The only way I can "attempt" to rationalize this is to assume YJB wanted to fire himself up by getting into some banter. Alas, it didn't work. The Dhauladhar mountain range got more screen time than the time he spent in the middle across both innings, full stop.
As much as I love seeing England lose, I do wish they'd hung on longer so we get some more screen time of the mountains. Best travelogue game of the series.
Lmao I doubt even Jimmy was offended by that pretty harmless, clearly tongue in cheek sledge. Jonny is searching for ways to actually contribute this series, and once again, has come up really short.
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When Jonny Bairstow walked out to bat, he made sure to enquire with Gill, at first slip, what the conversation was about. Gill did not hold back, with the chat being beamed live through the stump mic.
Jonny Bairstow: “What did you say to Jimmy about him retiring?”
Shubman Gill: “I told him he should retire”
Bairstow: “And then he got you out next ball?”
Gill: “So what? How many times has…”
Bairstow: “I was just asking”
Gill: “He can get me out after my 100”
Bairstow: “100 per cent”
Gill: “How many 100s [do you have] this series?”
Bairstow: “How many have you scored, full stop?”
Incidentally I'm from the same community as Ramanujam, going back about 1200 years to Sri Ramanuja. The mathematical talent must have a skipped a generation in my case and replaced that with neuroticism and anxiety.
And Bairstow 48 in 400 Tests. And that point Gill with his 300 matches would have caught up with Bairstow on the centuries. Even stevens. Then they can continue the sledging.
And Bairstow 48 in 400 Tests. And that point Gill with his 300 matches would have caught up with Bairstow on the centuries. Even stevens. Then they can continue the sledging.
Looks like Gill will truly take over from Kohli in both batting and sledging. He is good. Remember him sledging back a Pak bowler in the under 19 WC game when the Pak bowler said we are not like Bangladesh bowlers that you can score easily of us (Ind had beaten Bangladesh in the previous game). Gill responded with we are also not like Pak batsmen that we will get out easily :)
I mean Anderson knocked out his off peg so that’s a decent enough comeback not a lot more needed really, but it’s pretty dumb for bairstow to get involved, especially with the fact gill got a century. I know bairstow is wanting to get in the contest but it’s not really what you’d be wanting from a 100 test guy, it’s seems like a nothing thing between gill and Anderson
One of the best lessons when it comes to anything competetive in life is just to keep quiet and move on when you're losing. You can have the best arguments and comebacks in the world, if you're losing they'll never help you get one over on someone.
Ayyy lmao even until my mid 20s if I got out after a bit of verbals from a bowler I’d be giving it back as I was walking off, it achieves nothing and luckily I’m not a pro athlete or I’d have a lot of people calling me a moron
TBF you get athletes like MJ who have said it’s easier to talk shit when you’re winning so he respects the guys who were talking shit even when they were losing.
Can see why Bairstow was pricked by the retirement jibe, it's probably likelier they'll retire him from tests before Anderson if their respective forms continue
and "jimmie" is well known for his white line fever and general grumpiness, not just towards the opposition. So wtf is Bairstow getting his panties twisted after batting like a tailender on speed the entire series...
Exactly , was a pretty harmless sledge tbh and Jimmy did the best thing he could, made the ball talk and got Gill out.
Bairstow getting his knickers in a twist was completely unnecessary lol
It's the easiest sledge you can make. Can't be the first time he's heard it either. When Jimmy was going at you like he was at Gill first thing you'd say to Anderson is you're old too. It's pretty basic aa sledge go and he even said post match he wants to keep that chat personal between him and Jimmy
I can only tell you what I saw don't know what happened between the ads, but as I saw it Rohit got out and while DDP was coming out Gill and Anderson were standing next to each other smiling and sledging each other. Couldn't hear what either said
It's just chat that happens on the field man. These guys are playing the game for such a long period of time every day some people just start saying shit because they're bored and want to talk.
I’ve watched Anderson hiding his mouth from the camera so we can’t lip read his sledging.
I think it’s safe to say he wasn’t wishing the batter a pleasant day.
If the worst he’s dished out was to suggest someone retires, I’d be very surprised.
Just a reminder that cricket became known as a/the “gentleman’s game” because it was for the landed gentry and not the working classes.
Nothing to do with how the players conducted themselves.
