Agreed.Richard said:Muttiah Muralitharan, meanwhile, doesn't.
As far as ICC is concerned, I think they do a good job given the many no-win situations they find themselves in.
I think the head of the ICC is still Malcolm Speed (Australian) unless it has changed recently......Top_Cat said:They're a necessary organisation but the sooner the head (whoever it may be) stops looking after their own country's interests, the better.
Some of the transgressions that you name were the direct fault of referees (Sehwag, Atherton).Top_Cat said:The ICC, like the UN is necessary but has some idiot members. Like the ones who agreed to the one-bouncer-per-over-per-batsman rule and the moron who once (seriously) suggested that leg-spin bowlers should be stopped from bowling into the rough outside leg-stump by calling wide whenever they tried. Yeesh............
The ICC sure has made some clangers over the years. Not doing anything about Mark Waugh and Shane Warne when they took that money years ago, fining and banning for a match Virender Sehwag in his second Test, not finisg Mike Atherton for ball tampering a while ago (I liked Athers a lot but that was just balant), not having the gumption to do something about Sri Lanka's disgraceful performance in Adelaide in 1999 because of a legal threat to test their legislation, etc.
They're a necessary organisation but the sooner the head (whoever it may be) stops looking after their own country's interests, the better.
If some under u is not working properly u will get the blame.Richard said:Some of the transgressions that you name were the direct fault of referees (Sehwag, Atherton).
I can't see how Head Office could be blamed for that.
Often silly calls like those you example in your first paragraph are the result of hasty overreaction to an isolated, largely irrelevant event, often concerning the "wrongdoing" to one's own country.
Those with an ICC position would do best to keep shtum about these matters.