Convicts v Marxist Land Thieves - Crucket
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Aussie government calls for those involved to step down:
The Australian Sports Commission (ASC) Chair John Wylie, the ASC Board, and CEO Kate Palmer - essentially speaking for the Australian government - called for severe action against the team. "The ASC condemns cheating of any form in sport," it said in a statement. "The ASC expects and requires that Australian teams and athletes demonstrate unimpeachable integrity in representing our country.
"Given the admission by Australian captain Steve Smith, the ASC calls for him to be stood down immediately by Cricket Australia, along with any other members of the team leadership group or coaching staff who had prior awareness of, or involvement in, the plan to tamper with the ball. This can occur while Cricket Australia completes a full investigation."
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Yup.... lynch mob
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@baron-silas-greenback more, less, expected?
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What feels different about this instance is the admission the ‘leadership group’ were all in on it, and the sight of Lehman trying to quietly message the team’s way out of it. My memory of previous ball tampering instances is that you usually had one cheating culprit rather than the immediate appearance of an orchestrated set of cheating.
I also don’t remember a team being dumb enough to drop themselves in it on that scale since the arrival of HD coverage...
Would it be different if it was Pakistan? Yep, I’d guess the outrage would be much less but the ultimate (formal) punishments would be stronger.
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@baron-silas-greenback said in Convicts v Marxist Land Thieves - Crucket:
Yup.... lynch mob
Yep but it’s to be expected given it’s the Australian cricket team
They have been at the heart of nearly every onfield and off field drama the last few years. They attract zero sympathy from anyone else.
Trawl through all the articles written about the issues on this tour and a large number are basically about sticking in the boot.
They have pissed off a lot of cricket fans for a while now. It’s their chance to kick them while they are down. -
@siam said in Convicts v Marxist Land Thieves - Crucket:
What the governing body of sport in Australia making a comment when it's flagship admits cheating is a lynch mob?
Bit melodramatic ain't it?
I didn’t mean it’s a total lynch mob
My point was more to highlight the fact that no one has any sympathy for the Aussie’s and are more then happy to see them punished heavily
If this was Pakistan or even India the outrage wouldn’t be the same
It would be a big deal for sure but it would fade pretty quickly.
No one else is dispised quite like the Aussie cricket team is ( no offence meant to the likes of @NTA and @barbarian ) -
Crickets their #1 so I guess it's on par with a similar and significant fuck up by the AB's? And I don't mean playing cully at centre. Plus there was a fair bit of how they've been trying to keep the big bash super clean behaviour-wise probably has them going super hard out.
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Yep lynch them all. But suspensions only kick in just before the next Chappell-Hadlee series....
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@act-crusader said in Convicts v Marxist Land Thieves - Crucket:
Yep lynch them all. But suspensions only kick in just before the next Chappell-Hadlee series....
Aren’t we due to possibly play a Boxing Day test soon as well
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@virgil said in Convicts v Marxist Land Thieves - Crucket:
@baron-silas-greenback said in Convicts v Marxist Land Thieves - Crucket:
Yup.... lynch mob
Yep but it’s to be expected given it’s the Australian cricket team
They have been at the heart of nearly every onfield and off field drama the last few years. They attract zero sympathy from anyone else.
Trawl through all the articles written about the issues on this tour and a large number are basically about sticking in the boot.
They have pissed off a lot of cricket fans for a while now. It’s their chance to kick them while they are down.A point well made in this article.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/22898362/australia-line-becomes-their-noose
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some amusing stuff on Social media, some not
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Awkward. ....
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@baron-silas-greenback said in Convicts v Marxist Land Thieves - Crucket:
Awkward. ....
Never forgot that
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@virgil said in Convicts v Marxist Land Thieves - Crucket:
@baron-silas-greenback said in Convicts v Marxist Land Thieves - Crucket:
Awkward. ....
Never forgot that
It reads like we were playing to the rules as dictated by the home side and administered by the umpires. Doesn't make it right of course....
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Doull suggested allowing ball tampering as long as the players don't use anything artificial, I.E. fingernails etc only. And also enforcing a new ball every 60 overs.
Wasn't quite sure what to make of that. Would be a dramatic change to test cricket, probably too bigger change.
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@baron-silas-greenback said in Convicts v Marxist Land Thieves - Crucket:
Awkward. ....
Especially awkward for the teams that haven't moved on since the days of limited coverage and grainy footage. ...
Betting on cricket was also relatively less controversial if you rewind back another nine years too...
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@donsteppa said in Convicts v Marxist Land Thieves - Crucket:
@baron-silas-greenback said in Convicts v Marxist Land Thieves - Crucket:
Awkward. ....
Especially awkward for the teams that haven't moved on since the days of limited coverage and grainy footage. ...
Betting on cricket was also relatively less controversial if you rewind back another nine years too...
Organized and planned cheating is organized and planned cheating. Regardless of justification.
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Australia captain Steve Smith and vice-captain David Warner have stood down from their respective leadership roles for the remainder of the third Test in Cape Town.
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