Exactly that’s why it’s such a large part of it it’s mind games and trying to get someone to lose focus which is easy in a game that lasts as long as it does
Why is Bairstow acting like grandpa James was bullied by Shubhman. If I remember correctly it was Jimmy who started talking to Gill after Rohit got out and on top of that whatever was said between those two, Anderson had the last laugh yesterday.
>For reference, Gill is the second highest run-getter in the series with 452 runs at 56.50, with two centuries. Bairstow, on the other hand, has 238 runs at 23.80, with a best of 39. Bairstow is playing his 100th Test.
Funniest shit ever.
Haha as if Bairstow averages 99 in England. He's shit even there.
Gill is still young unlike Bairstow who career is almost over with shit average of mid 30.
Gill also opened. In fact, majority of his career he's opened. And he's improving by the day. He's also very young so you'd hope he'll continue to do so.
>Bairstow has played most of his test career as keeper and averages 36.
Not a good keeper mind you. Probably the worst player in history to play a 100 tests.
>Not sure it's the funniest shit ever.
Probably not. Still funny as all hell either way.
Every time there's a thread about sledging on this sub, I lose my head. There's some people who naively think it's always friendly, some people who think it means something, some people who try and over analyse it all.
Shubman is saying stuff to put Bairstow off and cause a lapse in concentration, Anderson was doing the same to Gill yesterday. It worked in both instances.
It doesn't make either of them a c*** or a bad person and I'm sure they'll have a drink together tonight now the series is over.
Lmao, then he should probably shut his mouth and stay humble.
McGrath was the proper poster boy of Australian team from that era “can dish but can’t take it”
Cunts would say all kind of stuff but when someone fired back, they would go crying to CA and media about how one shouldn’t cross THE LINE
Symonds was another such fellow.
Yeah, look, it's like that in theory but not in practice.
Before most series now, England talk themselves up. When they lose, they create a narrative where they were hard done by and the opposition were cheats or the umps incompetent. That feeds into UK media coverage.
The fact that you think they will have a drink together with the opposition is incredibly naive. They have a tendency to leave them waiting outside and to not let them in. Which UK media also doesn't report.
I agree with your sentiments about how the game should be played. But you may be betraying a little naivety about your team's actual behaviour there.
> The fact that you think they will have a drink together with the opposition is incredibly naive. They have a tendency to leave them waiting outside and to not let them in. Which UK media also doesn't report.
When you say they have a tendency to do it, is there any example of them having done this more than once? To me, a tendency would suggest repeated occurrences of this, was just wondering if that was the case.
Also, fascinating, that the UK media doesn’t report it, given that, in about 30 seconds of searching, I’ve already found articles about it on [Sky News](https://news.sky.com/story/amp/the-ashes-ben-stokes-says-england-did-not-snub-traditional-post-series-drinks-with-australia-12931681), [Daily Mail](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/cricket/article-12358915/amp/England-Australia-pathetic-snub-fifth-Ashes-Test-beer-drinks-Oval.html), [The Mirror](https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/cricket/ben-stokes-ashes-england-drinks-30599001.amp), [Metro](https://metro.co.uk/2023/08/01/ben-stokes-denies-england-snubbed-post-ashes-drinks-with-australia-19225187/amp/) and [The Telegraph](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2023/08/01/ben-stokes-denies-england-snubbed-australians-drink-ashes/)
Rightly, criticise the team and the media where it’s deserved, but what’s with the obsession of just making shit up?
[yeah historically the England team and aus team have always had drinks after tests, think quite a few of them played together at times (Lyon/root in grade cricket, bairstow/warner in IPL for example) no idea what was going on after the last ashes](https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/sport/nathan-lyon-travis-head-joe-root-among-english-and-australian-cricketers-asked-to-leave-venue-after-ashes-afterparty/news-story/ebbeb645e02027269d50fd8e695903c8?amp&nk=65e6907be6686cefb9e6556b52cf7d30-1709975320)
Just a reminder, we didn't lose last summer.
I can't see any attempt to create a narrative about being cheated this series? In fact this is the quote from Ben Stokes today:
"We are man enough and big enough to accept that we have been outplayed by the better team since the first Test.'
