Spot fixing galore.
Spot fixing galore.
‘I don’t think I will ever get answers’: Frustrated Warner vents over brutal IPL axing
https://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket...sfbX8IUh0kPrnA
Because you're shite, mate.
Overseas batsmen get very little rope as there are so many good Indian replacements at a tenth of the price.
RIP Bangladesh (again), troosers doon.
Watching underdogs shit the bed in the field is always very frustrating. If Oman could hold onto a couple of pretty easy chances they'd have Bangladesh v much on the ropes.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...ris-silverwood
I'm not saying having a selection committee doesn't or can't work because obviously it can and has in the past, however the arguments against it here are ones which have already been solved decades ago by other sports (by scouting, for the most part) and the way that's written smacks a bit of "Well this is how we've always done it."
Whether the change will greatly change England's fortunes one way or the other or with any consistency I couldn't say.
It's alright. James Pattinson has just retired. Just need to work on nobbling Hazelwood, Cummings and Starc, Smith, 'Marnus' and a few others and we'll be dead set for the ashes.
Fucking Labuschagne.
"Hooray they're having to call somebody up to replace Smith!"
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/bl...un-finding-out
I like the idea of players having a huge role in tournaments who not only have their opponents never heard of before now but even most of their own team mates.
Namibia boshing Ireland is a bit of a shocker, although I guess it helps that David Wiese seems to have found a Namibian passport down the back of the sofa.
The groups are now very unbalanced and England are in the hard one, can't wait to be thrashed by Sri Lanka for the 400th consecutive tournament. Even when we won the World Cup, and they spent the whole thing crying about swimming pools, they somehow beat us.
Zampa’s hair
Bowling a team out for 55 in T20? What?
Bangladesh being bottling twats, putting down simple catches?? Who'd have thought it. Sake.
This Bang/SL game has been fun. Liton Das was giving it out earlier and now dropped two major dollies which will mean automatic defeat when otherwise they would have won.
India and Pakistan on next.
Scenes ongoing. Shaheen Afridi is so good.
The ball he bowled to Rahul was brilliant. Cut him in half and it was too quick for him.
The Pepe's ads are back as well, I'm in heaven.
Just noticed Big Vernon Philander sitting in the Pakistan think tank, what glorious madness is this? Nailed on WC winners.
Warner you dumb cunt he will get booed off the park every game.
David Warner speaks out as rich lifeline emerges for ‘scapegoat’ cricketerhttps://7news.com.au/sport/cricket/d...FA9bpwcP0G-kCg“So it’s quite likely that he becomes a T20 mercenary playing around the world collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars and never plays for South Africa again.”
Already there are suggestions de Kock could be approached by Australia’s Big Bash clubs if he opted out of South Africa’s summer.
That move was backed by Warner, who believed he could be a drawcard for Australia’s Twenty20 tournament.
“He’d be great for the Big Bash,” Warner said.
“There’s a lot of other leagues around the world that other South African players are participating in.
“That’s obviously a decision for each individual but it would be good for any international player to come down to Australia and participate.”
David Warner (left) has backed Quinton de Kock (right) for the Big Bash.
David Warner (left) has backed Quinton de Kock (right) for the Big Bash. Credit: Getty
Australia’s approach to taking a knee remains that they discuss the issue with opposing teams before each match, before deciding whether to kneel together.
An edict has never been given to players from above, but a decision is made as one group.
It comes after initial criticism from Michael Holding when Australia did not take a knee in England last year, before a barefoot circle was implemented at home last summer.
“From my perspective I can’t talk about what’s happening in the (South African) camp,” David Warner said.
“At home we take part in the barefoot circle and we recognise our Indigenous peoples and condemn racism globally.
“We respect the decision of the opponents and the captains will talk about it before we go out to play, and we’ll take the knee as well and we will reciprocate.”
The de Kock thing is madness. What must his black team mates think?
That he's a white South African man?
His default setting is likely massive racist.
I totally get when people say they think it's a bit played out and is losing / has lost any impact but there's no way around the fact that if you're refusing to do it you just look like a big ol' racist.
Which as Niko says (and even the SA cricket statement alluded to) is even more not-great when you're from where he is.
I know but until recently (and certainly in the Graeme Smith era) they made a big effort on this sort of thing. Probably chalk another body up to the American culture war.
It's obviously performative nonsense, which it has been from the outset [away from its origin] in it's completely without context application, but life is all about performative nonsense these days. Something something face masks, something something culture war. It's easier just to go with it for the most part, particularly if your job likely depends on it.
Something something, doing my research.
That it's not very surprising, man.Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
How fast is that bloody hell.
‘I am not a racist’: Apologetic de Kock breaks silence, prepared to take the knee
https://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket...WDx02cHfqYff2g
"Coloured"
A pity he didn't do a full "I'm not racist, but-"
Coloured is a legit thing down there. Think Herschelle Gibbs.
