The amount of sensitivity in this place has always baffled me and lead me to believe that while there are many cricket fans, there aren't that many who actually played any cricket in these forums. The irony is when you get polarising personalities like Gnske or TJB or ***** creating massive long screeds of posting to request that someone be banned, yet complain when they finally piss the wrong moderator off on the wrong day and they get banned for the same sorts of activities they're no doubt reporting.
If moderators didn't react to such cliquey bullshit, and also that this place took into account that Cricket has always been a sport that attracts the satirical, sarcastic, belligerent personalities, then this place would iron itself out quickly.
TL;DR, this place would ban the likes of Phil Tufnell, Fred Flintoff, Ian Botham, Merv Hughes from posting here because of their behavior.