Afridi The Cheat Strikes again

[BoyBrumby]

Is he renowned as being a bit half-sharp? Because either he's a prize plum or he just doesn't give a flying one.

My guess is the former because, with the way his hands are cupped round the pill, he seems to be making an extemely half-arsed attempt to hide what he's doing.

 

[G.I.Joe]

He was just warming his hands. Pesky ball happened to get in the way.

 

[Matt79]

Hadn't actually ever bothered to check out the Faisalabad 2007 incident until now - here's the link if interested in having a look.

 

[Sir Alex]

Afridi's not a cheat. He clearly simply mistook the cricket ball for an apple.

I agree. The color might've added to the temptation. I don't think he's brain developed so see the difference.

 

[andyc]

Here's how it happened live, with the Ch 9 commentary.

Edit: Also includes the pitch invasion

 

[G.I.Joe]

Well, KKR didn't want him at the Eden Gardens, so Afridi might have figured he might as well bite into it to earn the banishment. He's really a misunderstood po-mo performance artiste.

 

[Uppercut]

Should also be noted that Rana got the ball reversing the very next over. So whatever the hell he was doing worked.

 

[Sir Alex]

He has apparently admitted his guilt and has been handed a two match ban.

WAG.

Who said cricket is the intelligentsia's game?

 

[andyc]

He has apparently admitted his guilt and has been handed a two match ban.

WAG.

Who said cricket is the intelligentsia's game?

Farcical. Hardly his first offence.

 

[G.I.Joe]

Haha, 2 match ban? So you could theoretically help your team win one out of every three games by working on the ball, which is anyway better odds than Afridi has of winning Pakistan a game the conventional way?

 

[Top_Cat]

OM NOM NOM.

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[Matt79]

Here's how it happened live, with the Ch 9 commentary.

Edit: Also includes the pitch invasion

lol, poor ABBJBB's comment on that video is this year's "Leave Britney Alone!" moment, thus far.

Should also be noted that Rana got the ball reversing the very next over. So whatever the hell he was doing worked.

But they changed the ball.

 

[Matt79]

Two matches is pretty lenient given his history.

 

[Uppercut]

But they changed the ball.

Yeah, but there was one over from Rana between Afridi's bite and the ball change. The third umpire probably got in touch.

 

[Matt79]

Fair enough

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

2 matches? Surely not.

Probably the most absurd thing I've ever seen in a cricket match.

 

[pasag]

I think this is the funniest thing to have happened in cricket for a long time. Can't stop laughing at that video.

 

[BoyBrumby]

I suppose this raises the hypothetical about what would happen if, when the umps make one of their regular inspections of the condition of the ball, they saw what appeared to be human teeth marks in the leather but the camera hadn't picked up the culprit?

After Ovalgate it'd be a brave umpire to make any sort of call based on the condition of the ball alone.

I'm assuming a five-run penalty wasn't imposed in today's game either? If not one wonders exactly what players would need to do to incur it.

 

[Matt79]

Good points. "hmmm, there appears to be an incisor embedded here in the seam".

The five run penalty thing is a bit of a joke - it's surely now gone the way of umpires calling chucks on the field - noone is going to be willing to do it, and that's maybe not a bad thing as opposed to reporting the issue to the match referee and replacing the ball so the game can proceed?

 

[four_or_six]

"oops... oops"

you Mark.