tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post844487813400882397..comments2023-12-28T02:11:22.501+00:00Comments on The Streatham & Brixton Chess Blog: Mummy's little prince and the Sheffield rest dayTom Chivershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09850710685193416732noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-87245469541616768352011-08-02T07:10:51.445+01:002011-08-02T07:10:51.445+01:00Wasting your boss's time is obviously consider...<i>Wasting your boss's time is obviously considered better than wasting your own</i><br /><br />This blog, or instance, gets more hits per day during the week than the weekend.ejhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01582272075999298935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-57478930185492965162011-08-01T23:54:11.874+01:002011-08-01T23:54:11.874+01:00http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/sport/sport-headline...http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/sport/sport-headlines/indians-allowed-into-pavilion-bar-201108014141/<br /><br />Are we going to reprieve that New Zealand (?) batsman that got flattened by Sidebottom and then ran out btw?<br /><br />Was glad of the day off the one time I played the British. It would seem too early or late to be not at the weekend and the break is for the players of course. Expect a lot of people are getting paid whilst they watch the British at work anyway so if there was play on Sunday it would take their own time up.<br /> The whole event did seem to go on and on though- 9 days without a day off is probably better although you may see more short draws to generate a day off. It seems a revamp is high on the agenda. Would agree with one reservation that I may never be able to put my disappointing 4.5/11 right (although at £200 entry fee this is an expensive thing to try and put right!).<br />AndrewAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-3026955713802930692011-08-01T23:35:50.888+01:002011-08-01T23:35:50.888+01:00As it happens, the traditional cricket match didn&...As it happens, the traditional cricket match didn't take place at all.<br /><br />A point in favour of the middle Sunday's being the rest day: many players in the Championship and Major Open are more masochistic than me and like to use the rest day to play in the mid-tournament Rapidplay, which for obvious reasons is scheduled for the weekend.<br /><br />(Also, the statistics for international tournaments tend to show that, possibly counterintuitively, <br />they get <i>more</i> viewers during the week than they do at weekends. Wasting your boss's time is obviously considered better than wasting your own.)Jack Ruddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17433574267085964238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-2940053635414549512011-08-01T20:57:03.508+01:002011-08-01T20:57:03.508+01:00Leaving to one side Bell’s boundary-side tantrum –...Leaving to one side Bell’s boundary-side tantrum – although how can you bat so well and pout like that?! – I can see why Dhoni decided to change his mind. By the time the ball was returned to the stumps, it was clear that both sides were treating the ball as dead; it was the last ball of the over; the umpires were preparing to move on; and tea was about to be called. The only thing that needed adjudicating was whether three or four runs had been scored. <br /><br />Given that Bell wasn’t attempting to take a run, there were no grounds in practice for thinking the ball wasn’t dead. I think if Dhoni had thought his team were actually trying to run out a batsman within the letter and the spirit of the laws then he wouldn’t have retracted his appeal. <br /><br />As an umpire in the lower echelons of the game, you’re trained to take control of stuff that might become contentious. As the umpires subsequently asked twice if they wanted to reconsider their decision to appeal – this suggests they didn’t think much of it, except as a legally possible shout. A firm call of “TEA” or “OVER” at any time after the fielder picked up the ball at the boundary edge and haphazardly sent it in the direction of the middle would have put an end to this particular beginning. <br /><br />But if that had happened, would we have seen the pout?<br /><br />SeaniAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-8102232876354832822011-08-01T20:12:09.510+01:002011-08-01T20:12:09.510+01:00My dear old thing, as Blowers might say, I didn...My dear old thing, as Blowers might say, I didn't forget it at all. You're right, though, I should have mentioned it, if only to say that I'm not sure that the cricket match tradition should take precedence over what should be the main business of the British Championships.Jonathan Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00293162543015231439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-58870669529593837842011-08-01T19:05:12.577+01:002011-08-01T19:05:12.577+01:00Given the huge focus of this article on cricket, i...Given the huge focus of this article on cricket, it is surprising that JMGB forgets that Sunday sees the long-traditional ECF v local team cricket match played.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-61849533681271804512011-08-01T16:46:42.324+01:002011-08-01T16:46:42.324+01:00I couldn't agree more about Bell: if anything,...I couldn't agree more about Bell: if anything, I thought he should probably have been ashamed to accept Dhoni's reprieve. (I also don't really understand why Dhoni gave the reprieve after twice refusing to reconsider on the field, or, given those refusals, why Strauss and Flower asked for it.)<br /><br />Personally I wish the Championships had been put back a fortnight, as I'll be in Sheffield two weeks tomorrow.ejhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01582272075999298935noreply@blogger.com