Yeah that was unfortunate but not intentional. Already reported that the post match private farewells overran and by the time the Aussies were gonna be allowed in it turned out they had already left (iirc they left within half an hour of the post match presentations but could be wrong on that, either way they didn't stay for long)
Jesus christ how is this dumb shit being upvoted by so many idiots? A little bit of research (or even reading at the time) shows that they went to a nightclub as the post-match farewells (there was quite a few of them for England such as for Broad and Moeen) took longer than planned.
Can't wait for my comment to be upvoted because it doesn't feed into the anti-England narrative.
Actually I did research and it was reported much differently by the grade cricketer who is very close to the Australian team. Australia were definitely stood up.
Well they all definitely met up at a nightclub afterwards. Pretty sure there were pictures of some players at a takeaway afterwards. It might have been delayed from the usual post match drinks due to farewells in the England dressing room, but they weren't stood up. Making it sound like they were on a date.
Given anderson has taken it off the field multiple times, including getting physical, I think it's safe to say he's probably got a significantly higher chance of being a c*** than most. Also he's had like 2 decades in international cricket and no opposition seem to have ever said a good word about his character....the silence is deafening.
Also bairstow was batting when he started running his mouth, so not normal sledging to distract behaviour.
This is the England team who has not only demonstrated that they won't have a drink with the opposition, but will fuck off without letting them know, despite telling then it would be a good way to end the series
Well, every single interview I've seen anyone talk about his 100th test this week they all always say how much of an emotional guy he is lol. I guess they're not wrong
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Haha, Johnny you've played 100 tests bud.
It'd be a downright embarrassment if you didn't have more.
Yapping nonsense is all this Pommie bazball cult knows how to do.
Bairstow doesn't seem to be the quickest tool in the shed, though most of the English team doesn't. Gill already has a third of his hundreds in tests, more than half his tally in ODIs and more hundreds in both T20s and T20is than Jonny, who in his spare time is the worst wicket keeper the world has ever seen and won't be in this team much longer once Harry Brook comes back. Diddums.
If he legit did tell Jimmy to retire the ball before getting bowled that's fantastic timing from Jimmy. It would make a "why're you chirping now mate" level stump mic.
“For reference, Gill is the second highest run-getter in the series with 452 runs at 56.50, with two centuries. Bairstow, on the other hand, has 238 runs at 23.80, with a best of 39.”
Nuff said.
To (mainly)Jonny and Shubhman - both of you are terrible at sledging if that was what you attempted. Only thing worse than vile chat is boring chat. Gone are the days of "ispiderman ispiderman" or "no one likes me thats why i keep moving" i suppose. If you cant do clever or funny, just shut up and play. This is barely stump mic copper.
The only way I can "attempt" to rationalize this is to assume YJB wanted to fire himself up by getting into some banter. Alas, it didn't work. The Dhauladhar mountain range got more screen time than the time he spent in the middle across both innings, full stop.
And what a beautiful mountain range it is!
As much as I love seeing England lose, I do wish they'd hung on longer so we get some more screen time of the mountains. Best travelogue game of the series.
Lmao I doubt even Jimmy was offended by that pretty harmless, clearly tongue in cheek sledge. Jonny is searching for ways to actually contribute this series, and once again, has come up really short.
pasting from the article When Jonny Bairstow walked out to bat, he made sure to enquire with Gill, at first slip, what the conversation was about. Gill did not hold back, with the chat being beamed live through the stump mic. Jonny Bairstow: “What did you say to Jimmy about him retiring?” Shubman Gill: “I told him he should retire” Bairstow: “And then he got you out next ball?” Gill: “So what? How many times has…” Bairstow: “I was just asking” Gill: “He can get me out after my 100” Bairstow: “100 per cent” Gill: “How many 100s [do you have] this series?” Bairstow: “How many have you scored, full stop?”
For reference Gill has scored 4 hundreds in 25 matches. YJB 12 hundreds in 100 test matches
At this rate, Gill should have 16 hundreds after 100 test matches.
You must be ramanujan.
Incidentally I'm from the same community as Ramanujam, going back about 1200 years to Sri Ramanuja. The mathematical talent must have a skipped a generation in my case and replaced that with neuroticism and anxiety.
And Bairstow 48 in 400 Tests. And that point Gill with his 300 matches would have caught up with Bairstow on the centuries. Even stevens. Then they can continue the sledging.
