ICC double standards

[westdog54]

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I'm saying something is wrong when he can't say what he said before they threaten to pull out of the tour. It doesn't surprise me if he didn't really hear the words before big monkey as (understandably) their English is crap.

Its also their second language.

Our players don't sledge in Hindi, Afrikaaner, Arabic, Tamil, or Maori, why should it be assumed he was speaking English?

[hujsh]

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Its also their second language.

Our players don't sledge in Hindi, Afrikaaner, Arabic, Tamil, or Maori, why should it be assumed he was speaking English?

I suspected as much but that doesn't mean you can hear them that well. Did you see Channel 9 struggle with Sehwag in the 20/20.

Once again if he wasn't speaking English he had plenty of time to state that at the first hearing.

[westdog54]

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I suspected as much but that doesn't mean you can hear them that well. Did you see Channel 9 struggle with Sehwag in the 20/20.

Once again if he wasn't speaking English he had plenty of time to state that at the first hearing.

But is the story really that implausible. It seems to be a case of "the Aussie players said that he said it, so he must have said it."

This reminds me of a story in Allan Border's autobiography, where after receiving a particularly nasty bounce from a West Indian quick (Joel Garner IIRC) he looked down the pitch and said "Oh you big bastard"

The next morning while Border was warming up, Garner tapped him on the shoulder and asked why he'd called him a Black Bastard the night before. They cleared up the situation, shook hands at the end of the innings, and that was it.

This is when both men were speaking english, and still there was confusion.

[hujsh]

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But is the story really that implausible. It seems to be a case of "the Aussie players said that he said it, so he must have said it."

This reminds me of a story in Allan Border's autobiography, where after receiving a particularly nasty bounce from a West Indian quick (Joel Garner IIRC) he looked down the pitch and said "Oh you big bastard"

The next morning while Border was warming up, Garner tapped him on the shoulder and asked why he'd called him a Black Bastard the night before. They cleared up the situation, shook hands at the end of the innings, and that was it.

This is when both men were speaking english, and still there was confusion.

I just don't understand why he would wait so long to say it was a misunderstanding. While it is possible, his original defense was how we would all lie, cheat, ect, ect to incriminate him

[GVGjr]

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I am a strong believer that Harby called Symonds exactly what Symonds thought he did.
When Hayden challenged him Harby's first response was to say that Symonds has started it and provoked me. As far as I am concerned that was an admission because Harby would never have responded if he had just sworn at Symonds. He knew he crossed the line and initially was trying to justify it.

They got away with by playing a game of brinkmanship but won't be as lucky if it happens again.

[hujsh]

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They got away with by playing a game of brinkmanship but won't be as lucky if it happens again.

They will. A similar thing happened when Tendulkar was involved in ball tampering. There is no justice. This is where Soccer is lucky. So many countries that need FIFA more than FIFA needs them

[westdog54]

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They will. A similar thing happened when Tendulkar was involved in ball tampering. There is no justice. This is where Soccer is lucky. So many countries that need FIFA more than FIFA needs them

When you have such a small number of countries playing that's always going to happen.

The ICC needs to start acting like the organisation that runs cricket, rather than the one that facilitates it.