slowfinger
International Regular
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=most+disgraceful+moment+in+cricket&search_type=
Very disgracerful if you ask me...
Very disgracerful if you ask me...
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Most disgraceful moment in cricket history?
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archie mac
International Coach
1. underarm
2. Pakistan refusing to play
3. Aluminium (spelling) bat
2. Pakistan refusing to play
3. Aluminium (spelling) bat
archie mac
International Coach
I think BL turned out to be a great thing
As for match fixing, it is not something that we really know. I mean how many times has it happened and we have had no idea?
Mister Wright
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Dan Cullen playing for Australia.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Its presence makes cricket history a far more fascinating thing than it would be without, and good things resulted from it (ie, the assurance that it would never happen again). But it was a horrible, horrible thing to happen, and caused trauma the like which cricket has rarely known.
A lot, probably. How does that impact upon the stuff we do know about?
archie mac
International Coach
It is hard to quantify, where as underarm was transparent
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
I'd say the Cronje\Azharuddin revelations in 2000 were enough of a "one off event" to qualify as worse than the underarm or Ovalgate affairs.
And with Zimbabwe, the whole point is that it isn't a one-off thing, but a constant, ongoing saga that has caused several severe problems over the last 5 or 6 years.
And with Zimbabwe, the whole point is that it isn't a one-off thing, but a constant, ongoing saga that has caused several severe problems over the last 5 or 6 years.
Jamee999
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Burgey
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More hysterical than disgraceful imo.
May be more tragic than disgraceful, ittbt.
I remember watching the underarm incident as a kid. Even at a pretty tender age, it was pretty obvious it was just a shocker by G Chappell.
Though in fairness it was probably the best ball Trevor ever bowled in international cricket.
Jungle Jumbo
International Vice-Captain
First Test I ever watched that. Cairns and Nash was superb on the first day; our batting less so.
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
It's a shame that Colin Croft's barge on the umpire doesn't show up on youtube, I haven't seen it since they showed in on Grandstand the day after it happened.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
It's scary that there's people who can say that a Test on YouTube is the first they've ever watched.
I wish I could find some YT footage of that game in 1992 where Gooch was wrongly given not-out, which was the 3rd I watched and remember.
archie mac
International Coach
I don't think I have watched it?
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
It was actually televised?
Smudge
Hall of Fame Member
Yes, New Zealand did have TV in 1979/80...
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
It was shown on Grandstand the day after it happened.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
India had TV in 1978, but not a single ball of cricket had ever been televised.
I seem to recall someone - might have been 16toS - saying NZ didn't get TV coverage of cricket until the 1980s.
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
There was footage of Keith Fletcher and Tony Greig batting in India on the 1972/73 tour. It was recorded for news bulletins rather than ball by ball broadcasts by a TV company.
Probably the same with the Croft incident.