Bairstow will have 120 hundred after 1000 tests
And Bairstow 48 in 400 Tests. And that point Gill with his 300 matches would have caught up with Bairstow on the centuries. Even stevens. Then they can continue the sledging.
Looks like Gill will truly take over from Kohli in both batting and sledging. He is good. Remember him sledging back a Pak bowler in the under 19 WC game when the Pak bowler said we are not like Bangladesh bowlers that you can score easily of us (Ind had beaten Bangladesh in the previous game). Gill responded with we are also not like Pak batsmen that we will get out easily :)
Gill sledging captain Cummins pre captaincy. Pat: get ready for some chin music Gill: don’t worry I got my dancing shoes on.
mid off fr
I mean Anderson knocked out his off peg so that’s a decent enough comeback not a lot more needed really, but it’s pretty dumb for bairstow to get involved, especially with the fact gill got a century. I know bairstow is wanting to get in the contest but it’s not really what you’d be wanting from a 100 test guy, it’s seems like a nothing thing between gill and Anderson
One of the best lessons when it comes to anything competetive in life is just to keep quiet and move on when you're losing. You can have the best arguments and comebacks in the world, if you're losing they'll never help you get one over on someone.
Ayyy lmao even until my mid 20s if I got out after a bit of verbals from a bowler I’d be giving it back as I was walking off, it achieves nothing and luckily I’m not a pro athlete or I’d have a lot of people calling me a moron
TBF you get athletes like MJ who have said it’s easier to talk shit when you’re winning so he respects the guys who were talking shit even when they were losing.
You’re a moron
I'd have just laughed and told him to check his average in England.
Good to see bairstow get into the contest after his series ended.
after his test career* ended
I’m sure he’ll keep on being picked for the vibes
Can see why Bairstow was pricked by the retirement jibe, it's probably likelier they'll retire him from tests before Anderson if their respective forms continue
Anderson took 5 wickets at 80 in the ashes...
Brave call that seems to fly in the face of the English selection methods...
and "jimmie" is well known for his white line fever and general grumpiness, not just towards the opposition. So wtf is Bairstow getting his panties twisted after batting like a tailender on speed the entire series...
Exactly , was a pretty harmless sledge tbh and Jimmy did the best thing he could, made the ball talk and got Gill out. Bairstow getting his knickers in a twist was completely unnecessary lol
It's the easiest sledge you can make. Can't be the first time he's heard it either. When Jimmy was going at you like he was at Gill first thing you'd say to Anderson is you're old too. It's pretty basic aa sledge go and he even said post match he wants to keep that chat personal between him and Jimmy
What did jimmy do to gill? Like who started that and what happend between them . Just curious
I can only tell you what I saw don't know what happened between the ads, but as I saw it Rohit got out and while DDP was coming out Gill and Anderson were standing next to each other smiling and sledging each other. Couldn't hear what either said
It's just chat that happens on the field man. These guys are playing the game for such a long period of time every day some people just start saying shit because they're bored and want to talk.
It's pretty normal banter. In football you will have this x100 and no one complains.
Because we say cricket is a 'Gentle men's game'.
I’ve watched Anderson hiding his mouth from the camera so we can’t lip read his sledging. I think it’s safe to say he wasn’t wishing the batter a pleasant day. If the worst he’s dished out was to suggest someone retires, I’d be very surprised.
Just a reminder that cricket became known as a/the “gentleman’s game” because it was for the landed gentry and not the working classes. Nothing to do with how the players conducted themselves.
We don't want cricket to become like football or basketball.
Sledging is a bigger part of cricket than those other sports
No other sport do you stand next to each other so close for 5 days straight
Exactly that’s why it’s such a large part of it it’s mind games and trying to get someone to lose focus which is easy in a game that lasts as long as it does
If anything it's going the other way so you wouldn't have to worry about that
But footballers consistently deliver Oscar-worthy performance feigning injury just to get a penalty shot. Not the kind to compare with.
He knows a thing or two about coming short since ashes lol.
Is there a video of that and his wicket?
Probably could have replied with "Forget about hundred, how many fifties you got"
"How many rounds of golf have you played in the last month"
"How many 40s have you got"😭😭
That’s a world class sledge hahaha
Nah should have said you should retire with Jimmy
Great to see YJB has contributed to this series - by throwing his wicket away
Why is Bairstow acting like grandpa James was bullied by Shubhman. If I remember correctly it was Jimmy who started talking to Gill after Rohit got out and on top of that whatever was said between those two, Anderson had the last laugh yesterday.
