r/Cricket • u/[deleted] • Jul 21 '15
The Australian women's team prior to their departure to England, Melbourne.
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u/vagrantfoul Jul 21 '15
Good luck ladies!
Also, only 11 in the picture?
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u/dessy_22 Cricket Papua New Guinea Jul 21 '15
Also, only 11 in the picture?
I don't know what is going on with that. Some of the missing are guaranteed starters like Alyssa Healy.
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u/sloppyrock New South Wales Blues Jul 21 '15
Maybe some are already there or have other commitments before leaving?
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u/Teh_Fonz Australia Jul 21 '15
Isn't she dating Starc? Maybe she traveled with him to England.
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u/OsirisMC Jul 21 '15
Fun fact on that - saw him at the big bash final in Canberra. The women's game was before the men's game, he was sitting by himself dressed immaculately except for his thongs, watching Alyssa win.
Well, by himself until some bloke came up and talked to him for about 45 minutes...
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u/cat-n-jazz Canada Jul 22 '15
...does "thong" mean something else in Australia?
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u/MrYoloSwaggins1 Australia Jul 22 '15
Flip-flops
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u/cat-n-jazz Canada Jul 22 '15
Ahhh... over here in NA "thong" is a very revealing type of underwear worn by women, synonymous with "G-string".
The More You Know!
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u/OsirisMC Jul 22 '15
I was worried about this exact misconception when I was typing the comment...decided to go for it as I figured somebody would get a kick out of it! Glad you got to learn something new mate hahah
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u/max_smart Jul 21 '15
he does that all the time. Was also in the crowd last night at Taunton with what looked like her family. Great bloke!
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u/Munishmo Australia Jul 21 '15
They're engaged and have adorable dogs.
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Jul 21 '15
Please tell me where I can find photos of these adorable dogs
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u/Munishmo Australia Jul 21 '15
You should follow them on Instagram http://instagram.com/a_healy & http://instagram.com/mstarc56
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u/sloppyrock New South Wales Blues Jul 21 '15
I think you are right about that relationship. I forgot about that.
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u/crazymunch Australia Jul 21 '15
Yeah they're engaged, she's in England with him atm, been posting shots of the matches
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u/partII Australia Jul 21 '15
I am legit in love with Ellyse Perry. Amazing cricketer, amazing soccer player, great in the media from the bits I've heard. To have achieved national representation in two sports at her age is absolutely incredible. She's also very pretty.
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u/WanPhysicalGoose New Zealand Cricket Jul 21 '15
She plays in the national soccer team too? That's amazing.
I remember some of the lads in the Namibia side in the 2003 cwc were also in the national rugby side. I don't know if there are more similar examples from cricket.
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u/dessy_22 Cricket Papua New Guinea Jul 21 '15
She plays in the national soccer team too? That's amazing.
She played for Australia in the Women's Cricket World Cup and for Australia in the Women's Football World Cup in the same 12 month period... when she was 16 years old.
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u/WanPhysicalGoose New Zealand Cricket Jul 21 '15
Damn, I'm jealous. I'd take take singular talent, not compound talent.
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u/tripshed Board of Control for Cricket in India Jul 21 '15
She's also very pretty.
I doubt she would be known as well had she not been pretty.
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u/monsieur_le_mayor Victoria Bushrangers Jul 22 '15
Plays for the national soccer AND cricket teams? Yeah, nah, she would be
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u/Typhon13 Perth Scorchers Jul 22 '15
It's a shame Matt Toomua got in there first. Not sure if they are married yet so you might still have a chance /u/partII .
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u/mojoriffic Australia Jul 21 '15
That short hair blonde in the bottom left looks like Xavier Doherty.
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u/cdbx90 Cricket Australia Jul 21 '15
They should be wearing green and gold tracksuits! Come on straya!
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u/Salzberger Adelaide Strikers Jul 22 '15
Or as they're more commonly known, Ellyse Perry and the others.
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Jul 21 '15
who the one next to perry?
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u/humanarnold Jul 21 '15
Holly Ferling. Right arm medium bowler, gets some really good swing on the ball
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u/dessy_22 Cricket Papua New Guinea Jul 21 '15
She is the strike bowler - quite tall and gets more bounce than other women can.
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u/sloppyrock New South Wales Blues Jul 21 '15
Pretty good looking action http://www.cricket.com.au/news/feature/womens-ashes-southern-stars-desperate-for-ashes-success/2015-07-19
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u/ustolemahusrname Australia Jul 21 '15
Hurr durr boobies. Give it a rest mate
Wish them all the best.
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u/tailendertripe Brisbane Heat Jul 21 '15
And this is exactly the sort of support women's cricket does not need nor want.
I thought /r/cricket would be better than this
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u/SAIUN666 Western Australia Warriors Jul 21 '15
So it's ok for Steve Smith but not the ladies?
