Butler done it.
Done what?
Done this:
Superintendant Andy Dalziel, of the Birmingham police, is the personification of the kind of copper everyone has in mind when they wax lyrical about the old days.
Done this, too:
Andy's midlands accent adds grit and authority.
That's the Weekend Strayan's Mark Butler misplacing Dalziel & Pascoe.
Update! Not Yorkshire.
Off topic.
Why is Tony Grieg making shit up about what he saw on Hot Spot when Stuey Clark was out caught behind?
"Yes, you can just see a little mark there."
Balls!
What's he got to gain by telling porkies?
Posted by: Tony T | 10 February 2008 at 17:58
Pascoe's making divots in t'green.
Posted by: boynton | 10 February 2008 at 18:54
Ellie's pounding down like a machine
Andy Chappells' eyes have got that killer gleam
Posted by: Tony T | 10 February 2008 at 19:09
How's that moral high ground now St Sachin?
Posted by: Bruce | 10 February 2008 at 19:30
Can someone answer me this then:
Why would Bill Lawry say "He won't get that... left armer bowling over the wicket" in response to Johnston's appeal for elbee of Irfy?
Why bloody not? What is wrong with a lefty bowler getting a lefty batsman elbee? I mean, by Bill's logic and righty bowler shouldn't get a righty batsman elbee.
Cretin!
Posted by: Tony T | 10 February 2008 at 19:32
Spot on, Bruce.
I was writing the previous comment when I saw TLM given not out by Rudi despite a clear edge.
The Strayan team MUST refuse to continue the CB Series until Rudi is replaced.
Posted by: Tony T | 10 February 2008 at 19:34
Nice one from Heals: "I wonder if Straya will go to the same lengths as India after some bad decisions."
Posted by: Tony T | 10 February 2008 at 19:38
Honestly, that has tainted the match for me. Will be a pyrrhic victory if India wins. Sad. Aussie, Indian, Martian - if you nicked it and you know it, bloody well walk.
Posted by: Boo | 10 February 2008 at 19:38
Dunno about walking, Boo, but at the rate things are going they will be using TV replays for everything by about this time next year.
Posted by: Tony T | 10 February 2008 at 19:40
Rodney Hogg on Aunty is worth the 7 cents. Absolute gold. Rudi is having a shocker (of a career). Can you imagine if Tendulkar, on his valedictory tour of India, having announcement his retirement, got fired off the edge for elbee in front of 80000 at Eden Gardens? There wouldn't be enough of Rudi left to fill an urn.
Posted by: nick | 10 February 2008 at 19:41
It's very simple. Either you are honest or you're not. I would rather we lost every single match for eternity than cheat to win.
Posted by: Boo | 10 February 2008 at 19:47
Nick: Speaking of the raydeeo: F~~ken Spanky and Idiot Drew are talking down the non-dismissal of TLM. "It's a loud stadium" etc. Get a grip, ya pinheads!
Boo: An eminently admirable sentiment, but one that's 99% doomed in professional modern cricket.
Posted by: Tony T | 10 February 2008 at 19:58
>> one that's 99% doomed
I don't see why that's necessarily true. Everybody needs to get behind it and demonise it. It may be hard to prove that you *knew*, so people may still get away with it, but if there's enough stigma attached to it, at least senior players with a reputation to preserve will think better of it. Shame will work better than nothing at all.
Posted by: Boo | 10 February 2008 at 20:06
The Delay!
The trouble with the radio is that if you listen to your local ABC on a wahless you get the commentary coming through about five seconds before the telly pitchers. And if you listen to your local ABC on your local internet you get the telly pitchers coming through about five minutes before the commentary.
Heard someone the other day making excuses relating to satellite transmissions, etc, but doubtless we're being taken for a ride by Nine and the TV advertisers.
Posted by: Tony T | 10 February 2008 at 20:12
Boo: Professional sportspeople have shame beaten out of them about the same time they learn to say "We are taking it one match at a time."
Posted by: Tony T | 10 February 2008 at 20:14
>> if there's enough stigma attached to it
Like nobody used underarm bowling in an ODI for 10 years even though it wasn't illegal. When it did happen, it tainted the offender for life.
Posted by: Boo | 10 February 2008 at 20:16
What did Adam Smith say? I don't expect the baker or the butcher to serve me for my interest, rather for their own (or words to that effect). Why put international players in the position where they have to choose between what is perceived to be 'right' by Boo and others and what is 'right' for them and theirs?
Next season, I want to see a camera where our current crop of umpires stand. Bucknor, Koertzen are incompetent, Bowden is a joke, and the rest are variably acceptable to the various teams. Although that said, I don't see anyone complaining that Taufel is umpiring in this game. I wonder whether we will see a photoshopped Rudi in an Indian ODI uniform after this game, similar to the Bucknor in the Australian Test uniform after Sydney.
And Spanky. Joke. I've never heard him happier than when TLM was smashing Lee around the park. His English blood rises to the groin at the thought of supporting a valiant and heroic loser rather than a winner.
Posted by: nick | 10 February 2008 at 20:22
TLM gawn.
Top finger-roller from Johnston.
Posted by: Tony T | 10 February 2008 at 20:34
Tubby [when Straya were about 6 for 140]: "Sometimes the best games are when one side is chasing a small total."
Posted by: Tony T | 10 February 2008 at 20:51
Touch wood.
Yuvy will have fond memories of this tour.
Touch wood.
Posted by: Tony T | 10 February 2008 at 20:52
Kebab is a very good man in a tight spot.
With Straya still to get 10 overs out of their part-timers India should do this comfortably.
Posted by: Tony T | 10 February 2008 at 21:20
Great that Hoggy is getting a long spell in the ABC commentary.
Maybe he's TOO interesting. ABC will replace him with Terry Jenner, Drew, Bob Massie, Terry Alderman.
A team with Cometti, Spanky, Hoggy, Flemmo and Skull would be gold.
Posted by: Tony T | 10 February 2008 at 21:31
Never watched Dalziel & Pascoe but mistaking Yorkshire for Birmingham is just not on. Let's make Mark Butler face an over from Brett Lee with the blank-out batting goggles I saw on an episode of Sleek Geeks. Hang on, did you say he was from the Australian? Make that a total blindfold.
Posted by: Lad Litter | 11 February 2008 at 12:27
It's indeed a stupid mistake, but you're not missing much, Laddie, D&P JTSed a while ago.
Posted by: Tony T | 11 February 2008 at 12:42
A blindfold and a Boycott?
Posted by: boynton | 11 February 2008 at 13:00
Rudy, Morgan, Benson & Hedges have stolen all the blindfolds.
Posted by: Tony T | 11 February 2008 at 20:49
Is that Superintendent Andy Dalziel we're talking about? If we can get the spelling and pronunciation of Dalziel correct, let's fix up the orthography of his title, because I suspect Andy would be a stickler for that sort of thing -- in spite of his droogy past.
Posted by: Professor Rosseforp | 13 February 2008 at 14:17
Maybe you could shove all this shit in your little EMPTY, ignorant minds.
Posted by: Cedar | 03 March 2008 at 08:22
Thanks for the valuable heads-up, Cedes. I've got that top of my to-do list.
Posted by: Tony T | 03 March 2008 at 10:52