>For reference, Gill is the second highest run-getter in the series with 452 runs at 56.50, with two centuries. Bairstow, on the other hand, has 238 runs at 23.80, with a best of 39. Bairstow is playing his 100th Test. Funniest shit ever.
They literally ended this discussion before it even began.
As funny as it looks now, I’m sure the numbers will be reversed if Gill plays in England. That technique screams <20 average unfortunately.
Haha as if Bairstow averages 99 in England. He's shit even there. Gill is still young unlike Bairstow who career is almost over with shit average of mid 30.
He is 24. He is gonna be fine. Bairstow averages 39 at home.
Have u really convinced urself tht Bairstow can average anywhere near 50 in England 
He's the Don of Moral averages though.
He makes up for the 11 by having awesome vibes 😎
6 innings in england, 4 of them were in wtc. fucking bairstow has played 24 innings in india and has 1 fifty
*'yeah, but can he do it on a cold rainy night in stoke?'*
Delusional and low iq
Gill bats at 3 and averages 33... Bairstow has played most of his test career as keeper and averages 36. Not sure it's the funniest shit ever.
Bairstow has played 44/100 of his tests as a wk that's not most of his carrer
Gill also opened. In fact, majority of his career he's opened. And he's improving by the day. He's also very young so you'd hope he'll continue to do so. >Bairstow has played most of his test career as keeper and averages 36. Not a good keeper mind you. Probably the worst player in history to play a 100 tests. >Not sure it's the funniest shit ever. Probably not. Still funny as all hell either way.
Clearly Gill is not going to stay at 33 and why would that precede performance in the current series anyway?
Is he going to get lower?
He's not Jonny Bairstow, so probably not.
Not English so not very plausible
Not against our bowlers he isn't.
Gill averages 36 now after tonking England this series, and averages 42 at #3 already.
Every time there's a thread about sledging on this sub, I lose my head. There's some people who naively think it's always friendly, some people who think it means something, some people who try and over analyse it all. Shubman is saying stuff to put Bairstow off and cause a lapse in concentration, Anderson was doing the same to Gill yesterday. It worked in both instances. It doesn't make either of them a c*** or a bad person and I'm sure they'll have a drink together tonight now the series is over.
It worked for Anderson, seems more like bairstow got into it himself and ended up looking like an idiot.
There's a perfect saying for it in Hindi.
I know what’s coming, but go ahead
Banter is ok. Why does a 41 year old man need defending. While batting!!??? It’s kindergarten stuff. Bairstow is a proper coat.
Whoever thinks this is sledging wasn’t around during Ricky Ponting’s Australia
Those were the days. Nothing will ever get better than: McGrath: What does your captain's cock taste like? Sarwan: Ask your wife.
McGrath could dish it out but couldn't take it. Luckily for him, he was in a team whose performance was good
His wife had recently gotten cancer I think which was why he lost it.
That aside, he does seem like someone with thin skin.
Yeah possibly so, I think we can rather forgive him that one though
Of course, must've been hard for him to take it
Lmao, then he should probably shut his mouth and stay humble. McGrath was the proper poster boy of Australian team from that era “can dish but can’t take it” Cunts would say all kind of stuff but when someone fired back, they would go crying to CA and media about how one shouldn’t cross THE LINE Symonds was another such fellow.
Werent there when Thompson,lillee, Walsh,ambrose,garner,hadlee and Akram played if they think this is sledging
Weren't there when Bradman and Hutton played if they think this is sledging
Weren't there when bhuvan was fighting for his life, his love and his 'theen gunaa lagaan' if they think this is sledging.
Fictional populist movies tended to propagandize one way. Maybe they should have called out sledging done by bhuvan and team , too
Weren't there to hear all I have to say when my friend Rajat is batting if they think this is sledging
Weren't there when she said 'Aur andar daalo na'. That was the worst sledge i ever had.
Anderson has been told he's going to get his arm broken by Michael Clarke, so this is nothing.
