As revealed here last week (and everywhere else) the Indian strategy of going through 47 Asian languages to find one where Monkey sounds like another kind of insult has worked. He's been fined a bit of large and got off the major charge of being a racist.
At what point are we supposed to just give up? Is Mike Proctor really stupid or something? Is that what we should believe? He did nothing about ball tampering at The Oval and contributed to a moronic end to a Test Match and did something here and contributed to a moronic end to a Test Match.
On both occasions losts of press based posturing got the the verdicts turned around. At the Oval someone suspected someone else was cheating. But it wasn't proved. Here someone suspected someone was a racist. It was proved. And then it wasn't.
Two men who we have no reason to doubt as being decent fellows from the cricket world - Bucknor and Proctor - have been done over in no uncertain terms by political expediency.
Its not that Wickman cares deeply about the spirit of the game or anything its just that he now can't be bothered to trust the outcome of any meeting until the PR johnnies and lawyers have finished up.
Wickman understands that most of the Australian team believes its all a stitch up and Harbhajan was bang to rights...
Wickman's delighted really. What it shows is that the ICC is really rather like a British Public School. Deep down, no one in the place wants to believe that a boy has broken the school code. So if the boy can come up with an excuse that is just about plausible ("Sir I did not have compromising relations with the Cook's daughter, it was all a misunderstanding. A chip had fallen down her blouse, it was burning hot and I was simultaneously trying to remove it from underneath her skirt and from down her top" "Oh that's all right Wickman Major it was obviously wrong that you were in the Cook's daughter's bedroom naked at 3am but jolly good that you were otherwise she'd have been scarred for life") he'll be punished but his future will not be ruined.
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Everyone knows the Indians own cricket.. FACT!
My memory fails me but wasnt there a case many moons ago, of the Indian cricket board getting the result of a first class game overturned on the basis that it was unfair?
The besmirching of the reputation of 2 first class umpires was outrageousa and is the one thing that I for one had hoped we would never see in cricket lest we become as bad as footballers.
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