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March 25th, 2018, 08:37 PM | #5281 | |
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March 25th, 2018, 09:12 PM | #5282 |
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Of course the ECB are doing a great job.
Read only a few days ago that Glamorgan have been handed £2.5m not to bid for any Test cricket between 2020 and 2024 (think I got the dates right). They have called it 'compensation'. Wonder that other counties who have not been awarded any Test matches think of that. |
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March 25th, 2018, 09:22 PM | #5283 |
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The fall-out from 'Tape-Gate' continues.
Smith has been fined 100% of his match fee and banned for one test. Bancroft has been fined 75% of his match fee and been handed a demerit point. Not a terrible deterrent is it ? Mind you the Australian PM is furious and this may not end here. |
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March 25th, 2018, 10:00 PM | #5284 |
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Pathetic 'punishment'. Attempting to cheat should have got the captain, and anyone else involved fined 100% of their tour fees and banned for a year from all cricket, with the captain being punished much more if he refused to name the others involved, and if he didn't name them and they didn't step forward it would show they have little sense of honour in not stopping there captain being punished as much, so the whole team should be banned for a year.
Look at the punishment them cricketers got a few years ago and all they did was step over the crease when bowling at certain points in the game etc. I don't think what they did could really affect the result of any match.
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March 26th, 2018, 01:50 AM | #5286 |
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The bigger picture
Australian cricket TV rights 5 year deal 500 million currently being discussed Tests , one dayers , T20 big bash etc CA want 1 billion Free to air bidders want to pay much less CA threatening to give more to Murdochs Foxtel (payTV) Anything handed out to Smith & Warner will be damage limitation on multiple sides Enough of a whack to the satisfy public anger but not too much so the product is harmed beyond fixing. Looking at past tampering cases the ICC have been lenient - more fines than bans because they know test cricket wont survive if the best talent isnt on the field. |
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March 26th, 2018, 08:19 AM | #5287 |
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Stuart Broad's comments interesting today, really double edged! Why should the Aussie's change their tactics from the Ashes series when they were getting the ball to reverse when we couldn't! Ouch!
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March 26th, 2018, 09:39 AM | #5288 |
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TMS were saying that the "leadership group" comprised 5 players. Smith & Warner, obviously, plus Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon & Josh Hazlewood.
To complicate matters, one of these is currently "furious" about being dragged into this farrago because he wasn't involved in the meeting at all. Smith needs to reveal who was and who wasn't involved. Also, it seems that Darren Lehmann and sub Peter Handscomb were at least aware of the plan, because they were coordinating instructions given to Bancroft when it was clear that he'd been rumbled. .
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March 26th, 2018, 11:07 AM | #5289 |
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Well, despite the best efforts of NZ weather, England lost the first Test.
But it seems that the gung-ho attitude still prevails. 'Rocky' Stokes having been mindful and careful for many balls lost his head just before dinner. Probably a lost cause by then having already lost some wickets before but who knows. The spirit of Matt Prior could have lived on. |
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March 26th, 2018, 11:26 PM | #5290 |
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T.I.C. comment (no offence meant)
So the head of ethics from Cricket Australia arrives at that plush hotel the cricketers are staying. Overheard to say "Strewth !! If are are gonna do it that don't make it so obvious. Sport !!" But seriously folks. Expect some major announcement quite soon. Smith could be stripped of the captaincy full-time and Lehman could also be in the firing line. Public floggings will wait til they get home. |
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