.

De Kok is a cock.

Fme Sandy, all trolling aside, you really have no clue

Please explain it to me.

It's called self respect. To quote what he said in June: "It’s everyone’s decision; no-one’s forced to do anything, not in life. That’s the way I see things."

[sorCrer]

SA Journalist - Lungani Zama

"Without being biased on this, being a black South African and Quinton de Kock being a white South African, I’ve spent many a time with him on tour, if you ask me point blank if he’s a racist or not? Absolutely not."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/talksport. ... d-cup/amp/

[Gumboot]

It's called self respect. To quote what he said in June: "It’s everyone’s decision; no-one’s forced to do anything, not in life. That’s the way I see things."

"no-one's forced to do anything in life"

Gimme a break. What a load of self-serving adolescent horseshit.

[sorCrer]

It's called self respect. To quote what he said in June: "It’s everyone’s decision; no-one’s forced to do anything, not in life. That’s the way I see things."

"no-one's forced to do anything in life"

Gimme a break. What a load of self-serving adolescent horseshit.

Possibly but you don't get to make that decision for someone else.

[Gumboot]

It's called self respect. To quote what he said in June: "It’s everyone’s decision; no-one’s forced to do anything, not in life. That’s the way I see things."

"no-one's forced to do anything in life"

Gimme a break. What a load of self-serving adolescent horseshit.

Possibly but you don't get to make that decision for someone else.

Is that your definition of self respect?

[sorCrer]

"no-one's forced to do anything in life"

Gimme a break. What a load of self-serving adolescent horseshit.

Possibly but you don't get to make that decision for someone else.

Is that your definition of self respect?

In this case, sticking to a principle (not kneeling) that you have previously decided you will not be forced to do. Noting that I wouldn't either.

[Gumboot]

Possibly but you don't get to make that decision for someone else.

Is that your definition of self respect?

In this case, sticking to a principle (not kneeling) that you have previously decided you will not be forced to do. Noting that I wouldn't either.

Fair enough. I hate being forced to stand for the national anthem. Got growled at a lot in cinemas as a kid when it was played before Saturday matinees. I'm an atheist so the "God defend New Zealand" bit's always been a bridge too far.

[OomStruisbaai]

Like Langeveld this is not going to end well for QdK.

He will need to make a national appology to the minister of sport like Boucher to play cricket again.

[sorCrer]

Like Langeveld this is not going to end well for QdK.

He will need to make a national appology to the minister of sport like Boucher to play cricket again.

He is quite an introverted person. May as well, retire from national cricket and just play IPL.

[Big Nipper]

It is amazing how QdK could use his profile and position in the Proteas team to make Save the Rhino gestures on the tour to West Indies earlier this year, but could not come together with his team to condemn racism by making a gesture before a game.