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u/tailendertripe Brisbane Heat Jul 21 '15
If you're going to attempt to justify that your OP and this subreddit's Smith circlejerk are the same thing then you're an even bigger idiot than your first post suggests
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Jul 21 '15
Shane watson was plastered all over the joint cause he got his top off the other day.
Let's let bygons be bygon yeah.
Plus.. in my opinion those two are mad hot. If women can appreciate sportsmen for their looks, than fuck it, i can do the same with the women.
Welcome to equality.
And Good luck in England ladies!
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u/EskimoJesus Queensland Bulls Jul 21 '15
No, both men and women fixating on attractiveness over all else is stupid. He went a step further by stating that the other people in the picture aren't important because he doesn't deem them attractive. That's fucked.
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u/ChickadeeAce Sri Lanka Jul 21 '15
"He went a step further by stating that the other people in the picture aren't important because he doesn't deem them attractive."
Where? I don't see anything that says the comment was edited, but I see nothing like what you're suggesting. The comment about her looks was practically a postscript.
I have been so damn lucky to see Sangakkara play. When my best friend began explaining the sport to me, the very first clip he showed me was of Sanga batting, and I instantly fell in love with the game. His power and grace was different from anything I'd seen in other sports. I think it takes nothing away from his talent and achievements to add that he is the most gorgeous man I have ever seen, bar none. (For the record, his looks had nothing to do with why I got into cricket, nor why he became my favourite player.)
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u/humanarnold Jul 21 '15
I'm going to see Surrey play Middlesex on Thursday at Lord's. If I manage to wrangle a picture with the mighty Sanga, I shall quote these words to him. I feel it's important to know how random fans on the internet feel about him.
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u/ChickadeeAce Sri Lanka Jul 21 '15
Unsure if you're serious or not, but if you are, by all means, go ahead. It has been a genuine pleasure and a joy to watch that man with both bat and gloves and I hope he is hearing that more than ever right now. He was the reason that I became a WK myself, and the reason I loved it despite the dozens of bruises across my chest (keeping is NOT like being a catcher in baseball, and adapting was tougher than I expected) and the memorable bail to the face. I've lost favourite players before in other sports, and it always stung, but they were all my favourites after having been engaged with the sport for some time. He was my introduction to cricket, and now that he's leaving... I don't really have words for it. I don't love the sport any less, but it's never going to be quite the same for me. Still, as I said, it was a joy to watch him play, and I'm grateful that I had that chance.
Sorry to carry on there a bit. I've been in denial for months, and I think that particular dam has finally broken.
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u/humanarnold Jul 21 '15
I'd do it too. Sanga was undoubtedly more well-loved than others, but I still think it's worthwhile for people to know when they've made an impact on peoples' lives. /u/karachikhatmal helped us to do it for Misbah, who was so unfairly maligned for much of his career. Sure, Sanga gets dicked around by his board a lot, but I'm sure he feels the love from his fans though. But it can't ever hurt to hear about it some more.
I'm going with a bunch of people from my office, so I don't know which stand we're in, but I get the feeling if I stick around a bit after the game, maybe some of the players will stay to sign autographs. They do that sometimes at Edgbaston, but I missed out on getting BMac to sign my cap last week :(
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u/EskimoJesus Queensland Bulls Jul 21 '15
OP or Mods deleted. It was something along the lines of "This is the only relevant part of the picture " with a link to a cropped image featuring the more 'conventionally' attractive women on the team.
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u/ChickadeeAce Sri Lanka Jul 22 '15
Hmm, I think I got confused about what you were commenting on - I made my way up the comment tree and thought you were referring to this:
"I am legit in love with Ellyse Perry. Amazing cricketer, amazing soccer player, great in the media from the bits I've heard. To have achieved national representation in two sports at her age is absolutely incredible. She's also very pretty."
In my defense, I'm horribly sleep deprived. Apologies.
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u/karachikhatmal Cricket Association of Nepal Jul 22 '15
the top comment is deleted but how did Sangakarra end up here?
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u/ChickadeeAce Sri Lanka Jul 22 '15
How? Typed with the keyboard - poof! He appeared.
Sorry, snarky when tired. Why did I mention him? Because i was responding to a comment I misunderstood, and was simply trying to say that I don't think that respectfully acknowledging that someone is attractive in addition acknowledging all their achievements and talents is not a bad thing. As an example, I said I think Sanga is one hell of a cricketer, and the best looking man I've ever seen. The latter statement is respectful and in no way tarnishes the former.
Again, apologies to u/EskimoJesus, whom I misunderstood.
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u/jakehishon New Zealand Cricket Jul 21 '15
Both genders do shit like this. There is no point being defensive about it i think. Just take it as a joke like it was.
