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<p>Turns out Ben Stokes' Mum isn't too thrilled with people bagging his final over...</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/78620438/radio-hosts-jeremy-wells-and-matt-heath-suspended-over-call-from-ben-stokes-mum'>http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/78620438/radio-hosts-jeremy-wells-and-matt-heath-suspended-over-call-from-ben-stokes-mum</a></p>
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<p>They are off air tomorrow because they are flying to Las Vegas!! That was gold that phone call!</p> -
<p>Love, your son is a kiwi who plays for England, who got smacked for 4 straight sixes (off shit balls) to lose a final. That's about as fair game as you can possibly get. </p>
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<p>Love, your son is a kiwi who plays for England, who got smacked for 4 straight sixes (off shit balls) to lose a final. That's about as fair game as you can possibly get. </p>
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<p>Agreed. Part and parcel with the large paychecks that come from being a professional sportsman is that people will bag you when you make a horrendous fuck up. 19 off the last over should have been defendable. People have every right to criticise</p> -
<p>On the topic of great NZ all rounders, if you were in Essex this week you could have watched Franklin v Ryder -</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://www.essexcricket.org.uk/2016/04/05/match-report-essex-v-middlesex/'>https://www.essexcricket.org.uk/2016/04/05/match-report-essex-v-middlesex/</a></p>
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<p>There's some highlights. Jesse is the morbidly obese one. Bowled nicely tho'.</p> -
<p>"<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);">Deborah, do you think your son was match-fixing when be bowled four consecutive half-volleys?"<br><br>
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<p>Destructive NZ born & bred former Christchurch-based allrounder a match-fixer? </p>
<p>#papertrail</p>
<p>#why</p>
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<p>If you want to go down that route. Chris Gayle scores a sublime 100 not out game 1.</p>
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<p>What odds can you get he will score less than 115 runs in <em><strong>total</strong></em> in the tournament?</p>
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<p>What odds can you get that he will score between 1 & 5 in the semi & final?</p>
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<p>Cause thats a faaaaaaaaaaaaar easier one than Stokes going for 4 6's</p> -
<p>this is Chris Gayle. If he got a hundred in the opener, i would think he'd be paying about $1.15 to score fuck all in the rest of the tournament.</p>
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<p>Oh, and just on the above, we're not really ret-conning James Franklin in to a good all-rounder are we?</p> -
<p>All I'll say is between Stokes Mum and the ridiculous Gypsygate that occurred on the other thread I'm really worried about expressing my opinion about any sportspeople on here in case I get fined/sued.</p>
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<p>I think Jimmy Franklin should have been heaps better than he actually was. I think he focused a bit on the batting so the bowling suffered in later years if memory serves.</p> -
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<p>All I'll say is between Stokes Mum and the ridiculous Gypsygate that occurred on the other thread I'm really worried about expressing my opinion about any sportspeople on here in case I get fined/sued.</p>
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<p>I think Jimmy Franklin should have been heaps better than he actually was. I think he focused a bit on the batting so the bowling suffered in later years if memory serves.</p>
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<p>Jimmy had two test careers.</p>
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<p>His first career he was quite a lively quick bower who could bat a bit. His stats show up to 2006 he took 76 wickets at 28 and had a batting average of 22, mainly batting at 8 and 9.</p>
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<p>Then he got injured.</p>
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<p>Post injury he'd lost his pace and was military medium and was ineffective as anything other than a stock bowler in tests. Our team was a bit shit, so we tried to convert him into a number 6 batsman who could bowl, but he wasn't really up to it as his post-2007 averages of 19 with the bat and 107 with the ball show.</p>
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<p>He was quite a bit more useful as an ODI player post-2007 in a sort of Grant Elliott/Chris Harris role.</p> -
<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/78620438/radio-hosts-jeremy-wells-and-matt-heath-suspended-over-call-from-ben-stokes-mum'>http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/78620438/radio-hosts-jeremy-wells-and-matt-heath-suspended-over-call-from-ben-stokes-mum</a></p>
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<p>Here is the call with Stokes' Mum. </p> -
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/78620438/radio-hosts-jeremy-wells-and-matt-heath-suspended-over-call-from-ben-stokes-mum'>http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/78620438/radio-hosts-jeremy-wells-and-matt-heath-suspended-over-call-from-ben-stokes-mum</a></p>
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<p>Here is the call with Stokes' Mum. </p>
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<p>On one hand you can make a pretty compelling point that they shouldn't have aired it but by Christ if every Mum/Dad/Brother/Sister/Grandparent/Aunt/Uncle of any remotely famous sportsperson decided to ring up the Radio and express their moral outrage at someone bagging their pride and joy then the interweb would have a meltdown.</p>
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<p>I have a feeling Ben has been on the blower to Mum having an almighty rant at her calling in the first place, he's a grown up, not a fucken kid.</p> -
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<p>HAs this made its way to the UK yet?</p>
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<p>Absolute humiliator for Stokes! Man, if I was his team mate, I would be giving him mummies boy grief!</p>
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<p>Matt Heath freely admitted he was a very good player, imagine if Mrs Donald decided to ring talkback after Stephens efforts in Hong Kong ?</p> -
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<p>HAs this made its way to the UK yet?</p>
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<p>Absolute humiliator for Stokes! Man, if I was his team mate, I would be giving him mummies boy grief!</p>
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<p>I bet she was that Mum who turned up and bailed up a teacher if her boy got a bad report card at school as well. </p> -
<p>I thought the issue was not so much what was said but they lied to her about not being on air?</p>
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<p>I thought the issue was not so much what was said but they lied to her about not being on air?</p>
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Come on mate, this is the Fern, don't let the facts ruin us taking the mickey out of a ginger Pommie sportsman. </p> -
<p>Call me old-fashioned, but regardless of what you think of the actual content of her call or her reasons for ringing, if they gave her their word that she would not be on-air, it is poor form to basically lie outright and play it on-air. Ethical journalism and all that. I hate the way journalists feel they are a law unto themselves. Like when Mike Hosking got his knickers in a twist when the media started looking into his kids.</p>
