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Post by pierredelafranchesca on Mar 25, 2018 7:22:25 GMT
Its not so much the style of cheating Nemo, it's that a number of players and poss support staff all actively conspired to cheat, then left it with the most disposable, newest and most naive member of the team to do it.
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Post by nemouk on Mar 25, 2018 7:29:43 GMT
Respectable journalists genuinely calling for the test to be cancelled. That is madness, there are protocols in place for these situation. Run penalty, change the ball if necessary and demerit points all around, couple of bans as a result no doubt.
Cancel the game and you pass up the chance for Rabada and Morkel to bowl at Bancroft, and surely nobody wants that?
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Post by pierredelafranchesca on Mar 25, 2018 7:51:51 GMT
Yeah talks of cancelling / forfeiting is dumb, but suggestions of max penalties, of wholesale reviews as to how the aussie test team is run and play.....and people losing positions seems about right I reckon
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Post by nemouk on Mar 25, 2018 7:59:13 GMT
I agree, Smith, Starch, Cummins and Warner should be banned and then the Ashes should be replayed immediately. Bancroft can stay.
Stopped clocks and all that but Graeme Swann is right on this one, the Aussie team have been so sanctimonious about their line that everyone is having a lot of fun piling on, but when the government is calling for a resignation something has gone a bit mad.
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Post by nemouk on Mar 25, 2018 8:23:39 GMT
Smith and Warner stood down mid-game.
Tim Paine takes over.
This is brilliant drama.
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Post by pierredelafranchesca on Mar 25, 2018 8:29:35 GMT
suspect the, rest of the match may become an extended period of time, sensible really, gives CA time to make a proper call on what to do whilst calming some of the heat in this test. Looking forward to watching them bowl, such a shame Steyn in his pomp isn't able to steam in
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Post by nemouk on Mar 25, 2018 8:32:17 GMT
The major surprise in all this is that Cricket Australia have a "Head of Integrity"
What on earth does that person do?
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Post by pierredelafranchesca on Mar 25, 2018 8:52:41 GMT
Rajasthan royals dropped Smith as skipper now too, not heard the last of this one suspects 😀
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Post by jevans90 on Mar 25, 2018 9:27:14 GMT
Talk of lifetime bans, forfeiting games etc. is madness. It's pre-meditated teamwide cheating, so absolutely throw the book at them, but as nemouk says, there's an actual process for that. The actual tampering is what, the 3rd worst thing Australian players have done this series?
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Post by Balladeer on Mar 25, 2018 14:39:13 GMT
Like Jevans says, I’m not too fussed about the actual tampering, but the uproar seems to be as much an outpouring of rage at all the other stuff the Aussies have done of late, all the while maintaining they’ve been on ‘the right side of the line’. You can’t be ‘Arbiters of The Line’ and simultaneously knowingly cheat.
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Post by nemouk on Mar 25, 2018 16:13:30 GMT
The hand wringing from all the Aussies today has 100% been worth the ashes defeat. I can't imagine I'm the only person with a shit eating grin at how delicious this comeuppance is.
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Post by nemouk on Mar 25, 2018 17:33:58 GMT
The Cricinfo home page is now talking about life bans.
This is getting to KP levels of insanity.
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Post by Humair on Mar 25, 2018 18:00:24 GMT
The Cricinfo home page is now talking about life bans. This is getting to KP levels of insanity. That headline is quoting the maximum punishment in the CA contract.
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Post by pierredelafranchesca on Mar 25, 2018 18:46:55 GMT
No-one will get a lifetime ban for this, Bancroft may never play again but for other reasons like....and yes Nemo, I can guarantee you're not the only one reveling in this!
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Post by Mattzo on Mar 26, 2018 9:14:39 GMT
I'm enjoying this.
- Aussie collapse worse than ours - Morkel gets 300 wickets - Aussie's getting ripped to shreds by the world's media
All much deserved imo after their endless arrogance and hypocrisy.
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