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[northernboy1987]

Its a brave man to go up against benji thats for sure!

Course he's hard, he was brought up in the North! Out here in West Cumbria if you don't grow up hard the cold kills you off before you reach manhood

[Felix Tito]

TBH Stokes should mind his own and concentrate on his own game. Yes Bangladesh went OTT with their celebrations, Buttler seeming to suggest it stemmed from a previous encounter. Cricket is supposedly a gentlemans game, don't need to heading down the football route of thugish behaviour.

[alexhilly1492]

TBH Stokes should mind his own and concentrate on his own game. Yes Bangladesh went OTT with their celebrations, Buttler seeming to suggest it stemmed from a previous encounter. Cricket is supposedly a gentlemans game, don't need to heading down the football route of thugish behaviour.

disagree, Stokes is vice captain and should back up his players and captain

[ppccopener]

TBH Stokes should mind his own and concentrate on his own game. Yes Bangladesh went OTT with their celebrations, Buttler seeming to suggest it stemmed from a previous encounter. Cricket is supposedly a gentlemans game, don't need to heading down the football route of thugish behaviour.

TBH Felix 'the cat' the thuggish behaviour is down to Bangladesh, may OTT celebrations when Butler was out, plenty of verbals exchanged in the middle then a bangla player shoulder barged one of our blokes when we are trying to shake hands at the end.
still concentrating on our own game?

 

[Felix Tito]

disagree, Stokes is vice captain and should back up his players and captain

Nonsense. Then you'll end up with the kind of behaviour Ponting's Australia where often shown displaying.

[Felix Tito]

TBH Felix 'the cat' the thuggish behaviour is down to Bangladesh, may OTT celebrations when Butler was out, plenty of verbals exchanged in the middle then a bangla player shoulder barged one of our blokes when we are trying to shake hands at the end.
still concentrating on our own game?

 

So two wrongs make a right? The game is called cricket not UFC...

[Number4]

Felix you will never win the argument here.. England are gentlemen and very sporting and everyone else are thugs and cheats

[ppccopener]

So two wrongs make a right? The game is called cricket not UFC...

send offs when a player is out are right out of order. kicking it off when shaking hands is also out of order. Yes England are not choir boys but you cannot expect Stokes and Butler to stand by like some public schoolboys when provoked

No one is saying England are whiter than white but provoking players like that is going to get a response. As captain and vice captain I expect them to stand up for themselves and the players.

Is it un-edifying?  yes you are correct.

I watched Ponting all thru his career and didn't like the way he treated umpires. Had an England captain behaved the way he did towards the officials I would expect them to have the book thrown at them-and rightly so.

[Stuey]

The game is called cricket not UFC...

This was stokes point, dont be a dick and stick the shoulder in.

[WalkingWicket37]

TBH Stokes should mind his own and concentrate on his own game. Yes Bangladesh went OTT with their celebrations, Buttler seeming to suggest it stemmed from a previous encounter. Cricket is supposedly a gentlemans game, don't need to heading down the football route of thugish behaviour.

So if somebody put their shoulder into one of your teammates after a game you'd just shake their hand and pretend you didn't see it, would you? I know I certainly wouldn't (I had a run in with a Saffa last season, now you mention it...)

All this airy fairy "gentleman's game" and "don't let it get like football" nonsense is starting to do my nut in. It's not the 1800's any more, times and the the game have moved on. 

[JTtaylor145]

In many ways it was good to see Stokes and Butler talking about what the opposition had done that upset them. Too often we are PC in English cricket and players just watch their words when talking to the press. Lets have a bit of drama and a little bit of passion, it was probably more interesting than the cricket was at times.

[smilley792]

Wow, haven't seen an England tour thread go like this since Gerry SA/aus in England was about..........

[ppccopener]

In many ways it was good to see Stokes and Butler talking about what the opposition had done that upset them. Too often we are PC in English cricket and players just watch their words when talking to the press. Lets have a bit of drama and a little bit of passion, it was probably more interesting than the cricket was at times.

the irony after the incident of Sky going straight to Nasser was not lost us older fans who remember Hussain played with passion on the field and a firebrand temper 

[Felix Tito]

So if somebody put their shoulder into one of your teammates after a game you'd just shake their hand and pretend you didn't see it, would you? I know I certainly wouldn't (I had a run in with a Saffa last season, now you mention it...)

All this airy fairy "gentleman's game" and "don't let it get like football" nonsense is starting to do my nut in. It's not the 1800's any more, times and the the game have moved on.

If it was kicking off obviously I'm not going watch it lead to fisticuffs. But Stokes doesn't have the right to put his hands on the Bangladeshi player(Tamim IIRC). You speak with your mouth not your hands...

[dcullen8]

So you can shoulder barge someone, but if youre english and politely move a banglesesh player away from a heated situation (which it was, hes not gine over all guns blazing pushing people around) using your hands its out of order, i see.