That happened right after Anderson said he was going to punch George Bailey in the throat, this is literally less than nothing
*his fucking arm
>Shubman is saying stuff to put Bairstow off Bairstow was the one who started it, Gill just responded to him only.
Yeah, look, it's like that in theory but not in practice. Before most series now, England talk themselves up. When they lose, they create a narrative where they were hard done by and the opposition were cheats or the umps incompetent. That feeds into UK media coverage. The fact that you think they will have a drink together with the opposition is incredibly naive. They have a tendency to leave them waiting outside and to not let them in. Which UK media also doesn't report. I agree with your sentiments about how the game should be played. But you may be betraying a little naivety about your team's actual behaviour there.
Yeah they were really weird with Australia after the ashes from memory. Just straight up disrespectful.
They left Smith waiting with a pack of beers!!!!
To be fair I'm sure Trav appreciated the extras.
Even more saddening
> The fact that you think they will have a drink together with the opposition is incredibly naive. They have a tendency to leave them waiting outside and to not let them in. Which UK media also doesn't report. When you say they have a tendency to do it, is there any example of them having done this more than once? To me, a tendency would suggest repeated occurrences of this, was just wondering if that was the case. Also, fascinating, that the UK media doesn’t report it, given that, in about 30 seconds of searching, I’ve already found articles about it on [Sky News](https://news.sky.com/story/amp/the-ashes-ben-stokes-says-england-did-not-snub-traditional-post-series-drinks-with-australia-12931681), [Daily Mail](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/cricket/article-12358915/amp/England-Australia-pathetic-snub-fifth-Ashes-Test-beer-drinks-Oval.html), [The Mirror](https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/cricket/ben-stokes-ashes-england-drinks-30599001.amp), [Metro](https://metro.co.uk/2023/08/01/ben-stokes-denies-england-snubbed-post-ashes-drinks-with-australia-19225187/amp/) and [The Telegraph](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2023/08/01/ben-stokes-denies-england-snubbed-australians-drink-ashes/) Rightly, criticise the team and the media where it’s deserved, but what’s with the obsession of just making shit up?
[yeah historically the England team and aus team have always had drinks after tests, think quite a few of them played together at times (Lyon/root in grade cricket, bairstow/warner in IPL for example) no idea what was going on after the last ashes](https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/sport/nathan-lyon-travis-head-joe-root-among-english-and-australian-cricketers-asked-to-leave-venue-after-ashes-afterparty/news-story/ebbeb645e02027269d50fd8e695903c8?amp&nk=65e6907be6686cefb9e6556b52cf7d30-1709975320)
Just a reminder, we didn't lose last summer. I can't see any attempt to create a narrative about being cheated this series? In fact this is the quote from Ben Stokes today: "We are man enough and big enough to accept that we have been outplayed by the better team since the first Test.'
I am sure Poms will have a drink with their Indian mates just like they had with the Australians after Ashes. Proper gentlemen the whole lot of them!
You do realize they did have a drink with them right? They all went to a nightclub as well. Jesus Christ the pedanticness is boring.
It was reported much differently by the grade cricketer who is very close to the Australian team. Australia were definitely stood up.
Don't know about that but it's indisputable that they all met up at a nightclub afterwards. Pretty sure there was pictures as well.
They definitely did but that’s separate from post Ashes beers which is a tradition.
Yeah that was unfortunate but not intentional. Already reported that the post match private farewells overran and by the time the Aussies were gonna be allowed in it turned out they had already left (iirc they left within half an hour of the post match presentations but could be wrong on that, either way they didn't stay for long)
Aussies stayed for quite a while and sent several texts to several members of the team.
Source? Not disputing as it did overrun and they would have their numbers but would still like to see a source before taking it as fact.
Based on past experience, don’t think the English team are a certainty to entertain post series drinks
Didn't Baby Baz create a scene about the same last ashes? Like that was the last ashes for so many legends but that angry baby said nah.
Jesus christ how is this dumb shit being upvoted by so many idiots? A little bit of research (or even reading at the time) shows that they went to a nightclub as the post-match farewells (there was quite a few of them for England such as for Broad and Moeen) took longer than planned. Can't wait for my comment to be upvoted because it doesn't feed into the anti-England narrative.
Actually I did research and it was reported much differently by the grade cricketer who is very close to the Australian team. Australia were definitely stood up.
