Lehmann reprimanded

[Foxtrot]

Here's a nice story

You can't blame the fact that you are slow on their skin colour boof.

 

[St-KriS]

Does anyone know exactly what Boof said?

 

[JUBJUB]

I wonder if his outburst is anything to do with Sri Lanka's disgraceful go slow tactics.Ch9 showed vision of Boof getting fed up with the go slow tactics by SL.
The ICC need to bring in some rule about slow bowling in the 2nd innings of ODI's.The 1st team bowling can be punished by having batting overs taken away,but the 2nd can take as long as they want.

 

[wagstaff]

Originally posted by JUBJUB
I wonder if his outburst is anything to do with Sri Lanka's disgraceful go slow tactics.Ch9 showed vision of Boof getting fed up with the go slow tactics by SL.

If that's the reason for his outburst (and he did seem to be getting frustrated at one stage), then Lehmann clearly hasn't got the temperament for international cricket. Gamesmanship occurs in all forms in cricket, not least by the Aussies.

Dragging out an innings by a few extra minutes is hardly the toughest test of a batsmen in international cricket.

 

[acuguy]

i would be ****ed off too if i was playing against a chucker who was getting wickets,

 

[St-KriS]

Originally posted by Brett Li
Do we really NEED to know?

Well if it was something outrageously racist and ignorant, my opinion of Darren would probably change. So yeah, I wouldnt mind knowing what he said.

 

[St-KriS]

Originally posted by Brett Li
So we really need to hear racist slurs to believe them? It isn't enough that he apologized over racist remarks for you to believe he actually said something racist~?. I don't think offensive and ignorant remarks need be paraded over the media or this chat site for that matter....

Dammit, Im just curious. I dont particulary want his name dragged through the mud.

 

[GoEagles]

Originally posted by acuguy
i would be ****ed off too if i was playing against a chucker who was getting wickets,

Difference is, Brett Lee doesn't take many wickets.

 

[scmods]

I'm sure it was nothing worse than what the Sri Lankans were saying on their South African tour.

but of course Sri Lanka are always the victims, aren't they.

 

[acuguy]

If you think Brett Lee is a chucker than you know nothing about cricket, nothing worse than an idiot with no idea.

 

[JUBJUB]

Originally posted by scmods
I'm sure it was nothing worse than what the Sri Lankans were saying on their South African tour.

but of course Sri Lanka are always the victims, aren't they.

Yes,the wicketkeeper should be more careful with his comments considering he's close to a microphone.

 

[Catman]

Originally posted by acuguy
If you think Brett Lee is a chucker than you know nothing about cricket, nothing worse than an idiot with no idea.

And if you think his action is legal, then you know nothing about cricket you dumb fool.

 

[acuguy]

Post removed by Moderator.

 

[dr nick]

Originally posted by Catman
And if you think his action is legal, then you know nothing about cricket you dumb fool.

poor call

 

[dr nick]

Originally posted by scmods
I'm sure it was nothing worse than what the Sri Lankans were saying on their South African tour.

but of course Sri Lanka are always the victims, aren't they.

yes, i saw that live and was glued to the tv for the entire days cricket. some of the sledging was unbelievable. thankyou for the south african network who broadcast it. channel 9 would have turned the microphones off.

Boucher, Andrew Hall and Shaun Polock really copped it from Sangakkara. but boucher dished it all out in the SL innings. all started from an innocent, yet inappropriate hug of jayawardene's helmet from pollock who claimed he was lucky.

 

[dr nick]

the difference between that incident in south africa and boof's was that there was no racism involved. racism is frowned on a lot more heavily than normal run of the mill sledging.

 

[wagstaff]

Apparently Lehmann was heard to say 'black c***' as he entered the dressing room.

 

[dr nick]

Originally posted by wagstaff
Apparently Lehmann was heard to say 'black c***' as he entered the dressing room.

Apparantly thats worse than Ian Healy calling Arjuna Ranatunga a 'fat c***'

 

[Zombie]

Originally posted by wagstaff
Apparently Lehmann was heard to say 'black c***' as he entered the dressing room.

What's racist about that? It isn't a nice thing to say but it isn't racist.

 

[Becker]

Originally posted by nicko18
Apparantly thats worse than Ian Healy calling Arjuna Ranatunga a 'fat c***'

Well, I guess the dufference there is you can't do much about the colour of your skin (unless you are Michael Jackson), but you CAN do something about being fat.

 

[dr nick]

Originally posted by Becker
Well, I guess the dufference there is you can't do much about the colour of your skin (unless you are Michael Jackson), but you CAN do something about being fat.

well, i'm also guessing its a lot worse than being called a small c*** as well. political correctness gone mad. the world is too frightened of slipping back to apartheid.

 

[Wicked Lester]

Is it confirmed that "black c***" was the sledge? One newspaper this morning suggested it was "black b*****d".

I suppose it doesn't make to much difference which one it was.

The Sri Lankans and Clive Lloyd seemed to me to be more than satisfied with the apology (verbal and written) which they appeared to regard as genuine and and very quickly delivered.
In fact both Jayasuria and Lloyd appeared to be trying to play the incident down suggesting they thought it out of character, delivered in the heat of the moment and not worth pursuing further.

The ICC via Malcolm Speed seem to be determined to make an issue of it to prove the ICC's policy works.

Will be interesting to see how this pans out.

 

[scmods]

Originally posted by nicko18
the difference between that incident in south africa and boof's was that there was no racism involved. racism is frowned on a lot more heavily than normal run of the mill sledging.

I can't remember the name of the South African player, but he was the only black player in the team - when he was batting, the Sri Lankan keeper was making comments along the lines of "Why are you in the team? What is it that makes you different to the rest of your team?" etc

Didn't outright call him a black ****, but was certainly using his colour as the basis of his sledging.

 

[Jaymin]

I can't remember the name of the South African player, but he was the only black player in the team - when he was batting, the Sri Lankan keeper was making comments along the lines of "Why are you in the team? What is it that makes you different to the rest of your team?" etc

That was Ashwell Prince...they were calling him the scapegoat....saying they all hated him because of his colour and put him into the firing line because they wanted him out of the team...

 

[Groucho]

Originally posted by Wicked Lester
Is it confirmed that "black c***" was the sledge? One newspaper this morning suggested it was "black b*****d".

I suppose it doesn't make to much difference which one it was.

The Sri Lankans and Clive Lloyd seemed to me to be more than satisfied with the apology (verbal and written) which they appeared to regard as genuine and and very quickly delivered.
In fact both Jayasuria and Lloyd appeared to be trying to play the incident down suggesting they thought it out of character, delivered in the heat of the moment and not worth pursuing further.

The ICC via Malcolm Speed seem to be determined to make an issue of it to prove the ICC's policy works.

Will be interesting to see how this pans out.

Well he's guilty so it's really just a matter of deciding a penalty,bearing in mind that there are no provisions for fines. He'll probably get a couple of games I think.