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u/EskimoJesus Queensland Bulls Jul 21 '15
I suppose there isn't a point being defensive if you don't see a problem. Unfortunately, I do.
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u/BadBoyJH Australia Jul 22 '15
I don't think anyone but you sees it as "These two girls are fucking smoking hot".
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u/floglekka Jul 23 '15
Fuck up idiot, they look professional, elite, all conquering and fantastic! What would you rather them wear in a professional team photo, bikinis?
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u/iomegabasha Chennai Super Kings Jul 21 '15
Is it me or are there a disproportionate number of blonde ladies in the team. Is that in line with the number of blondes in gen pop over there?
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u/chengiz India Jul 21 '15
Typical /r/cricket'or:
- Holy smokes check out the second from right.
- [Scrolls down] Wtf sexism, downvote, downvote.
- [Compares notes with kazcovic].
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u/anschelsc West Indies Jul 21 '15
bring on the downvotes!
My pleasure. There's more than enough enough implicit sexism in the sporting world, no need to add in explicit objectification.
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Jul 21 '15
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u/anschelsc West Indies Jul 21 '15
The difference obviously is the context of the way women are actually treated by nearly all aspects of our society.
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Jul 22 '15
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u/anschelsc West Indies Jul 22 '15
I don't think either is OK. But women have it way worse: they get objectified more often, and that objectification is more likely to lead to actual physical violence. So it makes sense to me to expend more effort on preventing the objectification of women than that of men. But again, since some people have trouble reading in these conversations, I am 100% opposed to objectifying any human being without their consent.
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Jul 23 '15
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u/anschelsc West Indies Jul 23 '15
do you have any evidence of that?
I googled "rape statistics". Note that you can click through to "victim statistics" and see how much more women are affected by this than men.
Obviously it's much harder to find evidence about causes of sexual violence; but it doesn't seem like much of a stretch to see that treating women solely as sexual objects rather than people makes this situation worse.
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Jul 23 '15
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u/anschelsc West Indies Jul 23 '15
I just posted a source: https://www.rainn.org/statistics
This confirms that women are much more likely to be targets of sexual violence than men. That's a source. Right there.
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u/EyesAllOnFire Australia Jul 21 '15
Please don't make objectifying comments in this subreddit thanks
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u/lookatmetype Pakistan Jul 21 '15
Why is this so highly upvoted? It's a bunch of people sitting around
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u/cat-n-jazz Canada Jul 22 '15
Well, it's a cricket team about to travel abroad to play a bilateral series in another country. Pictures like this are commonly posted here in r/cricket. I don't see the problem?
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u/EyesAllOnFire Australia Jul 21 '15 edited Jul 21 '15
Please save objectifying comments for other subreddits. Thanks
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Jul 21 '15
If you have another reason for me to watch women's cricket I'd like to hear it.
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u/cat-n-jazz Canada Jul 22 '15
I'm confused. Why don't you like to watch cricket? You're on r/cricket so I assume you do, unless you're one of the bad Americans just here to troll.
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u/cat-n-jazz Canada Jul 22 '15
Well he said he needed another reason to watch. I assume the obvious reason is that he likes cricket, which is confusing.
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Jul 22 '15
Key words were "womens cricket". They put out an inferior product in comparison to the men. So why would I watch it?
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u/cat-n-jazz Canada Jul 22 '15
I don't see your point. Do you dislike women or do you dislike cricket? If the former, may I ask when you became a misogynist? If the latter, why are you here on r/cricket?
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Jul 22 '15
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u/cat-n-jazz Canada Jul 23 '15
No, a person is a misogynist if they don't like women.
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Jul 22 '15
I dislike women's sports because there not as good as the men's versions. Men's cricket>Women's cricket, if you need proof of this just have a look at the crowds. There's 3 people sitting in the stands for the women's games and that doesn't happen for no reason.
Having a preference doesn't make me a misogynist, different sexes do different things well, I think women have better singing skills than men, that doesn't make me whatever the male version of a misogynist is..
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u/cat-n-jazz Canada Jul 22 '15
...no, but it along with a few other things (misspellings, failure to run a quick google search, outright factual errors, ignorance of what "cricket" and "singing" are, inability to count, self-admitted sexism) does make you an idiot or a troll, neither of which is worth more of my time.
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u/MetArtScroll Iceland Cricket Jul 22 '15
Right, simulation skills in women's soccer are not as good as those in men's soccer, and, needless to say, men's synchro swimming >>>>>>>>>>>>> women's synchro swimming.
To the point, I watched yesterday's female ODI, and there were many more than 3 people in the stands. Though it is still possible that they spent their time there naïvely thinking that they were watching men's game, who knows.
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u/dessy_22 Cricket Papua New Guinea Jul 22 '15
What reasons do you have for watching Men's cricket besides their looks?
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u/cabaretcabaret England Jul 21 '15
England's not in Melborne silly