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  1. J

    Conspiracy to defraud Pakistan cricket

    Then give this thread a miss, bah!
  2. J

    Conspiracy to defraud Pakistan cricket

    Ijaz was mad when you said Pakistani cricketers had no balls.
  3. J

    ***Official*** Spot-Fixing Scandal

    Completely concur. Not saying what he did was right in absolute terms. Just trying to explain that perhaps how what he did probably works for him and his pay-masters.
  4. J

    ***Official*** Spot-Fixing Scandal

    If ECB or the English team sues Butt in UK courts, expect a similar lawsuit filed against someone, any one, to be filed in Pakistan. Responding to this aggressively is a no-win situation that will get bogged down very quickly in trans-national legal back & forth.
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    ***Official*** Spot-Fixing Scandal

    One has to realize that the real audience for these ridiculous actions from the PCB might not the international cricket community or even the folks within Pakistan serious about cricket. Butt's well being depends on an different set of folks, perhaps the elites running Pakistan - with whom such...
  6. J

    The Aamer Situation

    Which is why no one is asking for Aamer to be hung by the neck until dead. Worst case is that he'll have to find a different profession, or make do with the career of a domestic Pakistani cricket player.
  7. J

    Is India's period of being the most dominant side in history already over?

    We've seen better days in the recent past. A bowling team of Kumble-Zaheer-Harbhajan-Ishant, while it has no superstars is a fairly good bowling team.Until that clicked, the same spectacular bunch of middle order batsmen could really do nothing close to their potential. So, glum days ahead -...
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    The Power of Hypocrisy - an anti BCCI rant

    What a BCCI site could or should have, other than mug shots of its illustrious leaders, is data about Indian domestic cricket. Perhaps even live internet video feeds or at least highlight clips. Ranji, Duleep etc might get more attention than they do now, and this falls exclusively in BCCI's...
  9. J

    The Power of Hypocrisy - an anti BCCI rant

    What is the point being made here? 1. BD does not deserve to host a hit & giggles tournament.(their first one ever) and will not do a good job. 2. Cricket infrastructure (which is good enough for tests) is not good enough for said tournament. 3. In a world not influenced by the BCCI, a poor...
  10. J

    The Power of Hypocrisy - an anti BCCI rant

    If the BCCI has this much clout, and is this much unafraid to throw it around - then what I don't understand is why, two years ago, it would agree to this rotation thing? Rotation of the presidency is a very recent development. Morgan, 2 years ago was the first. Pawar is the second. It...
  11. J

    The Power of Hypocrisy - an anti BCCI rant

    Was this official ZC policy? Since folks like Brendan Taylor were in the team throughout and Tatenda Taibu as bad a victim of the ZC as the white players? (Not up to speed on racial classification myself, I think Taylor is white?) Also wouldn't that hurt cricket players in Zimbabwe even more...
  12. J

    The Power of Hypocrisy - an anti BCCI rant

    BTW needs to be pointed that you're not above making sweeping generalizations yourself, which often spill into factual errors too (This thread has examples of it, fwiw).
  13. J

    The Power of Hypocrisy - an anti BCCI rant

    No one's blaming CA or ECB for the rebel tours. That's different from crediting CA with resisting apartheid. Everyone did that. There was a rebel tour, or 2 don't recall, from WI consisting of non-white players. Ditto one from SL. So it was ot only whites who played in SA. So for whatever...
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    The Power of Hypocrisy - an anti BCCI rant

    I don't have a problem with this.My only point is BCCI is actually responsible for some good in internaitional cricket - and even before it had power. I'm not one to write BCCI blanket certificates of conduct here (e.g. I myself was fairly disappointed when Pakistani players were left out of...
  15. J

    The Power of Hypocrisy - an anti BCCI rant

    - India, by itself, has never hosted an ODI world cup and are not scheduled to do so in the forseeable future. It's always been the subcontinent (first India+Pak, then SL was added, and now BD is added) - 4 out of 10 members claiming 3 out of 9 chances to host the WC (3 out of 12 if you count...
  16. J

    The Power of Hypocrisy - an anti BCCI rant

    And just to be clear, no one's going off on a rant about how the CA is racist, imperialist, or whatever other ism epithet that happens to be in fashion amongst the chattering classes. I'm sure they take care of their business well enough most of the time. The whole Howard thing was only a...
  17. J

    The Power of Hypocrisy - an anti BCCI rant

    - Well BCCI apparently did a better job of befriending the new South Africa. Australia played them a full year later. At the time, 1990, BCCI most certainly did not have the financial leverage it appears to have today. - The WC rotates among all continents now, why is it an India-specific cash...
  18. J

    The Power of Hypocrisy - an anti BCCI rant

    - No more than BCCI & PCB, and quite possibly - less. There were no rebel tours from these countries, and hence no question of if 3 years ban was too light or not on the players involved. WICB for e.g. life banned players I think, something that ECB, CA did not. - Somewhat fuzzy, isn't it? Some...
  19. J

    The Power of Hypocrisy - an anti BCCI rant

    Let's take an inventory of positive things BCCI has done wrt international cricket in the last decade or two: - Took a lead in re-integrating SA, and bringing in BD. - Took a lead in rotating the WC away from its England-exclusive home - Bailing out SLC financially (which I think it did...
  20. J

    The Power of Hypocrisy - an anti BCCI rant

    I'm merely correcting your statement of BCCI having zero transparency, not mounting any across the board defense of the BCCI. Appreciating one particular action of the BCCI isn't the same as giving them an internet carte blanche. I.e. I'm playing the ball not the bowler.
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