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Post by Wicked Cricket on May 24, 2019 14:43:06 GMT
ls,
Don't understand what you're saying?
Monty was at the height of his powers and then his life went into free-fall where humiliation became a consistent theme. An acrimonious divorce, followed by a drinking problem, peeing over a bouncer coupled by video-footage of him squealing in a Brighton pizza outlet as the soaked bouncer and his mates caught up with him.
Then, more drinking problems which affected his professional cricket, followed by a shortened career. Then, on to reality TV where further humiliation occurred from celebrity Masterchef to Mastermind with bouts of cringing in-between.
Personally, I have always liked Monty. A breath of fresh air within the cricketing world before alcohol got to him. Yes, he may have had a mental problem as he states, but how much was caused by him and him alone and how much by his illness? One only looks to Michael Yardy and the appalling mental suffering he went through, and yet he was still able to hold on to his respect and never went off the rails.
We live in a media world now where victimhood is often lauded. I really hope Monty can find peace with himself and find a new career within the cricket world. After all the darkness suffered he deserves this. Sympathy is important, agreed, and Monty deserves this, but one of the more frightening realisations that people must endure, is you and you alone are the only one who can sort yourself out.
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Post by liquidskin on May 24, 2019 14:48:20 GMT
Ok doctor, same time next week?
I forgot about him slashing on a bouncer, I wish I saw that, good on 'im. I tried it myself once but I made the mistake of being on the ground floor while the bouncer was on the first floor. Next time I'll just twat him.
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Post by Wicked Cricket on May 24, 2019 14:54:54 GMT
Here is that infamous footage of Monty in the Pizza outlet. I remember at the time I was castigated by some at the Club for daring to post the film. It was a double embarrassment for Sussex CCC as it involved RHB too, still labouring under the Surrey 'drink/drug smears' after the tragic death of Maynard. www.mirror.co.uk/sport/cricket/watch-monty-panesars-arrest-after-2146077
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Post by Wicked Cricket on May 24, 2019 16:00:44 GMT
Boycs has abandoned Aggers and Tuffers and is now joining Hughesy!
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Post by Wicked Cricket on May 28, 2019 14:27:02 GMT
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Post by Wicked Cricket on May 28, 2019 20:29:25 GMT
A strong candidate for the annual CMJ award?
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Post by Wicked Cricket on May 29, 2019 14:58:14 GMT
I was told that Phil Tufnell offered an appearance at The Cricketers Pub today. Is this true? I was also told that he remained at the Pub from 11am to 3pm due to some filming going on concerning an advertisement for the World Cup.
Can anyone shed any news about this? Did you see him?
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Post by Wicked Cricket on May 31, 2019 9:21:03 GMT
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Jun 2, 2019 19:17:24 GMT
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Jun 8, 2019 13:17:30 GMT
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Jun 10, 2019 11:20:22 GMT
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Jun 12, 2019 8:36:01 GMT
An excellent article from the Cricketer Magazine about the present and future perils of TV cricket coverage when other sports dominate. Cricket viewing hangs over the abyss, says writer Nick Howson, as he gives examples why and blames SKY. (The Cricket World Cup) is a body on a life-support machine that no-one is visiting. The flowers are dead and the grapes are shrivelling ... The team has averaged 550,000 viewers across their three group games and though numbers did peak at 1.3m during the climax to the defeat to Pakistan they are an abject return for what has long been billed as cricket's biggest ever summer... Those numbers come as the Women's Football World Cup has delivered record-breaking figures on free-to-air television. England and Scotland's opening game peaked at 6.1 million on Sunday. Despite the substantial growth, the women's game is enjoying both nationally and globally, that cricket is being supremely dwarfed says plenty about its own state of affairs. www.thecricketer.com/Topics/banner/world_cup_exposing_how_cricket_is_living_on_a_life-support_machine.htmltwitter.com/nickhowson?lang=enAnd now the Daily Mail jumps in. www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-7129787/Whats-point-cricket-World-Cup-watching.html
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Jun 12, 2019 9:45:45 GMT
Rob Andrew has his say about using out-grounds. He loves Arundel. "My favourite cricket out-ground in the country. I want to keep it going."
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Jun 12, 2019 16:33:11 GMT
The Sussex CCC Enigma: Will Beer Strikes Again ____________________________________________________________________________Will Beer got so close to his first class maiden century on Wednesday that you could almost touch it with the light raindrops falling over the Arundel Castle Cricket Ground. The crowd were willing Will on as his continued and extraordinary reinvention of himself from leggie to opening bat enthralled the spectators. This was proper old-fashioned batting, a combination of a stubborn, dogged Geoffrey Boycott and a gutsy, determined David Steele. As if one had stepped inside the Tardis and been transported back to a Championship match from the 1960s and early ‘70s. (pic: Deepfineleg)But it wasn’t to be. The nervous nineties began suffocating Beer, where a wag in the crowd queried whether Will would reach his century by lunchtime. After remaining on 95 runs for 5 consecutive overs, he then almost ran himself out on 96 with a quick single that was never on and was bowled on 97 in the next over, a type of ball which he had doggedly defended since 11.04am on Tuesday morning. His batting stats seem bizarre in the modern game where T20 influences all other formats: 461 minutes, 336 balls with a duration from 11am on Tuesday to 12.30pm Wednesday. Even the Championship purists were complaining about the length of time taken. If Phil Salt is the hare than Will Beer is certainly the tortoise and yet to see a batsman make so much effort, put so much concentration into his score and then fall at the final fence, this was the ultimate Sussex CCC heroic failure of the season. Were we surprised though? And add the fact that if Salt had been playing and in fine form, Sussex could have mustered all 5 batting points and not just the 3. Even so, well done Will. Your inspired, refreshing and distinctly unusual display was a joy to watch. Given Salt may remain injured for the rest of the month and with several more Championship matches on the horizon, Gillespie is left with a difficult choice. So long as Will continues to reinvent himself as the plodder of the top order, so long as there is a swashbuckler alongside him, there is no reason why Beer cannot carry on as an opener. He offers solidity at the top which for many seasons has been a major vulnerability for the side. And as Harry Finch is having that ‘second album mare of a season’, stability becomes even more important. I wish Beer all the best for his ongoing cricket reinvention.
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Jun 12, 2019 21:14:34 GMT
Another Sussex hopeful who gets a second chance elsewhere. Are we running out of former Academy players?
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