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Post by hoskotafe3 on Mar 29, 2018 13:09:53 GMT
This just keeps growing bigger and bigger. Sponsors lost. Coach sacked. Captain gone. Warner gaaaawn. 10s, possibly 100s of millions in TV rights gone. IPL contracts torn up. And here I was thinking a big fine, one game ban and everyone would move on.
I think it was Gideon Haigh today pointing out that the reason other nations have been so quick to pounce on Oz over this is not because "They're cheaters" but because they're douche bags.
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Post by Father Jack on Mar 29, 2018 13:35:40 GMT
Somerset CCC now not having Bancroft as their overseas player this year.
A spokesman said "We've torn the dirty cheating bastard's contract up"*
*Might not have said that exactly, I paraphrase.
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Post by Aj_June on Apr 26, 2018 21:48:16 GMT
This just keeps growing bigger and bigger. Sponsors lost. Coach sacked. Captain gone. Warner gaaaawn. 10s, possibly 100s of millions in TV rights gone. IPL contracts torn up. And here I was thinking a big fine, one game ban and everyone would move on. I think it was Gideon Haigh today pointing out that the reason other nations have been so quick to pounce on Oz over this is not because "They're cheaters" but because they're douche bags. I believe that 12 months bans are unjustified for those 3 cricketers. I am not making an argument that everybody did it so it was fine for Smith & co to do it too. Nopes. It's about justice system. If players were doing something and ICC consistently dealt prior misconducts with 75% match fine or at most 1 match ban kind of punishments then it was actually a mistake by ICC. In fact a grave mistake because ICC encouraged illegal behaviour. A justice system which is not consistent is but a poor justice system. One may argue that it is not ICC but Cricket Australia which placed the bans but I will say that cricket Australia too never actually made it clear that ball tampering will have 1 year ban. I think this 1 year ban was more of a public's justice than anything else. It was pressure of people (who are already empowered by social media and all) which led to this. It's terrible because future and lively-hoods of those 3 cricketers are at stake. Though I will strongly welcome ICC to bring more transparency and clarity in regards to such conducts as ball tampering or 'extent' of sledging that is seen as hurting sportsmanship.
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