Cricket

[miss43]

Did I hear that right that the west indies cricket team came to the UK on the 3rd june in the middle of a global epidemic and that's ok. I am in scotland and we cant even get in to see my 100year old granny yet in a care home which is fine . What the hell

Get help OP, you sound deranged.

@miss43

Its not faux why should we stay in , follow the rules not see family etc but sport people can travel , mix etc his was the 3rd of june .In scotland we were at the 1st stage there were very few flight coming into glasgow , the commentator used the word sacrifice to describe the players how can that not boil your piss

Well yes sacrifices have been made by the players. Not seeing any members of their families - the only person who has been able to see his family joined the squad late due to being at home when his wife gave birth to their second child. He was then tested before being allowed to join the squad.

They ARE staying in, probably more so than you are e.g. been shopping lately? Gone for a walk outside your own garden? They are restricted to the venues.

3rd June was the day the WI team flew into the UK, which gave them literally weeks in isolation before meeting anybody outside the Old Trafford ground where they were staying. This was to go to the first test match only, then return to Old Trafford (which is where the remaining 2 matches are).

The mixing is no more than any other person would do carrying out their professional job, in fact less mixing as no commuting. Work places are now open, why not theirs?

Yeh thanks my partner told me , it is not a a punishment but what I think kept most people going is the feeling we are all in this together. Doesnt matter who you are people spread the virus. Describing the actions of a cricket team as a sacrifice boils my piss

Haven't Scottish football teams started playing friendlies today

@miss43 boiling piss isn't normal, see your doctor.

@thedancingbear

What do people think of the series so far? It's good to see England seem to be developing a more solid top order, even if the runs aren't exactly flowing. Really healthy for the game to see a competitive Windies test side too.

Yes indeed. Really good to the Windies returning to good strength. Carlos Braithwaite is a good addition to the TMS team as well.

Just need to get our Sky Sports back up and running now!

OP I get the feeling you view cricket as a hobby, rather than the players professions. This is their day job, not some jolly they are going on for fun. Cricketers have a comparatively short working career (as do most sports professionals) and all they are doing is their JOB. You don't seem to be anywhere near as irate about the football for example?

Whether you like/approve of these people's job or not, they are still having to be locked away from their families for weeks on end.

MotoGP is starting again this weekend. Approx 70 or so riders, each with a big crew of mechanics, data analysts etc, team managers etc, plus race officials, medics, a mobile hospital, plus tv crews & commentators from all over the world.

They're only racing at European tracks and have ditched the far east and Americas rounds, but that's a huge number of people travelling around.

But it's a big business and a huge sport in many European countries. The tv companies pay vast sums in tv rights and they can't afford not to race.

And, as a fan, I'm bloody glad they are, although I very much doubt that they've got anything like the strict biosecurity measures the cricketers are complying with. There are so many more people involved, I don't see how they can monitor them the way they are the cricket authorities are.

I think they have MustBeThin.
Children can restart contact sports.
So things sport wise are starting to move in Scotland.
I don't think Scottish Cricket will be back till August earliest though.

Hooray for the cricket (and the football!) Delighted others are enjoying it too!

@thedancingbear

What do people think of the series so far? It's good to see England seem to be developing a more solid top order, even if the runs aren't exactly flowing. Really healthy for the game to see a competitive Windies test side too.

I'm loving it, it's so good to have a competitive WI team back. I like Brathwaite's commentary. I loved Sibley's innings today - proper test cricket.

Did everyone see the thing on Sky with Ebony Rainford Brent and Michael Holding before the first test? I thought that was amazing.

Anyway I do think OP might have a different pov if she knew everything that had been put in place for this series. Even the journalists covering the matches have to either be in the bubble and not allowed home for the duration, or work from home.

@TeaAndHobnob

I did see the Ebony/Holding thing - beautifully and sensitively done and great to see the broadcaster making a valid contribution to the debate.

Lovely comments from lots on here about the cricket and seconded re the Windies great to see them play strong cricket and hope they have a safe and good series.

I surprised myself by shedding a tear when they played Soul Limbo on 5Live on Day 1 last week. My whole life has been entwined with TMS and after all this year has thrown up it felt like a big warm hug from a dearly loved one called Normality. Please don't begrudge me that OP.

I understand it is their job and there may be restrictions they have had to take but you cannot call adhering to these restrictions a sacrifice that's an insult to all the medical staff who have been working during this crisis , and noone I know would call it that , prob the commentators fault for using that term. . Due to serious illness last year I haven't been out up till last week just garden . A friend lost two parents and a grandparent due to the virus that's hell

I understand it is their job and there may be restrictions they have had to take but you cannot call adhering to these restrictions a sacrifice that's an insult to all the medical staff who have been working during this crisis
It isn't an insult at all. Both teams are isolating from their immediate families, so sacrificing time with their own households which few of us have had to do so that they can go and do their job.

Their job isn't saving lives on a covid ward but it provides employment to a good few people and a massive amount of enjoyment to thousands.

They are making sacrifices and some forms of entertainment and sport opening up again doesn't detract from other people having had a shit time for some months.

@miss43 they've given up months of their lives to live completely isolated from all their loved ones, in order to do their jobs. It's a sacrifice.

Just because you've had a tough time doesn't mean no one else has. Stop playing the Covid-19 Misery Games, turn on TMS and enjoy a little bit of joy and happiness. Or at least stop trying to stir up resentment.

^ all of this

I agree also, it's sad when folk have to recount that they have known suffering, and therefore others aren't allowed to do anything.

We won't get back on our feet by tearing each other down.

I don't like watching sports. I live in Scotland. FFS, get a grip. For someone who is so utterly opposed to all this you seem to have spent a great deal of time and energy finding out so much detail about the cricket. I'm sorry that your family have had such an awful time if it. So have Ann awful lot of other families. And some of them will be grateful for some normal life, like watching cricket matches. The entire world is not about you.

I have only mentioned my circumstance as I was asked further up threes , lots of people travel for their job for months at a time it is never described as a sacrifice. I dont know anyone who would describe it as that its embarrassing

What a small handful of professional sports people do, in a VERY carefully controlled way, has no barring at all on the amazing work done by health care professionals throughout this crisis. It also has made no difference to the amount of time you've been in lockdown or any jobs that have been lost. And calling it a "sacrifice" is just hyperbole, and pretty mild hyperbole by sports commentary standards.
I think your anger is a bit misplaced OP but it does sound like you've had a tough time of it.

It's just not cricket is it?

Oh, actually it is 😂

@miss43 travelling for work for months at a time is a sacrifice, having done it i can tell you that for a fact.

Maybe rather than frothing online about life getting back to normal, you should make yourself a cup of tea and start thinking about moving on yourself.

OP you seem to have an agenda or a dislike of cricket. The world is getting up and running and people are starting to fly again, slowly. Your comments are a little irrational and strange.

lots of people travel for their job for months at a time it is never described as a sacrifice
I absolutely have seen it described as such. People talk about sacrifices all the time. Sacrificing time spent on hobbies when you have young children, sacrificing time with family and friends to have a long commute and a bigger house.

And this is people isolating away from their families even when their families are 5 mins round the corner in some cases.

You seem to have a very strict interpretation of what sacrifice means and that if it doesn't mean they are actually actively miserable that it doesn't count. Covid having meant lots of people have had a particularly hard time over the last few months doesn't mean that everyone has to be miserable in some kind of recompense.