Okay, fair enough. Wasn't sure if it was just a word the white folk were still using.
The way they put 'The Yorkshire County Cricket Club' in all their statements is a dead giveaway. I'm imagining some Edwardian textile mill owner bristling in a top hat at the factory gates.
'Racism? At my mill? I'll 'ear no word of it. The dirty browns got what they deserved.'
RIP Australia.
What's happened?
Oh I see what's happened.
Fuck me, what a dismantling that was. Glorious.
More scenes unfolding here.
We love it.
However India fortunate they have Namibia and Scotland as their last two so will know what they need from a NRR point of view if they lose this. Although can’t rule out Afghanistan turning over either of these I suppose.
If they lose this they're toast barring an NZ loss somewhere. Afghan have a strong run rate as well.
India getting absolutely hosed here.
Absolutely peak Mark Nicholas commentary on space travel/the moon. What a Sunday afternoon entertainment.
Christ yes that was amazing. He's always right on the edge of Madeley/Partridge without quite crossing.
The crowd shots of Indian funereal faces are driving me on into the new week.
https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/y...banter-1286449
Yorkshire should be abolished and its constituent parts given to surrounding counties.At least one Yorkshire player admitted to regularly using the term 'P**i' when talking to Azeem Rafiq, according to the report into racism at the club. But he was cleared of wrongdoing on the basis that it was perceived as, what the report says was, friendly, good-natured "banter" between the two players.
The player also admitted to telling other people "don't talk to him [Rafiq], he's a P**i", asking "is that your uncle?" when they saw bearded Asian men and saying "does your dad own those?" in reference to corner shops.
Despite admitting recalling that Rafiq broke down in tears at one point, the player insisted he had no idea he was causing offence and would have stopped if Rafiq had asked.
The individual concerned, who ESPNcricinfo have chosen not to name, is a current senior player at the club.
While the investigating team (the lawyers who were charged with gathering evidence for the report) found such comments to be "capable of creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment…" and accepted Rafiq's "evidence that he was offended, degraded or humiliated and that this amounted to harassment under the Equality Act and the Club's Equal Opportunities policy", the panel (who were charged with making conclusions and recommendations and which included a non-executive member of the Yorkshire board) disagreed.
Their conclusions state "The Panel does not accept that Azeem was offended by [the other player's] comments, either at the time they were made or subsequently."
They go on to say that, in the context of "banter between friends" Rafiq might be "expected to take such comments in the spirit in which they were intended (i.e. good natured banter between friends)… [so] it was not reasonable for Azeem to have been offended by [the other player] directing equally offensive or derogatory comments back at him in the same spirit of friendly banter."
Indeed, the panel accuses Rafiq of using "offensive, racially derogatory comments" when referring to a player of Zimbabwean heritage as "Zimbo from Zimbabwe". The panel viewed this as "a racist, derogatory term" and recommends that, were Rafiq still a Yorkshire player, he should face disciplinary action for using it.
Jesus fucking Christ.
Wall it up and turn it into a reservoir.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/bl...her-conclusion
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/spor...waters-3439832
The sadness is that there are plenty of decent, principled, appalled people still working at Yorkshire today, but very few of them are in positions of real power. According to the Yorkshire Post some senior figures at the club are disgruntled it has not taken a more hostile line against Rafiq.
They must be a proper 1970s throwback in pretty much every sense. I'm imagining the Leeds boardroom as portrayed in 'The Damned United', with brown flared suits, fags on the go, mutton chops etc.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-59130556
Also I see Big Bazza Gallance is (one of) the people doing the racisms at Yarhshuh.
There is some serious menace in the Yorkshire board. Dobell was very very astute in not naming the player in his original report (to much Twitter 'name and shame him!!!' seethe) because it meant that the opinion guns were turned firmly on the Yorkshire board for several days. This was a brilliant strategy as it meant the story was that the club are awful shithouses, rather than the lesser but more OUTRAGE-friendly issue of Gary Ballance calling someone a Paki a few years ago. Now all the sponsors are deserting them at a rate of knots (including their stadium title sponsor, and Yorkshire Tea) so the board's response, rather than to change tack in any way whatsoever, has been to hang Ballance out to dry and make it about him, in a presumably doomed attempt to save their own skins. Weirdly his statement included the continued assertion that Rafiq was just as bad, something that seems to be driving the brandy-stained seething on the Yorkshire board.
The sub-plot to all this is the ECB silence, which is almost as shameful as the 19th century mill-owner skulduggery being performed by the Yorkshire board, and makes me wonder what Tom Harrison's £700,000 salary and famously generous bonus package (I always have to retch after typing that) is for if not to actually try and govern the sport.
Have the ECB said or done anything so far as we can tell?
https://www.skysports.com/watch/vide...iq-racism-case
An interesting discussion.
They released four sentences the other day saying they had a lawyer, which I suppose is better than not having a lawyer.
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