I'm watching the warm up game against the ball-tampering cheats and bullies currently.
The Sky Sports coverage is annoying, too much hype and trendy/cool interviews with silly celebrity interludes.

Red and Blue Army!

After doing a years penance he finally gets to play international cricket and gets a 100. Crowd then boos unamonously. So much for the gentlemens game.

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But hey don't let that stop the "banter".

A mild booing was entirely in order and was a very British and gentlemanly way to express disapproval of a proven cheat who pretended to cry when caught.

If the boot was on the other foot and it was a crowd of crass, drunken Aussies can you imagine the scene? There would be 4X flying about the place, big ruddy red faces swelled by the type 2 diabetes that ran through their narrowing veins shouting all sorts of abuse from under their wonky corked hats.
"Flaming galah" they'd bellow in unison, their beer guts preventing them getting their bloated, gout addled, crocodile skin wrapped feet high enough to mount a pitch invasion to challenge the offender to a game of knifey spoony for the honour of mother Aus.

Edited by ChrisGC (26 May 2019 9.03am)

The boot has been on the other foot many times as shown in the link below.

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Even the K1W1's (underarm ball) didn't react with the kind of vitriol that is coming from many of the English fans and commentators. Here's looking at you Michael Vaughan and Ian Botham. I hope the English crowds keep up the banter as it will only serve to galvanise the Aussie team.

I say let those who are without sin cast the first stone.

BTW knifey spooney was a real game and played for many years until a game was played in which there was a controversy over spoon tampering. The English who were not involved in the game in any way were faux outraged and looked down on the offenders whilst drinking their Pims and telling stories of when Britannia ruled the waves and you couldn't walk the streets of London without being eaten alive by a Paddington bear or Wimbledon Womble.

A mild booing was entirely in order and was a very British and gentlemanly way to express disapproval of a proven cheat who pretended to cry when caught.

If the boot was on the other foot and it was a crowd of crass, drunken Aussies can you imagine the scene? There would be 4X flying about the place, big ruddy red faces swelled by the type 2 diabetes that ran through their narrowing veins shouting all sorts of abuse from under their wonky corked hats.
"Flaming galah" they'd bellow in unison, their beer guts preventing them getting their bloated, gout addled, crocodile skin wrapped feet high enough to mount a pitch invasion to challenge the offender to a game of knifey spoony for the honour of mother Aus.

Edited by ChrisGC (26 May 2019 9.03am)

I'm sure the Stephen Fry Eulogy was a Sky promotional piece - I felt sick; that really annoyed me. England over hyped too. If they could just play instead of doing constant media duties, I reckon it would help performances. I think they are showing pressure already.
Just to weigh back in on the Aussie thing too. Aussies always calling us whingeing Poms and then crying when they get caught blatantly cheating - does anyone find this a little ironic (and a lot humourous)? Couldn't happen to nicer fellows. I think a life ban would have been more appropriate. Talk about blatant disregard for any kind of ethics - I forgot that is far too difficult a word for Smith and Warner. I will rephrase it - you are cheats and you got caught.

Red and Blue Army!

Correct. I left this out of my knifey spoony rant in case it wasn't PC, but it's true. Bawling in the dock like an 8 year old girl unable to get tickets to a men at work concert saved the sheep fiddler from the noose and got them sent to Australia as punishment, in the same manner that they got spared a life ban for their cowardly, underhand ball tampering. Pure, good old fashioned, British pity for the unfortunate ingrate.