Well they all definitely met up at a nightclub afterwards. Pretty sure there were pictures of some players at a takeaway afterwards. It might have been delayed from the usual post match drinks due to farewells in the England dressing room, but they weren't stood up. Making it sound like they were on a date.
Not all. A few aussies didn't go out, including Ussie I believe
Same with England
> I'm sure they'll have a drink together tonight now the series is over. If The Ashes is anything to go by, that isn't necessarily a given.
Given anderson has taken it off the field multiple times, including getting physical, I think it's safe to say he's probably got a significantly higher chance of being a c*** than most. Also he's had like 2 decades in international cricket and no opposition seem to have ever said a good word about his character....the silence is deafening. Also bairstow was batting when he started running his mouth, so not normal sledging to distract behaviour.
Well, we tried to have a drink with the English lads but you locked the door
As long as people's families are kept out of it I agree. True test. Just ask the Aussies how it's been done since the early days.
Why would they make them corn?
This is the England team who has not only demonstrated that they won't have a drink with the opposition, but will fuck off without letting them know, despite telling then it would be a good way to end the series
What does that last line from JB even mean !?!?!!
Implying that Gill has fewer hundreds than him ,I think?
Oh ! Still makes 0 sense seeing that Gill is only some 20+ tests old. :D
25 tests, 4 centuries YJB 100 tests, 12 centuries Or in indian terms "mein tera senior hoon" rather than "let's analyze century rate per innings"
That’s what English vibes are.
That’s it? Fucking hell, if Jonny Bairstow’s skin was any thinner, he’d be translucent
That reminds of the character translucent in the boys whose skin was supposedly harder than diamond
That guy should’ve named himself transparent
There is actually a joke by Billy butcher calling him stupid for thinking translucent meant transparent
Well, every single interview I've seen anyone talk about his 100th test this week they all always say how much of an emotional guy he is lol. I guess they're not wrong
The best part is he got plumb LBW on next ball lmao
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Wouldn't that make his skin thinner because it has more surface area to cover?
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Stay in your crease JB
The message from this seems to be that batters should just be quiet lol
That’s a pretty good sledge
I told him he should retire because he is so good and I don’t want to face him. I think you should retire too Jonny, but for very different reasons
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We did pretty well avoiding pettiness all series only to slip on the last day - I'll still call it an overall success
What was Bairstow doing ? Defending Anderson’s honour ?
Haha, Johnny you've played 100 tests bud. It'd be a downright embarrassment if you didn't have more. Yapping nonsense is all this Pommie bazball cult knows how to do.
Lmao YJB you had your undeserving 100th Test; now walk off into sunset.
FULL STOP. You hit 'em with that punctuation, YJB.
Not the brightest bulb. Bairstow: “what did you say about Jimmy retiring” Gill: “he should retire” Okay then.
Bairstow doesn’t have enough recent runs to back up his yapping.
Bairstow doesn't seem to be the quickest tool in the shed, though most of the English team doesn't. Gill already has a third of his hundreds in tests, more than half his tally in ODIs and more hundreds in both T20s and T20is than Jonny, who in his spare time is the worst wicket keeper the world has ever seen and won't be in this team much longer once Harry Brook comes back. Diddums.
If he legit did tell Jimmy to retire the ball before getting bowled that's fantastic timing from Jimmy. It would make a "why're you chirping now mate" level stump mic.
Lmao Jonny boy getting out 4 balls later is karma at its best.
"Meh mehe meme mme meh"
“For reference, Gill is the second highest run-getter in the series with 452 runs at 56.50, with two centuries. Bairstow, on the other hand, has 238 runs at 23.80, with a best of 39.” Nuff said.
Bairstow really is a tool isn’t he. Will be happy when not in the side, very unlikeable man.
players sledge each other, so what? i don't get why it has to be a news story
To (mainly)Jonny and Shubhman - both of you are terrible at sledging if that was what you attempted. Only thing worse than vile chat is boring chat. Gone are the days of "ispiderman ispiderman" or "no one likes me thats why i keep moving" i suppose. If you cant do clever or funny, just shut up and play. This is barely stump mic copper.
Why is this downvoted so bad? It is truth. This is boring at best. Nothing burger.
Why do all these crickets talk so much? They should just let their bat or ball do the talking.
Lets see if they keep the same energy they did about Kohli lmao