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    Hayden calls Harbhajan an obnoxious weed

    Nope. If Harbhajan called Symonds a disagreeable, loudmouthed, uncultured twit, I would suggest that he wouldn't have been too far away from the mark. Racism is a whole other issue, though, as much as some may want to claim otherwise. Frankly, this is yet another episode that demonstrates why...
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    Hayden calls Harbhajan an obnoxious weed

    Also from that link: "The most important defense to an action for defamation is "truth", which is an absolute defense to an action for defamation." I think Hayden's pretty safe.
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    Broke Sri Lanka relying on India

    Categorically wrong. India proscribed the LTTE as a terrorist group in 1992, by the US in 1997, and the UK in 2000. All well before September 2001. Invented the use of the contemporary suicide bomber. Regularly commits acts of sea piracy, including killing foreign, neutral crews in cold...
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    Harbhajan reignites racism storm

    It is NOTHING like the Japanese "saving face" cultural phenomenon. In Japanese culture, saving face is done through self-sacrifice and submission, not through self-serving brinkmanship and threats. It had nothing to do with saving face. It was about demanding that the process conform to their...
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    Harbhajan reignites racism storm

    The one good thing that may come out of this mess is that the ICC will surely have to realise that a guy with no greater qualification that being a former player is simply not qualified to make a considered judgment on these sorts of issues. It simply baffles me that the players in these...
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    Harbhajan reignites racism storm

    Nope. In my view, there is absolutely no way to justify threatening to pull out should the appeal not make a finding that matched their own. The process was known before the incident, and the arbiter (in the appeal, at least) was extraordinarily well qualified and absolutely independent...
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    Harbhajan reignites racism storm

    He would have had to call for the twelfth man to bring out a stepladder first.
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    Harbhajan reignites racism storm

    Because they are doing no such thing. The suggestion that Procter was biased against the Indians is questionable at best, but the suggestion that the New Zealand Justice is also going to be biased is downright laughable. The idea that the only way that an adjudicator can arrive at a...
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    Harbhajan reignites racism storm

    Preach, my brother... There are plenty of people here from BOTH sides that suffer from that particular brand of hypocrisy.
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    Harbhajan reignites racism storm

    Heh. I admire your optimism.
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    Harbhajan reignites racism storm

    Pfffft. Obviously biased, sensationalist nonsense produced by corrupt reporters. The St Patricks Primary School newsletter is reporting ":wacko: ", which contradicts your source.
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    Harbhajan reignites racism storm

    Link please.
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    Harbhajan reignites racism storm

    Exactly. Apparently, anything reported by the Australian media is all lies and bullswhar. The Hindustan Times, however, lists only God, Allah and Sachin as sources. Doesn't everyone know this?
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    Harbhajan reignites racism storm

    You and me both. I would imagine that there would be a few Australian players who would be feeling the same way.
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    Harbhajan reignites racism storm

    It's called clutching at straws. It is entirely natural for some to want to think only the best of those they support, and only the worst for those they don't. The fact that it is unsurprising doesn't make it any less disappointing, though.
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    Harbhajan reignites racism storm

    Actually, I think that within a few days of the end of the ODI series we'll have a pretty good idea of how accurate it is- if not before. Has anyone heard about this "Turn Your Back on Racism" thing that is supposedly being organised for some of the ODI games?
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    Harbhajan reignites racism storm

    Actually, given the general half-arsed nature that seems to riddle the ICC, I'd assume the opposite. I'd guess at the standard being along the lines of "in the opinion of the Match Referee", or something similarly variable.
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    ***Official*** India in Australia

    Just announced- Gilchrist is retiring from Test cricket after this match.
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    Caption This!

    Flintoff: "Hmmm. Lawry was right. That really DOES look like sunshine."
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    Caption This : Chris Martin

    Chris: "Annnnnnnnnnnd- jazz hands!"

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