Opinion Cricket thread

[Heaps of fun]

Were they the ones putting people to sleep?

Yeah, you couldn't work out what they were selling. Good riddens. They were probably selling guns to ISIS.

 

[Nate7]

Yeah, you couldn't work out what they were selling. Good riddens. They were probably selling guns to ISIS.

Ahh the financial services sector abandoning CA, stating integrity as the issue. That's a bit pot kettle black!

Agreed re those ads. Could even have been congratulating Idi Amin such was the strangeness behind those ads.

 

[KiwiRoo]

Magellan drops its 3 year sponsorship contract with Cricket Australia .

Asics and others are on the way out.

Bunnings are coming on board though..

 

[King Corey]

I've got an idea for you.

How about you organise to print some posters up and come Boxing Day, I will help you carry them to the MCG on trolleys, you know like the one tradies use and we can hand them out ţo all Aussie fans.

#StandbyWarner.

Happy to.

All other tamperers should've been shunted for 12 months apiece then, unless those incidents somehow didn't bring the sport into disrepute.

Or maybe just maybe Australia are applying a lens to their own that noone else does internationally. Bravo us.

 

[Samsquanch]

Bravo us.

Yay.

To apply such a penalty, either the riot act was read to the team and these blokes ignored the warning (maybe), Australia has set standards so far above those of the ICC and every other country (nuh) or the team were told to push the boundaries but never cross the line or they'd cop it big time (who knows).

Even so, the penalty is way out of line with anything other than doping.

I always felt that other ball tamperes got off way too light, but a year? If that stands, then I hope my kid doesn't get any ideas about duck fudging when he's playing marbles in the school ground.

 

[DarkPhoenix]

https://www.foxsports.com.au/cricke...t/news-story/f591716a934cd225f1c21009bcb82244

Absolutely disgusting.

Again. The same people treating Smith this way see faf Du plesis as a God.

 

[archereleven]

I didn't know even get a minute in Darren Lehman's presser lol

Guilty as sin imo

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[SpiderBurton22]

https://www.foxsports.com.au/cricke...t/news-story/f591716a934cd225f1c21009bcb82244

Absolutely disgusting.

Again. The same people treating Smith this way see faf Du plesis as a God.

It's very ordinary, but that's the press for you. Remember the media scrum in Adelaide, I think, doing the same thing to Faf when he got charged. Wasn't one of the SAFFAs staff accused of assualting a journo while trying to shield Faf?

 

[DarkPhoenix]

 

[DarkPhoenix]

It's very ordinary, but that's the press for you. Remember the media scrum in Adelaide, I think, doing the same thing to Faf when he got charged. Wasn't one of the SAFFAs staff accused of assualting a journo while trying to shield Faf?

I was referring to the general public in the background booing and screaming "CHEAT" at him.

It's one thing to do it at a game of cricket, it's another to do it in public.

In regard to the way the police were handling him, I hope that was a protective stance not an escort stance and had been agreed upon before hand.

 

[SpiderBurton22]

I was referring to the general public in the background booing and screaming "CHEAT" at him.

It's one thing to do it at a game of cricket, it's another to do it in public.

In regard to the way the police were handling him, I hope that was a protective stance not an escort stance and had been agreed upon before hand.

Unfortunately Smith is going to have to learn to deal with this because it will follow him around everytime he goes overseas. Rival supporters are going to get stuck into him.

Us Aussies would do the same thing. Murali copped it here. At the game, in the streets. People would yell out "no ball" and "chucker" thinking it was funny. Stuart Broad too, I remember seeing a video of an Aussie filming himself goading Broad while he was at a food court.

 

[Gorman2Geister]

Unfortunately Smith is going to have to learn to deal with this because it will follow him around everytime he goes overseas. Rival supporters are going to get stuck into him.

Us Aussies would do the same thing. Murali copped it here. At the game, in the streets. People would yell out "no ball" and "chucker" thinking it was funny. Stuart Broad too, I remember seeing a video of an Aussie filming himself goading Broad while he was at a food court.

Food court hey? Any BF mods want to make a confession?

 

[Nate7]

Food court hey? Any BF mods want to make a confession?

That might explain why Filthy has gone missing!

 

[Hearts to hearts]

I'm getting an uncomfortable feeling about Warner being painted as the prime mover and the guy who'll probably pay the heaviest price. Maybe he was the one who pushed the hardest. Maybe there is also a touch of the Tonya Hardings about him - just not the way the sport likes to see itself.

It's easy to get whipped up in the sentiment that we'd rather lose than win the wrong way. But that's also a privileged, old empire view of the world, set by men who could afford to lose at sport because they were winning at life. Cricket and all sport also has participants who compete hard as **** to win because without that success they don't have a huge amount.

I don't know what happened. I'm just wary of the innate bias that seems to have bobbed up immediately, that the blond haired boy with the graceful stroke play is bound for redemption, and the older man who comes across as a street fighter is for the bin.

 

[Passmore]

Sachin Tendulkar weighing in. I guess he was just “cleaning” the ball.

campaigner.

 

[SpiderBurton22]

I'm getting an uncomfortable feeling about Warner being painted as the prime mover and the guy who'll probably pay the heaviest price. Maybe he was the one who pushed the hardest. Maybe there is also a touch of the Tonya Hardings about him - just not the way the sport likes to see itself.

It's easy to get whipped up in the sentiment that we'd rather lose than win the wrong way. But that's also a privileged, old empire view of the world, set by men who could afford to lose at sport because they were winning at life. Cricket and all sport also has participants who compete hard as **** to win because without that success they don't have a huge amount.

I don't know what happened. I'm just wary of the innate bias that seems to have bobbed up immediately, that the blond haired boy with the graceful stroke play is bound for redemption, and the older man who comes across as a street fighter is for the bin.

I agree there is a touch that going on.

While I have no doubt that Warner is a bad egg and more than likely the main culprit, I keep going back to the * saga and Dank went rogue message * sent out.

It's convenient for CA to possibly this picture to protect others. There have been murmurings that Warner will appeal, citing others new of the plan to cheat. We'll have to wait and see I guess.

 

[Passmore]

Happy to.

All other tamperers should've been shunted for 12 months apiece then, unless those incidents somehow didn't bring the sport into disrepute.

Or maybe just maybe Australia are applying a lens to their own that noone else does internationally. Bravo us.

I think that we are the only country that holds our cricketers accountable. Goes all the way back to Ian Meckiff. How many other countries have shunned a called chucker?

 

[Devington]

Not really up to snuff on cricket let alone this scandal, but am i right that the 3 players are banned from playing cricket even when not representing Australia or an Australian state etc?

 

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[big_e]

Not really up to snuff on cricket let alone this scandal, but am i right that the 3 players are banned from playing cricket even when not representing Australia or an Australian state etc?

No. They can play grade cricket, they can play county cricket and my understanding is there was nothing from CA stopping them playing in the IPL - but the BCCI have revoked their permission.

 

[big_e]

There was a report in The West Australian that said David Warner's comment to Bancroft was "you've got to earn your stripes".

 

[Devington]

No. They can play grade cricket, they can play county cricket and my understanding is there was nothing from CA stopping them playing in the IPL - but the BCCI have revoked their permission.

Cheers, I'm a lot more comfortable with the suspensions then, from the Australian side of things. So.... is that standard practise from the Indians though?