Tim Paine

[karan_fromthestands]

Cricket Australia, backing a player? Ridiculous.

Remember Roy, remember when Tendulkar lied

I would have posted a nasty reply to this but our profile pictures prevent me from doing that.

 

[karan_fromthestands]

Also, if we are posting on a Tim Paine thread on a new year, we don't have a life

 

[bagapath]

I don't get it at all... two adults fooled around in a toilet... and how is it anyone's problem... those SA officials posing with the mask wearing morons look like total idiots to me... quite disgusting this is...

 

[bagapath]

Also, if we are posting on a Tim Paine thread on a new year, we don't have a life

been posting here since 2006... never pretended to have a normal life...

 

[Spark]

I am not comfortable writing off the entire cheating episodes on the disgusting behaviour from the RSA crowds. For starters, I think it was obvious they had been doing some form of this for a while, and as you yourself pointed out, they had been appointing someone to do the sledging each series etc. For me, quite a lot of this would have happened regardless. Anyways, its all done and dusted now and no point in arguing about it. So that's my two cents. I am out.

I'm not saying it made what happened inevitable; unfortunately many, many cricketers have copped vile personal abuse from away crowds over the years. Not many have taken that as a green light to try to use sandpaper on a cricket ball (and rope in a newbie to the team to do so no less). But it does give context to what Warner's headspace was like; even if they had been tampering with the ball before, that's actually not especially remarkable as far as international cricket goes. What was remarkable was how brazen it was, and that's actually what prompted so much outrage.

 

[Gob]

Sorry was just trying too hard to be gnske

 

[Gnske]

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