Afridi The Cheat Strikes again

[Debris]

We don't know that the aussies don't do it they just havent been caught.

Guilty until proven innocent?

 

[Scaly piscine]

Like an Australian team that's been leaning on and intimidating umpires for as long as I've followed cricket, as well as claiming grassed catches, wouldn't do something similarly dodgy in regards to the ball.

 

[andyc]

Like an Australian team that's been leaning on and intimidating umpires for as long as I've followed cricket, as well as claiming grassed catches, wouldn't do something similarly dodgy in regards to the ball.

Yay for completely baseless and unconfirmed inflammatory posts!

 

[honestbharani]

Afridi clearly bit off more then he could chew.

He has clearly proved he isn't all bark and no bite...

 

[HGB1892]

Introducing the Shahid Afridi Seat. Rumour has it he uses this while playing on Brian Lara on his PS2

 

[Scaly piscine]

Yay for completely baseless and unconfirmed inflammatory posts!

Like an Australian team that's been leaning on and intimidating umpires for as long as I've followed cricket,

Fact.

as well as claiming grassed catches,

Fact.

wouldn't do something similarly dodgy in regards to the ball

Perfectly reasonable extension of logic.

 

[Streetwise]

Fact.



Fact.



Perfectly reasonable extension of logic.

Why do people have to resort ot lies. Does Australias success upset you so much that you resort to lying to discredit them only to make yourself look like such a fool.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Why do people have to resort ot lies. Does Australias success upset you so much that you resort to lying to discredit them only to make yourself look like such a fool.

Hmm okay you're an idiot. Been a while since I added someone to ignore.

 

[Halfpast_Yellow]

Fact. Yes.


Fact. Yes.



Perfectly reasonable extension of logic. No.

Please expand more on this wonderful, but fallicious slippery slope argument argument that appealing for grassed catches leads to the rational conclusion one should eat a cricket ball in front of a live and massive TV audience.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Err no it leads to the conclusion that one or more of the Australian team would tamper with the ball. I reckon most teams will have done it to some degree, I don't see why Australia would be excluded from it given their recent history.

 

[Streetwise]

Err no it leads to the conclusion that one or more of the Australian team would tamper with the ball. I reckon most teams will have done it to some degree, I don't see why Australia would be excluded from it given their recent history.

Considering their recent history is they have never tampered with the ball the only thing you can conclude from that is they dont tamper with the ball.

 

[Richard]

Guilty until proven innocent?

No, just no presumption of innocence if guilt is not proven.

 

[Streetwise]

Err no it leads to the conclusion that one or more of the Australian team would tamper with the ball. I reckon most teams will have done it to some degree, I don't see why Australia would be excluded from it given their recent history.

So Asif tested positive to steriods and then was caught with drugs in a airport so we can conclude he is smuggling drugs to countries where he plays. This sounds very logical to you I assume.

 

[Richard]

Considering their recent history is they have never tampered with the ball

Never been caught tampering with the ball.

The suggestion that Australians have unequivocally not tampered with balls is as ludicrous as the suggestion that they have. Anyone contending they've clearly never done it has as little clue as anyone contending they probably have.

 

[Streetwise]

Never been caught tampering with the ball.

The suggestion that Australians have unequivocally not tampered with balls is as ludicrous as the suggestion that they have. Anyone contending they've clearly never done it has as little clue as anyone contending they probably have.

No its simpler than that, We dont say Flitoff was a ball tamperer and cheat because he has never been caught or charged with ball tampering, do you consider it acceptable to call him a ball tamperer because it is not proven that he did not.

 

[Son Of Coco]

Like an Australian team that's been leaning on and intimidating umpires for as long as I've followed cricket, as well as claiming grassed catches, wouldn't do something similarly dodgy in regards to the ball.

Fancy seeing you here.

 

[Burgey]

Tbh

 

[Richard]

No its simpler than that, We dont say Flitoff was a ball tamperer and cheat because he has never been caught or charged with ball tampering, do you consider it acceptable to call him a ball tamperer because it is not proven that he did not.

If you look carefully I said that it is not acceptable to call anyone a ball-tamperer unless they've been found to have used sharp objects or vaseline (or equivalent) on a ball. However it is equally laughable to say that because someone has not been caught doing something that this automatically means they haven't done it.

 

[Kensashi]

2 match ban is ridiculous, imo! But then again, Madugalle probably didn't want to take the risk of following Bob Woolmer.

What bout Naved and Asif? They get off scot free! Ideally, Afridi should've been sent off for the rest of the match and Pakistan docked 20 runs at least.

Shameful!

 

[dikinee]

I am very proudly Australian, I am a big fan of Ricky Ponting but if I saw him biting at the cricket ball I would want him banned for life. There is no place in our game for blatantly dishonest people. Someone who is dishonest enough to cheat is certainly capable of other acts of dishonesty. I recently had my wallet and phone stolen from my kit while batting. The only people with access to the change rooms were players and coaches so for all I know it may have been one of my own team. Whoever it was we should do everything possible to remove dishonest people from the cricket community. My opinion is anyone who supports ball tampering puts a huge question mark over their own character and should think a bit harder before they speak.