Archive for 'India'
Gibbs and Boje fear for their safety
Herschelle Gibbs and Nicky Boje have pulled out of the India tour fearing arrest or worse. Have they served their time? or should cheats (if that’s what they were) be forever under the black cloud of match fixing?
At the time of the Cronje et al scandal, I fell out of love with the game, [...]
Posted: November 1st, 2005 under Corruption, Cricket, India, South Africa.
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Media ban? What media ban?
The way the review committee worded their advice about Chappell, Ganguly or for that matter anyone talking to the media, I am surprised to see Ganguly climbing in with the ‘I told you so†already.
“In a way I feel I have been vindicated because I hadn’t done anything wrong,”
Isn’t that as good as saying [...]
Posted: September 30th, 2005 under India.
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Chappell-Ganguly Meeting
A scandalous farce. And in the words of Forrest Gump, “that’s about all I have to say on thaaat”
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Posted: September 28th, 2005 under India.
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Dropping reveals character and organisational strength
Chris Cairns has responded positively to his axing form the NZ one day touring squad to South Africa. The decision to drop him was I believe the right one, and was the eventual consequence of Cairns’s gamble to restrict both his domestic and international cricket to only the limited overs form of the game, [...]
Posted: September 27th, 2005 under India, New Zealand.
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Ganguly Vs Chappell
The contents of Greg Chappell’s email have sealed the lid on the small jar of remaining doubt I had about Chappell’s escalating discord with Sourav Ganguly.
In the email he is blatantly accusing Ganguly of feigning injury to avoid 20 or so overs of the new ball before returning the field to complete his modest [...]
Posted: September 26th, 2005 under India.
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The prince (of spin) and the showgirl
So Murali has been to the Deepa Bar in Mumbai but has no links with the Ferrari driving stripper. That’s comforting. Apparantly he was there on ‘family business’ and only popped in the bar for a quick shandy and a pack of pork scratchings.
These musings on match fixings are so damn reminiscent of the [...]
Posted: September 16th, 2005 under Corruption, India, Sri Lanka.
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Speed Speaks Out
Malcolm speed has claimed that the ICC are not investigating match fixing allegations in India relating to the Zimbabwe hosted tri-series.
The fan in me says this is good news and the sanctity of the game is restored. The sceptic in me wonders where the ICC sees the bigger risk. A) In exposing a dodgy [...]
Posted: September 14th, 2005 under Corruption, ICC, India, New Zealand, Zimbabwe.
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Match Fixing in Zimbabwe?
Cricinfo reported on Daniel Vettori’s claims that the match fixing allegations in Zimbabwe were “news to me”.
Some of those Indian dropped catches in the final of the one day triangular series would have been comical were it not for the potential they now hold to reignite this slur on the game.
What a shame it [...]
Posted: September 13th, 2005 under Corruption, India, New Zealand, Zimbabwe.
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