The height of optimism in cricket is when....

[MenInG]

We hear some crazy optimism by team managers etc in cricket - even when one can see that the writing is on the wall.

Happens a lot of time in Test cricket and its about time we took notice of these statements! rby

Let me start with one I heard today....

After India scored 600 and then reduced Sri Lanka to 154/5

At the end of the day in the presser

""No, we can't be happy about the state of the match. A lot of our plans went badly. We had to go to new plans but they didn't always work as well. But cricket is like that and you have to stick at it. At least we could get them for 600 runs.

"At the moment Angelo Mathews and Dilruwan Perera are batting well, so tomorrow hopefully they will stay at the wicket and bat well until lunch. If we can bat until tea we might be able to escape danger," added bowling consultant Chaminda Vaas, who had accompanied Pradeep as translator."

Go figure!

Please add your own examples....

 

[DRsohail]

hahhahaha yaar..

 

[pakistanigoneaussie]

Whenever Afridi came out to bat .....

 

[ExpressPacer]

Whenever Afridi came out to bat .....

Haha gold

 

[MenInG]

We hear some crazy optimism by team managers etc in cricket - even when one can see that the writing is on the wall.

Happens a lot of time in Test cricket and its about time we took notice of these statements! rby

Let me start with one I heard today....

After India scored 600 and then reduced Sri Lanka to 154/5

At the end of the day in the presser

""No, we can't be happy about the state of the match. A lot of our plans went badly. We had to go to new plans but they didn't always work as well. But cricket is like that and you have to stick at it. At least we could get them for 600 runs.

"At the moment Angelo Mathews and Dilruwan Perera are batting well, so tomorrow hopefully they will stay at the wicket and bat well until lunch. If we can bat until tea we might be able to escape danger," added bowling consultant Chaminda Vaas, who had accompanied Pradeep as translator."

Go figure!

Please add your own examples....

I understand teams cannot put themselves down but maybe they should also not insult intelligence of others.

 

[Desi]

Pak 102/5 chasing 212 to win with 26 overs left

"...If afridi can just bat sensibly for 10 overs we should still have it"

Afridi 4 (3) caught long on

 

[On_the_up]

Thinking Pak can win the Champions trophy after another abject display in the opener vs India.

Haha what fools they must have been...

 

[PakLFC]

...you think India has found a fast bowler!!

 

[MenInG]

Thinking Pak can win the Champions trophy after another abject display in the opener vs India.

Haha what fools they must have been...

Thing is no one said that at that time. Talk was all about an honorable exit and even the management did not look that convinced

 

[MenInG]

Very refreshing to see SA did not say anything stupid like "we can still win this match" ....

 

[The Googly]

When a team who is ranked bottom in the tournament thinks they have a chance of winning the thing! Oh wait.......

 

[CanadianG00se]

Height of optimism is when expecting U Akmal to open the innings and expect him to unleash his inner beast

 

[fawad_wellwisher]

Expecting India to play a series with Pakistan in UAE.