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Harper lets Dhoni have it.
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silentstriker
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No that was a serious question
. Is that Sydney?
GotSpin
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No that was a serious question
Dhonisgland
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silentstriker
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I hope not 'cause while India lost the match the only people who got ****ed were Symonds and Ponting. Harbhajan didn't miss a beat - Symonds went downhill pretty fast after that. That episode was way too unfortunate to be used in this thread...the poor guy completely fell off the wagon after his own board abandoned him at the hearing and dropped the charges.
Oh..fine...Time to bring back some respectability to this thread
Bun
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If you are generating eighty percent revenue and agreeing for ten percent power, I'd call you a fool.
What BCCI's doing with this power is same what the tccb and acb used to in their prime days, which is dictate terms.
They have bungled up at times, nobody's denying that. But when it comes to running the affairs overall, they have done a good job imho.
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This.
silentstriker
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Definitely. That's why I don't care as much about the England series (well I do care but just comparatively). Never won (or drew before last time) in SA either. Haven't looked forward to a series as much as the next Aussie one for a long time - Australia clearly the favorites at home but really really hoping for somethng special.
silentstriker
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Bun
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hey gimh ping me back when you can
silentstriker
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While there's no doubt that much of the whining started after (and because) the two countries lost their veto power and could no longer run cricket as their own personal fiefdom - that really doesn't excuse the BCCI's track record either. "Good" should not be a worse anywhere near it.
Cause when's Bangladesh coming over to tour by the way? They pushed for their inclusion to get another vote but remain the only country to never have invited them over for a series. It'll be close to two decades by the end of the next FTP and it won't have happened. That's pretty deplorable. Just one example.
As for 10% of the power, no one is telling them how to run cricket within India but people can be rightly upset when they feel the global game is affected by certain nations. Though many times it's just a convenient bogey man because on matters of finance (eg related to tv rights - for example for test championship) it's the ECB and BCCI and sometimes CA that form a bloc to keep everyone else out. People like to make it about colonialism or anti colonialism or subcontinent vs not but if you really read the books and accounts of people in those meetings it's really the money vs non money blocs on almost all important decisions.
Regardless, officially the BCCI have only one vote. If they play politics and "buy off" other votes, it's as much the fault of the other boards too. If you bribe someone, you're guilty for giving it but the other guy is just as guilty for accepting it.
But.. that's a picture of Courtney Walsh.Okay. Enough is a enough. The greatest bowler to don the creams says so
Son Of Coco
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In Gatting's defence though, those blokes really were ****ing hopeless.